VMware Kubernetes Fundamentals and Cluster Operations

This course replaces the trainings Kubernetes Foundations and Kubernetes Cluster Operations.

This four-day course is the first step in learning about Containers and Kubernetes Fundamentals and Cluster Operations. Through a series of lectures and lab exercises, the fundamental concepts of containers and Kubernetes are presented and put to practice by containerizing and deploying a two-tier application into Kubernetes.

Course Contents

Course Introduction
Containers
Kubernetes Overview
Beyond Kubernetes Basics
Kubernetes Networking
Stateful Applications in Kubernetes
Additional Kubernetes Considerations
Security
Logging and Monitoring
Cluster Operations

You will receive the original course documentation from VMware as an e-book.

Target Group

Anyone who is preparing to build and run Kubernetes clusters.

Knowledge Prerequisites

• Linux concepts and command line proficiency
• General networking proficiency

1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and objectives

2 Containers

• What and Why containers

• Building images

• Running containers

• Registry and image management

3 Kubernetes Overview

• Kubernetes project

• Plugin interfaces

• Building Kubernetes

• Kubectl CLI

4 Beyond Kubernetes Basics

• Kubernetes objects

• YAML

• Pods, replicas, and deployments

• Services

• Deployment management

• Rolling updates

• Controlling deployments

• Pod and container configurations

5 Kubernetes Networking

• Networking within a pod

• Pod-to-Pod Networking

• Services to Pods

• ClusterIP, NodePort, and LoadBalancer

• Ingress controllers

• Service Discovery via DNS

6 Stateful Applications in Kubernetes

• Stateless versus Stateful

• Volumes

• Persistent volumes claims

• StorageClasses

• StatefulSets

7 Additional Kubernetes Considerations

• Dynamic configuration

• ConfigMaps

• Secrets

• Jobs, CronJobs

8 Security

• Network policy

• Applying a NetworkPolicy

• SecurityContext

• runAsUser/Group

• Service accounts

• Role-based access control

9 Logging and Monitoring

• Logging for various objects

• Sidecar logging

• Node logging

• Audit logging

• Monitoring architecture

• Monitoring solutions

• Octant

• VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™

10 Cluster Operations

• Onboarding new applications

• Backups

• Upgrading

• Drain and cordon commands

• Impact of an upgrade to running applications

• Troubleshooting commands

• VMware Tanzu™ portfolio overview

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