VMware vSphere with Tanzu: Deploy and Manage

In this course, you will focus on deploying and managing VMware vSphere® with VMware Tanzu® in a VMware vSphere® 8 environment. You will learn how vSphere with Tanzu can be used to provide the services for managing virtual machines, vSphere Pods, Supervisor Services and VMware Tanzu® Kubernetes Grid™ clusters. You will also gain experience with the day-to-day operations and life cycle management of a vSphere with Tanzu environment.

Course Contents

Course Introduction
Introduction to Containers and Kubernetes
Introducing vSphere with Tanzu
vSphere with Tanzu Infrastructure
vSphere with Tanzu Architecture
vSphere with Tanzu Workloads and Services
Day 2 Operations

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

Target Group

Experienced system administrators and system integrators responsible for the development and implementation of vSphere with Tanzu.

Knowledge Prerequisites

- Experience deploying and managing vSphere
- Understanding of Kubernetes and the Kubernetes cluster architecture

Attendance at one of the following courses is recommended:

- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
- Kubernetes Fundamentals and Cluster Operations

1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics

• Course objectives

2 Introduction to Containers and Kubernetes

• Describe Virtual Machines and Containers

• Describe Container Hosts

• Describe Container Engines

• Describe Dockerfile

• Describe Container Images

• Describe Image Registry

• Describe the purpose and functionality of Kubernetes

• Describe Manifest YAML files

• Explain Pod YAML files

• Explain ReplicaSets

• Explain Services

• Explain Deployments

3 Introduction to vSphere with Kubernetes

• Describe the purpose and functionality of vSphere with Kubernetes

• Explain the integration with VMware Tanzu™ Mission Control™

• Describe the capabilities of vSphere with Kubernetes

• Describe the components of vSphere with Kubernetes

• Contrast vSphere with Kubernetes to traditional Kubernetes

• Describe the requirements for vSphere with Kubernetes

• Prepare a vSphere cluster for vSphere with Kubernetes

• Describe the NSX components required for vSphere with Kubernetes

• Describe the network topology of vSphere with Kubernetes

• Explain the networking requirements of vSphere with Kubernetes

• Compare NSX networking objects with Kubernetes networking objects

4 vSphere with Kubernetes Core Services

• Explain the architecture of the vSphere with Kubernetes Core Services

• Describe the Container Service

• Describe the Volume Service

• Describe the Network Service

• Describe the Registry Service

• Describe the use cases of vSphere with Kubernetes

• Enable vSphere with Kubernetes

• Deploy VMware Harbor Registry

5 vSphere with Kubernetes Namespaces

• Describe a vSphere with Kubernetes namespace

• Contrast a vSphere with Kubernetes namespace to a traditional Kubernetes namespace

• Describe Resource Quotas

• Explain Authentication and Authorization to vSphere with Kubernetes

• Explain the use cases of namespaces

• Create a namespace

• Describe kubectl

• Use kubectl to interact with vSphere with Kubernetes

• Describe using kubectl pod deployment

• Explain scaling a pod deployment

• Explain managing pod lifecycle

• Explain deleting pods

• Use kubectl to deploy a pod

• Use kubectl to scale a pod

• Use kubectl to switch between namespaces

6 VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid service

• Explain Tanzu Kubernetes Grid service

• Describe the use cases for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters

• Describe the integration with Tanzu Mission Control

• Explain the lifecycle of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters

• Deploy Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster

• Deploy pods to a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster

7 Monitoring and Troubleshooting

• Describe the monitoring tools for vSphere with Kubernetes

• Describe the troubleshooting tools for vSphere with Kubernetes

• Explain cluster, node, and namespace health

• Explain usage and capacity monitoring

• Describe vCenter Server events

• Describe vSphere with Kubernetes events

• Gather support information

8 vSphere with Kubernetes Lifecycle

• Describe the vSphere with Kubernetes lifecycle

• Describe the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid lifecycle

• Describe scaling a vSphere with Kubernetes cluster

• Update vSphere with Kubernetes

• Update Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters

• Remove vSphere with Kubernetes

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