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VMware Kubernetes Fundamentals and 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
4 Days
32 Hrs
10 Lessons
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Build, test, and publish Docker container images Become familiar with YAML files that define Kubernetes objects Understand Kubernetes core user
- facing concepts, including pods, services, and deployments Use kubectl, the Kubernetes CLI, and become familiar with its commands and options Understand the architecture of Kubernetes (Control plane and its components, worker nodes, and kubelet) Learn how to troubleshoot issues with deployments on Kubernetes Apply resource requests, limits, and probes to deployments Manage dynamic application configuration using ConfigMaps and Secrets Deploy other workloads, including DaemonSets, Jobs, and CronJobs Learn about user
- facing security using SecurityContext, RBAC, and NetworkPolicies
Agenda
- Introductions and objectives
- What and Why containers
- Building images
- Running containers
- Registry and image management
- Kubernetes project
- Plugin interfaces
- Building Kubernetes
- Kubectl CLI
- Kubernetes objects
- YAML
- Pods, replicas, and deployments
- Services
- Deployment management
- Rolling updates
- Controlling deployments
- Pod and container configurations
- Networking within a pod
- Pod-to-Pod Networking
- Services to Pods
- ClusterIP, NodePort, and LoadBalancer
- Ingress controllers
- Service Discovery via DNS
- Stateless versus Stateful
- Volumes
- Persistent volumes claims
- StorageClasses
- StatefulSets
- Dynamic configuration
- ConfigMaps
- Secrets
- Jobs, CronJobs
- Network policy
- Applying a NetworkPolicy
- SecurityContext
- runAsUser/Group
- Service accounts
- Role-based access control
- Logging for various objects
- Sidecar logging
- Node logging
- Audit logging
- Monitoring architecture
- Monitoring solutions
- Octant
- VMware vRealize Operations Manager
- Onboarding new applications
- Backups
- Upgrading
- Drain and cordon commands
- Impact of an upgrade to running applications
- Troubleshooting commands
- VMware Tanzu portfolio overview
FREE
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Course Type: Instructor Led