Course

Kubernetes Fundamentals and Cluster Operations («VMKUBE»)

This four-day course is the first step in learning about Containers and Kubernetes Fundamentals and Cluster Operations.

Duration 4 days

Price 3'150.–

Course documents Original electronic VMware courseware (eKit)

Add to watch List

Course facts

Key Learnings

Building, testing, and publishing Docker container images
Becoming familiar with YAML files that define Kubernetes objects
Understanding Kubernetes core user-facing concepts, including pods, services, and deployments
Using kubectl, the Kubernetes CLI, and become familiar with its commands and options
Understanding the architecture of Kubernetes (Control plane and its components, worker nodes, and kubelet)
Learning how to troubleshoot issues with deployments on Kubernetes
Applying resource requests, limits, and probes to deployments
Managing dynamic application configuration using ConfigMaps and Secrets
Deploying other workloads, including DaemonSets, Jobs, and CronJobs
Learning about user-facing security using SecurityContext, RBAC, and Network Policies

Content

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 Load Balancer
Ingress controllers
Service Discovery via DNS

6 Stateful Applications in Kubernetes

Stateless versus Stateful
Volumes
Persistent volumes claims
Storage Classes
Stateful Sets

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

Target audience

This course is aimed at anyone who is preparing to build and run Kubernetes clusters.

Requirements

Linux concepts and command line and general networking skills are required.

Certification

VMware Certification: Click here for an overview of the VMware certifications.

Additional information

In this course you will receive electronic course materials. The documents will be sent to you by VMware prior to the course to the address you provided when you registered. You have the option of bringing your own tablet or laptop so that you can read the content and exercises in parallel to your lessons. In addition, you have your documents already saved in the right place.