Kubernetes Fundamentals and Cluster Operations («VMKUBE»)

• 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

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

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

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

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

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.