Objectives

This course focuses on enabling you to do the following:

• Describe a Kubernetes cluster
• Discuss creating basic pod configuration
• Investigate the Kubernetes scheduling
• Manage workloads deployed in Kubernetes
• Discuss the internal pod network in Kubernetes
• Review monitoring tools for Kubernetes
• Configure role-based access control (RBAC) for a Kubernetes cluster

Role  

Systems administrator, architect, operator, and integration engineer

Prerequisites

Basic Linux administration skills

Course Content

Module 1: Introduction

• Kubernetes overview
• Kubernetes interfaces

Exercises

• Setting up your environment

Module 2: Pod administration

• YAML
• Pods and containers
• Namespaces
• Configuration
• Multicontainer pods
• Services
• Creating and updating configurations

Exercises

• Managing pods and services

Module 3: Scheduler

• Basic scheduling
• Influencing the scheduler
• Static pods

Exercises

• Scheduling pods

Module 4: Workloads

• ReplicaSets
• Deployments
• DaemonSets
• StatefulSets
• Jobs and CronJobs

Exercises

• Managing workloads

Module 5: Networking

• Cluster networking
• Pod networking
• Container Network Interface
• Service networking
• DNS
• Network policies

Exercises

• Working with networking

Module 6: Monitoring and logging

• Debugging through logging
• Enterprise logging
• Monitoring Kubernetes
• Performance monitoring
• Autoscaling with monitoring
• State monitoring

Exercises

• Exploring monitoring and debugging

Module 7: Role-based access control

• Authentication
• User authentication
• Service account authentication
• Authorization
• Pod permissions
• Container image access

Exercises

• Working with role-based access control

Module 8: Next steps

Appendix 1: Kubernetes-related certifications

• Cloud Native Computing Foundation exams
• NetApp Kubernetes-related exams

Appendix 2: Installation and maintenance

• Cluster installation overview
• Kubernetes installation: The hard way (highlights only)
• Kubernetes installation: Kubeadm
• Cluster maintenance

Exercises

• Upgrading a Kubernetes cluster

Appendix 3: Advanced monitoring techniques

• Available options for monitoring Kubernetes
• Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

Exercises

• Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

Appendix 4: Introduction to containers

• Modern software evolution
• Containers
• Container run-time engines
• Container orchestrations

Exercises

• Working with a Container Runtime Engine (CRE)

Appendix 5: Architecture components

• Control Plane components
• Pod components
• Component interactions

Exercises

• Exploring the Control Plane components

Appendix 6: Ingresses

• Ingress introduction
• Ingress example

Exercises

• Working with an ingress

Appendix 7: Helm

• Helm introduction
• Helm charts