Course Overview
Kubernetes is a popular framework for managing container deployments on a cluster.
In this 2-day course, the students will learn the concepts of Kubernetes (e.g., Pods, ReplicaSets, Deployments, Services) as well as deployment patterns and best practices.
The course includes extensive hands-on exercises will are crucial to the understanding of the topics.
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Who should attend
Developers, DevOps Professionals, System Administrators.
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Prerequisites
- Basic Linux commands.
- Basic Programming Concepts (control flows, conditionals, scripting).
Course Content
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Kubernetes Basic Workloads – Pod
- An overview of images and containers.
- Pods.
- Labels & Selectors.
- Namespaces.
Kubernetes Controllers
- ReplicaSet.
- Deployment.
- DaemonSet.
- StatefulSet.
- CronJob.
Networking And Services
- How services work.
- Load balancing.
- Virtual service IP.
- Talking to services.
- Exposing Services.
- Service Endpoints.
- Headless services.
Volumes
- Kubernetes volumes vs. Docker volumes.
- Type Of Volumes.
- persistentVolumeClaim.
- StorageClass.
- Dynamic vs Static Volume Provisioning.
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Secrets And ConfigMaps
- Managing configuration using configmaps.
- Exposing configmaps to containers.
- Configuration using Secrets.
- Retrieving and Decoding a Secret.
- Difference between configmap and secret.
Kubernetes Security
- Authenticating with TLS certificates.
- Authenticating with tokens.
- Understanding Service Accounts.
- Pods And Service Accounts.
- Users vs Service Accounts.
- Authorization in Kubernetes Using Role-based access control.
- Binding a role to the service account.
- Roles vs Cluster Roles.
HealthChecks
- Container Probes.
- Liveness and Readiness.
The syllabus includes a virtual lab for each section.
