Kubernetes for engineers training course description

This course covers how Kubernetes addresses the challenges of distributed systems. Hands on sessions follow all the major theory chapters.

What will you learn

• Explain what Kubernetes is and how it works.
• Create and run containers on Kubernetes using the Docker image format and container runtime.

Kubernetes for engineers training course details

Kubernetes for engineers training course contents

• Introduction

Velocity, Scaling your service and your teams, Abstracting your infrastructure.

• Creating and running containers

Container images, Building application images with Docker, Storing images in a remote registry, The Docker container runtime.

• Deploying a Kubernetes cluster

Installing Kubernetes on a public cloud provider, Installing Kubernetes locally using minikube, Running Kubernetes on Raspberry Pi, The Kubernetes client, Cluster components.

• Common kubectl Commands

Namespaces, Contexts, Viewing Kubernetes API objects, Creating, Updating, and Destroying Kubernetes objects, Labelling and annotating objects, Debugging commands.

• Pods

Pods in Kubernetes, Thinking with pods, The pod manifest, Running pods, Accessing your pod, Health checks, Resource management, Persisting data with volumes, Putting It all together.

• Labels and Annotations

Labels, Annotations.

• Service Discovery

What Is Service discovery? The service object, Looking beyond the cluster, Cloud integration, Advanced details.

• ReplicaSets

Reconciliation loops, Relating pods and ReplicaSets, Designing with ReplicaSets, ReplicaSet Spec, Creating a ReplicaSet, Inspecting a ReplicaSet, Scaling ReplicaSets, Deleting ReplicaSets.

• DaemonSets

DaemonSet scheduler, Creating DaemonSets, Limiting DaemonSets to specific nodes, Updating a DaemonSet, Deleting a DaemonSet.

• Jobs

The job object, Job patterns.

• ConfigMaps and secrets

ConfigMaps, Secrets, Naming constraints, Managing ConfigMaps and secrets.

• Deployments

Your first deployment, Creating deployments, Managing deployments, Updating deployments, Deployment strategies, Deleting a deployment.

• Integrating storage solutions and Kubernetes

Importing external services, Running reliable singletons, Kubernetes-native storage with StatefulSets.

• Deploying real-world applications

Parse, Ghost, Redis.

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