Introduction to Kubernetes Training

Kubernetes (k8s) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and containerization of applications. Kubernetes provides a cloud-agnostic container orchestration system and is supported by most major cloud providers.

In this 2-day hands-on Kubernetes course, you will learn to deploy containerized applications on Kubernetes, and scale those applications to handle dynamic traffic. You also learn how to continuously deploy new application versions in a Kubernetes cluster to provide application updates with no downtime. This course ends with a section on Kubernetes security and the Kubernetes ecosystem of tools including Helm and Rancher.

This hands-on course is designed for anyone wanting to learn how to deploy containerized workloads on Kubernetes.

Introduction to Kubernetes Training Delivery Methods

• After-course instructor coaching benefit

Introduction to Kubernetes Training Course Benefits

• Containerize applications to implement microservices architectures
• Create EKS clusters
• Install and configure kubectl
• Deploy containers to a Kubernetes cluster
• Perform rolling updates and blue/green deployments of application versions
• Autoscale the number of running pods

Kubernetes Training Course Outline

Introduction

• Introduce Containers and their benefits
• Create Microservices architectures using Containers
• Apply best practises for managing containers and build files
• Understand the Docker architecture

Get Started with Kubernetes

• Introduce the Kubernetes terminology
• Launch a Kubernetes cluster
• Create highly available pod replica sets with deployments
• Expose pods with services

Deploy and Scale Workloads

• Leverage labels to host different services on the same cluster
• Automatically scale pods to handle user demand
• Perform rolling updates to eliminate downtime during application updates
• Minimise risks of new rollouts with blue-green deployments
• Test new deployments with canary releases

Monitor Kubernetes Deployments

• Control container and pod resources: CPU and Memory
• Detect when pods are ready to receive traffic
• Monitor pods to verify they are alive
• Access storage volumes from containers

Introduction to Kubernetes Security

• Tips on improving the security of Kubernetes clusters
• Organise pods into namespaces
• Manage user roles and permissions
• Restricting network traffic with network policies

The Kubernetes Ecosystem

• Integrate of Kubernetes, Docker, cluster and Cloud management
• Organise Kubernetes resources using Helm
• Manage Kubernetes using Rancher
• Introduce other tools such as Istio, Kafka, Redis, and KNative