Kubernetes Essentials
2 days
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.
Prerequisites
- Basic Linux commands
- Basic Programming Concepts (control flows, conditionals, scripting)
Audience
Developers, DevOps Professionals, System Administrators.
Course Content
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
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
