Course Overview
Learn about the basic administration tasks of managing a Kubernetes cluster. Use the kubectl and kubeadm command-line tools and an integrated development environment (IDE) to provision cluster and network resources. Explain the configuration and deployment of basic workload objects and common Kubernetes cluster tasks. This course was written for the Kubernetes 1.29 release.
Who should attend
Systems administrator, architect, operator, integration engineer
Prerequisites
Basic Linux administration skills
Course 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
Outline: Kubernetes Administration (KA)
Module 1: Architecture
- Kubernetes Overview
- Kubernetes interfaces
Module 2: Pod administration
- YAML
- Pods and containers
- Namespaces
- Configuration
- Multicontainer pods
- Services
- Creating and updating configurations
Module 3: Scheduler
- Basic Scheduling
- Influencing the scheduler
- Static pods
Module 4: Workloads
- Replicas
- Deployments
- DaemonSets
- StatefulSets
- Jobs and CronJobs
Module 5: Networking
- Cluster networking
- Pod networking
- Container Network Interface
- Service networking
- DNS
- Network policies
Module 6: Monitoring and logging
- Debugging through logging
- Enterprise logging
- Monitoring Kubernetes
- Performance monitoring
- Autoscaling with monitoring
- State monitoring
Module 7: Role-based access control
- Authentication
- User authentication
- Service account authentication
- Authorization
- Pod permissions
- Container image access
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
Appendix 3: Advanced monitoring techniques
- Available options for monitoring Kubernetes
- Monitor Kubernetes with Prometheus and Grafana
Appendix 4: Introduction to containers
- Modern software evolution
- Containers
- Container run-time engines
- Container orchestrations
Appendix 5: Architecture components
- Control Plane components
- Pod components
- Component interactions
Appendix 6: Ingresses
- Ingress introduction
- Ingress example
Appendix 7: Helm
- Helm introduction
- Helm charts