A Practical Guide to Kubernetes

Gain insights into Kubernetes fundamentals, explore cluster components, and learn to build, test, deploy, and secure applications, achieving state persistence and mastering crucial DevOps skills.

Intermediate

172 Lessons

20h

Certificate of Completion

Gain insights into Kubernetes fundamentals, explore cluster components, and learn to build, test, deploy, and secure applications, achieving state persistence and mastering crucial DevOps skills.

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13 Quizzes

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Course Overview

Kubernetes is a powerful container management tool that's taking the world by storm. This detailed course will help you master it. In this course, you'll start with the fundamentals of Kubernetes and learn what the main components of a cluster look like. You'll then learn how to use those components to build, test, deploy, and upgrade applications and, as well as how to achieve state persistence once your application is deployed. Moreover, you'll also understand how to secure your deployments and manage r...Show More

TAKEAWAY SKILLS

Yaml

Cloud

Devops

Kubernetes

What You'll Learn

An understanding of the historical perspective leading to Kubernetes

A grasp of the role Kubernetes plays in application deployment

A command over deployment of a containerized application to a Kubernetes cluster

A command over configuring automatic updates, rollbacks, and scaling on a Kubernetes cluster

Familiarity with deploying stateful applications on a Kubernetes cluster

An understanding of security features in Kubernetes and how to configure them

What You'll Learn

An understanding of the historical perspective leading to Kubernetes

Course Content

How Did We Get Here?

Learn how technological advancements and Kubernetes evolution enhance deployment and infrastructure management.

Introduction

A Short History of Infrastructure Management

A Short History of Deployment Processes

Schedulers

What is Kubernetes?

Pods

Master the essentials of Pods in Kubernetes for effective application management.

Getting Started with Pods A Quick Way to Run Pods Defining Pods through Declarative Syntax Components and Stages Involved in Pod Scheduling Playing Around with the Running Pod Running Multiple Containers in a Single Pod Single-Container vs. Multi-Container Pods Monitoring Health Quiz Yourself on Pods What's Next?

ReplicaSets

Go hands-on with defining, creating, and managing ReplicaSets for scalable and fault-tolerant applications.

Getting Started with ReplicaSets Creating ReplicaSets Sequential Breakdown of the Process Operating ReplicaSets Quiz Yourself on ReplicaSets What's Next?

Services

Grasp the fundamentals of Kubernetes Services for stable pod communication and deployment.

Getting Started with Communication Creating Services by Exposing Ports Sequential Breakdown of the Process Creating Services through Declarative Syntax Splitting the Pod and Establishing Communication through Services Creating the Split API Pods Defining Multiple Objects in the Same YAML File Discovering Services

Comparison with Docker Swarm Quiz Yourself on Services What's Next?

Deployments

Dig into Kubernetes Deployments for zero-downtime updates, rollback mechanisms, and scaling methods.

Getting Started with Deploying Releases Deploying New Releases Sequential Breakdown of the Process Updating Deployments Defining a Zero-Downtime Deployment Creating a Zero-Downtime Deployment Rolling Back or Rolling Forward?Playing Around with the Deployment Rolling Back Failed Deployments Merging Everything into the Same YAML Definition Updating Multiple Deployments Scaling Deployments Comparison with Docker Swarm Quiz Yourself on Deployments What's Next?

Ingress

10 Lessons

Follow the process of configuring, managing, and validating Ingress to streamline Kubernetes external access.

Volumes

9 Lessons

Build on Kubernetes volumes to manage state, access resources, and facilitate configurations.

ConfigMaps

11 Lessons

Learn how to use ConfigMaps for flexible configuration management in Kubernetes deployments.

Secrets

9 Lessons

Discover the logic behind Kubernetes Secrets, their creation, management, and security.

10.

Namespaces

11 Lessons

Work your way through managing Kubernetes namespaces for efficient cluster segmentation and isolation.

11.

Securing Kubernetes Clusters

15 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of securing Kubernetes clusters through RBAC, permissions, roles, and namespaces.

12.

Managing Resources

17 Lessons

Solve problems in Kubernetes by mastering resource management, allocation, and Quality of Service (QoS).

13.

Creating A Production-Ready Kubernetes Cluster

23 Lessons

Follow the process of creating, managing, and updating a production-ready Kubernetes cluster with kOps.

Create a Production-Ready Kubernetes Cluster

Cloud Lab

14.

Persisting State

15 Lessons

Practice using Kubernetes for state persistence, deployment, and dynamic volume management in AWS environments.

Deploy Stateful Applications with Persistent State

Cloud Lab

Create a Docker Swarm

Cloud Lab

15.

Appendix: Running a Kubernetes Cluster Locally

5 Lessons

Get familiar with setting up and managing a local Kubernetes cluster using Minikube.

Course Author

Take your Kubernetes skills to the next level, and make yourself more in-demand. Gain the skills to help you excel in any DevOps role.

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