A Practical Guide to Kubernetes

INTERACTIVE COURSE

A Practical Guide to Kubernetes

Intermediate

172 Lessons

20h

Certificate of Completion

A Practical Guide to Kubernetes

3 Cloud Labs

72 Playgrounds

13 Quizzes

75 Illustrations

Takeaway Skills

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

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

Course Content

1

How Did We Get Here?

A Short History of Infrastructure Management

A Short History of Deployment Processes

What is Kubernetes?

2

Pods

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?

3

ReplicaSets

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

4

Services

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?

5

Deployments

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?

6

Ingress

10 Lessons

7

Volumes

9 Lessons

8

ConfigMaps

11 Lessons

9

Secrets

9 Lessons

10

Namespaces

11 Lessons

11

Securing Kubernetes Clusters

15 Lessons

12

Managing Resources

17 Lessons

13

Creating A Production-Ready Kubernetes Cluster

23 Lessons

Create a Production-Ready Kubernetes Cluster

Cloud Lab

14

Persisting State

15 Lessons

Deploy Stateful Applications with Persistent State

Cloud Lab

Create a Docker Swarm

Cloud Lab

15

Appendix: Running a Kubernetes Cluster Locally

5 Lessons

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