Learn Kubernetes: A Deep Dive

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Kubernetes helps deploy and manage containerized applications at scale. It abstracts the underlying infrastructure so it doesn’t matter if you're deploying your applications to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or your own on-premises datacenter. Ready to get started? In this cour... See More

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Built in assessments let you test your skills. Completion certificates let you show them off.

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1. Kubernetes Primer

Kubernetes Background

The Evolution of Kubernetes

The Operating System of the Cloud

Quiz: Kubernetes Primer

Summary

2. Kubernetes Principles of Operation

Kubernetes From 40K Feet

Masters and Nodes: Masters

Masters and Nodes: Nodes

Kubernetes DNS

Packaging Apps for Kubernetes

Quiz: Kubernetes Principles

The Declarative Model and the Desired State

Pods

Deployments

Services and Network Stable Networking

Quiz: Pods, Deployments, and Services

Summary

3. Installing Kubernetes

Kubernetes Playgrounds

Hosted Kubernetes

Installing Kubernetes

Play With Kubernetes

Docker Desktop

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

Other Methods

kubectl

Quiz: Installing Kubernetes

Summary

4. Working With Pods: Theory

Pod Theory

Multi-Container Pods: The Typical Example

How Do We Deploy Pods

Pods and Shared Networking

Pods and cgroups

Pod Lifecycle

Quiz: Theory of Working With Pods

Summary

5. Working With Pods: Hands-On

Introduction

Pod Manifest Files

Manifest Files: Empathy as Code

Introspecting Running Pods

kubectl exec: Running Commands in Pods

Quiz: Working Hands-on With Pods

Summary

6. Kubernetes Deployments

Deployment Theory

Self-Healing and Scalability

Rolling Updates With Deployments

How to Create a Deployment

Quiz: Basics of Kubernetes Deployments

Accessing Deployments

Accessing the Apps

Performing a Rolling Update

How to Perform a Rollback

Quiz: Accessing and Updating Deployments

Summary

7. Kubernetes Services: Theory

Introduction

Labels and Loose Coupling

Services and Endpoints Objects

Accessing Services From Inside the Cluster

Accessing Services From Outside the Cluster

Service Discovery

Quiz: Theory of Kubernetes Services

Summary

8. Kubernetes Services: Hands-On

The Imperative Way

The Declarative Way

Introspecting Services and Endpoint Objects

Real World Example

Quiz: Hands-On With Kubernetes Services

Summary

9. Service Discovery

Introduction

Service Registration

Service Discovery

Service Discovery and Namespaces

Troubleshooting Service Discovery

Quiz: Service Discovery

Summary

10. Kubernetes Storage

The Big Picture

Storage Providers and Container Storage Interface

The Kubernetes Persistent Volume Subsystem

Persistent Volume Claim

Storage Classes and Dynamic Provisioning

Demo

Quiz: Kubernetes Storage

Summary

11. ConfigMaps

Introduction

ConfigMap Theory

Hands-On: Creating ConfigMaps Imperatively

Hands-On: Creating ConfigMaps Declaratively

Injecting ConfigMap and Secret Data Into Pods and Containers

Quiz: ConfigMaps

Summary

12. StatefulSets

Introduction to StatefulSets

Ordered Creation and Deletion

Volumes and Handling Failures

Network and Headless Services

Hands-On With StatefulSets

Creating a Governing Headless Service

Deploy the StatefulSet

Testing Peer Discovery

Scaling StatefulSets

Test a Pod Failure

Quiz: StatefulSets

Summary

13. Threat Modeling Kubernetes

Introduction

Spoofing

Tampering

Repudiation

Information Disclosure

Denial of Service

Elevation of Privilege

Protecting Pods

Pod Security Policies

Quiz: Threat Modeling Kubernetes

Summary

14. Real-World Kubernetes Security

CI/CD Pipeline

Moving Images From Non-Production to Production

Infrastructure and Networking

Identity and Access Management (IMS)

Auditing and Security Monitoring

Real-World Example

Quiz: Real-World Kubernetes Security

Summary

15. Conclusion

What's Next?

Feedback

About the Authors

16. APPENDIX A: Other Important Stuff

Glossary

Service Meshes

DaemonSets

StatefulSets

Jobs and CronJobs

Autoscaling

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

Helm

Summary