Working with Kubernetes: Basic Topics
Description
is issued on the Luxoft Training form
Objectives
- Describe Kubernetes and what it’s used for
- Understand the architecture of Kubernetes
- Deploy a Kubernetes cluster on your local computer
- Perform fundamental hands-on operations with Kubernetes objects
- Deploy single and multiple container applications on Kubernetes
- Manage application deployments with rollouts in Kubernetes
- Learn how to manage configuration, sensitive and persistent data in Kubernetes
- Discuss popular tools and topics surrounding Kubernetes in the ecosystem
Target Audience
- DevOps Engineers
- System Administrators
- Software Developers
- QA and Testing Specialists
- Anyone who makes, deploys, or operates software on servers
- Software Architects
- System designers
Prerequisites
- Have knowledge of Docker
- Linux Basics (ssh, working with files)
Roadmap
Topic 0: Getting Started (theory – 0,4h, practice – 0,3h)
Setup and connection configuration.
Topic 1: Kubernetes (theory – 0,7h)
Global overview of what Kubernetes is all about, its history, key concepts, architecture and components.
Topic 2: Kubernetes Cluster (theory – 0,3h, practice – 0,8h)
Set up a local cluster. Basic operations with cluster.
Topic 3: Kubernetes API (theory – 0,6h, practice – 0,7h)
Introduce API to communicate with Kubernetes. Provide description of kubectl utility. Describe and set context. Check cluster status via kubectl.
Topic 4: YAML (theory – 0,6h, practice – 0,4h)
Provide essential knowledge of YAML.
Topic 5: Namespaces (theory – 0,3h, practice – 0,3h)
Describe namespaces. Study manifest files. Create namespace.
Topic 6: Pods (theory – 2,5h, practice – 1,8h)
Describe pods and basic operations within them: creation, listing, removal, access. Describe Pod lifecycle.
Topic 7: Object management (theory – 0,5h, practice – 0,5h)
Introduce cluster state. Learn different object management techniques, pros and cons. Create specification from live objects.
Topic 8: Resource management (theory – 0,6h, practice – 0,7h)
Introduce resource management. Apply it for CPU and memory requests and limitations.
Topic 9: Labels and Annotations (theory – 0,7h, practice – 0,7h)
Describe labels and annotation. Apply labels and annotations to pods and select objects by criteria.
Topic 10: ReplicaSets (theory – 0,8h, practice – 0,8h)
Describe ReplicaSets, how they related to pods. Create, inspect, scale, and delete ReplicaSets.
Topic 11: Deployments (theory – 1,2h, practice – 1,2h)
Describe and manage Deployments. Show deployment strategies, work with history of deployments. Rollback failed deployments.
Topic 12: Services (theory – 1,3h, practice – 1,6h)
Describe services and how they are discovered, how networking is organized, how to do readiness checks. Create a service on practice.
Topic 13: ConfigMaps (theory – 0,5h, practice – 0,7h)
Describe ConfigMaps, how to keep text and binaries values, how to get values from them via files and environment variables.
Topic 14: Secrets (theory – 0,5h, practice – 0,7h)
Describe Secrets and their subtypes, how to keep raw and encoded values, how to get values from them via files and environment variables.
Topic 15: Volumes (theory – 0,8h, practice – 1h)
Present concept of volumes. Describe emptyDir, hostPath, and persistent volume. Static and dynamic provision by claims.
Topic 16: Final notes (theory – 0,5h)
What’s next?
Summary, recommended books.
Total: theory – 12,8h (50%), practice – 12,2h (50%)
