Operations on Kubernetes

current course dates can be found at the bottom of this page … company training available on request!

Course description

With Operations on Kubernetes, the focus is not on building the infrastructure, but on operating Kubernetes and the associated AWS infrastructure in a scaling environment (“Day-2 Operations”). In this course we consolidate experiences from previous projects and the operational daily business of the participants and form best practices to optimize the operational business. Through a mixture of theory and practice, content is conveyed in a sustainable manner and offers participants a mixture of classic training with workshop character.

Course objectives

• Refreshing your knowledge about Kubernetes basic concepts
• Advanced concepts such as RBAC, ingress controller, etc.
• Kubernetes base commands as well as key metrics
• Troubleshooting scenarios
• Kubernetes Failure Stories
• Kubernetes Cluster Upgrades (AWS EKS)
• Dealing with tooling for working with Kubernetes

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• Basic understanding of general networking concepts and multi-tier architectures.
  Basic understanding of container runtimes (Docker, containerd, etc.)
  Basic understanding of container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker-Swarm, ECS, etc. )
  Knowledge of microservices system administration (git, bash, yaml/json, advanced editor).
  (Optional) Basic knowledge with basic AWS services (VPC, EC2, S3) is an advantage.

Activities

This course includes:

• presentations
• practice labs
• discussions
• class exercises

Course duration / Price

• 3 days
• € 1,899.00 (excl. tax) per person (DE)

Course outline

Day 1

• Introduction to Kubernetes
• Kubernetes Basics
• Controller (Deployment, DaemonSet etc.)
• RBAC
• Services (k8s)
• Resource Consumption
• Storage
• Advanced Kubernetes
  – Ingress Controller
  – Cluster Autoscaler
  – Scaling & Performance
  – Affinity & Anti-Affiniy / Taints & Tolerations
  – Liveness-, Readiness- & Startup-Probes

Day 2

• Troubleshooting Basics
• Key Metrics & Health Indicators
• Common Pod Errors
• Common Node Errors
• Log Analysis
• Troubleshooting Walkthrough
• Kubernetes Failure Stories

Day 3

• Kubernetes Versions
• Cluster Upgrade Process
• Tooling
  – k9s
  – helm & kustomize
  – etc.

IMPORTANT: Please bring your notebook (Windows, Linux or Mac) to our trainings. If this is not possible, please contact us beforehand.

The practical exercises are carried out by one participant with the help of all other participants (workshop character). Course materials are in English, on request also in German (if available).
Course language is German, on request also in English.