This course will teach you how to use the container management platform used by companies like Google to manage their application infrastructure.
Requirements:
Hardware Requirements:
- This course can be taken on either a PC or Mac. Chromebooks are not compatible.
Required Lab Exercises
- For hands-on lab exercises, access to a Linux server or Linux desktop/laptop is required. Access to a public cloud provider or VirtualBox on your machine is also needed. Lab exercises in this course have been tested in a GCP environment.
- If using a cloud provider like GCP or AWS, you should be able to complete the lab exercises using the free tier or credits provided to you. However, you may incur charges if you exceed the credits initially allocated by the cloud provider.
Software Requirements:
- PC: Windows 7 or later.
- Mac: macOS 10.7 or later.
- Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox is preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
- Microsoft Word Online.
- Adobe Acrobat Reader.
- Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.
Other:
- Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.
Exam Requirements:
- Exams are delivered online, and candidates must provide their own computer with:
- Current version of Chrome or Chromium.
- Reliable internet access.
- A microphone.
- A webcam.
- All technical exam requirements should be tested and working prior to starting the exam.
- Candidates are not allowed to have other applications or browser windows running except the one on which the Exam is being shown.
- Candidates should run the compatibility check tool to verify that their hardware meets the minimum requirements.
Instructional Material Requirements:
The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.
Learn how to use the container management platform used by top companies, like Google, with the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) course. This Kubernetes training course will teach you everything you need to know to install and configure a production-grade Kubernetes cluster, from network configuration to upgrades to making deployments available through services.
You will gain a solid understanding of key principles like Pods, Deployments, ReplicaSets, and services. Your training equips you with the necessary skills to work with containers, which enables you to package applications with their dependencies and deploy them on various platforms such as Bare-Metal, VM, Cloud, and more!
This Kubernetes course introduces Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) within an open container ecosystem, using a project-based approach to help you understand and implement best practices. You will learn about the crucial role played by Docker Swarm and Kubernetes, revision control using Git, and how to install and configure Jenkins as a Continuous Integration platform. You will also discover how to use code reviews to enforce development workflows, package and distribute applications with Docker and Docker Registry, and set up a deployment pipeline using Argo CD.
Upon course completion, this Kubernetes training course will prepare you for the CKA exam. This exam is performance-based and involves completing various tasks from a Kubernetes command line. With your enrollment, you will also receive an exam voucher to take the CKA certification exam.
Note: This certification is ideal for Kubernetes administrators, cloud administrators, and other IT professionals who manage Kubernetes instances.
- Getting Started
- Containers Fundamentals
- Course Introduction
- Virtualization Fundamentals
- Virtualization Mechanisms
- Container Standards And Runtimes
- Image Operations
- Container Operations
- Building Container Images
- Container Networking
- Container Storage
- Runtime And Containers Security
- DevOps and SRE Fundamentals
- Introduction
- What and Why of CI/CD
- Setup: Exploring and Creating Our Learning Environment
- Basics of Container Operations with Docker
- Version Control with Git
- Setting Up Continuous Integration with Jenkins
- GitHub Branch Policies & Pipeline as Code with Jenkinsfile
- Using Docker with Jenkins Pipelines
- Docker Images
- Launching a Multi-Service Application with Docker Compose
- Automated Code Analysis
- SRE and Deploying a Scalable Application to Kubernetes
- SRE. GitOps and CD with Argo CD
- Kubernetes Fundamentals
- Course Introduction
- Basics of Kubernetes
- Installation and Configuration
- Kubernetes Architecture
- APIs and Access
- API Objects
- Managing State with Deployments
- Volumes and Data
- Services
- Helm
- Ingress
- Scheduling
- Logging and Troubleshooting
- Custom Resource Definitions
- Security
- High Availability
- Exam Domain Review
- Course Completion
- CKA Prep and Exam
What you will learn
- How to use the container management platform used by companies like Google to manage their application infrastructure
- How to install and configure a production-grade Kubernetes cluster
- The key principles, such as Pods, Deployments, ReplicaSets, and services
- Learn revision control using Git
- Understand the role played by Docker and Kubernetes
- Learn to install and configure Jenkins as a Continuous Integration platform
- Understand the fundamentals of Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
How you will benefit
- Demonstrate the ability to do basic installation and configuring and managing production-grade Kubernetes clusters
- Understand key concepts such as Kubernetes networking, storage, security, maintenance, logging and monitoring, application lifecycle, troubleshooting, and API object primitives
- Obtain the ability to establish basic use-cases for end users
- Master enforcing development workflows as code reviews
- Gather application packaging and distribution with Docker Swarm and Docker Registry using Argo CD to set up a deployment pipeline
Linux Instructors
This course does not have an assigned instructor, but you will have access to several Linux instructors and subject matter experts throughout the course.