Course Objective & Scope
Running hundreds of containers reliably across multiple hosts demands self-healing, service discovery, zero-downtime rollouts and careful resource scheduling. This programme provides hands-on practice in deploying and operating applications on Kubernetes.
Control plane and worker node architecture, Pods, Deployments, DaemonSets and StatefulSets, Services and Ingress/Gateway API, ConfigMaps and Secrets, PersistentVolumes/StorageClasses, liveness/readiness/startup probes and Horizontal Pod Autoscalers are covered in labs. Participants deploy a sample multi-tier application with a production-ready manifest set and checklist.
Who Should Attend?
- DevOps, SRE and system engineers deploying and operating workloads on Kubernetes
- Software engineers building cloud-native microservices
- Infrastructure teams migrating to a container platform
- Prerequisite: basic Docker and YAML/CLI familiarity
Key Takeaways
- Explain the roles of Kubernetes control plane and node components and the declarative model
- Match Deployments, StatefulSets, Jobs and CronJobs to the right workload scenarios
- Route internal and external traffic with Services, CoreDNS and Ingress/Gateway API
- Ensure resilient scaling using probes, resource requests/limits, PDBs and HPA
- Diagnose common deployment failures using kubectl, events and container logs
Curriculum
Kubernetes Architecture and Core Objects
- API Server, etcd, Scheduler, Controller Manager, kubelet and CNI
- Namespaces, Pods, labels, selectors and kubectl essentials
Workload Management and Rollout Strategies
- ReplicaSets, Deployments, RollingUpdates and rollbacks
- StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Jobs and CronJobs
- Configuring liveness, readiness and startup probes
Networking, Service Discovery and External Access
- ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer and CoreDNS
- HTTP/TLS routing with Ingress Controllers and the Gateway API
Configuration, Storage and Security Basics
- ConfigMaps, Secrets and mounting as env vars or files
- PVs, PVCs, StorageClasses and CSI drivers
- Access control with ServiceAccounts and RBAC
Resource Management, Scaling and Operations
- Requests/limits, QoS classes, LimitRanges and ResourceQuotas
- HPA, PodDisruptionBudgets, taints/tolerations and node affinity
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