Kubernetes Fundamentals

Understand how Kubernetes works and learn to deploy, expose, scale and update containerised applications on a cluster.

ContainersIntermediate

About this course

Kubernetes can look intimidating. This course breaks it down into its core ideas and builds them up one object at a time, until you can deploy and operate an application on a cluster with confidence.

What you will learn

Describe Kubernetes architecture and its main components
Deploy applications using Pods, Deployments and Services
Manage configuration and secrets
Persist data with volumes
Scale and update applications without downtime

Curriculum

01Kubernetes architectureWhat makes up a cluster.
- Control plane and nodes
- The API and kubectl
02WorkloadsRunning applications.
- Pods
- Deployments and ReplicaSets
- Namespaces
03NetworkingReaching your applications.
- Services
- Ingress basics
- DNS inside the cluster
04Configuration and storageSettings and data.
- ConfigMaps and Secrets
- Persistent volumes and claims
05Operating applicationsDay-two tasks.
- Scaling
- Rolling updates and rollbacks
- Health probes

Prerequisites

Working knowledge of Docker and containers
Comfort with the Linux command line

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