Saltstack Training Course

Docker and Linux container technology

· Docker containers lifecycle

· Working with Docker images

· Network communication between containers

· Persistence of data in containers

· Container orchestration requirements and available options

· Introduction to Kubernetes and other orchestration systems

· Kubernetes core concepts: Pods, Labels, Controllers, Services, Secretes, Persistent Data Volumes, Claims, Namespaces, Quotas

 · Kubernetes reference architecture and its main components

· Containers network model in Kubernetes

· Service discovery, scaling and load balancing

· DNS for service discovery

· Ingress controller and reverse proxy

· Persistence of application state and the data volume model in Kubernetes

· Storage backend in Kubernetes: local, NFS, GlusterFS, Ceph

· Cluster management

· Deployment of applications and services on a Kubernetes cluster

 · Advanced controllers: Daemon Sets and Stateful Sets

· Job and Cron jobs

· Standalone pods

· Storage Classes and Dynamic Storage provisioning

· Network policies

· Securing a Kubernetes cluster

· Authentication, Authorization and Access Control

· Control Plane High Availability

· Auto Scaling

· Cluster monitoring

· Troubleshooting