Highlights
- Pods and stability
- Autoscaling the cluster
- Resourcing
- Templating and Helm
- Visualizing Metrics And Alerts
- Advanced Scheduling
- Collecting And Querying Logs
- Network
- Security
Course Details
Pod Stability
- Liveness Probe
- Readiness Probe
- Startup Probe
- PodDisruptionBudget
- MaxSurge
- Graceful Shutdown and SIGTERM signals
Autoscaling Deployments and StatefulSets
- HPA vs VPA vs CA
- Install Metrics Server
- Observe Metrics Server Data
- Get Started with Auto-Scaling Pods
- Auto-Scale Pods - Resource Utilization
- Specify Replicas in Deployments or Statefulsets?
Resources
- Requests vs Limits
- Monitoring
Autoscaling the Cluster
- Set up Cluster Autoscaler
- Scale up and scale down the Cluster
- Scale up Too Much or De-scale to Zero Nodes?
- Cluster Autoscaler in GKE, EKS, and AKS
- Rightsizing Instance Types
Templating and Helm
- Depending on third party charts
- Depending on your own charts
- Creating common charts
- Canary Deployments with Helm
- CD Tooling with Spinnaker & ArgoCD
Advanced scheduling
- How the Scheduler works in Kubernetes
- Filters and predicates
- nodeSelector
- Node affinity
- Pod affinity/anti-affinity
- Taints and tolerations
- Scheduler plugins
- Custom scheduler
Visualizing Metrics And Alerts
- Which Tools Should We Use for Dashboards?
- Installing And Setting up Prometheus & Grafana
- Importing and Customizing Pre-Made Dashboards
- Creating Custom Dashboards
- Creating Semaphore Dashboards
- A Better Dashboard for Big Screens
- Prometheus and Graph Alerts, Grafana Notifications, Semaphores
Collecting And Querying Logs
- Exploring Logs Through kubectl
- Choosing a Centralized Logging Solution
- Logs Collection and Shipping
- Explore Centralized Logging
- The ELK Stack - Elasticsearch, LogStash, Kibana
- Cost implications
Networking in Kubernetes
- Network routing in Linux
- Understanding network requirements
- Exploring the Endpoints
- Balancing in-cluster traffic
- Routing traffic with kube-proxy
- CRI, CNI, CSI: interfaces for the kubelet
- Choosing between latency and load balancing
- Pros and cons of the 4 types of Services
- Discovering Services
- Routing traffic with an Ingress controller
- End-to-end traffic journey
Security
- Network Security with policies
- Secrets as Volumes not Env Vars
- Secrets without Secrets
- RBAC
- Access Cloud resources in EKS (kube2iam)
- Container and Image scanning
- PodSecurityPolicies
- CIS Benchmarking
Who should attend
Feedback
4.8 out of 5 average
"The interactive Kubernetes scenarios were great and I like the concepts building at the beginning. It was a nice introduction to Kubernetes and the commands. The trainer was friendly and professional."
MF, Senior Software Developer, Kubernetes, March 2021
“JBI did a great job of customizing their syllabus to suit our business needs and also bringing our team up to speed on the current best practices. Our teams varied widely in terms of experience and the Instructor handled this particularly well - very impressive”
Brian F, Team Lead, RBS, Data Analysis Course, 20 April 2022
