Why learn about Kubernetes?

All in all Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management. Originally designed by Google, the project is now maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. The name Kubernetes originates from Greek, meaning ‘helmsman’ or ‘pilot’.

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High School

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Corporate

Upskill yourself or your company by enrolling for the Kubernetes course, whilst you’re working.

Course objectives

By the end of the Introduction to Advanced Kubernetes Course. In turn students will have usable knowledge of the following:

• IntroductionOverview of container orchestration with KubernetesOverview of Kubernetes architecture
  • Pods, labels/selectors, replication controllers, services, API

  Installing a Kubernetes cluster

  Pulling a Docker image from the internet

  Creating Kubernetes pods, volumes and deployments

  Grouping and organizing your cluster

  Using Kubernetes Namespaces to manage different environments

  • Managing test, staging, and production environments within the same cluster
  • Kubernetes Namespaces best practices

  Discovering and connecting to containers

  Discovering and publishing services

  • Non-HTTP services (Passive FTP, SMTP, LDAP, etc.)

  Kubernetes security

  • Authentication & authorization

  Upgrading a Kubernetes cluster

  • Minimizing the impact

  Advanced networking

  • Docker networking vs Kubernetes networking

  Interfacing between network providers and Kubernetes networking

  • Best practices for separating services in a cluster
  • Comparison of different CNI providers (performance, features, etc.)

  Monitoring Kubernetes

  • Cluster logging with Elasticsearch and fluentd
  • Container level monitoring (cAdvisor UI, Influxdb, Prometheus)

  Best Practices for running containerized servers and data stores

  Scaling your Kubernetes cluster

  Infrastructure for Kubernetes

  • Provisioning, partitioning, networking

  Building a high-availability cluster

  • Load balancing and service discovery

  Deploying a scalable application

  • Horizontal pod autoscaling
  • Database clustering in Kubernetes

  Updating your application

  • Releases in Kubernetes

  Troubleshooting

  • Diagnosing and fixing common Kubernetes issues

Job Opportunities

In turn the career prospects for Kubernetes graduates are excellent and high in demand. Computers is everywhere: on all platforms and devices and in all countries around the world!

• Azure Developer.
• Developer.
• All in all a Back end or front end developer.
• Software Developer.
• All in all become a Cloud Administrator.