Managed Kubernetes AKS Fundamentals using Azure

Course description:

This course is intended for system administrators and application developers who are interested in deploying and orchestrating container applications at scale and have a basic understanding of containers, mainly docker, and want to understand the basic concepts of Kubernetes, it is internal processes and how to deploy everything in Microsoft Azure environment.

You’ll learn container management and orchestration for Kubernetes using AKS. You’ll build an AKS cluster, configure the environment, deploy the cluster, add applications to your cluster and much more. You will also learn how to scale your environment securely and review how to optimize or balance cost, efficiency, and resiliency through monitoring and observability.

Target audience:

• DevOps engineers
• Linux system administrators
• Systems design engineers
• Architects
• Anyone who will provide container orchestration management in the Azure Cloud

Prerequisites for Managed Kubernetes AKS Fundamentals using Azure:

• Students should first have a strong understanding of container technologies
• Basic familiarity with Azure

Course module structure

Module 1: Kubernetes core concepts
– What is Kubernetes?
– Kubernetes cluster architecture
– Control plane
– Nodes and node pools
– Pods
– Deployments and YAML manifests
– StatefulSets and DaemonSets
– Namespaces

Module 2: Access and identity options
– AKS service permissions
– AKS Node Access
– Kubernetes RBAC
– Azure AD integration
– Azure role-based access control

Module 3: Security concepts for applications and clusters
– Build Security
– Registry Security
– Cluster security
– Node security
– Cluster upgrades
– Network security
– Application Security
– Kubernetes Secrets

Module 4: Network concepts
– Services
– Azure virtual networks
– Ingress controllers
– Network security groups
– Network policies

Module 5: Scaling
– Manually scale pods or nodes
– Horizontal pod autoscaler
– Cluster autoscaler
– Burst to Azure Container Instances

Module 6: Storage options
– Volumes
– Persistent volumes
– Storage classes
– Persistent volume claims

Note:

Every student has assigned to him his own virtual lab environment setup.

Additional details:

To attend this course, you need to have:
• PC/Laptop with internet access
• Updated web browser

€ 840

DURATION: 2 days
SKILL LEVEL: Associate
LECTURES: 6 lessons