Learning Kubernetes

Learn how to set up a cluster, deploy applications, and manage those applications with Kubernetes.

Introduction

• Setting sail on your Kubernetes voyage
• What you should know

1. Kubernetes and the Cloud-Native Ecosystem

• What is Kubernetes?
• What are containers?
• What is cloud native?

2. Setting Up and Getting Oriented

• Install Docker on Windows
• Install Docker on Linux
• Install Docker on macOS
• Install minikube on Windows
• Install minikube on Linux
• Install minikube on macOS
• Spin up and explore a minikube cluster

3. Application Deployment

• Reading and writing YAML
• Create a namespace
• Deploy an application
• Check the health of a pod by looking at the event logs
• Check that your application is working with BusyBox
• View your application logs
• Challenge
• Solution

4. Complex Application Deployment

• Expose your application to the internet with a LoadBalancer
• Add resource requests and limits to your pod
• Delete your Kubernetes objects and tear down your cluster

5. Kubernetes Architecture

• The Kubernetes control plane
• Kubernetes worker nodes
• How the control plane and nodes work together

6. Advanced Topics

• Ways to manage Kubernetes pods
• Running stateful workloads
• Kubernetes security

Conclusion

• Next steps on your Kubernetes voyage