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Container Orchestration with Kubernetes - Level 2

Intermediate

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Deploy a Stateful Application in a Kubernetes Cluster

Deploy a stateful application in a Kubernetes Cluster in this lab to understand how, why, and when it makes sense to run stateful applications in Kubernetes

CKAD Practice Exam: Services & Networking

Prepare for the Services & Networking domain of the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam in this lab with exam-like tasks and solution guide.

Introduction to Helm

This lesson covers the Helm package manager for Kubernetes, exploring its features and use cases.

Performing a Kubernetes Deployment using ConfigMaps and Helm

Simplifying Kubernetes Deployments using Kustomize

Kustomize introduces a template-free way to customize application configuration, simplifying the rollout and deployment of applications into Kubernetes. In this Lab scenario, you'll learn how to use Kustomize to create overlays for deploying a staging and production version of a sample web application.

Introduction to Prometheus

This lesson introduces Prometheus, an open-sourced systems monitoring and alerting toolkit with additional capabilities in service discovery.

Amazon EKS - Observability with Prometheus and Grafana

In this lab, you'll learn how to integrate Prometheus and Grafana monitoring applications together into an effective and cohesive monitoring solution.

A good understanding of the configuration and interactions between Kubernetes pods, services and deployments is key to being able to troubleshoot networking issues. To effectively manage cloud native applications it is important to know the differences between stateless and stateful applications, along with the tools and services used to manage such applications running on a Kubernetes cluster.

The content in this course will teach you Container Orchestration with Kubernetes to a level 2 standard.

Learning Objectives

Be able to deploy a stateful application
Be able to troubleshoot networking connectivity issues between deployments, pods, services etc.
Be able to leverage various related Kubernetes tools to manage a cluster

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Jeremy is a Content Lead Architect and DevOps SME here at Cloud Academy where he specializes in developing DevOps technical training documentation.

He has a strong background in software engineering, and has been coding with various languages, frameworks, and systems for the past 25+ years. In recent times, Jeremy has been focused on DevOps, Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), Security, Kubernetes, and Machine Learning.

Jeremy holds professional certifications for AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes (CKA, CKAD, CKS).

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