Introduction to Kubernetes

If your company is about to embrace containers and develop microservices-type applications, this course will get you started. You’ll get a hands-on tour of Kubernetes core concepts covering installation, configuration, and the API resources to use for your containerized applications. You’ll learn how you can use Kubernetes primitives to build a distributed application that can scale and make efficient use of containers.

As the course comes to a close, you’ll have a clear understanding of how to take your container images to production, build a complex distributed application, and manage it in your data-center. In short, you’ll be well positioned to usher your company into the world of containers.

By the end of this course, you’ll understand:

• The Kubernetes cluster architecture
• Basics of Kubernetes installation
• The API resources and endpoints
• How to interact with a Kubernetes cluster using kubectl
• How to use the Kubernetes primitives to build a scalable containerized application

And you’ll be able to:

• Interact with a Kubernetes cluster using the API and the kubectl CLI
• Build distributed applications using the core API resources
• Explore all the Kubernetes primitives and understand how they will integrate with their enterprise workflow and processes.
• Perform rolling-updates and rollbacks of your applications
• Expose your applications using Kubernetes services
• Monitor your cluster using Prometheus

• You’re an application developer and want to understand how to prepare your containerized application for Kubernetes.
• You’re an application developer who is building Docker images and want to learn how to use those images in Kubernetes.
• You’re an application developer and want to understand the Kubernetes core API objects to configure your application
• You’re a system administrator and want to understand how to manage containerized applications in a cluster.
• You’re a system administrator and want to run system daemons in your cluster like the same way you manage end-user application.
• You’re a system administrator and want to understand how to monitor and collect logs in a Kubernetes cluster.

Prerequisites

• Install minikube
• Install kubectl
• Create a deployment with kubectl run ghost --image=ghost
• Scale that deployment, check the Pods
• Check kubectl --help what can you do ?

Recommended Preparation:

CLI for Noobies: A Primer on the Linux Command Line