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Cluster Operations

In this course, you'll learn how to bootstrap Kubernetes clusters using various community tools. We'll also dive into topics like authentication, role-based access control, and backing up and restoring Kubernetes objects and clusters.

6 Lessons52:56
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Lessons

1

Lesson 1Intermediate8:12

Bootstrapping a Cluster with kubeadm

In this lesson you’ll learn about kubeadm, a tool for bootstrapping best practices Kubernetes clusters from existing infrastructure.

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Lesson 2Intermediate8:19

Bootstrapping Using Cluster API Part 1: Concepts, Components, and Terminology

Cluster API aims to bring Kubernetes-style declarative APIs to the process of creating, configuring, and managing Kubernetes clusters. This lesson provides an introduction to Cluster API, and covers concepts, components, and terminology.

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Lesson 3Intermediate10:44

Bootstrapping Using Cluster API Part 2: Creating a Cluster on AWS with Cluster API

Cluster API aims to bring Kubernetes-style declarative APIs to the process of creating, configuring, and managing Kubernetes clusters. In this lesson, we’ll demonstrate how to bootstrap a Kubernetes cluster on AWS using Cluster API.

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Lesson 4Intermediate9:10

Authenticating Kubernetes Clusters

How do we establish a user or tool's identity when communicating with Kubernetes? In this lesson we'll look at some of the most popular ways of authenticating to a Kubernetes cluster.

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Lesson 5Intermediate8:12

Kubernetes RBAC Concepts

In this course we'll cover the basics of Kubernetes RBAC. This is a Concepts based lecture that will show off of Authorizing users/services to leverage Kubernetes Resources.

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Lesson 6Intermediate8:19

Backup/Restore

Having a solution for backing up and restoring objects in your Kubernetes cluster is important for resilience. In this lesson we look at using the popular OSS tool Velero to do just that.

Instructors

Scott Lowe

Scott Lowe is an architect in the Cloud Native Apps Business Unit, having rejoined VMware as part of the Heptio acquisition.

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John Harris

Hi! My name is John and I'm a Senior Cloud Native Architect @ VMware where I work with customers to help design and implement Kubernetes solutions, in addition to contributing back to upstream open source projects.

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Tim Carr

Tim Carr is a Staff Kubernetes Architect at VMware and a member of the Heptio acquisition.

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