IntegrationsIntermediate

Integrating with Cloud Providers

This course dives into the usage of a Kubernetes cloud provider to interact with underlying infrastructure components such as storage devices and load balancers.

6 Lessons36:01

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Lessons

Lesson 1Intermediate4:26

Introduction to Cloud Providers

What does a Kubernetes cloud provider do? Why would you want to use one? This lesson tackles why you might want to use a cloud provider and what capabilities they provide.

Lesson 2Intermediate7:47

Setting up the vSphere Cloud Provider

Before cloud providers can be used to interact with our infrastructure, they must be properly configured. This lesson walks through setting up the Kubernetes Cloud Provider on vSphere Infrastructure.

Lesson 3Intermediate7:35

Leveraging the vSphere Cloud Provider

In this lesson, you'll gain experience using a properly configured Kubernetes cloud provider on vSphere Infrastructure. This lesson demonstrates how to use vSphere storage with Kubernetes persistent volumes, and how to use a zone aware cluster for higher availability.

Lesson 4Intermediate8:13

Setting up the AWS Cloud Provider

In this lesson, you'll learn how to setup the AWS Cloud Provider with your Kubernetes cluster so that you can take advantage of AWS Infrastructure such as Elastic Block Storage (EBS) devices and Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs).

Lesson 5Intermediate6:57

Leveraging the AWS Cloud Provider

This lesson will demonstrate how to use a properly configured AWS Cloud Provider with your Kubernetes cluster. You'll learn how to use Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs) for ingress access and Elastic Block Storage (EBS) backed persistent volumes.

Lesson 6Intermediate1:03

The Top Takeaways From the Course

This lesson will review and summarize what we've covered in the Cloud Providers course.

Instructor

Eric Shanks

Eric Shanks is a Staff Architect in the Modern Applications Platform Business Unit at VMware where he helps customers build solutions on Kubernetes.

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