Kubernetes Platform Design

Short introduction about the course.

Learn about the vast Kubernetes ecosystem and the high level architecture choices that are needed before choosing a Kubernetes distribution and the various components that will be used in it.

Deploy a three node Kubernetes cluster using kubeadm.

There are many different ways both cluster and application logging can be accomplished in a Kubernetes cluster. In this lesson the various application logging architectures will be explored as well as other logging considerations.

Investigate how container logging works under the covers and then deploy a full logging solution into the Kubernetes cluster.

Monitoring data is different than logging data and the approaches for monitoring solutions reflect that. In this lesson learn about monitoring approaches and considerations when analyzing the collected monitoring data.

Deploy monitoring solutions into the Kubernetes cluster.

Problems can happen in any technology platform. In Kubernetes it's important to know the places to look and the approaches for debugging when something does go wrong in a Kubernetes cluster.

Stop and break various system or Kubernetes components and observe how the platform reacts.

When a new team or application needs to use a Kubernetes Cluster there are various considerations and actions that need to be taken by the Operator managing the platform. This lesson shows some of those considerations and approaches.

Deploy an authentication framework into the cluster to allow new team member accounts to be created and used in the cluster.

Like any platform, there are various activities that should be performed to ensure proper maintenance in a Kubernetes cluster. This lesson will introduce the more common activities and the various considerations when planning and performing them.

Take a node in the cluster down for maintenance and also install and perform a backup using Velero.