Free Interactive Kubernetes Learning

Hands-on Kubernetes Exercises and Tutorials

Welcome!

We are excited to introduce a five lesson hands-on course to learn the basics of Kubernetes. This introductory course includes exercises and tutorials that will guide you through deploying a cluster, launching your first app, storage, monitoring, logging, and getting started with CI/CD. As well as Kubernetes, we’ll be using other popular & emerging technologies such as NGINX, Prometheus, Jenkins, and more.  We also provide optional readings on key Kubernetes concepts along the way.  Sign up below to join the course.

Lesson 1: Deploy Your First Cluster 

You’ll get started immediately by deploying your first Kubernetes cluster.

Interactive Exercises:

  • Create free account using Platform9’s free managed Kubernetes service
  • Deploy your first cluster on AWS, Azure, Bare Metal or VMs
  • Add users to build a team [optional]

Optional Reading:

  • Deploying Kubernetes: Kubernetes Deployment from Scratch, Networking Concerns, Lifecycle Management, Configuration and Add-ons

Lesson 2: Deploy Your First App

You’ll deploy your first application with NGINX as a ‘hello world’ example.  You’ll also set up persistent storage which will lay the foundations for later lessons.

Interactive Exercises:

  • Deploy NGINX ingress controller
  • Deploy CSI with Rook and Ceph to set up persistent storage

Optional Reading:

  • Kubernetes Architecture and Concepts: Kubernetes Control Plane, Cluster Nodes, Pods and Services, Kubernetes Services, Kubernetes Networking, Persistent Storage in Kubernetes, Discovering and Publishing Services in Kubernetes, Namespaces, Labels, and Annotations

Lesson 3: Enable Monitoring

You’ll set up monitoring for your Kubernetes clusters using Prometheus and popular open source tools.  

Interactive Exercises:

  • Enable Prometheus and Grafana
  • Explore Monitoring Dashboard–Grafana and Prometheus
  • Review Cluster Health Dashboard
  • Integrate Alertmanager with Slack and Prometheus(optional)

Optional Reading:

  • RBAC, Monitoring, Logging, Storage, & More [Part 1]: Giving Users Access, Monitoring and Ensuring Cluster Health, Monitoring and Ensuring Application Health

Lesson 4: Enable App Logging 

Kubernetes presents unique challenges for application logging.  In this lesson you’ll set up the popular EFK (Elasticsearch + Fluentd + Kibana) logging solution.

Interactive Exercises:

  • Deploy EFK Stack for App Logging 
  • Setting up multi-cluster logging
  • Enable Debug Logging for Docker Daemon

Optional Reading:

  • Logging & Monitoring of Kubernetes Applications: Requirements & Recommended Toolset
  • Kubernetes Logging and Monitoring [Parts 1 & 2]: The Elasticsearch, Fluentd, and Kibana (EFK) Stack
  • Kubernetes Logging Best Practices
  • Fluentd vs. Logstash

Lesson 5: CI/CD with Jenkins 

CI/CD is one of the most popular use cases for Kubernetes.  In this lesson you’ll get started with CI/CD using Jenkins for Continuous Integration.

Interactive Exercises:

  • Deploy Jenkins on your Kubernetes clusters

Optional Reading:

  • Top Use Cases for Kubernetes: Simple Deployment of Stateless Applications, Deploy Stateful Data Services, CI/CD Platform with Kubernetes

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