In this 60-minute Kubernetes 101 course, we deploy a healthy K8s cluster using Platform9 Managed Kubernetes, implement monitoring using Grafana and Prometheus, manage automatic upgrades, explore CI/CD integration capabilities, RBAC, and introduce our newest capability, ArgoCD.
Prerequisites
- A
Key Concepts
- Introduction
- Deploy a cluster on Platform9’s Managed Kubernetes
- Implement monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana
- Manage Automatic upgrades
- Explore CI/CD integration capabilities
- RBAC
- Introduce ArgoCD
Exercises/ Labs
- Review prerequisites
- Exercise: Create and manage flavors
- Deploy a cluster
About Your Hosts
![Mike Riggs](https://platform9.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/photo_mike-riggs.jpg)
Mike Riggs
Solutions Architect, Platform9
Mike has worked with a variety of technologies over his career including: networking, virtualization technologies, BI/analytics, Kubernetes, Telecom solutions, and more. He has experience helping Enterprise customers adopt new technologies to help increase efficiencies, increase developer productivity, and to help drive down costs.
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Matt Roark
Principal Cloud Support Engineer, Platform9
Matt Roark is a Principal Cloud Support Engineer at Platform9. He has extensive experience working to support and orchestrate infrastructure at scale with both bare-metal and virtualized. Certified in OpenStack and Kubernetes – virtual machine and container orchestration – with a most recent obtainment of the Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) designation. He is intimately familiar with Python/Golang (coding) and supporter of open-source technologies.