VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid: Install,Configure,Manage[V2.0]
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During this four-day course, you focus on installing VMware Tanzu® Kubernetes Grid™ in a VMware vSphere® environment and provisioning and managing Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters. The course covers how to install Tanzu Kubernetes Grid packages for image registry, authentication, logging, ingress, multipod network interfaces, service discovery, and monitoring. The concepts learned in this course are transferable for users who must install Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on other supported clouds.
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Describe how Tanzu Kubernetes Grid fits in the VMware Tanzu® portfolio
- Describe the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid architecture
- Deploy and manage Tanzu Kubernetes Grid management and supervisor clusters
- Deploy and manage Tanzu Kubernetes Grid workload clusters
- Deploy, configure, and manage Tanzu Kubernetes Grid packages
- Perform basic troubleshooting
Duration
4 days (8h/day)
Requirements
- Understanding of Kubernetes and the Kubernetes cluster architecture
- Experience deploying and managing multiple Kubernetes clusters
Contents
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Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
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Introducing VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
- Identify the VMware Tanzu products responsible for Kubernetes life cycle management and describe the main differences between them
- Explain the core concepts of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, including bootstrap, Tanzu Kubernetes Grid management, supervisor, and workload clusters
- List the components of a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid instance
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VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid CLI and API
- Illustrate how to use the Tanzu CLI
- Define the Carvel Tool set
- Define Cluster API
- Identify the infrastructure providers
- List the Cluster API controllers
- Identify the Cluster API custom resource definitions
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Authentication
- Explain how Kubernetes manages authentication with Management clusters
- Explain how Kubernetes manages authentication with supervisor clusters
- Define Pinniped
- Define Dex
- Describe the Pinniped authentication workflow
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Load Balancers
- Illustrate how load balancing works for the Kubernetes control plane
- Illustrate how load balancing works for application workload
- Explain how Tanzu Kubernetes Grid integrates with VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer
- List load balancing options available on public clouds
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VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on vSphere
- List the requirements for deploying a supervisor cluster
- List the steps to install a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid supervisor cluster
- Summarize the events of a supervisor cluster creation
- List the requirements for deploying a management cluster
- List the steps to install a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid management cluster
- Summarize the events of a management cluster creation
- Demonstrate how to use commands when working with management clusters
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VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on Public Clouds
- List the requirements for deploying a management cluster on AWS and Microsoft Azure
- List the configuration options to install a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid a management cluster on AWS and Azure
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Tanzu Kubernetes Workload Clusters
- List the steps to build a custom image
- Describe the available customizations
- Identify the options for deploying Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters
- Explain the difference between the v1alpha3 and v1beta1 APIs
- Explain how Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters are created
- Discuss which VMs compose a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster
- List the pods that run on a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster
- Describe the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid core add-ons that are installed on a cluster
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Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Packages
- Define the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid packages
- Explain the difference between Auto-Managed and CLI-Managed packages
- Define packages repositories
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Configuring and Managing Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Operation and Analytics Packages
- Describe Cert-Manager
- Describe the Harbor Image Registry
- Describe Fluent Bit
- Identify the logs that Fluent Bit collects
- Explain basic Fluent Bit configuration
- Describe Prometheus and Grafana
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Configuring and Managing Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Networking Packages
- Describe the Contour ingress controller
- Demonstrate how to install Contour on a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster
- Describe ExternalDNS
- Demonstrate how to install Service Discovery with ExternalDNS
- Describe Multus CNI
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Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Day 2 Operations
- List the load balancer configuration options in vSphere to load balance applications
- Demonstrate how to configure Ingress with the NodePortLocal Mode
- Explain how to install VMware Tanzu Application Platform
- Describe life cycle management in Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
- Explain how backup and restore are implemented in Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
- Describe Velero and Restic
- List the steps to back up a Workload cluster using Velero and Restic
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Troubleshooting Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
- Discuss the various Tanzu Kubernetes Grid logs
- Identify the location of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid logs
- Explain the purpose of crash diagnostics
- Demonstrate how to check the health of a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster
- Explain packages cleanup procedures
- Explain management recovery procedures
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Karel Pouzar
Senior Solution Architect - Cloud
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Certified Security – Specialty, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate, AWS Authorized Instructor Champion Cisco CCIE R&S #20198, CCNP Ent, CCNP SP
Karel is a Senior Solution Architect for Cloud at Alef. He has long been involved in infrastructure and its virtualization in large networks and data centres of service providers. In recent years, he has been involved in the design and implementation of hybrid Cloud solutions.
He is an avid user and promoter of new technologies, which he capitalizes on as a Cloud Ambassador for the Expert Centre's Infrastructure Team. At the Alef Group, he is the lead trainer for AWS training, where he’s the AWS Authorised Instructor Champion.
Jan Kopřiva
Team lead CSIRT - incident response and offensive security
Multiple certifications & M.Sc. in Cyber security, Multiple certifications & B.Sc. in Education and teaching, Author of numerous security courses
Jan Kopřiva is the team lead of an incident response and offensive security team at ALEF Group and an Incident Handler with the renowned SANS Internet Storm Center. Jan started his career as a blue teamer, but slowly moved into offensive security as well. His current professional interests lie mainly in the areas of security, which traditionally fall within the purview of purple teams. He has authored multiple security courses as well as numerous research papers and articles focused on different aspects of cyber security and he regularly speaks at security conferences and other industry events.
Peter Frolo
Systems Engineer
CCSI# 35715, CCNP Enterprise, SD-WAN Specialist, Devnet Associate
Peter works at ALEF Zero as a systems engineer in the SPRS team. His job is mainly to design and implement network solutions from Cisco's Enterprise class portfolio, based on various Catalyst (9K, 8K) and ISR network elements. He specializes primarily in Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) technology, in which Peter is a certified SD-WAN Implementation Specialist. He also participated in the first implementation of SD-WAN technology at ALEF. Peter also works as a certified Cisco instructor with many years of experience.
Jan Janovic
Team Leader, DC-NET
Double CCIE DC|R&S #55858, CCNP DevNet, CCSI #35493, AWS Solution Architect and Developer Associate
Honza is a Datacenter Networking Teamleader at Alef. Together with his team, he specializes in a variety of networking solutions, primarily built on the Cisco Nexus switch platform - traditional vPC architecture, VXLAN BGP EVPN factories, and Cisco ACI. He also focuses on analytical tools, programmability and the automation of all these solutions, as well as their integration with the public cloud. In 2020, he became the Alef Group's first holder of the new CCNP DevNet certification, and also received the DevNet500 award for being among the top 500 DevNet certified engineers worldwide. In 2021 he became the only Double CCIE holder in the ALEF group, and the first in the world to pass any new version of the CCIE exam following changes to Cisco's certification program in February 2020. Honza has logged more than 1,000 hours in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania.
Jiří Šolc
Enterprise/Solution Architect
CCDA, CCNP Collaboration, AWS, ITIL, TOGAF, ArchiMate, IPMA
Jirka works at Alef as an Enterprise/Solution Architect, and is responsible for the comprehensive development of ICT solutions for key customers. He has over 10 years’ experience in technical, consulting and management practice. He has been involved in the design, implementation and management of a number of infrastructure, security, communications and digital transformation projects.
His specialties include the interconnection of the business and ICT worlds through Enterprise and Solution Architecture. This involves extensive communication with people in different roles across roles and organisational structures, the analysis of complex ICT environments, the preparation of projects including advocacy for their benefits, budgets, and interdependencies, and overall strategic ICT development planning. You will see him regularly speaking at conferences and workshops.
Filip Pávek
Senior Security Architect
CCNP Enterprise, CCNP Security, CCNA CyberOps, C|EH, CCSI #35271
Filip works at Alef as a Security Architect and is responsible for consulting, designing solutions, and leading security-technology focused projects. He gained his technical experience as a system engineer, first in Routing & Switching and then mainly in security. Filip is also a certified Cisco instructor, so you could meet him in your educational activities at our training centre. His passion for self-education and spreading technical awareness is also demonstrated by his having been a lecturer at Cisco Academy for over 10 years.
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