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.

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Learning Objectives

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

1

  • COURSE INTRODUCTION

  • Introductions and course logistics

    Course objectives

2

  • 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

3

  • 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

4

  • 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

5

  • 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

6

  • 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

7

  • 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

8

  • 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

9

  • TANZU KUBERNETES GRID PACKAGES

  • Define the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid packages

    Explain the difference between Auto-Managed and CLI-Managed packages

    Define packages repositories

10

  • 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

11

  • 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

12

  • 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

13

  • 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

Audience

Language

English

Prerequisites

$3,400

Length: 4.0 days (32 hours)

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