Kubernetes INTRO

Kubernetes INTRO

• Slides

• Content

Three-day hands-on course. Chapters are deliberately short - the real learning happens in the labs.

Cluster: Kubernetes 1.35.2 on Ubuntu 24.04. You work from support01 (ssh student@192.168.56.101, password linux).

Day 1 - containers, the API, and Pods

• Services and microservices
• Containers and images
• Kubernetes basics
• Finding your way around kubectl
• Pods

Day 2 - controllers and networking

• Troubleshooting routine
• Namespaces
• ReplicaSets
• Deployments
• DaemonSets
• Scheduling: taints, tolerations, affinity
• Services
• Gateway API
• Nodes

Day 3 - state, packaging, extension

• ConfigMaps and Secrets
• Persistent storage
• StatefulSets
• Helm basics
• Helm charts
• CRDs and operators

Reference

• Docker cheat sheet
• kubectl cheat sheet
• Helm cheat sheet
• All labs

Lab environment

Management network 192.168.128.0/24. NFS exports on support01: /storage1, /storage2, /storage3.