Training Course

Kubernetes for Developers (LFD259)

Kubernetes is a high-velocity open source orchestration tool to deploy, scale, and update containerized applications. This course will teach you how to containerize, host, deploy, and configure an application in a multi-node cluster.

Who Is It For

This course is ideal for developers who are looking to gain skills in Kubernetes application development. Students should be familiar with the Linux command line, programming languages like Python, Node.js or Go, and have a basic understanding of cloud native application concepts and architectures.
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What You’ll Learn

This course will teach you how to containerize, host, deploy, and configure an application in a multi-node cluster. Starting with a simple Python script, you will define application resources and use core primitives to build, monitor and troubleshoot scalable applications in Kubernetes. Working with network plugins, security and cloud storage, you will be exposed to many of the features needed to deploy an application in a production environment.
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What It Prepares You For

The course, along with real-world experience and study, will provide the skills and knowledge also tested by the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam.
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Course Outline
Chapter 1. Course Introduction
Chapter 2. Kubernetes Architecture
Chapter 3. Build
Chapter 4. Design
Chapter 5. Deployment Configuration
Chapter 6. Understanding Security
Chapter 7. Exposing Applications
Chapter 8. Application Troubleshooting

Gain your certification after this course with our CKAD Exam

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Prerequisites
Before starting this course, you should be familiar with:

Lab Info
To successfully complete the lab exercises in this course, access to a Linux server or Linux desktop/laptop is required. Access to a public cloud provider, or VirtualBox on your machine is also needed. Detailed instructions to set up your lab environment are provided in the course.

If using a cloud provider like GCP or AWS, you should be able to complete the lab exercises using the free tier or credits provided to you. However, you may incur charges if you exceed the credits initially allocated by the cloud provider, or if the cloud provider’s terms and conditions change.

Reviews
Sep 2023
The lab provides many details for understanding the concepts of k8s.
Sep 2023
What I liked most about the course was the material, the exercises, and the simulations.
Sep 2023
I liked how much of the Kubernetes components it covered. I also really liked the hands-on labs, they were clear, and easy to follow, and all the setup scripts worked without any troubleshooting needed.
Jul 2023
This course covered many topics in Kubernetes, and has improved my knowledge of Kubernetes.
Jun 2023
Hands-on lab exercises and domain review exercises are very valuable.