Kubernetes Training — Container Orchestration, Production Operations & Security

What Is Kubernetes?

Kubernetes (K8s) is the standard for container orchestration — the platform that schedules, scales, heals, and manages containerized applications across clusters of machines. Originally designed by Google based on 15+ years of running production containers (Borg), Kubernetes is now a CNCF graduated project and the foundation of cloud-native infrastructure. Every major cloud provider offers managed Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE). Understanding Kubernetes is essential for modern platform engineering, SRE, and cloud-native DevOps.

Who Should Attend

• DevOps and platform engineers operating Kubernetes clusters
• Software engineers deploying applications to Kubernetes
• SREs managing production Kubernetes reliability
• Anyone preparing for CKA or CKAD certification

Learning Outcomes

• Deploy and manage applications with Pods, Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, and Jobs
• Configure networking — Services, Ingress, NetworkPolicies, and service mesh (Istio)
• Manage configuration with ConfigMaps, Secrets, and external secrets operators
• Implement storage with PersistentVolumes, PersistentVolumeClaims, and StorageClasses
• Package and deploy applications with Helm and Kustomize
• Operate Kubernetes in production — monitoring, logging, security, RBAC, resource management
• Prepare for CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) and CKAD (Application Developer) exams

Course Modules

1. Kubernetes Architecture — Control plane, worker nodes, etcd, API server, scheduler, kubelet. Core concepts.
2. Pods & Workloads — Pods, Deployments, ReplicaSets, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Jobs, CronJobs. Health probes.
3. Networking — Services (ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer). Ingress. NetworkPolicies. CoreDNS. Service mesh concepts.
4. Configuration & Secrets — ConfigMaps, Secrets. External Secrets Operator. HashiCorp Vault integration.
5. Storage — PV, PVC, StorageClasses. CSI drivers. Stateful workloads. Volume snapshots.
6. Helm & Kustomize — Helm charts and releases. Kustomize overlays. Package management. Chart repositories.
7. Scheduling & Resource Management — Requests, limits. Affinity, anti-affinity. Taints, tolerations. Priority classes.
8. Observability — Prometheus, Grafana. Metrics, logs (Loki), traces (Tempo). Alerting with Alertmanager.
9. Security — RBAC. Pod Security Standards. Network policies. Image scanning. Falco runtime security. OPA/Gatekeeper.
10. Cluster Operations — Upgrades. Backup (etcd, Velero). Autoscaling. Resource quotas. Multi-tenancy.
11. GitOps with ArgoCD — Declarative Git-driven deployments. ApplicationSets. Sync policies. Progressive delivery.
12. Capstone: Production Cluster — Deploy a production-grade Kubernetes cluster with applications, monitoring, security, and GitOps.

Hands-on Labs (24 total)

Deploy a microservices application with Deployments, Services, and Ingress. Configure HPA with custom metrics. Implement network policies. Package an application with Helm. Set up Prometheus+Grafana monitoring. Configure RBAC with least privilege. Deploy with ArgoCD in a GitOps workflow.

Enterprise Use Cases

• Operating 10+ EKS clusters for a microservices platform with GitOps, observability, and security
• Kubernetes platform for 200+ developers with self-service namespaces and resource quotas
• CKA certification preparation: 85% of students pass on first attempt

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