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4 Days

24 CPD hours

Overview

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

During this four-day course, you focus on installing VMware TanzuÂ© Kubernetes Grid? in a VMware vSphereÂ© 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.

Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics

Course objectives

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Packages

Define the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid packages

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

Define packages repositories

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

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

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

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

Additional course details:Notes

Delivery by TDSynex, Exit Certified and New Horizons an VMware Authorised Training Centre (VATC)

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