Our hands-on curriculum goes far beyond theory to give you the skills and confidence to design, deploy, manage, and troubleshoot production-grade Kubernetes clusters:
- Cluster Architecture & Installation
- Build highly available clusters from scratch using kubeadm
- Perform in-place upgrades and rollback strategies
- Implement etcd backup and restore procedures
- Networking & Services
- Configure ClusterIP, NodePort, and LoadBalancer services
- Deploy and manage Ingress controllers and resources
- Tune CoreDNS and host-level networking for optimal performance
- Storage Management
- Define and automate StorageClasses
- Work with PersistentVolumes, volume modes, access modes, and reclaim policies
- Integrate dynamic provisioning with CSI plugins
- Workloads, Scheduling & Scaling
- Use ConfigMaps and Secrets for secure configuration
- Implement rolling updates, rollbacks, and auto-scaling for resilient applications
- Leverage resource limits and requests to optimize Pod placement
- Security & Access Control
- Configure Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for fine-grained permissions
- Apply Network Policies to isolate and protect workloads
- Secure the control plane and enforce best practices
- Logging, Monitoring & Troubleshooting
- Centralize and analyze application and cluster logs
- Instrument clusters with monitoring tools and readiness/liveness probes
- Diagnose and resolve pod-, node-, and network-level failures under timed conditions
- Production-Grade Best Practices
- Plan for disaster recovery and high availability
- Automate cluster operations using declarative manifests and Helm charts
- Establish CI/CD pipelines for continuous delivery