VMware vSphere 7 with Kubernetes Deployment and Management

Introduction to Containers and Kubernetes

• Virtual machines and containers
• Container Hosts
• Container Engines
• Docker file
• Container images
• Image registration
• Purpose and functionality of Kubernetes
• YAML manifest files
• Pods
• Replicate sets
• Services
• Deployments
• Network Policies

Introduction to vSphere with Kubernetes

• Introduction to Cloud Native Computing Foundation
• Introduction to VMware Tanzu Portfolio
• Purpose and functionality of vSphere with Kubernetes
• The features of vSphere with Kubernetes
• The components of vSphere with Kubernetes
• The contrast of vSphere with Kubernetes to traditional Kubernetes
• The Requirements for vSphere with Kubernetes
• Required NSX Components for vSphere with Kubernetes
• The network topology of vSphere with Kubernetes
• The network requirements of vSphere with Kubernetes
• Comparing NSX network objects with Kubernetes network objects
• The Kubectl command line interface

vSphere with Kubernetes Core Services

• The Architecture of vSphere with Kubernetes Core Services
• Use cases of vSphere with Kubernetes
• Enabling vSphere with Kubernetes
• Deploying the Harbor Registry
• vSphere with Kubernetes namespace
• Resource quotas
• Authentication and authorization of vSphere with Kubernetes
• Creating a namespace.
• Using kubectl to interact with vSphere with Kubernetes
• Using the kubectl pod deployment
• Scaling a pod deployment.
• Deleting pods
• Using kubectl to deploy a pod
• Using kubectl to scale a pod.
• The container storage interface
• VM storage policies and persistent volumes
• Monitoring native cloud storage
• Creating a persistent volume
• NSX container plug-ins
• The network topology of the supervisor cluster
• Container objects in NSX
• Kubernetes services
• Guidelines for Kubernetes networks
• Harbor Image Registration
• Integrating Harbor in vSphere with Kubernetes
• Enabling Harbor
• Moving container images into Harbor
• Deploying containers from Harbor

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service for vSphere

• Introduction to the Kubernetes Cluster API
• Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Services for vSphere
• Use cases for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Cluster
• Enabling Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters
• Deploying a Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster
• Scaling a Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster
• Lifecycle of a Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster
• Deploying Pods in a Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster
• Monitoring a Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster

Lifecycle of vSphere with Kubernetes

• Introduction to the Kubernetes version
• Kubernetes version cadence
• Lifecycle of vSphere with Kubernetes
• NSX Component Lifecycle
• vSphere with Kubernetes Certificate Management

Monitoring and troubleshooting

• Monitoring Tools for vSphere with Kubernetes
• Troubleshooting Tools for vSphere with Kubernetes
• Integration of VMware vRealize Operations Manager
• vCenter Server events
• vSphere with Kubernetes events
• Collection of vSphere with Kubernetes Support Log Packages

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• Clarify seminar requirements - review your knowledge with the trainer
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