Kubernetes: Scalable Container Infrastructures - Administration and Orchestration - Participation as Driver

Course overview

Container Foundations (compact) Container Cluster Basics Concepts of Kubernetes Cluster Full Automation: IaC, Operators, and GitOps Overview: Container Engines, Docker Replacement Tools Container Security, Registries Kernel Namespaces, Kernel Capabilities, Seccomp Profiles Overview: Integration of Security Solutions into the CI/CD / GitOps Workflow Kubernetes Cluster: Architecture, Components, and Concepts Conceptual Considerations Vanilla Kubernetes and Derivatives vs. Enterprise Kubernetes (OpenShift), Cloud vs. On-Premises, Managed vs. Self-Managed Strategic Questions, Optimal Cluster Design, Holistic Security, Node Sizing Cluster HA and Best Practices Architecture / Core Components / Infrastructure Automation Master/Control Plane, Infra, and (GPU) Worker Nodes Control Plane and Node Components Overview: Setup Procedures for Kubernetes Clusters (on-premises and in the cloud), Automation and Best Practices Understanding API Versions and Resources, Planning Upgrades Kubernetes Cluster: Management Foundations Cluster and Workload Management Cluster Management via kubectl CLI, KubeConfig Understanding, Managing, and Debugging Kubernetes Core Workloads: Pods, ReplicaSets, Deployments, DaemonSets, and StatefulSets Namespaces and Tenancy Aspects, Network Policies RBAC: User and System Roles, Authentication and Authorization, Role and Binding Objects, Service Accounts Workload HA and Scalability: Scale-up/down, Rolling Updates, Regular Update Strategies, Rollbacks ConfigMaps and Secrets, Real Secret Secrets Communication Services, Ingress, Gateways, and (OpenShift) Routes Ingress vs. API Gateway/Gateway API Cluster Internal DNS Resolution Overview: Service Meshes, Drawbacks Storage CSI, Storage Classes, Access Modes, Persistent Volumes, and Persistent Volume Claims Kubernetes Cluster: Day 2 Operations Health Checks, Compute Resources, Autoscaling, Observability Health Checks: Liveness, Readiness, and Startup Probes, Best Practices (De-)Scheduling: Pod Priorities, QoS Classes, PodTopologySpreadConstraints, PodDisruptionBudgets, Pod/Node (Anti-)Affinities, Descheduler/Re-Balancing Limits and Requests, LimitRanges, ResourceQuotas Autoscaler: Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA), Vertical Pod Autoscaling / Optimizing (VPA), Custom Metrics Autoscaling (KEDA), Cluster Autoscaling Fully Automated Certificate Management via Cert-Manager, Cert-Manager Specific CRDs, Challenge Procedures Canary Updates Cluster Monitoring, Alerting, Metrics, and Logging Overview: Prometheus and Prometheus Operator Operators, GitOps, and Security GitOps and Operator-Based Apps instead of Helm CI/CD / GitOps Pipelines with ArgoCD Overviews: Argo Rollouts, Kubernetes-Native Policies with Kyverno Security Solutions for Kubernetes-Based Clusters

Upcoming dates

• 2026-11-08T23:00:00.000Z · 2026-11-11T23:00:00.000Z · Online-Seminar
• 2026-12-13T23:00:00.000Z · 2026-12-16T23:00:00.000Z · Online-Seminar