Advanced Kubernetes Operations (CN 320)

In the Advanced Kubernetes Operations class, operations staff will learn many of the tools and patterns needed to run a Kubernetes cluster in production. This course is targeted at advanced Kubernetes users tasked with operational responsibilities such as logging, monitoring, alerting, continuous and progressive continuous deployments, as well as cluster bootstrapping, maintenance, backups and disaster recovery. Advanced Kubernetes Operations is a pattern driven course, exploring the powerful patterns of Kubernetes Operators and gitops which can be used across a wide variety of tool chains.

• 100818 Kubernetes Operations (CN 220) course and prerequisites therein, or equivalent experience
• Familiarity with the Bash shell
• Filesystem navigation and manipulation
• Command line text editors like vim or nano
• Common tooling like curl, wget and ping
• Familiarity with YAML and JSON notation
• Mastery of basic to intermediate Kubernetes tools, like pods, controllers, servi

This course is targeted at students with the following:

• Motivations: Deploy & manage a production grade kubernetes cluster
• Roles: Infrastructure/Deployment Engineers, Cloud Architects