CANCELLED - Advanced Kubernetes Application Deployment - Copenhagen

Cloud native tooling

The course will teach you how to take a container-based application and enhance it with cloud native tooling.

You will learn to package the application with Helm charts, monitor it with Prometheus and Grafana, and auto scale   is using both built-in and custom metrics. As part of the exercises, you will learn how to deploy the Prometheus/Grafana monitoring stack.

This course is relevant if you wish to extend your application packaging and deployment

The course is for software developers, Cloud specialist, it-developers, it-specialist, and anyone who needs to extend their application packaging and deployment skills using cloud native tooling.

After completing this course, you will be able to:

·     Package containerized applications using parameterized Helm charts to ease customization.

·     Deploy a Kubernetes monitoring solution based on Prometheus and Grafana

·     Create dashboards to monitor application health and performance

·     Auto scale your application using built-in and custom metrics

·     Proactively protect your workloads against disruptions with Pod distribution budgets, prioritization, and QoS.

Your company gains:

·        Best practice knowledge around the tooling needed for a production system to be deployed in Kubernetes 

Hands on experience and in-depth knowledge around the scalability and reusability of Kubernetes and connected tools.

Day 1:

Deploy a Kubernetes monitoring solution based on Prometheus and Grafana

·      Create dashboards to monitor application health and performance

·      Autoscale your application using built-in and custom metrics

·      Proactively protect your workloads against disruptions with Pod distribution budgets, prioritization, and QoS.

Day 2:

Install Helm charts on your cluster

·     Add repositories to access pre-built charts

·     Create charts for your own application

·     Utilize the build-in pipeline and function features of Helm

·     Test charts with helm test and lint

·     Manage the lifecycle of your helm release

·     Package and share your charts to a repository

·     Awareness of how to use Helm in a CI/CD context including GitOps.

Prerequisites

·     Good knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker

·     We highly recommend combining this course with DevOps Tools: Docker and Kubernetes for developers if you have not worked with Kubernetes yet.

During the course

Hands on training, so remember to bring a laptop.

The training is conducted by an experienced consultant from Eficode, a European consultancy specializing in Continuous Delivery & DevOps. Eficode has broad experience in helping different companies with the practical implementation of their development process based on modern techniques and tools.

The training language and the study material will be in English at this course.