Summary

• 💬 Welcome to Alta3 Research Labs

Getting Started

• 💻 Vim: A Modal Text Editor

• 💻 Efficient CLI Usage with Tmux

AI LLM Toolkit

• 💻 Large Language Model toolkit for AI Solution Assistance

From Containers to Kubernetes

• 💬 Kubernetes Architecture

• 💻 Define, build and modify container images

• 💬 Pods and the Control Plane

• 💬 Kubernetes the Alta3 Way

• 💻 Deploy Kubernetes using Ansible

Pod Basics

• 💬 YAML

• 💬 Manifests for Pods

• 💻 Create and Configure Basic Pods

• 💬 API Versioning and Deprecations

Cluster Basics

• 💬 Namespaces and Fundamental Kubectl Commands

• 💻 Creating and Configuring Namespaces

• 💬 Kubectl get and sorting

• 💻 Listing Resources with kubectl get

Container Health, Security, and Observability

• 💬 Kubectl port-forward

• 💻 Kubectl port-forward

• 💬 Kubectl exec and cp

• 💻 Performing Commands inside a Pod

• 💬 Readiness and Liveness Probes

• 💻 Implement Probes and Health Checks

• 💬 Pod Security Contexts

• 💻 Applying Security Contexts

Resource Management

• 💬 Limits, Requests, and Namespace ResourceQuotas

• 💻 Defining Resource Requirements, Limits and Quotas

• 💻 Kubectl Top and Application Monitoring

• 💬 Admission Controller

• 💻 Create a LimitRange AdmissionController

RBAC

• 💬 Role Based Access Control

• 💻 Service Accounts

• 💬 Contexts

• 💻 Cluster Access with Kubernetes Context

Logging

• 💬 Utilize Container Logs

• 💻 Kubectl Log Command

• 💬 FluentD and RsysLog

Ephemeral Storage

• 💬 ConfigMaps and Volume Mounting

• 💻 Persistent Configuration with ConfigMaps

• 💬 Secrets

• 💻 Create and Consume Secrets

Persistent Storage

• 💬 Persistent Volumes, Claims, and StorageClasses

• 💻 Using PersistentVolumeClaims for Storage

• 💬 Persistent Volumes with CSI

• 💻 CSI Storage Solution: NFS

Multi-Container Pod Design

• 💬 Multi-Container Pods

• 💻 Configuring a Fluentd Logging Sidecar

• 💬 Init Containers

• 💻 Using Init Container for Pod Initialization

Deployments

• 💬 Labels

• 💻 Labels and Selectors

• 💬 Annotations

• 💻 Insert an Annotation

• 💬 ReplicaSets

• 💻 Create and Configure a ReplicaSet

• 💬 DaemonSets

• 💬 Deployments - Purpose and Advantages

• 💻 Create and Configure a Deployment

• 💬 Deployments Rollout

• 💻 Performing Rolling Updates and Rollbacks

• 💬 Blue/Green and Canary Deployment Strategies

• 💻 Advanced Deployment Strategies

• 💬 Deployments - Horizontal Scaling

• 🏆 Horizontal Pod Autoscaler

Jobs and CronJobs

• 💬 Jobs and CronJobs

• 💻 Running and Executing a Job

• 💻 Scheduling a CronJob

Affinity and Anti-Affinity

• 💬 Taints, Tolerations

• 💻 Tainted Nodes and Tolerations

NetworkPolicy

• 💬 NetworkPolicy

• 💻 Network Policy Basics

• 💻 Namespace Network Policy

Services and Ingress

• 💬 Networking with Services

• 💻 Expose Applications via Services

• 💬 Networking Plugins

• 💬 Ingress Controllers

• 💻 Expose Applications via Ingress Controllers

DNS

• 💬 Hostnames and FQDNs

• 💻 Utilizing FQDNs

The Helm Package Manager

• 💬 Helm

• 💻 Deploy Existing Packages via Helm

Extending Kubernetes

• 💬 Custom Resource Definitions

• 💻 Introduction to CRDs

Troubleshooting

• 💻 Troubleshooting

CKAD

• 💬 Tips to Pass your CKAD Exam!

Bonus Lab

• 💻 Deploy a Microserviced Boutique

Appendix

• 💬 Useful Lab Links

• 💻 SCM Option #1 - GitHub

Continuing Education

• 💻 Continuing Education

• 💬 Curriculum Path: ContainerOrchestration