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A Beginner's Guide to Kubernetes for Container Orchestration

Gain essential Kubernetes knowledge and develop the practical skills you need to become a DevOps professional.

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A Beginner's Guide to Kubernetes for Container Orchestration

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Start your career as a DevOps engineer

The demand for DevOps engineers in the IT industry is ever-increasing and for any DevOps professional, knowledge of Kubernetes is essential. On this three-week course, you’ll learn everything you need to get up and running with Kubernetes.

You’ll complete a series of hands-on coding exercises that accompany each major concept, designed to help you deploy your own applications to a Kubernetes platform confidently.

By the end of this course, you’ll have developed the skill set needed to start your career as a DevOps engineer.

Learn key Kubernetes concepts

Starting with basic concepts, you’ll gain a strong foundational knowledge of Kubernetes and learn about Docker and containers.

Next, you’ll put these skills into practice and set up a lab using VirtualBox. From here, you’ll learn to work with Minikube to create a Kubernetes cluster and use YAML files to create and deploy Pods.

With this knowledge, you’ll understand how containers/Pods communicate with one another in Kubernetes.

Unpack microservices architecture

You’ll study Kubernetes services and the architecture of Kubernetes microservices.

This understanding will help you learn how to deploy microservices applications on Kubernetes and gain an insight into the success of brands such as Amazon, Netflix, and Etsy.

Explore Kubernetes on Cloud services

Finally, you’ll explore how Kubernetes runs on different cloud applications such as AWS, Azure, and GCP.

You’ll also gain experience in deploying microservices applications to a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Kubernetes cluster, and learn to set up a multi-node Kubernetes cluster using kubeadm.

By the end, you’ll have developed the practical skills and theoretical knowledge to thrive as a DevOps engineer.

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What topics will you cover?

The demand for DevOps engineers in the IT industry is ever-increasing, with the average Silicon Valley salary for a DevOps engineer being 20% higher than that of a software engineer. Knowledge of Kubernetes is essential for any DevOps professional, and this course covers everything you need to get up and running with Kubernetes. The most important part of the course is the series of hands-on coding exercises that accompany each major concept, designed to help you deploy your own applications to a Kubernetes platform confidently.

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What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

  • Describe the basic concepts of Kubernetes.
  • Demonstrate ways of setting up and getting started with Kubernetes.
  • Describe networking in Kubernetes.
  • Develop Kubernetes YAML definition files.
  • Demonstrate how to deploy a microservices application on a cloud platform.

Who is the course for?

This course is designed for anyone wanting to become a DevOps engineer or those already working in the profession and wanting to gain knowledge of Kubernetes.

Who developed the course?

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Founded in 2004 in Birmingham, UK, Packt’s mission is to help the world put software to work in new ways, through the delivery of effective learning and information services to IT professionals.

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FutureLearn is a leading social learning platform and has been providing high quality online courses for learners around the world over the last ten years.

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