In this intense bootcamp, students will encounter containers for the first time, learn to orchestrate them into scalable, highly available applications orchestrated by Kubernetes, and finally begin deploying production grade Kubernetes clusters through Mirantis Container Cloud. This bundle is ideal for students who are just starting out with containerization and want to leverage the full power of Kubernetes across multiple clusters and teams. Students will leave the workshop with a proof of concept Mirantis Container Cloud deployment on AWS.
 

Containerization motivations and implementation

• Usecases
• Comparison to virtual machines

Creating, managing and auditing containers

• Container implementation from the Linux kernel
• Container lifecycle details
• Core container creation, auditing and management CLI

Best practices in container image design

• Layered filesystem implementation and performance implications
• Creating images with Dockerfiles
• Optimising image builds with multi-stage builds and image design best practices

Single-host container networking

• Docker native networking model
• Software defined networks for containers
• Docker-native single-host service discovery and routing

Provisioning external storage

• Docker volume creation and management
• Best practices and usecases for container-external storage.

Make effective use of pod architecture

Deploy workloads as Kubernetes controllers

Provision configuration at runtime to Kubernetes workloads

Network pods together across a cluster using native services

Provision highly available storage to Kubernetes workloads

Package an application as a Helm chart

Mirantis Container Cloud Architecture

• Management, regional, managed and attached cluster usage and architecture
• Installation and setup of management and managed clusters

MCC User Management

• Using Keycloak to manage user permissions
• Integrating LDAP with MCC
• Managing permissions for multitenancy

Cluster Logging & Monitoring

• Stacklight configuration and cluster integration
• Using Prometheus and Grafana dashboards
• Customizing Stacklight configurations & third-party integrations
• Exploring logs with Kibana

System Operators & Administrators
 

No certification available.

• Familiarity with the bash shell: filesystem navigation and manipulation, command line text editors like vim or nano, common tooling like curl, wget and ping