TKGICM2 - VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid: Install, Configure, Manage V2.0

Course Overview

During this four-day course, you focus on installing VMware Tanzu® Kubernetes Grid™ in a VMware vSphere® environment and provisioning and managing Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters. The course covers how to install Tanzu Kubernetes Grid packages for image registry, authentication, logging, ingress, multipod network interfaces, service discovery, and monitoring. The concepts learned in this course are transferable for users who must install Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on other supported clouds.

Course Content

Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives

Introducing VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid

Identify the VMware Tanzu products responsible for Kubernetes life cycle management and describe the main differences between them
Explain the core concepts of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, including bootstrap, Tanzu Kubernetes Grid management, supervisor, and workload clusters
List the components of a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid instance

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid CLI and API

Illustrate how to use the Tanzu CLI
Define the Carvel Tool set
Define Cluster API
Identify the infrastructure providers
List the Cluster API controllers
Identify the Cluster API custom resource definitions

Authentication

Explain how Kubernetes manages authentication with Management clusters
Explain how Kubernetes manages authentication with supervisor clusters
Define Pinniped
Define Dex
Describe the Pinniped authentication workflow

Load Balancers

Illustrate how load balancing works for the Kubernetes control plane
Illustrate how load balancing works for application workload
Explain how Tanzu Kubernetes Grid integrates with VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer
List load balancing options available on public clouds

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on vSphere

List the requirements for deploying a supervisor cluster
List the steps to install a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid supervisor cluster
Summarize the events of a supervisor cluster creation
List the requirements for deploying a management cluster
List the steps to install a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid management cluster
Summarize the events of a management cluster creation
Demonstrate how to use commands when working with management clusters

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on Public Clouds

List the requirements for deploying a management cluster on AWS and Microsoft Azure
List the configuration options to install a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid a management cluster on AWS and Azure

Tanzu Kubernetes Workload Clusters

List the steps to build a custom image
Describe the available customizations
Identify the options for deploying Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters
Explain the difference between the v1alpha3 and v1beta1 APIs
Explain how Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters are created
Discuss which VMs compose a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster
List the pods that run on a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster
Describe the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid core add-ons that are installed on a cluster

Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Packages

Define the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid packages
Explain the difference between Auto-Managed and CLI-Managed packages
Define packages repositories

Configuring and Managing Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Operation and Analytics Packages

Describe Cert-Manager
Describe the Harbor Image Registry
Describe Fluent Bit
Identify the logs that Fluent Bit collects
Explain basic Fluent Bit configuration
Describe Prometheus and Grafana

Configuring and Managing Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Networking Packages

Describe the Contour ingress controller
Demonstrate how to install Contour on a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster
Describe ExternalDNS
Demonstrate how to install Service Discovery with ExternalDNS
Describe Multus CNI

Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Day 2 Operations

List the load balancer configuration options in vSphere to load balance applications
Demonstrate how to configure Ingress with the NodePortLocal Mode
Explain how to install VMware Tanzu Application Platform
Describe life cycle management in Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
Explain how backup and restore are implemented in Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
Describe Velero and Restic
List the steps to back up a Workload cluster using Velero and Restic

Troubleshooting Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
Discuss the various Tanzu Kubernetes Grid logs
Identify the location of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid logs
Explain the purpose of crash diagnostics
Demonstrate how to check the health of a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster
Explain packages cleanup procedures
Explain management recovery procedures

Who should attend

Platform operators who are responsible for deploying and managing Tanzu Kubernetes clusters

Prerequisites

Understanding of Kubernetes and the Kubernetes cluster architecture
Experience deploying and managing multiple Kubernetes clusters

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Describe how Tanzu Kubernetes Grid fits in the VMware Tanzu® portfolio
Describe the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid architecture
Deploy and manage Tanzu Kubernetes Grid management and supervisor clusters
Deploy and manage Tanzu Kubernetes Grid workload clusters
Deploy, configure, and manage Tanzu Kubernetes Grid packages
Perform basic troubleshooting