This four-day specialist training provides in-depth knowledge of installing, configuring, and managing VMware Tanzu® Kubernetes Grid™ (TKG) in a VMware vSphere® environment.
Participants will learn to provision and manage clusters, set up registries, configure authentication, logging, ingress, networking, service discovery, monitoring, backup, lifecycle management, and application-specific tools. The course also applies to users deploying Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on supported cloud platforms.
Understanding of Kubernetes and cluster architecture
Experience in deploying and managing multiple Kubernetes clusters
Platform operators
Kubernetes administrators
Professionals responsible for deploying and managing Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
Describe Tanzu Kubernetes Grid in the VMware Tanzu portfolio
Understand TKG architecture and its components
Deploy and manage management and Supervisor clusters
Deploy and customize workload clusters
Install and configure Tanzu Kubernetes Grid packages
Configure logging, monitoring, ingress, DNS, registries, and networking packages
Perform Day 2 operations like upgrades, backups, and lifecycle management
Troubleshoot Tanzu Kubernetes Grid issues
Objectives and logistics
Components overview
vSphere with Tanzu & Tanzu Mission Control integration
Benefits of Tanzu Mission Control
Tanzu CLI, Kubernetes CLI, Carvel toolkit
Cluster API providers, controllers, CRDs
RBAC and Kubernetes roles
Pinniped, OIDC, Dex, LDAP integration
vCenter Single Sign-On
Load balancing in TKG
NSX Advanced Load Balancer integration
Supervisor cluster requirements
Installing and managing management clusters
Deployment and customization options
Auto-managed & CLI-managed packages
Installation and configuration
cert-manager
Contour Ingress Controller
ExternalDNS
Multus & Whereabouts
Fluent Bit
Prometheus & Grafana
Harbor Image Registry
Upgrades, updates, and backups
Velero integration for cluster backup & restore
Reviewing logs
Troubleshooting package installations
SSH node connections and debugging
Join our public courses in our Bahrain facilities. Private class trainings will be organized at the location of your preference, according to your schedule.
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