VMware Tanzu Mission Control: Management & Operations [2024] Training

• Experience deploying and managing multiple Kubernetes clusters
• Experience with Kubernetes RBAC, network policies, resource quotas, and pod security policies

Attending one of the following courses is recommended:

• VMware vSphere with Tanzu: Deploy and Manage [V7]
• VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid: Install, Configure, Manage [V2.0]
• Kubernetes Fundamentals and Cluster Operations

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Describe the VMware Tanzu Mission Control architecture
• Configure user and group access
• Create and manage Kubernetes clusters
• Create image registry, network, quota, security, custom, access and mutation policies
• Connect your on-premises vSphere with Tanzu Supervisor to VMware Tanzu Mission Control
• Create, manage, and back up VMware Tanzu® Kubernetes Grid™ clusters
• Create and manage Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service clusters
• Perform cluster inspections
• Manage packages in your clusters
• Monitor and secure Kubernetes environments

1 Course Introduction

• Introduction and course logistics
• Course Objectives

2 Introducing VMware Tanzu Mission Control

• Describe VMware Tanzu Mission Control
• Describe vSphere with Tanzu
• Describe Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
• Describe VMware Tanzu® for Kubernetes Operations
• Describe how to manage Kubernetes clusters
• Explain VMware Tanzu Mission Control Self-Managed
• Describe VMware Aria Operations™ for Applications
• Describe VMware Tanzu® Service Mesh™ Advanced edition
• Describe VMware Aria Automation™
• List the open-source integrations
• Describe VMware Cloud™ services
• Describe the VMware Cloud services Catalog
• Explain how to access VMware Tanzu Mission Control

3 VMware Tanzu Mission Control Access Tools

• Explain VMware Cloud services and enterprise federation
• Describe VMware Cloud services roles
• Explain multifactor authentication
• Describe the VMware Tanzu Mission Control UI
• List the components of the VMware Tanzu Mission Control UI
• Describe the VMware Tanzu CLI
• Install the Tanzu CLI
• Describe the VMware Tanzu Mission Control API
• Access the VMware Tanzu Mission Control API

4 Management Clusters

• Outline the steps for registering a management cluster to VMware Tanzu Mission Control
• Discuss what a management cluster is
• Describe provisioners
• Explain the purpose of a cloud provider account
• Describe Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
• Create Amazon Web Services credentials
• Describe Azure Kubernetes Service

5 Workload Clusters

• Describe VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid workload clusters
• Explain how to create a cluster
• Explain how to configure a cluster
• Describe Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service workload clusters
• Describe Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service workload clusters
• Explain how to attach a Kubernetes cluster
• Explain how to verify the connections to the cluster
• Describe cluster health

6 Policy Management

• Describe the policy model
• Describe the available policy types
• Explain how access policies grant users access to different resources
• Explain how image registry policies restrict from which image registries container images can be pulled
• Outline how network policies are applied to clusters
• Discuss how security policies control deployment of pods in a cluster
• Discuss how quota policies manage resource consumption in your clusters
• Discuss how custom policies implement specialized policies that govern your Kubernetes clusters
• Describe mutation policies
• Explain how Policy Insights reports VMware Tanzu Mission Control policy issues

7 VMware Tanzu Mission Control Catalog

• Describe the VMware Tanzu Mission Control catalog
• Explain how to install packages
• Describe network packages
• Describe Fluent-Bit
• Explain Prometheus and Grafana
• Describe Harbor
• Describe Flux
• Describe Helm
• Describe Git repositories

8 Day 2 Operations

• Describe VMware Tanzu Mission Control Data Protection
• Describe the purpose of cluster inspections
• Identify the life cycle management options supported for the different workload cluster types
• List the steps to scale, upgrade, and delete clusters