VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid: Install, Configure, Manage v2.5 Training in South Africa

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

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

1. Course Introduction

• Objectives and logistics

2. Introducing Tanzu Kubernetes Grid

• Components overview

• vSphere with Tanzu & Tanzu Mission Control integration

• Benefits of Tanzu Mission Control

3. CLI Tools and Cluster API

• Tanzu CLI, Kubernetes CLI, Carvel toolkit

• Cluster API providers, controllers, CRDs

4. Authentication

• RBAC and Kubernetes roles

• Pinniped, OIDC, Dex, LDAP integration

• vCenter Single Sign-On

5. Load Balancers

• Load balancing in TKG

• NSX Advanced Load Balancer integration

6. TKG on vSphere

• Supervisor cluster requirements

• Installing and managing management clusters

7. TKG Workload Clusters

• Deployment and customization options

8. TKG Packages

• Auto-managed & CLI-managed packages

• Installation and configuration

9. Networking Packages

• cert-manager

• Contour Ingress Controller

• ExternalDNS

• Multus & Whereabouts

10. Operations and Analytics Packages

• Fluent Bit

• Prometheus & Grafana

• Harbor Image Registry

11. Day 2 Operations

• Upgrades, updates, and backups

• Velero integration for cluster backup & restore

12. Troubleshooting

• Reviewing logs

• Troubleshooting package installations

• SSH node connections and debugging