Kubernetes Training Courses

RX-M is now offering courses that conclude with attendees taking the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam. The intensive instructor-led programs cover the essential facets of Kubernetes critical to preparing for the exams. Both in-person and virtual options are available.

The Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) programs were created by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), in collaboration with The Linux Foundation (LF), to help develop the Kubernetes ecosystem.

RX-M is a Linux Foundation Authorized Training Partner (ATP), part of the founding class of Kubernetes Certified Service Providers (KCSP) and Kubernetes Training Partners (KTP), and a charter member of the CNCF. We are uniquely positioned as unbiased & market neutral.

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RX-M’s foundational Kubernetes training covers all of the core features of Kubernetes orchestration and is the recommended prerequisite course for the rest of our Kubernetes curriculum. This intensive intro takes attendees from the installation of Kubernetes to Pod deployment and management using Controllers, Services, and mapped Volumes.

This Kubernetes training course is designed to provide technical staff with a comprehensive foundation to Kubernetes. All of the core features of Kubernetes orchestration are covered including, Pods, Labels, Volumes, Controllers, Services and more. The course takes attendees from installation to Pod deployment and management through a combination of lecture, demo and hands-on lab exercises where students will gain experience configuring and managing Kubernetes Pods, Deployments, Replica Sets, and Services. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of Kubernetes, how it operates in a container-based enterprise and will have learned the skills and knowledge necessary to begin using Kubernetes.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This intensive five-day hands-on course is designed to provide working developers, DevOps staff and other technology professionals with a comprehensive introduction to microservices and the Kubernetes microservice environment.

Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of microservices and how to maximize them on Kubernetes. Students will gain hands-on experience working with Kubernetes and microservices in a range of labs covering microservice design, API construction, and state management.

The course covers the benefits of container-based microservice packaging and the use of various Registry services. Attendees will examine various use cases and architecture patterns for microservice-based applications throughout the course, with focused discussion on microservice communications, event sourcing and transaction patterns such as choreography and orchestration. Key facets of observability are examined along with lab work demonstrating various related Kubernetes features and integration points such as liveness and readiness probes, log management and metrics.

Upon completion of the course, attendees will have the skills and information necessary to begin designing and developing effective microservice-based applications on Kubernetes.

Our securing Kubernetes course is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to the processes and practices around securing Kubernetes including application and image security, logging, network policy/segmentation, Kubernetes control plane security and auditing, and RBAC configuration.

This intensive two-day hands-on course is designed to provide working platform operators and other technology professionals with a comprehensive introduction to the processes and practices around securing Kubernetes. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of Kubernetes and container-based security concerns. Day one focuses on foundational security concerns including securing cloud native applications, container isolation, image security, and network policy/segmentation. On day two students will gain hands-on experience with Kubernetes authentication, control plane security, etcd security as well as RBAC configuration and management. The class concludes with a look at key logging and metrics monitoring as well as Kubernetes security auditing features. Upon completion of the course, attendees will have the skills and information necessary to effectively secure a production-grade Kubernetes cluster.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This three-day course is designed to provide an understanding of the tasks associated with maintaining and running a production cluster after initial deployment.

This three-day hands-on course is designed to provide Kubernetes operators with a deeper look at the Kubernetes platform and the tasks associated with maintaining and running a production cluster. The course provides attendees with key day two operations knowledge and experience through a combination of lectures, demonstrations and extensive lab work. Topics covered include cluster backup and recovery, upgrades, observability, etcd management, troubleshooting and much more.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

Our advanced Kubernetes training for Ops course is aimed at operations staff, platform managers, and SREs looking for a deep dive into Kubernetes architecture and internals. The course covers the scheduling algorithm, kubelet internals, service meshes and service proxies, software-defined networking, service discovery, cluster security, and observability: monitoring, tracing, and logging.

This Kubernetes Advanced for Operators training course picks up where RX-M's Kubernetes Foundation leaves off and is designed to provide experienced Kubernetes users with a detailed look at the administration and deployment of the Kubernetes platform through a combination of lecture, demonstrations, and hands-on lab exercises. This course will give attendees a better understanding of Kubernetes features including the scheduler, replication controller master, kublet and service proxies.

Attendees will also get a chance to work with Kubernetes add-ons including DNS, container registry, web UIs, and cluster monitoring. Students will gain hands-on experience configuring and managing Kubernetes features and functions in a live Kubernetes lab cluster and will also have a chance to work with Kubernetes in the cloud. Those attending will leave with a clear understanding of the more advanced features of Kubernetes and how they operate in a container-based enterprise.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This intensive three-day hands-on course is designed to provide working developers and other technology professionals with a comprehensive introduction to Kubernetes resource definition. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of Kubernetes application design and specification.

This Kubernetes for Developers course is designed to provide working developers with a comprehensive introduction to Kubernetes resource definition. Students will gain hands-on experience with Kubernetes manifest coding from pod basics all the way through advanced topics such as stateful services, volumes, auto-scaling, configuration, and secret usage. Skills developed include Pod specification and common pod design patterns, various Pod set manager configurations, service configuration, DaemonSet configuration, batch jobs and more. Best practices are covered in class and through the hands-on lab exercises accompanying each module. Upon completion of the course, attendees will have the skills and information necessary to begin coding effective application manifests for sophisticated cloud-native applications.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

The Helm two-day hands-on course is designed to provide working platform operators and other technology professionals with a comprehensive introduction to creating, customizing, deploying, and managing applications as Helm Charts. Upon completion of the course, attendees will have the skills and information necessary to begin using Helm for both standard apps and custom application deployments.

This intensive two-day hands-on course is designed to provide working platform operators and other technology professionals with a comprehensive introduction to creating, customizing, deploying, and managing applications as Helm Charts. Students will work with Helm command-line operations, explore the architecture of both the Helm software and Helm Charts, learn how to deploy and manage private Chart Repositories, discuss extending and securing Helm, and much more. The lecture and extensive hands-on labs will help attendees gain in-depth experience with Helm and its operation.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

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This intensive two-day hands-on course is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to the Istio service mesh using the Envoy proxy on Kubernetes.

This intensive two-day hands-on course is designed to provide technology professionals with a comprehensive introduction to the Istio service mesh using the Envoy proxy on Kubernetes. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of how Istio and Envoy provide a powerful and resilient integrated Kubernetes service mesh.

Students will gain hands-on experience with Istio, configuring a complete Istio/Envoy/Kubernetes environment on their personal lab system. The course covers key facets of Istio including:

• Traffic management
• Observability
• Policy enforcement
• Service authentication and authorization

Upon completion of the course, attendees will have the skills and information necessary to begin working with Istio and designing practical service mesh-based solutions to solve real-world problems.

This two-day hands-on course is designed to provide a deeper look at a range of Kubernetes networking topics, such as Core Kubernetes Network Functionality, DNS, L3, and L4 solutions, and network policy.

This two-day hands-on course is designed to provide Kubernetes operators with a deeper look at networking in the Kubernetes environment, providing attendees with concepts and practical hands-on skills for working with a range of Kubernetes networking solutions. The course covers both L3 and L4 solutions and highlights the pros and cons of each. Core Kubernetes network functionality is also examined in detail, including features such as DNS and network policy. Upon completion, attendees will have the knowledge and skills needed to effectively manage Kubernetes networking solutions in production environments.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This two-day hands-on course is designed to provide students with a detailed introduction to the Istio architecture and operation in multi/hybrid cloud settings, covering topics such as multicluster network requirements and policy enforcement.

This intensive two-day hands-on course is designed to provide technology professionals with a comprehensive introduction to the Istio service mesh in a multicluster setting. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of Istio architecture and operation in multi/hybrid cloud settings. Course lab work includes hands-on experience with Istio, configuring a complete Istio/Envoy/Kubernetes multicluster lab solution. Key facets of multicluster Istio are covered in-depth, including multicluster network requirements and configuration, Istio Remote configuration, traffic management, and policy enforcement. Upon completion of the course, attendees will have the skills and information necessary to begin working with multicluster Istio solutions in production.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This three-day hands-on course is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to the architecture, APIs and development practices involved in constructing operators to extend Kubernetes functionality.

This intensive three-day hands-on course is designed to provide SREs and software engineers with a comprehensive introduction to the architecture, APIs and development practices involved in constructing Kubernetes operators. Topics covered include operator basics, API and security facets relevant to operators, custom resource definitions (CRD), API aggregation and controllers. Each module is followed by a hands-on lab where attendees build working software components that extend Kubernetes. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of the Kubernetes operator pattern and how to build native and framework based operator solutions.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This two-day hands-on course is designed to provide technical staff with a practical look at best practices for storage and stateful service management on Kubernetes.

This two day hands-on course provides an in-depth and practical look at storage and stateful service management on Kubernetes. The course picks up where Kubernetes Foundation leaves off, digging deeper into configuration resources, persistent volumes, StatefulSets and local volume management. Attendees will learn best practices for state and configuration management on Kubernetes, including proper use of ConfigMaps, Secrets and encryption. The course also covers standard techniques for scheduling stateful workloads, ensuring failure domain diversity and working with local and remote volumes. Upon completion attendees with have the tools and experience necessary to begin designing and managing stateful services on Kubernetes.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This Kubernetes Foundation for EKS course is a three-day introduction to Kubernetes and the EKS Kubernetes as a service environment.

This intensive three-day hands-on course is designed to provide working SREs, developers, IT, DevOps staff and other technology professionals with a comprehensive introduction to Kubernetes. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of Kubernetes and its basic operations. Students will gain hands-on experience with Kubernetes concepts and operations in both stand-alone and EKS environments. Pod operations, manifest construction, and general best practices are covered in class through hands-on lab exercises. The course covers a wide range of Kubernetes controllers, details pod networking and service function, explores configuration and secrets as well as a number of other important foundational topics. Upon completion of the course, attendees will have the skills and information necessary to begin using Kubernetes in standalone and EKS environments.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.