Professional Development

This course covers some advanced topics that become relevant when using Kubernetes to orchestrate application at scale, in the data center or in the cloud. The course continues the Kubernetes Fundamentals course with presenting some more advanced Kubernetes resources like: Job, CronJob, Daemoset, ConfigMap and Secrets. It also covers the Ingress Resources alongside with the Ingress Controller. Helm is a widely used package manager for installing, upgrading and managing Kubernetes applications and the students will have the chance to understand the concepts and use it. Next, the course covers the basic concepts of Kubernetes Security and RBAC mechanism. In the end, the Kubernetes Advanced course covers 2 major topics that should be part of every Kubernetes cluster: Centralized Logging and Monitoring. The students will be able to see how centralized logging can be achieved by using ELK stack and also monitoring by using Prometheus and Grafana dashboards.