Kubernetes Hands On

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Kubernetes Introduction and Installation

Lecture 1: Kubernetes Hands On Course Introduction

Lecture 2: Docker Introduction (VM vs Containers)

Lecture 3: How to create simple Docker containers

Lecture 4: How to create complex Docker containers

Lecture 5: Kubernetes introduction (Containers vs Pods)

Lecture 6: Kubernetes lab setup – 1

Lecture 7: Kubernetes lab setup – 2

Lecture 8: Kubernetes lab setup – 3

Lecture 9: Kubernetes lab setup – 4

Chapter 2: Kubernetes Pods

Lecture 1: Kubernetes pod introduction

Lecture 2: Create first pod using "YAML" file

Lecture 3: Access pod and check communication

Lecture 4: Launch additional pod and check pod to pod connectivity

Lecture 5: Create other pods and draw important conclusions

Lecture 6: Delete pods using different methods

Lecture 7: Use CLI for creating pods

Lecture 8: How to do pod troubleshooting and pod labels introduction

Lecture 9: How to manage pod labels

Lecture 10: Create pod with labels using CLI

Lecture 11: How to create pod by specifying container port and label

Lecture 12: Create pod with label and port in CLI mode

Lecture 13: Create pod with host port option

Lecture 14: Understand host port behavior by launching additional pods

Chapter 3: Kubernetes ReplicaSets

Lecture 1: Understand ReplicaSets. How to create ReplicaSet.

Lecture 2: How to scale up using ReplicaSet

Lecture 3: How ReplicaSet reacts when we manipulate pods

Lecture 4: Further study behavior of ReplicaSet

Lecture 5: Create ReplicaSet using match expression selector

Lecture 6: Create ReplicaSet using both match expression and match label selector

Chapter 4: Kubernetes Deployments

Lecture 1: How to create Kubernetes deployment

Lecture 2: How to scale up using deployment

Chapter 5: Docker Custom Images

Lecture 1: Why we need custom Docker images.

Lecture 2: Create first custom Docker image

Lecture 3: Test custom image and create other custom images

Lecture 4: How to push custom images to Docker hub

Lecture 5: How to pull and verify custom images

Chapter 6: Different Kubernetes Deployment Strategies

Lecture 1: Create deployment for using Rolling Update strategy

Lecture 2: How to access pods using Kubernetes service

Lecture 3: Create Load Balancing service

Lecture 4: How to perform rolling update

Lecture 5: View rolling update details

Lecture 6: Again perform rolling update and observe behavior

Lecture 7: How to perform rollback and observe behavior

Lecture 8: Create deployment for Fixed strategy

Lecture 9: How to use fixed deployment strategy

Lecture 10: Create two different deployments for Blue Green strategy

Lecture 11: How to send traffic to green deployment

Lecture 12: How to send traffic to blue deployment

Lecture 13: Create Stable deployment and send traffic to Stable deployment

Lecture 14: Create Canary deployment and send some traffic to Canary deployment

Lecture 15: How Canary deployment works

Chapter 7: Kubernetes Health Probes (Readiness and Liveness)

Lecture 1: Health probes introduction. Create deployment for readiness probes

Lecture 2: Create service object for verifying readiness probe

Lecture 3: Further understand readiness probes by manipulating files

Lecture 4: How to use liveness probes

Lecture 5: Create another pod for understanding readiness probe

Lecture 6: Create few other pods for understanding liveness probes

Lecture 7: Understand liveness probe using Kubernetes deployment

Lecture 8: Configure both readiness and liveness probes

Chapter 8: Kubernetes Services (ClusterIP, NodePort and Load Balancer)

Lecture 1: Kubernetes services introduction

Lecture 2: Understand default service type

Lecture 3: Create ClusterIP service

Lecture 4: Create NodePort service

Lecture 5: Create Fixed NodePort service

Lecture 6: Create Load Balancer service

Lecture 7: Use ClusterIP service with deployment

Lecture 8: Use NodePort service with deployment

Lecture 9: Use Load Balancer service with deployment

Lecture 10: Create pod and ClusterIP service using CLI mode

Lecture 11: Create pod and NodePort service using CLI mode

Lecture 12: Create deployment and Load Balancer service using CLI mode

Chapter 9: Bonus Section

Lecture 1: How to create 3 Node Kubernetes cluster using Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)