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Lab 1

Build Your First Kubernetes Cluster

Rookies | ~ 1 hour

Learn about the structure of Kubernetes

Explore Kubernetes abstractions in representing a cluster
Obtain a deeper understanding of Kubernetes
Create your own Kubernetes cluster

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Prerequisites

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Reviewing Kubernetes Concepts and Building a Kubernetes Cluster

Thomas Keenan • Instructor • Mentor • Contributor

in K10, Data Protection, Kubernetes, Community

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Reviewing Kubernetes Concepts and Building a Cluster

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hellbartonio

Posted 2 days ago

Quick and easy

I like that I could quickly get basics without spending much time reading official documentation and preparing own virtual machines for lab.

Fast

Posted 2 days ago

Like a virtual machine, a container has a segregation of filesystem, CPU, memory, PID, and more.

Very useful information to learn the fundamental concepts on the Kubernetes platform.

Patrice

Posted 2 days ago

Short lab

Maye interesting lab but to short to understand what's playing behind the scene

Jason Shaw

Posted 2 days ago

great intro course

great intro to k8s

Hyoungin Park

Posted 2 days ago

good

awsome

Mladen Stankovic

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How system works

Hands on lab.

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kuberenetes

excellent handson labs

Sachin

Posted 2 days ago

Best platform to refresh basic along with hands on lab

step by step basic approach to make a solid start with fundamentals of kubernetes

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Stephane

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learn and understand ...

perfect with this lab

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Lab background

Kubernetes is an open-source system for deploying, scaling and managing containerized applications. With Kubernetes, you can deploy your applications quickly and predictably, scale your applications on the fly, roll out new features seamlessly, and limit hardware usage to required resources only.

In this lab, you will learn about the parts of the Kubernetes system and the abstractions Kubernetes uses to represent your cluster and obtain a deeper understanding of how Kubernetes works. In the hands-on portion of the lab, you can work with your own Kubernetes cluster using the Kubernetes dashboard and a terminal.

Is there pre-work for the lab?

Yes. Be sure to complete reading and studying this blog post, the video description of the work to be performed during the lab, and the accompanying slides.

What is the structure of the lab?

The Lab consists of two sections — an initial series of review points on Kubernetes basics followed by challenge questions, and a hands-on exercise during which you will enter actual Kubernetes commands to get specified results. Both sections are approximately 35 minutes long. Your time may vary depending on your level of expertise.

Section 1 — Kubernetes background and challenge questions

This section will cover these Kubernetes concepts.

Control Plane
The backbone of Kubernetes
K8s desired state – API
High level overview of Kubernetes
Pod
The smallest deployable object in the Kubernetes object model
Replica Set
Manages the number of running Pod replicas
Deployment
Manages Pods and ReplicaSets
Service
Services abstract a set of Pods
Namespace
Namespaces divide your cluster
Volume
A Volume is a directory which is accessible to Pods
Job
A job creates one or more Pods & retries execution of the Pods until a specified number of them successfully terminate.
DaemonSet
Run a Pod on all (or some) Nodes with a DaemonSet
StatefulSet
StatefulSets are used to manage stateful applications.

(Note: Each topic will provide some review material on screen and then pose a challenge question. The user must get the correct answer to the challenge question to proceed to the next section.)

Section 2 — Kubernetes hands-on - build your first cluster

This section will cover Kubernetes commands needed to create a Kubernetes cluster, a very basic and necessary step in the Kubernetes journey. You’ll learn specific commands needed to:

Ready your server
Set up the cluster
Ensure Kubernetes is running in the cluster
Join nodes
Set a Kubernetes add-on for networking features and policy

How do I access Lab 1?

Go to Learning.Kasten.io to start your learning journey! Remember:you can pause during the lab at any point and return to the same spot without losing your place.

All the best,
Thomas