Duration

4 days

Overview

This four-day course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware® PKS 1.2, a purpose-built container solution to operationalize Kubernetes for multicloud enterprises and service providers. VMware PKS significantly simplifies the deployment and management of Kubernetes clusters with Day 1 and Day 2 operations support. This course prepares you to install and administer a VMware PKS environment for an organization of any size.

Product Alignment

VMware PKS 1.2
VMware vSphere® 6.7 U1
VMware NSX-T Data Center 2.3

Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

Explain how the VMware PKS platform enables enterprises to deploy and manage the Kubernetes platform as a service on premises
Describe the VMware PKS platform architecture
Describe the preinstallation activities, such as how various topologies of VMware PKS can be deployed and how to meet prerequisites before installing VMware PKS
Describe how BOSH unifies release engineering, deployment, and life cycle management of cloud software in a VMware PKS platform
Describe how PCF Operations Manager is used to configure and deploy the VMware PKS platform components
Describe how VMware NSX-TTM Data Center integrates with VMware PKS to provide networking and security services for all the components in a VMware PKS Kubernetes environment
Install, manage, monitor, and troubleshoot a VMware PKS Kubernetes environment
Use Day 2 operations to create, view, scale, and delete Kubernetes clusters and upgrade VMware PKS

Intended Audience

System administrators
System engineers

Prerequisites

This course has the following prerequisites:

System administration experience with cloud computing concepts
Completion of VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.7] or 6-months working experience with the product
Completion of VMware NSX-T: Install, Configure, Manage [V2.2] or 6-months working experience with the product

Outline

Course Introduction
Introductions and course logistics

Course objectives

Describe the content of the course
Gain a complete picture of the VMware certification system
Familiarize yourself with the benefits of the VMware Education Learning Zone (VLZ)
Identify additional resources
VMware PKS Value Proposition
Define containers and differentiate between containers and virtual machines
Explain why the popularity of containers is rising and why Kubernetes is needed to manage them
Explain how VMware PKS is a comprehensive Kubernetes solution
VMware PKS Architecture
Describe how BOSH unifies release engineering, deployment, and life cycle management of cloud software
Explain Cloud Foundry Container Runtime (CFCR) and the problems that it solves
Describe processes that run on the VMware PKS Kubernetes master and worker nodes
Describe the default pods that run on the VMware PKS Kubernetes clusters
Describe the VMware PKS control plane and the tasks that it can perform
Describe how the PCF Operations Manager is used to configure and deploy platform components
Explain how Project Harbor is integrated into VMware PKS to provide enterprise-class registry services
Networking VMware PKS with NSX-T Data Center
Describe the benefits of NSX-T Data Center
Describe how NSX-T Data Center integrates with VMware PKS
Describe how the NSX-T Container Plug-in provides integration between NSX-T Data Center and Kubernetes
Describe the NSX node agent
Describe the NSX kube-proxy
Explain the logical topology of NSX-T Data Center in a VMware PKS environment
VMware PKS Installation
Describe the VMware PKS and vSphere physical topology options
List the vSphere and networking prerequisites for installing VMware PKS
Install PCF Operations Manager
Install BOSH
Install VMware PKS
Install Harbor for VMware PKS
Managing VMware PKS
List the tools used to manage VMware PKS
Describe how to create and manage users
Explain how to create, view, and delete network profiles
Explain how to create, view, scale, and delete clusters
Describe how to create and manage persistent volumes.
Describe how to upgrade VMware PKS
Describe how to backup and restore VMware PKS
Monitoring
Describe how vRealize Log Insight integrates with VMware PKS
Describe how vRealize Operations is used to monitor objects in VMware PKS
Describe the Wavefront® by VMware® metrics and monitoring solution
Describe the VMware PKS Sink Resources feature
Troubleshooting
Describe what troubleshooting tasks can be performed using BOSH CLI
Describe what troubleshooting tasks can be performed using PCF Operations Manager
Explain how to retrieve log bundles from VMware PKS components

Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.