Cloud Computing and DevOps
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Prep
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Kubernetes for Beginners
Deploy, expose, configure, update and scale containerised applications on Kubernetes with confidence, using the same declarative practices professional teams rely on.
About this course
Orchestrate containers at scale. Learn pods, deployments, services, and scaling to run reliable applications with Kubernetes.
What you will learn
- Explain the problems Kubernetes solves and describe the role of each control plane and node component
- Use kubectl to inspect, deploy and debug workloads, reading events and logs to find root causes
- Run applications with Deployments, expose them with Services and configure them with ConfigMaps and Secrets
- Release new versions with zero-downtime rolling updates, health probes and fast rollbacks
- Size workloads with resource requests and limits and give stateful components persistent storage
- Route external traffic through an Ingress and package a multi-service application with Helm
Curriculum
Module 1Kubernetes Foundations4 lessons
- 1The Problem Kubernetes Solves Free preview
- 2Cluster Architecture: Nodes and Control Plane
- 3kubectl Essentials
- 4Pods: The Basic Unit
- QModule quiz (4 questions)
Module 2Core Workloads4 lessons
- 5Deployments and ReplicaSets
- 6Services and Networking
- 7ConfigMaps and Secrets
- 8Namespaces and Organisation
- QModule quiz (4 questions)
Module 3Operating Applications4 lessons
- 9Rolling Updates and Rollbacks
- 10Health Probes
- 11Resource Requests and Limits
- 12Persistent Volumes
- QModule quiz (4 questions)
Module 4Real Clusters3 lessons
- 13Ingress and Load Balancing
- 14Helm Introduction
- 15Course Project: Deploy a Microservice App
- QModule quiz (4 questions)
PFinal project: Deploy the Mama Mboga Orders Microservice App
Who this course is for
- Developers and system administrators who already use containers and want to run them reliably at scale
- Aspiring DevOps, cloud and site reliability engineers building core orchestration skills
- Technical team leads who need to understand how their applications run on Kubernetes
Requirements
- A computer with at least 8 GB of RAM able to run Docker and a local cluster such as minikube or kind
- Basic comfort with the command line and with building and running Docker containers
- No prior Kubernetes experience is needed
What is included
Written lessons
15 lessons, each with a practical exercise and key points to remember.
Module quizzes
A short quiz at the end of each module. Pass mark 70%, and you can retake it.
Final project
Deploy the Mama Mboga Orders Microservice App. A practical brief with steps and a way to check your own work.
Certificate
A certificate of completion from EMFAD Courses with a unique code anyone can verify.
How the certificate works
Complete every lesson and pass every module quiz with 70% or more. Your certificate then appears in your learner area, ready to print or save as PDF. It shows your name, the course title, the completion date and a unique code. It is a certificate of completion from EMFAD Courses, not an accredited qualification.
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