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Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine

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Overview

Learn how to deploy and manage containerized applications on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) using lectures, demos, and hands-on labs to explore infrastructure components like pods, containers, deployments, and services, along with networks and application services.

What You'll Learn

  • Create and manage workloads in Google Kubernetes Engine
  • Explain how pod networking works in Google Kubernetes Engine
  • Define and work with different Kubernetes storage abstractions
  • Describe and manage authentication, authorization, and security in Google Kubernetes Engine
  • Monitor applications running in Google Kubernetes Engine
  • Explore Google Cloud managed storage services options
  • Configure CI/CD pipelines for Google Kubernetes Engine

Who Should Attend

Cloud architects, administrators, and SysOps/DevOps personnel, and individuals using Google Cloud to create new solutions or integrate existing systems

Prerequisites

Completed "Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine" or have equivalent experience

Products Covered

Google Kubernetes EngineGoogle Cloud networkingGoogle Cloud StorageCloud IAMCloud ObservabilityCloud SQLCloud Deploy

Course Modules

1

Course Introduction

Topics

  • Course introduction

Learning Outcomes

  • Introduce the course goals and preview each section of the course.
2

Workloads: Deployments and Jobs

Topics

  • Creating deployments
  • Inspecting deployments
  • Updating deployments
  • Adopting other deployment strategies
  • Using Jobs and Cronjobs
  • Cluster scaling
  • Controlling Pod placement with labels and affinity rules
  • Controlling Pod placement with taints and tolerations
  • Getting software into your cluster

Learning Outcomes

  • Define, configure, inspect, manage, and update Deployments
  • Define what Jobs and CronJobs are in GKE, and explore relevant use cases. Create and run Jobs
  • Explain how to scale clusters manually and automatically
  • Configure node and pod affinity

Activities

QuizLab: Creating Google Kubernetes Engine Deployments
3

Google Kubernetes Engine Networking

Topics

  • Pod networking
  • Kubernetes Services
  • Service type and load balancers
  • Ingress
  • Container-native load balancing
  • Network policies

Learning Outcomes

  • Explore Kubernetes networking, including Pod and cluster networking
  • Create services to expose to applications running within Pods
  • Configure load balancers to expose services to external clients. Explore container-native load balancing in GKE
  • Configure Google Kubernetes Engine networking

Activities

QuizLab: Configuring Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Networking
4

Persistent Data and Storage

Topics

  • Volumes
  • Ephemeral volumes
  • Durable volumes
  • Statefulsets
  • Configmaps
  • Secrets

Learning Outcomes

  • Define and work with Kubernetes storage abstractions
  • Run and maintain sets of pods using StatefulSets
  • Use ConfigMaps to decouple configuration from Pods
  • Manage and store sensitive access and authentication data
  • Configure persistent storage for Google Kubernetes Engine

Activities

QuizLab: Configuring Persistent Storage for Google Kubernetes Engine
5

Access Control and Security in Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine

Topics

  • Authentication and authorization
  • Kubernetes role-based access control
  • Workload Identity
  • Kubernetes control plane security
  • Pod security

Learning Outcomes

  • Explore Kubernetes authentication and authorization
  • Define Kubernetes RBAC and how it works with IAM to secure GKE clusters
  • Configure Workload Identity to access Google Cloud services from within GKE
  • Secure GKE with Pod Security Standards and Pod Security Admission
  • Implement Role-Based Access Control with GKE

Activities

QuizLab: Securing Google Kubernetes Engine with Cloud IAM and Pod Security Admission
6

Google Kubernetes Engine Logging and Monitoring

Topics

  • Cloud Observability
  • Cloud Logging
  • Cloud Monitoring
  • Inspecting logs with the kubectl command
  • Inspecting logs with Cloud Logging and logging agents

Learning Outcomes

  • Identify the tools included in the Google Cloud Observability
  • Configure the Google Cloud operations suite to monitor and manage the availability and performance
  • Inspect logs using the kubectl command
  • Inspect Kubernetes logs using Google Cloud Observability
  • Configure GKE-native Monitoring and Logging

Activities

QuizLab: Configuring GKE-Native Monitoring and Logging
7

Using Google Cloud Managed Storage Services with Google Kubernetes Engine

Topics

  • Using Google Cloud services
  • Using Cloud Storage
  • Using Google Cloud databases
  • Using Cloud SQL and SQL Auth Proxy
  • Comparing storage options

Learning Outcomes

  • Contrast managed storage services with self-managed storage
  • Identify use cases for Cloud Storage for Kubernetes applications
  • Compare the range of Google Cloud managed database services
  • Explore Cloud SQL Auth Proxy and how it connects to Cloud SQL from within GKE
  • Use Cloud SQL with Google Kubernetes Engine

Activities

QuizLab: Using Cloud SQL with Google Kubernetes Engine and Workload Identity
8

Using CI/CD with Google Kubernetes Engine

Topics

  • What is CI/CD?
  • CI/CD pipeline construction
  • CI/CD tools available in Google Cloud
  • Best practices for using CI/CD on Google Cloud

Learning Outcomes

  • Define continuous integration and continuous delivery and identify why it is important
  • Examine CI/CD pipelines and how they can optimize app releases
  • Explore first-party and third-party CI/CD tools supported by Google Cloud
  • Explore Google's best practices for a GKE CI/CD pipeline

Activities

Quiz
9

Course Summary

Topics

  • Course Summary

Learning Outcomes

  • Review the main objectives from each section of the course

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Course Details

Course Code
T-AK8S-I
Duration
2 days
Format
ILT
Level
Intermediate
Modules
9
Activities
14
Price
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