Introduction to Docker & Kubernetes
⮚ Understanding Container Runtime Environments.
⮚ Working with YAML files for creating manifests.
⮚ Deploying Docker and understanding Docker components like
Engine, Networks, Images & Registries.
⮚ Creating custom container images with Dockerfile
⮚ Why Kubernetes & Understanding Kubernetes architecture and
Components.
⮚ Understanding the Kubernetes Component Connectivity.
⮚ Studying significance of API-Server, ETCD, Kube-Scheduler,
Controllers, Kubelet & Kube-Proxy.
⮚ Understanding Kubernetes High Availability.
Deploying & Managing Kubernetes using KOPS
⮚ What is Kubernetes Operations (KOPS)?
⮚ Deploying Kubernetes Production Grade Kubernetes Cluster with on
AWS with KOPS.
⮚ Understanding components of KOPS.
⮚ Scaling the Kubernetes Cluster using KOPS.
⮚ Manipulating KOPS configuration for reducing the bill.
⮚ Accessing Kubernetes cluster with Kubeconfig
⮚ Running Kubernetes basic cluster commands.

Working with Kubernetes POD’s & Deployments
⮚ Running Kubectl Commands vs. Deploying Manifests
⮚ Overview about POD, Deployment, ReplicaSet, Service &
Namespaces.
⮚ Deploying, Managing & Troubleshooting PODs.
⮚ Deep dive through POD, POD Components, POD-Sidecar, kube-
scheduler life cycle.
⮚ Managing PODs with EXEC, port-forwarding, POD Metadata & POD
Environment variables.
⮚ Disadvantages of running PODS and Intro to Deployments.
⮚ Deep dive with Deployments, Replica Set & Replication Controller.
⮚ Differences and use cases of Replica Set & Daemonset.
Creating and Integrating Kubernetes Services
⮚ Understating Kubernetes Service and its importance.
⮚ Deep dive on Kubernetes Services and understanding Traffic Flow.
⮚ Creating ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer & Headless Service.
⮚ Understanding & Creating Liveness & Readiness Probes.
⮚ Understanding and Creating Ingress Controllers and Ingress
Services.
⮚ Configure AWS LoadBalancer with Ingress controllers.
Kubernetes Advance Scheduling

⮚ Understanding Labels & Annotations
⮚ Configuring Labels & Annotations at Node & PODs.
⮚ Understanding how Taints and Tolerations work.
⮚ Configuring Node Taints and POD Tolerations.
⮚ Understanding and Configuring Node Affinity.
⮚ Understanding and Configuring POD Affinity.
Storage with Kubernetes
⮚ Understanding Kubernetes Persistence and Non-Persistent Storage.
⮚ Creating non-persistent volumes - emptydir, gitrepo & host-path.
⮚ Deep dive in to Kubernetes Persistence Volumes (PV).
⮚ Creating Persistent Volume Claims (PVC) with Persistence Volumes.
⮚ Understanding Kubernetes Storage Classes and Dynamic Volume
Provisioning.

Kubernetes ConfigMaps & Secrets
⮚ Passing command-line variables containers.
⮚ Setting environment variables for containers.
⮚ Intro to ConfigMaps.
⮚ Decoupling configuration with ConfigMap
⮚ Working with sensitive data in Kubernetes.
⮚ Creating and using Secrets in Kubernetes.
Securing Kubernetes Cluster
⮚ How authentication works in Kubernetes.
⮚ Deepdive into Kubernetes Namespaces.

⮚ Configuring user access to the cluster.
⮚ Creating and working with service accounts.
⮚ Understanding RBAC in Kubernetes.
⮚ Creating Role and Role Bindings.
⮚ Creating ClusterRoles and ClusterRoleBindings.
⮚ Understanding Blue-Green Deployments & Rolling Updates.

Troubleshooting & Updating Kubernetes Cluster
⮚ Working with logs in Kubernetes.
⮚ Working with Master and Worker Node Failure.
⮚ Find and retrieve information about the cluster components.
⮚ Performing Rolling Update with KUBECTL with no downtime &
challenges with KUBECTL rolling updates.
⮚ Running KUBECTL cheat sheet commands.
Kubernetes Jobs & Cronjobs
⮚ Understanding differences between Job & Cronjobs
⮚ Creating a Job and understanding the attributes.
⮚ Use cases for Jobs.
⮚ Scheduling with Cron Jobs.
⮚ Use cases for Cron Jobs.

Kubernetes with Rancher & K3S
⮚ Understanding Rancher & Components
⮚ Deploying Racher and access dashboards.

⮚ Deploy On-Prem Kubernetes Cluster with Rancher
⮚ What is K3S?
⮚ Deploying Kubernetes Cluster with K3S application.
⮚ Advantages of K3S.

POD Level Security with Network Policies
⮚ Understanding Kubernetes Network Policies.
⮚ Restricting and Allow Traffic between Pods.
⮚ Allow & Restrict traffic between Namespaces.
⮚ Restricting & Allow traffic based on Application Ports.

Service Mesh with Istio
⮚ What is Istio & What is the purpose?
⮚ Understanding Istio Architecture.
⮚ Deploy Istio on Kubernetes Cluster.
⮚ Enable Istio on namespace and deploy application
⮚ Checking Sidecars, Kiali, Jaeger
⮚ Deploying VirtualService & Gateways

Monitoring & Logging & Cluster Maintenance
⮚ Monitoring Cluster Components.
⮚ Working with Logs and application logs.

⮚ Performing cluster upgrade.
⮚ Backup and Restore of Cluster.
⮚ Overview about Prometheus monitoring.
⮚ Deploying Prometheus and Grafana on Kubernetes.
⮚ Creating dashboards for monitoring.
⮚ Understanding Alert Manager.

Working with Azure Kubernetes Services(AKS)
⮚ Understanding Azure AKS Architecture
⮚ Deploying Azure AKS Cluster
⮚ Understanding Node Pools, Scaling and Upgrading.
⮚ AKS Cluster Access and Azure RBAC
⮚ CI & CD Deployment with Azure DevOps.
⮚ Kubenet vs Azure CNI
⮚ Integrating with Application Gateway & Azure Firewall

Working with AWS Elastic Kubernetes Services(EKS)
⮚ Understanding AWS EKS Architecture
⮚ Deploying workloads on EKS Cluster.
⮚ Adding & Removing resources to the cluster.
⮚ RBAC on AWS EKS.

Helm Package Manager
⮚ Understanding & Installing Helm 3
⮚ Creating Helm Chart and understanding folder structure.
⮚ Working with Values.yaml file.
⮚ Creating custom charts for Nginx & EFS Provisioner.
⮚ Creating & linting Helm Packages.
⮚ Understanding Helm Chart Repositories.
⮚ Downloading & Installing applications for Helm Repositories.

CI/CD Tools & GitOps Kubernetes Applications
⮚ Jenkins & Azure DevOps Overview
⮚ Installing Jenkins and installing necessary plugins.
⮚ Integrating Jenkins with Kubernetes Cluster.
⮚ CI/CD with Jenkins Pipelines.
⮚ Overview on GitOps.
⮚ Understanding and Deploying ArgoCD application.
⮚ Deploying & Updating application using ArgoCD GitOps way.

Kubernetes Certifications & Interviews
⮚ Understanding CKA vs CKAD vs CKS.
⮚ CKA/CKAD Exam overview and registration.
⮚ Understanding the exam lab environment.
⮚ CKA/CKAD sample example questions.

⮚ Resume & Profile Creation.
⮚ Attending interviews tips & tricks.