Kubernetes Administrator: Scaling & Managing Resources

“Kubernetes provides the capability to dynamically scale deployments in order to scale the number of Pods in a deployment up or down and add resiliency using various commands and tools.

In this course youÆll recognize what a DaemonSet is the patterns for communicating with the Pods in a DaemonSet the role of Kubernetes Garbage Collector and the resource types and resource units used in Kubernetes. YouÆll review the commands used to manage Kubernetes objects and the features of tools used for templating YAML in Kubernetes.Next youÆll create a deployment and scale the deployment scale StatefulSets and make in-place updates and create a defined Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and DaemonSet.

Moving on youÆll create jobs and list all the Pods that belong to the jobs. You ll see how to deploy a replicated topology with a StatefulSet controller simulate Pod and Node downtime and implement a case study of cascading deletion and managing orphans dependents. Finally youÆll use the Kustomize tool to demonstrate the composition of deployment and service resources and install Helm and Service Catalog in Kubernetes clusters.

This course is part of a series that aligns with the objectives for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator exam and can be used to prepare for this exam. “