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Nutanix Kubernetes Platform Administration (NKPA)
The Nutanix Kubernetes Platform Administration (NKPA) course teaches you how to deploy, configure, and manage the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP), a fully turnkey solution built on pure upstream...
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$3,300USD
Duration
3 days
Course Code
NKPA
Available Formats
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Overview
Course Description
The Nutanix Kubernetes Platform Administration (NKPA) course teaches you how to deploy, configure, and manage the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP), a fully turnkey solution built on pure upstream Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) conformant Kubernetes.
Skills Gained
You will learn:
- What NKP is, key terms and concepts, how to install NKP in an air-gapped and non-air-gapped environment, and how to license an NKP cluster.
- Various lifecycle management operations for a Kubernetes cluster, including configuring infrastructure; using workspaces; creating, attaching, and scaling clusters; creating projects; and upgrading NKP.
- How to configure and manage access control, by configuring identity providers, creating identity provider groups, configuring workspace and project roles, and binding roles.
- What platform applications are, the categories of platform applications that NKP provides out-of-the-box (monitoring, logging, security, and so on), and how to deploy platform applications.
- How to protect and restore NKP clusters and the applications running on those clusters.
- About the NKP logging stack, how to enable, customize, and scale the logging stack applications, how to restrict logging to specific namespaces, and how to view logs.
- About NKP’s monitoring capabilities, including which components gather metrics, which metrics are exposed, cost monitoring, visualizations using Grafana, and how to configure alert rules and alert notifications.
Who Can Benefit
- IT administrators and similar job roles who manage Nutanix clusters in the datacenter
- DevOps engineers, Kubernetes administrators, and similar jobs roles who manage Kubernetes clusters in their organizations
- Anyone seeking the Nutanix Certified Professional - Cloud Native (NCP-CN) certification
Prerequisites
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) training, certification, or equivalent knowledge and/or experience
Course Details
Course Details
Getting Started with NKP
- Introduction to NKP
- NKP Concepts, Terms, and Components
- Installation Prerequisites
- Installing NKP in an Air-Gapped Nutanix Environment
- Licensing an NKP Cluster
- Lab: Validating NKP Bootstrap Host Configuration
- Lab: Adding NKP Images to a Local Registry
- Lab: Creating a Bootstrap Kubernetes-in-Docker (KIND) Cluster
- Lab: Building a Machine Image Using NIB
- Lab: Creating a Management Cluster
- Lab: Applying a License
Muti-cluster Lifecycle Management
- Configuring Infrastructure
- Using Workspaces
- Creating and Managing Workload Clusters with NKP
- Working with Projects
- Upgrading NKP
- Lab: Creating a Workspace
- Lab: Creating a Workload Cluster Using the UI
- Lab: Creating a Project
- Lab: Implementing Continuous Deployment
- Lab: Creating a Workload Cluster Using the CLI
- Lab: Attaching, Detaching, and Deleting Clusters
- Lab: Scaling Clusters
Configuring and Managing Access Control
- Working with Identity Providers
- Using Access Control
- Lab: Adding an Identity Provider
- Lab: Configuring Identity Provider Groups
- Lab: Creating Role Bindings
- Lab: Creating a Dedicated Login URL and Testing UI Access
- Lab: Configuring and Testing CLI Access
Working with Platform Applications
- Understanding Platform Applications
- Dependencies and Requirements
- Reviewing Deployed Platform Applications
- Deploying Platform Applications
- Lab: Reviewing Deployed Platform Applications
- Lab: Using the CLI to Deploy Platform Applications
- Lab: Using the UI to Deploy Platform Applications
- Lab: Customizing Platform Application Deployments
Protecting Clusters and Applications
- Using Velero for Backup and Recovery
- Checking the Status of the Velero Service
- Installing the Velero CLI
- Creating a Backup Schedule
- Creating an On-Demand Backup
- Restoring a Cluster from a Backup
- Lab: Installing the Velero CLI
- Lab: Reviewing Backups
- Lab: Creating a Backup
- Lab: Restoring from a Backup
Configuring and Managing Cluster Storage
- Logging in NKP
- Logging Architecture
- Enabling the Logging Stack
- Customizing the Logging Stack
- Viewing Cluster-level Log Data
- Admin-level Logs
- Lab: Enabling Logging Stack Applications
- Lab: Viewing Logs
- Lab: Restricting Logging to Specific Namespaces
- Lab: Scaling the Logging Stack
- Lab: Creating a Support Bundle
Monitoring and Alerts
- Metrics
- Cost Monitoring
- Alerts
- Lab: Viewing Metrics
- Lab: Adding a Custom Dashboard
- Lab: Configuring Alerts
- Lab: Monitoring Applications
Schedule
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Reviews
the class/lecture was amazing and very easy to understand and was in detail.
I thought the course was informative and the tools to go over the material were very nice.
The platform is very intuitive and easy to navigate. Great tool for learning
Instructor was great, course was mostly very good except for too much focus on pricing
the course is good, covers many aspects, wish the lab is a little bit more in depth
