VMware PKS: Install Configure Manage Workshop

Introduction

This four-day course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware® PKS 1.2, a purpose-built container solution to operationalize Kubernetes for multicloud enterprises and service providers. VMware PKS significantly simplifies the deployment and management of Kubernetes clusters with Day 1 and Day 2 operations support. This course prepares you to install and administer a VMware PKS environment for an organization of any size.

Objectives

At the end of the course, students will be able to:

• Explain how the VMware PKS platform enables enterprises to deploy and manage the Kubernetes platform as a service on premises
• Describe the VMware PKS platform architecture
• Describe the preinstallation activities, such as how various topologies of VMware PKS can be deployed and how to meet prerequisites before installing VMware PKS
• Describe how BOSH unifies release engineering, deployment, and life cycle management of cloud software in VMware PKS platform
• Describe how PCF Operations Manager is used to configure and deploy the VMware PKS platform components
• Describe how VMware NSX-TTM Data Center integrates with VMware PKS to provide networking and security services for all the components in a VMware PKS Kubernetes environment
• Install, manage, monitor, and troubleshoot a VMware PKS Kubernetes environment
• Use Day 2 operations to create, view, scale, and delete Kubernetes clusters and upgrade VMware PKS

Audience

• System engineers
• System administrators

Prerequisites

This class requires understanding the concepts and topics presented in the following courses:

• System administration experience with cloud computing concepts
• Completion of VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.7] or 6-months working experience with the product
• Completion of VMware NSX-T: Install, Configure, Manage [V2.2] or 6-months working experience with the product