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Kubernetes security and administration training

Discover our Kubernetes Administration and Security training, delivered by expert consultants. Whether you are a system administrator, SRE or architect, this course will help you master the principles of Kubernetes administration and security, gain hands-on expertise, and unlock the full potential of the platform. Our interactive teaching approach includes hands-on workshops and real-world exercises.

SoKube is certified by the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) as a KCSP (Kubernetes Certified Service Provider) and KTP (Kubernetes Training Partner)

Kubernetes security and administration training
Kubernetes Administration and Security training: target audience
Kubernetes - Admin - Sec

Kubernetes Administration and Security training: target audience

This course is aimed at system administrators, operations engineers, SREs and DevOps/DevSecOps architects who want to understand admin-level operations and discover advanced Kubernetes security concepts.

Master container orchestration administration with Kubernetes!

  • 3 days
  • 8 participants MAX
  • In Geneva or at your premises
Kubernetes - Admin - Sec

Kubernetes Administration and Security training: course outline

Several labs complement the course outline below, alternating between theory and hands-on practice.
  • The basics
    • What is Kubernetes?
    • What is a cluster?
    • Distributions
    • The CNCF and the open-source ecosystem
  • Architecture
    • Main components
    • How the network layer works
    • Installing and upgrading a Kubernetes cluster
  • High availability
    • Application resilience
    • Adding nodes to the cluster
  • Kubernetes objects refresher
    • The main ones: Pods, ReplicaSets, Deployments, etc.
    • Services, Ingress and DNS management
    • Volumes and persistent data
  • Pod scheduling
    • Resources and limits
    • Parameters and policies
    • Affinity rules
    • Taints and tolerations
  • CRDs and Operators
    • What is a CRD?
    • Deploying a CRD
    • How an operator works
    • Some operators on the market
  • Security
    • RBAC and permission management
    • Hardening containerized images
    • Analyzing vulnerabilities in containerized images
    • Hardening the cluster
    • Detecting risky behavior across Kubernetes
    • Securing etcd
    • Securing internal connections
    • Encrypting connections between Pods
    • Introduction to Admission Controllers
    • Deploying Policy as Code
  • Observability
    • Introduction to observability
    • Managing probes
    • Managing logs
    • Metrics and alerts
    • Debugging a Pod
    • Debugging a Service
Kubernetes Administration and Security training: course outline
Kubernetes Administration and Security training: prerequisites
Kubernetes - Admin - Sec

Kubernetes Administration and Security training: prerequisites

To get the most out of this course, we recommend having completed our foundational Kubernetes and Docker trainings, along with a good understanding of basic Linux administration and containerization.
Each participant must have a laptop to complete the hands-on labs.
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