VMware vSphere with Tanzu: Deploy and Manage [V7]

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Duration: 3 Days

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Course Overview

During this 3-day course, you focus on deploying and managing VMware vSphere® with Tanzu. You learn about how vSphere with Tanzu can be used to orchestrate the delivery of Kubernetes clusters and containerized applications in a vSphere environment.

 

Learning Objectives 

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After completing this course, you will be able to: 

• Describe vSphere with Kubernetes and use cases in on-premises environments 

• Deploy vSphere with Kubernetes 

• Describe the VMware NSX® networking requirements for vSphere with Kubernetes. 

• Create and manage vSphere with Kubernetes namespaces 

• Deploy and run container applications on vSphere with Kubernetes 

• Deploy and configure VMware Harbor 

• Describe the VMware Tanzu™ Kubernetes Grid™ service 

• Deploy a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster 

• Deploy and run container applications on a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster 

• Describe the vSphere with Kubernetes lifecycle 

• Use logs and CLI commands to monitor and troubleshoot vSphere with Kubernetes 

 

Target Audience: 

 

• This training course is recommended for experienced system administrators and system integrators responsible for designing and implementing vSphere with Kubernetes 

Course Prerequisites 

This course requires completion of the following courses: 

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage 

OR 

• VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale 

AND 

• VMware NSX-T Data Center: Install, Configure, Manage 

 

Course Modules 

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 Course Introduction 

• Introductions and course logistics 

• Course objectives 

 

Introduction to Containers and Kubernetes 

• Describe virtual machines and containers 

• Describe container hosts 

• Describe container engines 

• Describe Dockerfile 

• Describe container images 

• Describe image registry 

• Describe the purpose and functionality of Kubernetes 

• Describe YAML manifest files 

• Explain pods 

• Explain Replica Sets 

• Explain services 

• Explain deployments 

• Explain network policies 

 

Introduction to vSphere with Tanzu 

• Introduce the Cloud Native Computing Foundation 

• Introduce the VMware Tanzu™ portfolio 

• Describe the purpose and functionality of vSphere with Tanzu 

• Describe the capabilities of vSphere with Tanzu 

• Describe the components of vSphere with Tanzu 

• Contrast vSphere with Tanzu to traditional Kubernetes 

• Describe the requirements for vSphere with Tanzu 

• Describe the NSX components required for vSphere with Tanzu 

• Describe the network topology of vSphere with Tanzu 

• Explain the networking requirements of vSphere with Tanzu 

• Compare NSX networking objects with Kubernetes networking objects 

• Describe the kubectl command line interface 

 

vSphere with Tanzu Core Services 

• Explain the architecture of the vSphere with Tanzu core services 

• Describe the use cases of vSphere with Tanzu 

• Enable vSphere with Tanzu 

• Deploy Harbor Registry 

• Describe a vSphere with Tanzu namespace 

• Describe resource quotas 

• Explain authentication and authorization to vSphere with Tanzu 

• Create a namespace 

• Use kubectl to interact with vSphere with Tanzu 

• Describe using kubectl pod deployment 

• Explain scaling a pod deployment 

• Explain deleting pods 

• Use kubectl to deploy a pod 

• Use kubectl to scale a pod 

• Describe a Container Storage Interface 

• Explain VM Storage Policies and Persistent Volumes 

• Monitor Cloud Native Storage 

• Create a Persistent Volume 

• Describe the NSX Container Plugin 

• Explain Supervisor Cluster Network Topology 

• Explain Container Objects in NSX 

• Describe Kubernetes Services 

• Describe Kubernetes Network Policies 

• Describe vSphere with Tanzu on vSphere Distributed Switch 

• Describe Harbor Image Registry 

• Explain Harbor integration with vSphere with Tanzu 

• Enable Harbor 

• Push container images to Harbor 

• Deploy containers from Harbor 

 

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid service 

• Introduce Kubernetes Cluster API 

• Explain Tanzu Kubernetes Grid service 

• Describe the use cases for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters 

• Describe enabling Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters 

• Deploy a Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster 

• Scale a Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster 

• Explain the life cycle of Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters 

• Deploy pods to a Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster 

• Describe monitoring of Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters 

 

Monitoring and Troubleshooting 

• Describe the monitoring tools for vSphere with Tanzu 

• Describe the troubleshooting tools for vSphere with Tanzu 

• Describe VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™ integration 

• Describe VMware Tanzu Mission Control 

• Describe the integration between vSphere with Tanzu and VMware Tanzu Mission Control 

• Describe vCenter Server events 

• Describe vSphere with Tanzu events 

• Describe gathering vSphere with Tanzu support log bundles 

 

vSphere with Tanzu Life Cycle 

• Introduce Kubernetes version 

• Explain Kubernetes release cadence 

• Describe vSphere with Tanzu life cycle 

• Describe NSX component life cycle 

• Describe vSphere with Tanzu Certificate Management