CPV200: Google Container Engine and Kubernetes

Course details

This 1 day instructor­led class introduces participants to Google Container Engine (GKE) and Kubernetes. Through a combination of instructor­led presentations, demonstrations, and hands-on labs, students learn the key concepts and practices for deploying and maintaining applications using Google Container Engine.
This class is intended for solutions developers, systems operations professionals, solution architects, and development operations professionals who develop, migrate, and deploy container­based applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
At the end of this one­day course, participants will be able to:
Identify the purpose of and use cases for Google Container Engine and Kubernetes
Explain the function of the container cluster components: pods, labels, replication controllers, and services
Identify the purpose of and use cases for Google Container Registry
Create a Docker image and send it to the Google Container Registry
Explain the function of the cluster components: the master instance an cluster nodes
Use the Cloud Platform Console to create a container cluster
Use the Google Cloud SDK command­line tools and the kubectl command­line utility to interact with container clusters
Define a pod using a JSON template
Deploy the pod to a Container Engine cluster
Create a Container Engine cluster to host a dynamically scaled group of Redis instances 
Complete a configuration file which defines a replication controller and the pod configuration that it manages
After creating a replication controller and pods, rescale the group
Deploy a container­based application using YAML files that define services, replication controllers, pods, and so on
Define firewall rules and load balancers to expose a service for a container­based application Updated on 17 October, 2017