Module 1) Workloads: Deployments and Jobs
- Define, configure, inspect, manage, and update Deployments.
- Define what Jobs and CronJobs are in GKE and explore relevant use cases.
- Create and run Jobs.
Module 2) Google Kubernetes Engine Networking
- Explore Kubernetes networking, including Pod and cluster networking.
- Create services to expose applications running within Pods.
- Configure load balancers to expose services to external clients. Explore containernative load balancing in GKE.
- Configure Google Kubernetes Engine networking.
Module 3) Persistent Data Storage
- Define and work with Kubernetes storage abstractions.
- Run and maintain sets of pods using StatefulSets.
- Use ConfigMaps to decouple configuration from Pods.
- Manage and store sensitive access and authentication data.
- Configure persistent storage for Google Kubernetes Engine.
Module 4) Access Control and Security in Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine Authentication and authorization
- Kubernetes role-based access control
- Workload Identity
- Kubernetes control plane security
- Pod security
Module 5) Google Kubernetes Engine Logging and Monitoring
- Identify the tools included in the Google Cloud Observability.
- Configure the Google Cloud operations suite to monitor and manage availability and performance.
- Inspect logs using the kubectl command.
- Inspect Kubernetes logs using Google Cloud Observability.
- Configure GKE-native Monitoring and Logging
Module 6) Using Google Cloud Managed Storage Services with Google Kubernetes Engine
- Contrast managed storage services with self-managed storage.
- Identify use cases for Cloud Storage for Kubernetes applications.
- Compare the range of Google Cloud managed database services.
- Explore Cloud SQL Auth Proxy and how it connects to Cloud SQL from within GKE.
- Use Cloud SQL with Google Kubernetes Engine.
Module 7) Using CI/CD with Google Kubernetes Engine
- Define continuous integration and continuous delivery and identify why it is important.
- Examine CI/CD pipelines and how they can optimize app releases.
- Explore first-party and third-party CI/CD tools supported by Google Cloud.
- Explore Google’s best practices for a GKE CI/CD pipeline.
