Kubernetes Resilience

Availability & Performance

Learn how to ensure the highest availability and performance for your applications.

Build on the foundation of our Core Kubernetes workshop to bring performance and resilience to your workloads. The Kubernetes security system is "complicated," and HA and performance is left as an exercise to the reader. We're here to help.

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Outline

Kubernetes Review

Review the Kubernetes architecture, including running workloads, proper kubectl usage, kubernetes networking, labels & annotations, and inspecting the cluster.

More Services

Grasp the complex performance implications of the Kubernetes networking model, exploring external traffic policies, Service Endpoints, and ExternalName services.

Handling Disruption

Learn how to weather the storm using Quality of Service, Pod Priority & Preemption, and Pod disruption budgets

Sophisticated Scheduling

Learn how to tweak the scheduler for greater Pod availability and performance. Master Node affinity, Pod affinity, and Taints & Tolerations.

Autoscaling

Explore the Horizontal & Vertical Pod Autoscalers.

The Wargames

A student favorite!

For the final few hours of the workshop, the students compete as teams to diagnose and fix real-world production Kubernetes issues.

We break em, you fix em!

The 411

This workshop is delivered over three afternoons or mornings. Each session consists of four hours of lecture and labs with open Q&A at the end of each day — 12 hours in total. The price is $17,400 and attendance is limited to up to 28 students.

Instructors

Rob Salmond
Engineer & Lead Trainer
Serving an extended sentence in the YAML mines. Claims innocence.

Andrea Giardini
Kubernetes Trainer
Interested in unconventional ideas, people and lifestyles.

Intended Audience

We recommend this course for your architects, senior engineers, and advanced platform operations teams.

To get the most out of this subject, students should come prepared with an understanding of the Kubernetes fundamentals, Bash scripting, and the basics of Linux processes, users, and permissions. A good place to start is with our Core Kubernetes course.

This is just one of the many great workshops in our cloud-native curriculum!

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The SuperOrbital Difference

We're infrastructure experts with a reputation for delivering great work. Here’s how we're different:

Battle Hardened

We bring real experience.

We don't just teach: we do. We've wrestled with Kubernetes, Terraform, Istio, Docker and all of the others in real production situations. We've used them in anger. We know where the tools fall down and what the documentation hides.

Unbiased

We give the best advice for your situation.

We believe in cloud native solutions, but we aren't beholden to any vendor. Every situation is unique, and every tool has flaws. We help you understand how the technologies work together to solve your problems. We guide you away from the tools that are hype, and toward those that have proven their worth.

Intensely Hands-On

More than 50% of the time spent in labs.

That's not a typo. We don’t believe in static, podium-based training with some boring instructor talking at you.

Instead, SuperOrbital courses immerse you in an active learning environment where you can internalize the lessons through collaboration and hands-on workshops. The end result is knowledge that sticks, and a foundation for true expertise.

Thorough

You can't understand the big picture without the details.

We dig deep into a topic, when creating our content. We tease apart every aspect, breaking it down into it's atomic parts. Then we rearrange them into an order our students can easily digest and remember. Our content goes deep, giving you a foundational understanding of how things work under the hood.

Remote first

We're passionately remote-first, and our training shows it.

The days of hours wasted commuting to work are coming to an end, and good riddance. SuperOrbital has always been a passionately remote-first company, and we bring that to our training.

Why travel out of town to sit in a hot, crowded, uncomfortable room for days at a time? Our workshops are taken from the comfort of your own home, and at a schedule that encourages deep learning.

Each of our workshop days consists of three hours of training and a one-hour Q&A session. This helps keep the training active and inspiring, and gives plenty of time for the knowledge to gel.

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How it works

Engaging with us to provide a workshop for your team is easy. Reach out to get started.

1

Chat

We'll schedule a time to meet, discuss your needs, your team's experience level, and how we can help. Once we agree on an outline and a delivery date, we're ready to go!

2

Deliver

Each workshop day consists of three hours for lecture and labs, and one hour for open questions. We always have one instructor and one TA on hand to ensure things go off without a hitch.

3

Follow Up

We follow up afterward to ensure the workshop exceeded your expectations, and to help with whatever new hurdles your team may be facing.

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