The course covers advanced topics in Kubernetes, including influencing pod scheduling, controlling applications with admission controllers, auto-scaling applications and clusters, extending Kubernetes using Custom Resources, and adding a service mesh for traffic shaping. By the end of the course, learners will have a clearer understanding of these advanced capabilities and how to enhance their application platform. The intended audience should have a good grasp of basic Kubernetes concepts and constructs. The teaching method includes a talk with demos to illustrate the concepts.
Overview
Syllabus
Intro
Scheduling pods
Why influence pod scheduling placement?
Approaches to influencing pod scheduling
Node selector
Node affinity/anti-affinity
Specifying demand for node
Taints & Tolerations
Taints vs Node affinity
Pod distribution
Custom scheduler
Taking more control...
Admissions controllers
API request lifecycle
Admission Webhooks
Custom Resource Definitions (CRDS)
Creating a Foo resource
Custom controllers
Writing your own operator?
Virtual Kubelet implementations
Bursting load using virtual node
Virtual node public preview
Virtual node recap
Improving service to service communications
What is a Service mesh?
Istio service mesh
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