This five-day course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and abili&es to achieve competence in design, configura&on, and opera&onal management of VMware vSphere® Kubernetes Service (VKS) within VMware Cloud Founda&on® (VCF) environments. You will learn vSphere Supervisor deployment models, storage topologies, and namespace architecture while gaining exper&se in VKS cluster lifecycle management, workload deployment, and day-2 opera&ons. The course covers vSphere Supervisor enablement op&ons, VM Service deployment models, services architecture, and monitoring strategies. You will learn VKS cluster provisioning using kubectl, as well as workload deployment using YAML manifest files and Helm. Through hands-on labs and real-world scenarios, you will develop prac&cal exper&se in designing scalable Kubernetes infrastructure on VCF, opera&ng VKS clusters, and building extensible cloudna&ve ecosystems for enterprise workload consump&on.

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objec&ves:

• Iden&fy the key components of a Kubernetes architecture
• Explain Volumes and persistent storage mechanisms in Kubernetes
• Explain Kubernetes networking
• Explain the concepts and components of vSphere Supervisor
• Explain the vSphere Supervisor authen&ca&on workflow using vCenter Single Sign-On
• Explain the key features of VCF Consump&on CLI
• Describe the vSphere Supervisor deployment models
• Iden&fy the vSphere Supervisor networking and load-balancing requirements
• Explain the vSphere Supervisor storage op&ons including cross Datacenter topologies
• Outline the steps to configure vSphere Namespaces and Zones
• Explain the VCF Cloud Services enablement op&ons
• Iden&fy available Services in vSphere Supervisor including Velero and Extensible Services
• Explain how the vSphere Supervisor is monitored and upgraded.
• Explain the VM crea&on workflow with VM Service
• Outline the VM Service deployment models for Virtual Machines with configurable OVF
• Proper&es
• Explain how to deploy a vSphere Pod using kubectl and expose it through a Load
• Balancer IP

• System Administrators, Solu&on Engineers, Consultants, Architects, and Support
• Personnel

This course has the following prerequisites:

• VCF Stage-1 Training
• Working experience and knowledge of VMware vSphere®, VMware NSX®, and vSAN
• environments

1. Course Introduc&on
• Introduc&on and course logis&cs
• Course objec&ves
2. Kubernetes Overview
• Differen&ate between containers and virtual machines
• Describe Docker workflow, including the build, ship, and run processes
• Explain Container Networking concepts
• Describe Container Run&me Interface (CRI) and the containerd role in Kubernetes