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