Duration
2 days.
Prerequisites
- Experience deploying and managing multiple Kubernetes clusters
- Experience with Kubernetes RBAC, network policies, resource quotas, and Pod Security Policies
- The provisioning lesson in the course relies on VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid™, so the attending one of the following courses is recommended: VMware vSphere with Tanzu: Deploy and Manage [V7] or VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid: Install, Configure, Manage [V1.3]
Skills Gained
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Describe the Tanzu Mission Control architecture
- Configure user and group access
- Create access, image registry, network, security, quota, and custom policies
- Connect your on-premises vSphere with Tanzu Supervisor cluster to VMware Tanzu Mission Control
- Create, manage, and back up Tanzu Kubernetes clusters
- Perform cluster inspections
- Manage packages in your clusters
- Monitor and secure Kubernetes environments
Who Can Benefit?
Operators and application owners who are responsible for deploying and managing policies for multiple Kubernetes clusters across on-premises and public cloud environments.
Outline for VMware Tanzu Mission Control: Management and Operations 2022 Training
Outline
1. Course Introduction
- Introduction and course logistics
- Course objectives
2. Introducing VMware Tanzu Mission Control
- Explain VMware Tanzu Mission Control
- List the problems that VMware Tanzu Mission Control solves
- Request access to VMware Tanzu Mission Control
- Describe VMware Cloud services
- Describe organization roles in VMware Cloud services
- Describe service roles in VMware Tanzu Mission Control
- Create and manage groups in VMware Cloud services
- Describe the architecture of VMware Tanzu Mission Control
- Describe the resource hierarchy of VMware Tanzu Mission Control
3. Cluster Management
- Describe the steps for attaching a Kubernetes cluster to VMware Tanzu Mission Control
- Describe the connectivity requirements
- Describe the health statuses
- Describe the steps for registering a Management Cluster to VMware Tanzu Mission Control
- Describe a management cluster
- Describe provisioners
- Describe the purpose of a cloud provider account
- Describe the steps to provision a cluster on Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
- Describe how clusters are scaled and upgraded
- Describe the purpose of cluster inspections
- Describe the purpose of Tanzu Observability
- Describe the purpose of Tanzu Service Mesh Advanced
- Describe VMware Tanzu Mission Control Data Protection
- Describe the VMware Tanzu Mission Control catalog
- Describe the installation and management of packages
4. Policy Management
- Describe the policy model
- Describe the available policy types
- Describe how access policies grant users access to different resources
- Explain how image registry policies restrict from which image registries container images can be pulled
- Describe how network policies are applied to clusters
- Describe how security policies control deployment of pods in a cluster
- Describe how quota policies manage resource consumption in your clusters
- Describe how custom policies implement specialized policies that govern your Kubernetes clusters
- Describe how Policy Insights reports Tanzu Mission Control policy issues