MOD-01
Architecture & cluster anatomy
Control plane, kubelet, etcd, scheduler — how the pieces fit, explored on a kubeadm-built cluster.
Training · Kubernetes & EKS
Kubernetes & EKS Bootcamp — on-prem fundamentals to production AWS.
Ten afternoons that take engineers from administering vanilla Kubernetes on-prem to running Amazon EKS in production — bootstrapped, patched, exposed and upgraded entirely through Terraform. Live sessions, real clusters, and a working demo app by the end.
Format & prerequisites
Two tracks, one bootcamp.
Afternoon-friendly schedule
One live 3-hour session per weekday — 1–4 PM Central / 2–5 PM Eastern — for 10 days (30 hours total).
On-prem first, then EKS
The first track builds solid vanilla-Kubernetes administration on-prem; the second applies it to Amazon EKS the way production teams run it — through Terraform.
Prerequisites
Basic Linux commands and container fundamentals. No prior Kubernetes required — the on-prem track builds it from the ground up.
Live cluster access
Hands-on labs on dedicated remote clusters — kubectl and console access during every session, ending with a live app behind a real AWS load balancer.
Track 1 · Days 1–5
Kubernetes on-prem administration.
The fundamentals every cluster admin needs, taught on a real on-prem-style cluster.
MOD-02
Core workloads
Pods, Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps and Secrets — deployed, broken and fixed by hand.
MOD-03
Networking & ingress basics
Cluster networking, CNI concepts, DNS and Services from ClusterIP to ingress controllers.
MOD-04
Storage on-prem
PersistentVolumes, claims and StorageClasses — stateful workloads without a cloud provider.
MOD-05
RBAC, users & service accounts
Who can do what: roles, bindings and locking down access properly.
MOD-06
Observability
Metrics-server, Prometheus and Grafana — seeing what the cluster is actually doing.
MOD-07
Node maintenance & etcd backup
Cordon, drain, patching nodes safely — plus etcd backup and restore, the admin safety net.
MOD-08
kubectl troubleshooting clinic
CrashLoopBackOff, probes, events, logs — a structured triage method with the kubectl commands that matter.
Track 2 · Days 6–10
Amazon EKS in production — everything through Terraform.
The same skills, applied the way real AWS teams run them: infrastructure as code end to end.
MOD-09
EKS bootstrap with Terraform
VPC, subnets, IAM and the EKS control plane provisioned from clean, modular Terraform — the foundation everything else builds on.
MOD-10
Node groups
Managed node groups in Terraform: sizing, autoscaling, labels, taints and spot/on-demand strategy.
MOD-11
VPC CNI in detail
How pod networking really works on EKS — IP allocation, ENIs, prefix delegation and the limits that surprise teams.
MOD-12
Custom worker AMIs & patching
Building and patching custom images for worker nodes, and rolling them through node groups without downtime.
MOD-13
ALB ingress — live NGINX demo
AWS Load Balancer Controller set up end to end, finishing with a live NGINX app served through a real ALB.
MOD-14
IRSA & pod permissions
IAM Roles for Service Accounts — giving pods least-privilege AWS access the supported way.
MOD-15
Cluster upgrades via Terraform
Upgrading the control plane and node groups through Terraform — ordering, add-on compatibility and safe rollout.
MOD-16
EKS operations clinic
Bringing it together: cost awareness, common failure modes and the day-2 habits that keep EKS boring.
Price on request
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