Comprehensive Guide to Enterprise Kubernetes Operations and Management
This article provides a detailed outline of an enterprise‑grade Kubernetes operations curriculum, covering cluster installation, component deployment, high‑availability, networking, storage integration with Ceph, Helm package management, microservice migration with Spring Cloud, CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, and service mesh fundamentals with Istio.
Chapter 1: Kubernetes Operations Management
• Build a complete enterprise‑grade K8s cluster (binary)
• Introduction to K8s environment, Docker deprecation, system initialization
• ETCD cluster deployment
• Deploy Master node components
• Deploy Node components
• Deploy plugins: Dashboard and CoreDNS
• Add load balancer and expand to high‑availability cluster
• Kubernetes container cloud platform implementation方案
• Automated deployment of a binary K8s cluster
• High‑availability solutions for Kubernetes
• Kubernetes Etcd backup and recovery
• Kubelet certificate auto‑renewal
• Common Kubernetes cluster troubleshooting
• Elastic scaling overview and K8s elastic scaling layout
Chapter 2: Kubernetes Elastic Scaling
• Node scaling (cloud provider and self‑built solutions)
• Node scaling implementation (part 2)
• Pod scaling with HPA introduction
• Pod scaling based on CPU metrics
• HPA validation and cooldown control
• Custom metric (QPS) based pod scaling
Chapter 3: Kubernetes Application Package Manager – Helm
• Helm overview and installation
• Basic Helm usage: deploy, upgrade, rollback, delete
• Deep dive into Helm Chart templates
• Step‑by‑step Chart creation
• Harbor storage for Charts
Chapter 4: Kubernetes Cluster Networking
• Network fundamentals (TCP/UDP, switching, routing)
• Flannel overview and deployment
• Flannel common mode principles
• Calico overview, deployment, BGP mode principles
• Calico IPIP mode principles
• Calico BGP working mode
• Route reflection (RR) mode
• Network component selection and K8s network integration solutions
• Network policies (Pod ACL)
Chapter 5: Ceph Distributed Storage for Persistent Pods
• Ceph introduction, architecture, core concepts, version selection
• Ceph cluster deployment planning and initial system configuration
• Ceph service management and common commands
• RBD block storage usage, cloning, snapshots
• CephFS file system
• Object storage
• Dynamic PV provisioning with Ceph RBD and CephFS
• Ceph monitoring
• Rook deployment of Ceph cluster
Chapter 6: Spring Cloud Microservice Container Migration
• Operational perspective on microservice architecture
• Considerations for deploying microservices on K8s
• Step‑by‑step deployment of Spring Cloud microservice projects on K8s (parts 1 & 2)
• Production environment experience sharing
• APM monitoring of microservices with SkyWalking
Chapter 7: Jenkins‑Based Microservice Release Platform
• Release process design
• Basic environment preparation
• Jenkins release system
• Dynamic creation of Jenkins agents in K8s
• Jenkins pipeline configuration
• Automated pipeline release of microservice projects (requirements and ideas)
• Jenkins + K8s + GitLab + Helm microservice release (part 1 & 2)
Chapter 8: Microservice Governance – Istio Service Mesh Introduction
• Service mesh concepts
• Istio overview, architecture, deployment
• Sidecar injection
• Core traffic management resources in Istio
• Istio gray release: traffic‑based and content‑based
• Traffic mirroring for testing environments
• Exposing applications to the internet
• Visual monitoring
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