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Course Overview
This course is designed for system administrators responsible for deploying and administering multiple Kubernetes cluster distributions with Rancher Manager for Rancher Prime. It begins with an introduction to Rancher Manager and its architecture. Students will then learn how to access Rancher Manager using a web browser. During the course an existing RKE2 Kubernetes cluster will be registered and a new RKE cluster will be provisioned with Rancher Manager and Kubernetes cluster administrative activities will be introduced. It also covers Kubernetes cluster management and hosted Kubernetes providers’ deployments in the public cloud.
This course prepares students for the SCA in Rancher Manager 2.7 for Rancher Prime exam.
Who Should Attend
This course is designed for system administrators and other persons responsible for provisioning and administering Kubernetes clusters with Rancher Manager for Rancher Prime.
Course Objectives
- An Introduction to Rancher Manager for Rancher Prime
- Cluster and Cluster Template Management with Rancher Manager
- User Management
- Application Management with Rancher Manager
- Multi-cluster Application Management with Continuous Delivery
- Logging and Monitoring
- Rancher Manager Extensions
- Security Scans and Policy Constraint Configuration
- Variety of Shell Based Actions with Rancher Manager
- Backing up and Restoring Downstream Clusters and Rancher Manager
Course Outline
Course Introduction
Introduction to Rancher Manager for Rancher Prime
- Rancher Manager for Rancher Prime
- What’s New in Rancher Manager v2.7.2
- Rancher Manager Architecture
- Access Rancher Manager
Cluster Management with Rancher Manager
- Rancher Manager User Interface
- Cluster and Node Agents
- Import an Existing Kubernetes Cluster
- Provision an RKE Cluster on Existing Nodes
- Provision a K3s or RKE2 Cluster on Existing Nodes
User Management with Rancher Manager
- User and Group Management
- Roles
Cluster and Node Management with Rancher Manager
- RKE Template Configuration
- Node and Cluster Driver Management
- Cloud Credentials Configuration
- Infrastructure Provided Kubernetes Clusters
- Hosted Kubernetes Clusters
Application Management with Rancher Manager
- Projects and Namespaces
- Workload Deployment
- Application Repositories in Rancher Manager
- Application Management with Helm
- Quotas
Continuous Delivery with Rancher Manager
- Project Fleet
- Continuous Delivery
Logging and Monitoring with Rancher Manager
- Deploy Monitoring Stack
- Rancher Manager Logging
- External Logging Services for Grafana
Rancher Manager Extensions
- Introduction to Extensions
- Manage Extensions
Security Tools with Rancher Manager