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Rancher Manager 2.8 for Rancher Prime Operations (RAN201v2.8)

HU0F2S

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

    Course ID

    HU0F2S

    Duration

    3 days

    Format

    ILT/VILT

    Overview

    This course teaches you how to deploy and administer multiple Kubernetes cluster distributions with SUSE Rancher Manager. You get an introduction to SUSE Rancher Manager and its architecture and learn how to access SUSE Rancher Manager using a web browser. During the course, an existing RKE2 Kubernetes cluster is registered, a new RKE cluster is provisioned with Rancher Manager, and Kubernetes cluster administrative activities are introduced. It also covers Kubernetes cluster management and hosted Kubernetes providers' deployments in the public cloud.

    Course ID

    HU0F2S

    Duration

    3 days

    Format

    ILT/VILT

    Audience

    This course is ideal for system administrators and anyone who is responsible for provisioning and administering Kubernetes clusters with Rancher Manager for Rancher Prime.

    Prerequisites

    There are no prerequisites for this course, but we recommend you have the following baseline knowledge before attending:

    Objectives

    After completing this course, you should be able to:

    • Understand the fundamentals of SUSE Rancher Manager
    • Use cluster and cluster template management with SUSE Rancher Manager
    • Manage users
    • Application management with SUSE Rancher Manager
    • Use multi-cluster application management with continuous delivery
    • How to log and monitor
    • Understand SUSE Rancher Manager extensions
    • Complete security scans and policy constraint configuration
    • Execute a variety of shell-based actions with SUSE Rancher Manager
    • Backup and restore downstream clusters and SUSE Rancher Manager

    Course outline

    Module 1: Course Introduction

    • Course overview

    Module 2: Introduction to SUSE Rancher Manager

    • SUSE Rancher Manager for Rancher Prime Operations
    • What's new in SUSE Rancher Manager v2.8
    • SUSE Rancher Manager architecture
    • Access SUSE Rancher Manager

    Module 3: Cluster Management with SUSE Rancher Manager


    • SUSE 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

    Module 4: User Management with SUSE Rancher Manager

    • User and group management
    • Roles

    Module 5: Cluster and Node Management with SUSE Rancher Manager


    • RKE template configuration
    • Node and cluster driver management
    • Cloud credentials configuration
    • Infrastructure provided Kubernetes clusters
    • Hosted Kubernetes clusters

    Module 6: Application Management with SUSE Rancher Manager

    • Projects and namespaces
    • Workload deployment
    • Application repositories in SUSE Rancher Manager
    • Application management with Helm
    • Quotas

    Module 7: Continuous Delivery with SUSE Rancher Manager

    • Project fleet
    • Continuous delivery

    Module 8: Logging and Monitoring with SUSE Rancher Manager


    • Deploy monitoring stack
    • Rancher Manager logging
    • External logging services for Grafana

    Module 9: SUSE Rancher Manager Extensions


    • Introduction to extensions
    • Manage extensions

    Module 10: Security Tools with SUSE Rancher Manager


    • Manage CIS scans
    • Introduction to external policy engine and container security products

    Module 11: CLI Access for SUSE Rancher Manager and Downstream Clusters


    • Access cluster nodes with ssh
    • Access a downstream clusters with kubectl
    • SUSE Rancher Manager API
    • SUSE Rancher Manager CLI

    Module 12: Backup and Restore with SUSE Rancher Manager


    • Backup requirements with SUSE Rancher Manager
    • Downstream cluster snapshots
    • Upgrade downstream clusters
    • Restore downstream clusters
    • Backup and restore SUSE Rancher Manager.

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