• Course overview
  • Course details
  • Prerequisites

Course overview

About this course

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to SUSE Rancher Prime, covering its components, architecture, and deployment methods. It teaches learners to perform essential Kubernetes cluster management and administration tasks using SUSE Rancher Prime, such as importing and provisioning clusters, managing users and roles, and handling application deployments. The course also covers more advanced topics like security utilities, backup and restore for both SUSE Rancher Prime and downstream clusters, and monitoring and logging.

Audience profile

  • This course is aimed at administrators with responsibilities for deploying and managing SUSE Rancher Prime, importing and creating downstream clusters, managing authorization, deploying applications, and implementing security features for Kubernetes.

At course completion, you will:

  • Understand the components and architecture of SUSE Rancher Prime.
  • Deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters across various environments.
  • Perform key administrative tasks like user authentication, authorization, and role management.
  • Manage applications using Helm and leverage the SUSE Application Collection.
  • Implement continuous delivery pipelines with GitOps using Fleet.
  • Configure monitoring, logging, and security for Kubernetes clusters.
  • Perform backup, restore, and upgrade operations for both SUSE Rancher Prime and downstream clusters.

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Course details

Module 1: Course Introduction

Module 2:Introduction to SUSE Rancher Prime
Introduction to SUSE Rancher
SUSE Rancher Packaging
Rancher Architecture

Module 3: Deploying SUSE Rancher Prime
Requirements for SUSE Rancher Prime Deployment
SUSE Rancher Prime Deployment for Testing
Other SUSE Rancher Deployment Methods

Module 4: SUSE Rancher Prime User Interface
Accessing the SUSE Rancher Prime User Interface
Navigating within the SUSE Rancher Prime User Interface
SUSE Rancher Prime User Interface Branding

Module 5: Downstream Cluster Management
Node and Cluster Agents
Importing an Existing Kubernetes Cluster
Provisioning a Cluster on Existing Nodes
Node and Cluster Drivers
Cluster Provisioning to the Cloud
Cluster API

Module 6: User Authentication and Authorization
User and Group Management
Controlling Authorization with Roles

Module 7: Application Management
Projects and Namespaces
Workload Deployment
Application Management with Helm
SUSE Application Collection
Quotas

Module 8: Continuous Delivery with SUSE Rancher Prime
Project Fleet
Continuous Delivery

Module 9: Monitoring and Logging
Monitoring a Downstream Cluster
Logging on a Downstream Cluster
External Log Output
Introduction to SUSE Observability

Module 10: SUSE Rancher Prime UI Extensions
Introduction to Extensions
Managing Extensions

Module 11: Security with SUSE Rancher Prime
Security Scanning
Securing Clusters with SUSE Admission Policy Manager
Container Security and Vulnerability Scanning with SUSE Security

Module 12: Command Line Access with SUSE Rancher Prime
Command-Line Access to Rancher and Downstream Clusters
Using kubectl for Rancher-Managed Downstream Clusters
Rancher API

Module 13: Backup and Restore with SUSE Rancher Prime
Backups in Rancher Environments
Downstream Cluster Snapshots
Upgrading Downstream Clusters
Restoring Downstream Clusters
Backing up and Restoring SUSE Rancher Prime
SUSE Rancher Prime Migration

Module 14: Upgrading SUSE Rancher Prime

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Prerequisites

Attendees should have:

  • A basic understanding of Linux terminal shell and Kubernetes is beneficial.
  • An intermediate understanding of Kubernetes and be familiar with YAML manifest file syntax.

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