Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Price
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Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
2 Day(s)
Language
English
Location
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Course Overview
This self-study course helps systems architects understand how to design third-party container solutions on HPE infrastructure. Candidates read the learner guide and then complete paper-based activities to apply what they have learned.
Ideal candidate for this course
The ideal candidate for this course is anyone who needs to learn how to describe, position, recommend, and demonstrate a workload solution with Containers.
This course will help candidates prepare for the HPE2-B05 exam: HPE Containers Solutions.
What You’ll Learn
Container Fundamentals
Container overview
- Container definition
- Container use cases
Container runtimes
Kubernetes fundamentals
- Why Kubernetes
- Kubernetes architecture
- Kubernetes definitions such as pods, config maps, and secrets
- High-level look at Kubernetes networking options
- Kubernetes volumes and Persistent Volumes (PVs)
Ecosystem of container solutions
Service-oriented architectures
- Migrating to a microservice architecture
- High-level look at Istio and HashiCorp Consul
Strategies for deploying Kubernetes
Introduction to HPE Solutions for Containers
Overview of HPE solution for containers
High-level look at HPE Ezmeral solutions
- HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric
- HPE Ezmeral Runtime Enteprise
- HPE Unified Analytics and HPE Ezmeral ML Ops
3rd party solutions deployed on HPE infrastructure
- HPE compute, storage, and service portfolio
- Brief overview of third-party container orchestration solutions such as Red Hat OpenShift, Google Anthos, VMware Tanzu, Rancher, and Karbon
- Options for deploying the partner-based solution as a complete HPE solution or multi-vendor solution
HPE GreenLake cloud services
Why HPE for containers
- Key use cases
- Distinguishing values
General Design Guidelines for HPE Container Solutions
Selecting the delivery model
Designing compute for containers
- Selecting the HPE compute solution
- VM vs bare metal deployment
Designing storage for containers
- Understanding the benefits of and positioning HPE storage arrays
- Understanding the HPE CSI drivers
Designing for security
- IAM and RBAC
- SPIFFE and SPIRE
- Image scanning and signing
Planning for high availability
- Using service meshes
- HPE solutions for data protection
Reference to HPE resources
Design HPE Solutions for Red Hat OpenShift
Overview of Red Hat OpenShift and architecture Benefits of deploying Red Hat OpenShift on HPE
Benefits of deploying Red Hat OpenShift on HPE
- A single point of purchase and coordinated support
- Deep integrations
- Automated deployment based on Ansible
- Validated reference architectures and configurations
Deploying Red Hat OpenShift on HPE Synergy
- Benefits
- Reference Architecture and best practices
Deploying Red Hat OpenShift on HPE ProLiant DL
- Benefits
- Reference Architecture and best practices
Design HPE Solutions for SUSE Rancher
SUSE Rancher overview
- Architecture
- Lightweight Kubernetes options
Benefits of the SUSE and HPE partnership
- Single point of purchase
- HPE support and services
- Integrations
- Options for HPE GreenLake delivery
Deploying SUSE Rancher on HPE
- Reference Architecture and best practices
Design HPE Solutions for VMware Tanzu
Overview of VMware Tanzu
Benefits of deploying VMware Tanzu on HPE
- HPE OEM licenses for some VMware licenses
- Value add integrations from HPE
Proposing HPE Solutions for Containers
Guidelines for presenting to customers
Distinguishing HPE from the competition
