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WSQ - Kubernetes for Beginners

Sessions 3 days
Duration 24 hrs
Level Beginner
Assessment 2 hrs

Venue

12 Woodlands Square #07-85/86/87 Woods Square Tower 1, Singapore 737715. 5 mins walk from Woodlands (NS9) MRT station.

The venue is disabled-friendly.

TSC Title: Solution Architecture
TSC Code: ICT-DES-4006-1.1

Funding for this course is valid from 28 Feb 2025 to 27 Feb 2027. Register and complete the course within this period to qualify for funding support.

By end of the course, learners should be able to:

LO1: Develop an architectural proof of concept for Kubernetes architecture and components.
LO2: Develop solution architecture by applying container orchestration tools, techniques, and system modeling methods.
LO3: Identify technical requirements and prepare a technical blueprint for Cloud Native Architecture .
LO4: Demonstrate how Cloud Native Observability solutions and components address a specific business problem effectively.
LO5: Implement system reviews to monitor solution status and adapt according to Cloud Native frameworks.

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Certificate of Achievement from Tertiary Infotech Academy Pte Ltd - Upon meeting at least 75% attendance and passing the assessment(s), participants will receive a Certificate of Achievement from Tertiary Infotech Academy Pte Ltd.
OpenCerts from SkillsFuture Singapore - After passing the assessment(s) and achieving at least 75% attendance, participants will receive a OpenCert (aka Statement of Achievement) from SkillsFuture Singapore, certifying that they have achieved the Competency Standard(s) in the above Skills Framework.

WSQ - Kubernetes for Beginners

Course Code: TGS-2025053174

WSQ
SFC
PSEA
UTAP
SFEC
Absentee Payroll
MCES

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Kubernetes has become a key technology for deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications across modern IT environments. Kubernetes for Beginners provides a practical introduction to Kubernetes, helping learners understand how containerized applications are orchestrated and managed using Kubernetes.

The course introduces essential Kubernetes concepts, including clusters, nodes, pods, deployments, services, namespaces, and the Kubernetes architecture. Learners will gain hands-on experience setting up and interacting with Kubernetes environments, deploying containerized applications, managing application configurations, and using Kubernetes commands to monitor and troubleshoot workloads.

Participants will also explore Kubernetes networking, service discovery, storage, configuration management, and basic security concepts. Practical exercises demonstrate how applications can be scaled, updated, and maintained while Kubernetes manages workload scheduling, availability, and application health.

The course also introduces modern deployment and operational practices, including application monitoring, autoscaling, rolling updates, and basic CI/CD concepts for Kubernetes environments. Through guided demonstrations and hands-on labs, learners will build confidence in deploying and managing real-world containerized applications.

Designed for beginners, IT professionals, system administrators, developers, and aspiring DevOps engineers, this course provides a strong practical foundation for working with Kubernetes and prepares learners to progress toward more advanced container orchestration and cloud-native technologies.

Full Fee $1,500.00 Before GST

GST $135.00 9% of fee

Baseline Nett $885.00 SG/PR age 21+ · 50% funded

MCES / SME Nett $585.00 SG age 40+ · 70% funded

SkillsFuture Enterprise Credit (SFEC)

Eligible companies can use their $10,000 SFEC to cover up to 90% of out-of-pocket course fees for classes ending on or before 30 Nov 2026. A redesigned SFEC starts on 1 Dec 2026.

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SkillsFuture Credit (SFC)

Eligible Singapore Citizens can use their SFC to offset course fee payable after funding but the $4,000 Additional SFC (Mid-Career Support) cannot be used.

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UTAP

Eligible NTUC members can apply for 50% of the unfunded fee from UTAP, capped up to $250/year and for members aged 40 and above, capped up to $500/year.

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PSEA

Eligible Singapore Citizens can use their PSEA funds to offset course fee payable after funding.

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Please bring your own laptop for hands-on training. If you don't have laptop, we can provide spare laptop for training use.

We provide free consultation related to the subject matter after the course.
Please email your queries to enquiry@tertiaryinfotech.com and we will forward your queries to the subject matter experts.

You can register your interest without upfront payment. There is no penalty for withdrawal of the course before the class commences.
We reserve the right to cancel or re-schedule the course due to unforeseen circumstances. If the course is cancelled, we will refund 100% for any paid amount.
Note the venue of the training is subject to changes due to availability of the classroom.

Course Details

Topic 1 Kubernetes Fundamentals and Architecture

Topic 2 Container Orchestration and Kubernetes Operations

Topic 3 Cloud Native Architecture and Scalability

Topic 4 Kubernetes Monitoring and Observability

Topic 5 Kubernetes Application Deployment and Management

Written Exam
Practical Exam

Course Info

Minimum Entry Requirement

Knowledge and Skills

Able to operate using computer functions
Minimum 3 GCE ‘O’ Levels Passes including English or WPL Level 5 (Average of Reading, Listening, Speaking & Writing Scores)

Attitude

Positive Learning Attitude
Enthusiastic Learner

Experience

Minimum of 1 year of working experience.

Target Age Group: 21-65 years old

Minimum Software/Hardware Requirement

Software:

Docker Desktop - https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop/
A local Kubernetes cluster: Minikube (https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/start/) or kind (https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/)
kubectl command line tool - https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/
Visual Studio Code - https://code.visualstudio.com/

Hardware: Windows or Mac laptop with at least 8GB RAM and virtualization enabled

Funding Eligibility Criteria

Self-sponsored learners (individuals)

Singapore Citizens and Singapore Permanent Residents aged 21 and above.
Up to 50% course fee funding. Singapore Citizens aged 40 and above receive up to 70% under the Mid-career Enhanced Subsidy (MCES).
Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above can pay the remaining fee with SkillsFuture Credit.

Company-sponsored learners

Singapore Citizens and Singapore Permanent Residents who are direct employees of the sponsoring company.
Up to 50% course fee funding, or up to 70% for employees of SMEs (Enhanced Training Support for SMEs) and for Singapore Citizens aged 40 and above. An SME has no more than 200 employees or an annual turnover of no more than $100 million.
Employers can also claim Absentee Payroll funding for employees who attend during working hours.
Eligible companies can offset their out-of-pocket fees with SkillsFuture Enterprise Credit (SFEC).

Conditions for all funded learners

Attendance is taken digitally with Singpass for every session, including the assessment.
You must complete the course and pass all assessments (assessed as Competent).
If these conditions are not met, the funding is clawed back and the learner or employer pays the full course fee.
9% GST is charged on the full course fee before funding.
Promo and discount codes cannot be used on funded courses.
Any balance after funding can be paid in cash, with SkillsFuture Credit, with PSEA (Singapore Citizens with a PSEA), or partly reimbursed by UTAP for NTUC members.

How to Apply SkillsFuture Credit Claim for Individuals

Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above can use their SkillsFuture Credit (base tier) to pay the course fee after funding. The $4,000 mid-career top-up cannot be used for this course.

Register for this course as self-sponsored and tell us you will use SkillsFuture Credit. Do not pay the amount you plan to claim.
We email you an invoice showing the course fee after funding.
From 60 days before the course starts, and no later than the course start date, log in to MySkillsFuture with Singpass and click Claim credits.
Click Submit a Claim and search for this course by its course code, TGS-2025053174.
Select your class start date, enter the course fee payable after funding and the amount of credit to claim, then upload the invoice (PDF, JPG or PNG, under 4MB).
Review, accept the terms and click Agree and Submit. The credit is paid directly to us; processing can take up to 14 working days.

Changing or withdrawing: cancel the claim on MySkillsFuture at least one day before the course starts. If your class date changes, cancel the claim and submit a new one with the new date.

How to Apply SkillsFuture Enterprise Credit (SFEC)

SFEC helps companies pay for employee training. The current SFEC ends on 30 November 2026, and a redesigned SFEC starts on 1 December 2026.

Current SFEC: classes ending on or before 30 November 2026

Eligible companies received a one-off $10,000 credit, notified by letter to their Corppass administrator. Eligibility generally required at least 3 Singapore Citizen or PR employees and Skills Development Levy contributions.
SFEC covers up to 90% of the company's out-of-pocket course fee after other subsidies.

Check your company's SFEC eligibility and balance on EnterpriseSG.
Register your Singapore Citizen or PR employee for a class that ends by 30 November 2026, as company-sponsored, and pay the course fee after funding.
Your employee attends and completes the course. We submit the attendance and assessment results to SWDA.
No separate claim is needed. SFEC is calculated automatically once the course fee grant is approved and is paid quarterly to your company's IRAS GIRO or PayNow Corporate account.

Any unused balance of the current SFEC expires on 30 November 2026.

Redesigned SFEC from 1 December 2026

Companies with at least 3 resident employees receive a fresh $10,000 in an online SFEC wallet that offsets out-of-pocket fees upfront at enrolment, instead of reimbursing them afterwards. SWDA has not yet published the support rates and claim steps; see OurWorkforce or our SFEC guide.

How to Apply UTAP (NTUC Members)

NTUC members can claim 50% of the unfunded course fee under the Union Training Assistance Programme (UTAP), capped at $250 a year (aged below 40) or $500 a year (aged 40 and above). The cap is shared with UTAP claims for AI tool subscriptions.

Eligibility: you must be an NTUC member paying full membership fees, with your membership paid up before and during the course and when you claim. The course must not be fully paid for by your employer or another source.

Make sure your NTUC membership is paid up before the course starts.
Register for this course with us and pay the course fee after funding and SkillsFuture Credit.
Attend at least 75% of the course and sit all assessments.
Within 6 months after the course ends, go to the NTUC U Portal, open UTAP under E-services, log in with Singpass and choose Course Fee Claim.
Enter the nett course fee you paid (after all subsidies and SkillsFuture Credit, including GST), and upload your invoice or receipt and your certificate or result slip (PDF, JPG or PNG, up to 5MB each).
NTUC usually pays the claim within 4 weeks of submission.

How to Apply PSEA

Singapore Citizens with a Post-Secondary Education Account (PSEA), which stays open until around the year you turn 31, can use it to pay the course fee after funding for PSEA-approved courses. You can also use a sibling's PSEA after your own has been used up.

Check that this course shows the PSEA tag on its MySkillsFuture page.
Check your PSEA balance on MOE's Student Finance System with Singpass.
Download and complete the PSEA withdrawal form, then submit it to us.
We submit the withdrawal request to MOE. You (and your sibling, if you are using their account) authorise it in the Student Finance System. Nothing is withdrawn without this authorisation.
MOE pays us directly. If you have already paid, we refund the amount covered by PSEA.

More details: MOE PSEA overview.

Appeal Process

If you disagree with an assessment decision, you have the right to appeal.

When the assessor gives you feedback, say whether you agree with the outcome. If you agree, you and the assessor sign the Assessment Summary Record; if you disagree, do not sign it.
Discuss the decision with the assessor or the assessment manager first.
If you are still not satisfied, tell the assessor you intend to appeal. The assessor records this in the feedback section of the Assessment Summary Record and informs the assessment manager.
Lodge your appeal within 7 days, giving your reasons, using the Candidate Appeal Form. The assessor can help you write and lodge it.
An Assessment Appeal Panel reviews the information from you and the assessor and makes a decision. A record of the appeal and its outcome is kept.
You will be told the outcome within 2 weeks of lodging the appeal. The panel's decision is final.

Job Roles

IT Professional new to Kubernetes
System Administrator
Application Developer
Aspiring DevOps Engineer
DevOps Engineer
Cloud Engineer
Platform Engineer
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
IT Infrastructure Engineer
Software Engineer (Cloud)
Backend Developer
Automation Engineer
Network Engineer (Cloud)
IT Support Engineer
Technical Operations Engineer
Release Engineer
Cloud Consultant
Solution Architect
Technical Team Lead
IT Student or Career Switcher

Trainers

Mohan Pothula is a Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) with more than 20 years of experience as an enterprise architect, specialising in cloud, DevOps and secure platform design. He has held senior architecture roles at DBS Bank, SPH Media and Mediacorp, leading large-scale digital transformation and cloud modernisation on AWS, Azure and Kubernetes. His hands-on expertise includes Docker, Jenkins, Linux administration, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code and microservices, and he holds further certifications in AWS Solutions Architecture and Cloudera Administration. As a mentor and technical lead, he has helped engineering teams adopt scalable cloud architectures and automated pipelines that meet strict security and regulatory requirements. His background in system administration, networking and virtualisation gives him a grounded view of how Kubernetes builds on traditional infrastructure, and he has led cloud migration and microservices modernisation projects for global enterprises. As an educator and consultant, he emphasises real-world DevOps practices that unify software delivery, infrastructure management and automation.

In WSQ - Kubernetes for Beginners, Mohan builds a solid foundation for professionals taking their first steps in container orchestration. Participants learn Kubernetes fundamentals and architecture, then practise container orchestration and Kubernetes operations, from creating and scaling deployments to exposing them through services and organising them with namespaces. The course continues with cloud native architecture and scalability, monitoring and observability, and finally application deployment and management. Mohan connects each topic to his experience of running containerised workloads in banking and media environments, showing how configuration, monitoring and troubleshooting keep applications healthy as they grow. His methodical, hands-on approach suits beginners, breaking complex ideas into manageable steps with plenty of practice at the command line. He also shows how scaling, health checks and resource settings protect applications under real traffic, drawing on examples from the large-scale platforms he has architected. As a CKA holder, he can also point learners towards the skills and certifications that build on this foundation, helping them plan the next stage of their Kubernetes and DevOps learning. Participants leave able to deploy, configure, monitor and troubleshoot applications on Kubernetes, and ready to apply these skills in their own DevOps and cloud projects.

Dr. Alfred Ang is a Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) whose DevOps skills come from building and running his own platforms. He is a full-stack AI developer, courseware developer and corporate trainer, and serves as Managing Director, CIO, CTO and Chief Instructional Designer of Tertiary Infotech Academy Pte Ltd, where his team designs and delivers Skills Framework-aligned WSQ and IBF programmes. He architected ai-mms, the franchise course-registration platform that runs as Docker containers deployed through Coolify for the Singapore, Malaysia and Ghana sites, and he built tertiarytraining, a training environment platform that launches Docker-based Ubuntu, WordPress and Kali Linux labs in the browser. His delivery is automated with GitHub Actions release pipelines, and his work covers AWS, Kubernetes, security, observability and performance optimisation. He is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AI Practitioner and Cloud Practitioner, holds CompTIA Security+, PMP and ITIL, and earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering from NUS and an MSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from NTU. He has published more than 20 peer-reviewed papers and worked in the defence, electronics and semiconductor industries. He is also an IBM certified instructor for the AI Practitioners course and is known for translating complex technologies into practical, industry-aligned learning experiences. He also founded Tertiary Robotics in 2015 and Tertiary Courses Malaysia, and his approach to training emphasises applied skills and sustainable digital adoption.

In WSQ - Kubernetes for Beginners, Dr. Ang helps professionals take their first confident steps with container orchestration. Learners study Kubernetes fundamentals and architecture, then practise container orchestration and Kubernetes operations, creating, scaling and exposing deployments and organising them with namespaces. The course continues with cloud native architecture and scalability, monitoring and observability, and application deployment and management, so learners see the full life cycle of an application on a cluster. He explains each topic with examples from his own deployments, such as how configuration is kept separate from code and how monitoring reveals problems before users notice them. As an ACTA-certified trainer and DACE-certified curriculum developer, he paces the course carefully for beginners, combining short explanations with guided labs on a working cluster and encouraging learners to experiment, break things and fix them. He also shows how scaling, health checks and resource settings help an application cope with real traffic, and how simple monitoring routines such as reading logs and describing resources reveal what is happening inside a cluster. He recaps the key ideas at the end of each topic so learners consolidate their understanding before moving on. Learners from development, operations and management roles all benefit, because he relates each concept to the decisions their teams make when moving applications to the cloud. Learners leave able to set up and interact with Kubernetes, deploy and configure containerised applications, and monitor and troubleshoot workloads, ready to apply these skills to their organisation's cloud and DevOps projects. Visit his GitHub portfolio at https://github.com/alfredang and connect with him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/angchewhoe/

Truman Ng is a senior ICT and network infrastructure specialist with professional experience in networking, cybersecurity, enterprise systems and automation. As a WSQ-accredited trainer, he has conducted professional programmes in Linux administration, DevOps, RPA, Docker, cybersecurity and CompTIA certification pathways. His career includes leading more than 100 large-scale ICT projects in industries such as banking, hospitality and manufacturing, as well as delivering training internationally with Huawei Global Training Center. He holds top-tier credentials including Huawei HCIE, Cisco CCNP and CCIP, PMP and ACTA, reflecting both technical expertise and adult education competency.

In WSQ Kubernetes for Beginners, Truman builds on his Docker, Linux and DevOps teaching to give newcomers a practical introduction to container orchestration. Learners explore Kubernetes fundamentals and architecture, including clusters, nodes, pods, deployments, services and namespaces, then move into container orchestration and Kubernetes operations, cloud-native architecture and scalability, monitoring and observability, and application deployment and management. His training style emphasises hands-on labs and real-world scenarios, so learners set up and interact with Kubernetes environments, deploy containerised applications and use Kubernetes commands to monitor and troubleshoot workloads. Participants leave with practical, job-ready skills and the adaptability to keep pace with evolving cloud-native technologies.

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Students should come in the ability to set up a virtual environment and basic python so as to reduce time teaching basic programming concepts.

Trainer was very comprehensive in teaching (Posted on 7/1/2019)

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I think we wasted some time with downloading the appropriate packages (eg. keras, torch, fastai etc), so if the pre-course instructions could include these, it will give us more time to focus on the content.

Perhaps have a recap session, Q&A session, or organize a sort of alumni follow up. It is especially useful when one goes back, digest the materials and tried out in earnest all the problems and solutions. I think a small fee for that is acceptable for most of us. (Posted on 5/21/2019)