Longhorn Advanced Training
Run Longhorn in production at scale with tuned performance, resilient topology, system backups and governed operations. Learn Longhorn through a clear Foundation to Advanced path, with hands-on labs, live cohort options, certification support and full LMS access.
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Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Longhorn levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
About Longhorn Advanced Training.
Understand where Longhorn fits in modern software delivery, what this level covers, and how the program builds practical confidence step by step.
Program overview
Longhorn is taught as a practical technical skill for modern engineering, operations and platform teams. The course explains where the tool fits, how it is used in real delivery environments, and how learners can apply it through guided practice.
This DevOpsSchool Longhorn program is built for working professionals who want usable skills instead of only conceptual exposure. The training emphasizes live examples, workflow clarity, operational controls and progressive skill depth from Foundation to Advanced.
Private Longhorn training for delivery teams, platform groups and engineering organizations.
DevOpsSchool provides corporate Longhorn training for teams that need faster adoption, workflow standardization, administrative control, integration guidance and governance-ready rollout. Private batches can be aligned to development practice, release workflow, access model, maturity level and internal tooling.
- Private online or classroom delivery for engineering teams
- Aligned to Longhorn usage maturity, admin depth and collaboration patterns
- Useful for rollout, migration, governance and workflow consistency goals
- Can be tailored for developers, administrators, DevOps teams and leadership stakeholders
Why teams use DevOpsSchool
DevOpsSchool combines live demonstration, practical workflow discussion, implementation-oriented examples, and strong post-session learning support. That makes the training more usable for real teams than generic slide-led courses.
Choose any level. The page still shows the full progression.
Foundation, Essential, Intermediate and Advanced are presented as one linked training flow. Self-paced buyers get all levels by default, even if they start from only one course page.
Instructor-led, self-paced and corporate delivery options.
Compare delivery format, duration, level access and batch style. Fees are shown only in the top decision panel and once again after the agenda.
| Duration | Mode | Level access | Batch |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | Live & Interactive | Advanced | Public batch |
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | 1:1 Live training | Advanced | Starts immediately |
| 1 year LMS access | Self-paced video | All 4 levels | Anytime access |
| 5 Days | Corporate | Longhorn Advanced Training | Private team batch |
What learners should be able to do after Longhorn training.
The outcomes are written for practical delivery teams: developers, DevOps engineers, release engineers, administrators and technical leads.
Provide persistent Kubernetes storage
Install Longhorn and serve replicated block and shared volumes to stateful workloads.
Protect application data
Use snapshots, backups, recurring jobs and DR volumes to recover from failures and data loss.
Operate storage in production
Tune, monitor, secure and troubleshoot Longhorn across nodes, zones and clusters.
Why this skill, what you will achieve, and who should attend.
Use this section to decide whether the course matches your role, current experience and expected Longhorn responsibilities before reviewing the detailed agenda.
Why Longhorn matters
- Longhorn helps teams standardize a critical part of their software delivery, infrastructure, automation or operations workflow.
- It gives learners a repeatable way to move from basic usage to confident execution in team and enterprise environments.
- For DevOps and platform teams, Longhorn becomes more valuable when connected with automation, governance, monitoring and delivery practices.
- Teams using Longhorn effectively reduce ad-hoc execution and move toward consistent engineering standards.
Objectives
- Understand Longhorn concepts, architecture, terminology and operational usage patterns.
- Learn practical configuration, workflow design, access controls, team usage and quality practices.
- Apply Longhorn in real delivery workflows using automation, integrations, traceability and governance patterns.
- Build practical confidence to use Longhorn for individual, team and organizational use cases.
Pre-requisites
- Basic computer literacy and familiarity with software development workflows.
- Helpful but not mandatory: introductory DevOps, cloud, automation or software delivery awareness.
- No deep programming background is required for the Foundation and Essential levels.
Who this course is for
- Developers, administrators and engineers who need practical Longhorn usage skills.
- DevOps engineers, release engineers, SREs and platform teams managing delivery standards.
- Engineering leads and technical managers responsible for workflow quality, access controls and governance.
- Corporate teams migrating to or standardizing on Longhorn.
Small-batch live training starts every month.
Weekday batches start on the 1st and weekend batches on the first Saturday of every month. One-to-one (1:1) training can start immediately; corporate sessions are scheduled on demand.
Weekend live batch
Starts on the first Saturday of every month. Weekend sessions with demos, labs and Q&A; max 10 learners.
Weekday live batch
Starts on the 1st of every month. Weekday sessions for working professionals and distributed teams; max 10 learners.
Ask advisorAgenda depth up to the selected level.
This page shows the learning flow from Foundation through Advanced. Each level adds to the previous one, and the agenda stops at the current page level. Day counts are for corporate (day-wise) delivery; live online batches cover the same agenda in max 8 to 10 hours.
Foundation Level: Container storage challenges, architecture and installationDay 1
- Introduction to Longhorn: the challenges of managing storage in containerized environments and where Longhorn fits
- Kubernetes storage primer: PersistentVolumes, PersistentVolumeClaims, StorageClasses and CSI drivers
- Understanding the architecture of Longhorn: longhorn-manager, engine, replicas, instance managers and the CSI plugin
- Data path basics: block devices per volume, synchronous replication and replica placement across nodes
- Node prerequisites: open-iscsi, NFSv4 client, supported kernels and the longhornctl preflight check
- Installing and configuring Longhorn: Helm chart, kubectl manifest or Rancher Apps
- Longhorn UI: accessing the dashboard, nodes, disks, volumes and settings views
- Default StorageClass: numberOfReplicas, reclaim policy and allowVolumeExpansion
- First volume: a PVC for a StatefulSet database and checking replicas and health in the UI
- Uninstalling Longhorn safely: the deletion confirmation setting and cleaning up resources
Essential Level = Foundation + Volume management, snapshots and backupsDay 2 · 2 days cumulative
- Creating and managing volumes with Longhorn: UI and PVC-driven provisioning, attach and detach
- Volume access modes: ReadWriteOnce volumes and ReadWriteMany through the share manager (NFS)
- Volume expansion: online expansion through the PVC and filesystem resize
- Snapshotting volumes with Longhorn: manual snapshots, snapshot chains and reverting a volume
- Kubernetes CSI snapshots: VolumeSnapshotClass and VolumeSnapshot objects backed by Longhorn
- Backup targets: configuring S3-compatible object storage or NFS and credentials secrets
- Backing up volumes with Longhorn: incremental backups, backup volumes and restoring to a new volume
- Recurring jobs: scheduled snapshots and backups with retention, groups and labels
- Custom StorageClasses: replica count, data locality and disk or node selectors
- Node and disk management: adding disks, tags, scheduling and eviction
- Backing images: preparing base images for volumes and VM workloads
- Everyday checks: volume health states, degraded volumes and replica rebuilding
Intermediate Level = Essential + Disaster recovery, Kubernetes integration and troubleshootingDay 3 · 3 days cumulative
- Disaster recovery with Longhorn: DR volumes, standby restore from backups and activation in a second cluster
- Integrating Longhorn with Kubernetes: CSI features, volume attachment, StatefulSets and Pod scheduling
- Node failure handling: pod deletion policy when node is down, volume attachment recovery and replica rebuild
- Kubernetes upgrades and node drains: node drain policy and replica protection during maintenance
- Replica auto-balance and data locality: best-effort and strict-local modes
- Scheduling safeguards: storage over-provisioning percentage and storage minimal available percentage settings
- Volume encryption: encrypted StorageClasses with LUKS and Kubernetes secrets
- Monitoring Longhorn: Prometheus metrics, ServiceMonitor, Grafana dashboards and alert rules
- Upgrading Longhorn: supported upgrade paths, engine upgrades and live engine upgrades
- Troubleshooting and problem-solving with Longhorn: faulted volumes, stuck attachments and iSCSI issues
- Support bundles and logs: generating a support bundle and reading manager and instance manager logs
- Access control: securing the UI with ingress authentication and RBAC for Longhorn resources
Advanced Level = Intermediate + Production design, performance and operations at scaleDays 4-5 · 5 days cumulative
- Best practices for using Longhorn in production environments: dedicated disks, node roles and resource reservations
- Topology design: zone-aware replica placement, anti-affinity and multi-zone clusters
- Performance tuning: replica count, data locality, network bandwidth, storage network and benchmarking with fio
- Data engines: the V1 engine and the SPDK-based V2 data engine, its status and hardware requirements
- System backup and restore: backing up Longhorn resources and restoring a whole cluster's storage
- Capacity planning: sizing disks, snapshot space, over-provisioning ratios and growth alerts
- High availability operations: maintenance windows, rolling node replacement and evacuation
- Security hardening: encrypted volumes and backups, restricted UI exposure and least-privilege service accounts
- Multi-cluster management: Longhorn with Rancher, GitOps with Argo CD or Flux and consistent settings
- Migration: moving workloads from hostPath, local-path or cloud volumes to Longhorn and back
- Hands-on exercises and real-world scenarios: database, message queue and VM workloads on Longhorn
- Capstone: a production-ready Longhorn platform with DR, monitoring, encryption and runbooks
Choose live training or a full year of self-paced access.
If someone buys Foundation, Essential, Intermediate or Advanced as self-paced video, the price stays the same and access is granted to all four levels by default.
Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Longhorn levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
- Start immediately: no waiting for the monthly batch.
- One learner, one trainer: full attention on your questions.
- Sessions planned around your working hours.
- Your pace, with examples from your own projects and tools.
Method of training and assessment.
The course emphasizes practical demonstration, hands-on labs and assignment-based validation instead of passive lecture-only learning.
| SL | Method of training and assessment | Weightage |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Understanding the problem space | 5% |
| 2 | Concept discussion | 10% |
| 3 | Live demo and walkthrough | 25% |
| 4 | Lab and hands-on exercises | 50% |
| 5 | Assignments and evaluation | 10% |
Labs, exercises and real workflow practice.
Every level moves from explanation to hands-on practice, review and troubleshooting.
Install Longhorn and attach storage
Install Longhorn with Helm on a three-node cluster and run a MySQL StatefulSet on a replicated Longhorn volume.
Snapshot, back up and restore
Configure an S3 backup target, schedule recurring snapshots and backups, then restore a database volume after data loss.
Cross-cluster disaster recovery drill
Build a DR volume in a second cluster from shared backups, simulate a primary failure and fail the application over.
Production storage platform capstone
Design and deploy a zone-aware, encrypted and monitored Longhorn platform with recurring backups, DR and tested runbooks.
Longhorn is taught as part of a working delivery ecosystem.
You learn where the tool sits in the wider engineering workflow, not in isolation.
Core foundations
Terminology, concepts, architecture and the operating model behind the tool.
Workflow traceability
Map practical work to tasks, approvals, documentation and delivery visibility.
Automation and integration
Use Longhorn with validation checks, automation hooks and delivery workflows.
Governance controls
Operate with permissions, approvals, policy checks and production-safe workflows.
How your practical work is assessed.
Your certificate is backed by labs, assignments, capstone thinking and completion evidence.
Assignments
Level-specific assignments verify setup, configuration, workflow quality and operating discipline.
Hands-on validation
Learners are expected to complete practical usage, automation and troubleshooting exercises.
Completion record
Certificate issuance is tied to demonstrated participation, practical completion and course-level coverage.
Led by Rajesh Kumar and the DevOpsSchool practitioner network.
Training is grounded in practical DevOps, SRE, security, release and platform engineering experience with real enterprise delivery context.
Earn a DevOpsSchool Longhorn certificate.
Completion includes a digital certificate with credential details, practical assignments and a learning record aligned to the selected Longhorn level.
Certificate verificationCertificate of Completion
Longhorn Advanced Training
Unique credential ID, verifiable online
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Used by developers, DevOps engineers, release leads and engineering managers.
Private batches are available for teams that want the same agenda aligned to their own tools and workflows.
Why this Longhorn path is different.
The value is not only one course. The subscription unlocks the full learning ecosystem for one year.
| Feature | DevOpsSchool Longhorn Training | Typical short course |
|---|---|---|
| Levels | Foundation, Essential, Intermediate, Advanced | Single generic syllabus |
| Self-paced access | All four levels plus 20+ courses and 50+ tools | Usually one course only |
| Live training | Demos, labs, Q&A and assignment review | Often lecture-heavy |
| Certificate | DevOpsSchool completion certificate | Varies by provider |
Questions learners ask before joining.
Does Foundation cost less than Advanced?
No. Self-paced pricing is intentionally the same because access includes all four levels by default.
What is included in the yearly subscription?
One year of complete LMS access, all four levels for the selected course, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
Can corporate teams request customization?
Yes. The live format can be aligned to team tools, governance requirements, workflows and internal delivery standards.
What is the recommended sequence?
Foundation → Essential → Intermediate → Advanced. The agenda is designed so each level builds on the previous one.
Talk to DevOpsSchool before choosing the batch.
Use this support section for batch questions, corporate planning, LMS access clarifications, or guidance on which Longhorn level fits your team.
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