Rook Essential Training
Provide block, shared file and S3 object storage to applications with Rook, including snapshots, clones and volume expansion. Learn Rook 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 Rook 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 Rook Essential Training.
Understand where Rook fits in modern software delivery, what this level covers, and how the program builds practical confidence step by step.
Program overview
Rook 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 Rook 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 Essential.
Private Rook training for delivery teams, platform groups and engineering organizations.
DevOpsSchool provides corporate Rook 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 Rook 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 | Essential | Public batch |
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | 1:1 Live training | Essential | Starts immediately |
| 1 year LMS access | Self-paced video | All 4 levels | Anytime access |
| 2 Days | Corporate | Rook Essential Training | Private team batch |
What learners should be able to do after Rook training.
The outcomes are written for practical delivery teams: developers, DevOps engineers, release engineers, administrators and technical leads.
Deploy cloud-native storage
Deploy Rook and Ceph on Kubernetes and provide block, file and object storage to workloads.
Operate Ceph on Kubernetes
Monitor, upgrade, secure and troubleshoot Rook Ceph clusters with confidence.
Design resilient storage platforms
Build mirrored, multi-site and tuned Rook Ceph platforms for production applications.
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 Rook responsibilities before reviewing the detailed agenda.
Why Rook matters
- Rook 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, Rook becomes more valuable when connected with automation, governance, monitoring and delivery practices.
- Teams using Rook effectively reduce ad-hoc execution and move toward consistent engineering standards.
Objectives
- Understand Rook concepts, architecture, terminology and operational usage patterns.
- Learn practical configuration, workflow design, access controls, team usage and quality practices.
- Apply Rook in real delivery workflows using automation, integrations, traceability and governance patterns.
- Build practical confidence to use Rook 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 Rook 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 Rook.
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 Essential. 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: Kubernetes storage, Ceph and Rook architecture and installDay 1
- Kubernetes storage fundamentals: volumes, PersistentVolumes, PersistentVolumeClaims, StorageClasses and CSI
- Why Rook: cloud-native storage orchestration, the CNCF graduated project and supported Ceph releases
- Ceph architecture: MON, MGR, OSD, MDS and RGW daemons, RADOS and the CRUSH map
- Ceph data placement: pools, placement groups, replication and failure domains
- Rook architecture: the Rook operator, custom resources, Ceph CSI drivers and the reconciliation loop
- Prerequisites: raw disks or partitions, LVM, kernel rbd module, node resources and supported Kubernetes versions
- Deploying the operator: crds.yaml, common.yaml and operator.yaml or the rook-ceph Helm chart
- Creating a CephCluster: cluster.yaml settings for mons, mgr, storage nodes and device selection
- Test vs production clusters: cluster-test.yaml for single-node labs and production layouts
- The Rook toolbox: ceph status, ceph osd tree, ceph df and health checks
- The Ceph dashboard: enabling and exposing it, logging in and reading cluster health
Essential Level = Foundation + Block, file and object storage for workloadsDay 2 · 2 days cumulative
- Block storage: CephBlockPool, the RBD StorageClass and ReadWriteOnce volumes for databases
- Shared filesystem: CephFilesystem, MDS settings, the CephFS StorageClass and ReadWriteMany volumes
- Object storage: CephObjectStore, RGW gateways and S3-compatible access
- Object buckets: ObjectBucketClaim, bucket StorageClass and CephObjectStoreUser credentials
- Snapshots and clones: VolumeSnapshotClass, snapshots, restores and PVC cloning
- Volume expansion: allowVolumeExpansion and resizing PVCs online
- Stateful workloads: StatefulSets with Rook volumes for PostgreSQL, MySQL and message queues
- Device selection: useAllDevices, deviceFilter, per-node device lists and metadata devices
- Helm deployment: rook-ceph and rook-ceph-cluster charts and values files
- Placement and resources: node affinity, tolerations and resource requests for Ceph daemons
- Day-to-day checks: pool usage, PG states and storage capacity with ceph df and the dashboard
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 Rook 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.
Deploy a Rook Ceph cluster
Install the Rook operator on a three-node Kubernetes cluster, create a CephCluster on raw disks and check its health from the toolbox and dashboard.
Serve block, file and object storage
Run a PostgreSQL StatefulSet on RBD, a shared CephFS volume for several pods, and an S3 bucket claimed with an ObjectBucketClaim.
Rook 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 Rook 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 Rook certificate.
Completion includes a digital certificate with credential details, practical assignments and a learning record aligned to the selected Rook level.
Certificate verificationCertificate of Completion
Rook Essential Training
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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 Rook path is different.
The value is not only one course. The subscription unlocks the full learning ecosystem for one year.
| Feature | DevOpsSchool Rook 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 Rook level fits your team.
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Live batch experience
Training supports live online, private team and workshop-style delivery.
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Next weekday batch starts on the 1st; weekend batch on the first Saturday. Batches are capped at 10 learners. Send your details and DevOpsSchool will share the syllabus and batch options.