Kubernetes Lab

The workshop is currently being re-written, and existing code remains for reference purpose only for previous attendees of this workshop.

Welcome to the Kubernetes Lab. This lab is designed to demonstrate how to build a DotNet Core applications and deploy it into Kubernetes on Azure (AKS).

Topics covered by this lab:

• Creating secure clusters via the Azure CLI and Terraform
• Building .Net Core applications with Docker and Docker Compose
• Usings Kubernetes Config Maps and Secrets within your applications
• App to app communication and Service Discovery using Core DNS
• Building YAML templates to deploy Pods, Services and Configs
• Setting Ingress rules for your applications
• Setting resource limits for Pods and testing them
• Setting auto scaling rules for Pods and testing them
• Setting network policies for your cluster and testing them
• Defining Cluster Roles, and assigning Service Accounts to your PODs
• Creating YAML based pipelines to multiple environments with Azure DevOps
• Monitoring your applications & infrastructure with Log Analytics, Container Insights and Application Insights

Lab Architecture and Technologies

Guided Walkthrough

1. Prerequisites

2. Setup Azure DevOps project

3. Creating the environment

4. Run the code locally in Visual Studio Code

5. Building YAML Templates

6. Working with the Kubernetes CLI

7. Create Build Pipelines

8. Create Release Pipelines

9. Make a code change by adding Application Insights

10. Monitoring the application with Log Analytics and Application Insights

Support

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Contacts on Twitter

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