Intro to OSS/Linux Infra Workshopp

This lab is a work in progress. It is designed to understand how to deploy foundational compute Infrastructure on Azure with Linux on Azure, Azure Services and additional Open Source Software tools.

Overview

Prerequisite Knowledge/Familiarity

• Azure CLI & Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templating
• Azure Portal
• Azure Storage, Networking, Compute
• Command Line (Linux Bash or ZSH shells)

Day 1

1. Linux VM Overview (10 Minutes)
   • OS offerings (RHEL vs. CentOS vs. SUSE vs. Ubuntu)
   • Red Hat Partnership
   • Azure Marketplace Offerings
2. Creating a Linux VM
   • Azure Cloud Shell
     • ssh-keygen
     • cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
   • Azure Portal Lab (10 Minutes)
   • Azure CLI Lab (10 Minutes)
3. Linux Essential Commands, Files/Folders + Cheatsheet (60 Minutes)
   • sudo
   • ls
   • cd
   • mkdir
   • mv
   • cp
   • rm
   • nano
   • adduser
   • usermod
   • export and environment variables
   • SystemD/SystemCTL/Service Files
4. Configuration Management Hands With Plain Old Bash and Shell Scripts (60 Minutes)
   • Ubuntu apt-get install everything
   • bash ./<your_file>.sh
5. --- Lunch Break ---
6. Creating Custom VM Images Overview (15 Minutes)
7. Creating Custom VM Images with Hashicorp Packer [Lab] (60 Minutes)
   • Installing Packer
   • Packer JSON Templates
   • "Builders"
   • "Provisioners"
   • Building an Image
   • Profit
8. Terraform Overview (30 Minutes)
9. Deploying Azure VMSS with Terraform [Lab] (60 Minutes)
   • Hashicorp Templating Language
   • Resource Group
   • Network/VNET Setup
   • NIC
   • Storage
   • VM Size
   • VM Image
   • SSH Keys
10. Configuration Management Overview (30 Minutes)
    • Ansible
    • Puppet
    • Chef
11. Configuration Management Hands on with Ansible (60 Minutes)
    • Installing Ansible
    • Ansible Playbook Anatomy
    • Running a Playbook
12. Daily Wrap-up (30 Minutes)

Day 2

1. Typical OSS Workloads for Web Applications (30 Minutes)
   • Web Servers (Apache and Nginx)
   • Databases (MySQL/MariaDB/Percona/PostgreSQL and Mongo)
   • Programming Languages (PHP, Ruby, Python, Node)
2. Deploying a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) Server (60 Minutes)
3. Relational vs. Non-Relational/NoSQL Services on Azure (30 Minutes)
   • Microsoft Databases for MySQL/MariaDB/Postgres
   • CosmosDB vs. Mongo/Cassandara/Gremlin
4. --- Lunch Break ---
5. Lift and Shift Customer Conversations [Soft Skills Training] (30 Minutes)
6. Docker vs. Kubernetes (30 Minutes)
   • What are Microservices
   • What is Docker vs. “Containers”
   • What is Kubernetes (K8s)
7. Containers on Azure (30 Minutes)
   • App Services
   • Azure Kubernetes Service
   • Azure Container Registry
   • Functions
   • Marketplace Offerings/Partners
8. One of:
   1. Build your first Docker Container and Deploy to App Services (30 Minutes)
      • Deploy Azure App Service - Web App for Containers
      • Deploy Azure CosmosDB
      • Build a Docker Image
      • Publish to Azure Container Registry
      • Connect to CosmosDB
   2. Managing and Sharing Your Data Centre as Code (30 Minutes)
      • Git/GitHub/Azure Repos
      • Build/Release Pipelines
9. Wrap-up Next Steps (30 Minutes)