Azure Kubernetes Service with Azure DevOps and Terraform
Course Modules
| S.No | Azure Service Name |
|---|---|
| 1. | Create Azure AKS Cluster using Azure Portal |
| 2. | Docker Fundamentals |
| 3. | Imperative Method: Kubernetes Fundamentals using kubectl |
| 4. | Declarative Method: Kubernetes Fundamentals using YAML |
| 5. | Azure Disks for AKS Storage |
| 5.1 | Custom Storage Class, PVC and PV |
| 5.2 | AKS default Storage class, PVC and PV |
| 5.3 | User Management Web Application Deployment with MySQL as storage using Storage Class, PVC and PV |
| 6. | Azure MySQL for AKS Storage |
| 7. | Kubernetes Secrets |
| 8. | Azure Files for AKS Storage |
| 9. | Ingress Basics |
| 10. | Ingress Context path based Routing |
| 11. | Azure DNS Zones - Delegate domain from AWS to Azure |
| 12. | Ingress and External DNS with Azure DNS Zones |
| 13. | Ingress Domain Name based Routing with External DNS |
| 14. | Ingress SSL with LetsEncrypt |
| 15. | Kubernetes Requests & Limits |
| 16. | Kubernetes Namespaces |
| 16.1 | Kubernetes Namespaces - Imperative |
| 16.2 | Kubernetes Namespaces - Limit Range |
| 16.3 | Kubernetes Namespaces - Resource Quota |
| 17 | Azure Virtual Nodes for AKS |
| 17.1 | Azure Virtual Nodes Basics |
| 17.2 | Azure AKS Virtual Nodes Mixed Mode Deployments |
| 18 | Azure Container Registry for AKS |
| 18.1 | Integrate Azure Container Registry ACR with AKS |
| 18.2 | Azure AKS Pull Docker Images from ACR using Service Principal |
| 18.3 | Pull Docker Images from ACR using Service Principal and Run on Azure Virtual Nodes |
| 19 | Azure DevOps with AKS Cluster |
| 19.1 | Azure DevOps - Build and Push Docker Image to Azure Container Registry |
| 19.2 | Azure DevOps - Build, Push to ACR and Deploy to AKS |
| 19.3 | Azure DevOps - Create Starter Pipeline |
| 19.4 | Azure DevOps - Release Pipelines |
| 20 | Azure AKS - Enable HTTP Application Routing AddOn |
| 21 | Azure AKS Authentication with Azure AD and Kubernetes RBAC |
| 21.1 | Azure AKS Cluster Access with Multiple Clusters |
| 21.2 | Azure AD Integration with Azure AKS for Authentication |
| 21.3 | Kubernetes RBAC Role & Role Binding with Azure AD on AKS |
| 21.4 | Kubernetes RBAC Cluster Role & Role Binding with AD on AKS |
| 22 | Azure AKS Cluster Autoscaling |
| 22.1 | Azure AKS - Cluster Autoscaler |
| 22.2 | Azure AKS - Horizontal Pod Autoscaler HPA |
| 23 | Azure AKS Production Grade Cluster Design using AZ AKS CLI |
| 23.1 | Create Azure AKS Cluster using AZ AKS CLI |
| 23.2 | Create Azure AKS Linux, Windows and Virtual Node Pools |
| 23.3 | Deploy Apps to Azure AKS Linux, Windows and Virtual Node Pools |
| 24 | Provision Azure AKS Clusters using Terraform |
| 24.1 | Terraform Command Basics |
| 24.2 | Terraform Language Basics |
| 24.3 | Provision AKS Cluster using Terraform |
| 24.4 | Create AKS Cluster Linux and Windows Node Pools |
| 24.5 | Create Azure AKS Cluster using Custom Virtual Network |
| 25 | Provision Azure AKS using Terraform & Azure DevOps |
Azure Services Covered
| S.No | Azure Service Name |
|---|---|
| 01. | Azure AKS |
| 02. | Azure Disks |
| 03. | Azure Files |
| 04. | Azure MySQL Database |
| 05. | Azure Storage Accounts |
| 06. | Azure Cloud Shell |
| 07. | Azure Load Balancer |
| 08. | Azure DNS Zones |
| 09. | Azure Container Registries ACR |
| 10. | Azure Container Registries ACR with Azure Service Principal |
| 11. | Azure DevOps - Build Pipelines with ACR & Github Repositories |
| 12. | Azure DevOps - Release Pipelines with AKS |
| 13. | Azure Public IP Address |
| 14. | Azure Standard Load Balancer |
| 15. | Azure Virtual Networks |
| 16. | Azure Active Directory |
| 17. | Azure Container Instances - Virtual Nodes |
| 18. | Azure AKS Windows and Linux User NodePools |
| 19. | Azure Managed Service Identity - MSI |
| 20. | Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets |
| 21. | Azure Log Analytics Workspaces for Azure Monitor |
Kubernetes Concepts Covered
| S.No | Kubernetes Concept Name |
|---|---|
| 1. | Kubernetes Architecture |
| 2. | Pods |
| 3. | ReplicaSets |
| 4. | Deployments |
| 5. | Services - Load Balancer Service |
| 6. | Services - Cluster IP Service |
| 7. | Services - External Name Service |
| 8. | Services - Ingress Service |
| 9. | Services - Ingress SSL & SSL Redirect |
| 10. | Services - Ingress & External DNS |
| 11. | Services - Domain Name based Routing |
| 12. | Imperative - with kubectl |
| 13. | Declarative - Declarative with YAML |
| 14. | Secrets |
| 15. | Init Containers |
| 16. | Requests & Limits |
| 17. | Namespaces - Imperative |
| 18. | Namespaces - Limit Range |
| 19. | Namespaces - Resource Quota |
| 20. | Storage Classes |
| 21. | Persistent Volumes |
| 22. | Persistent Volume Claims |
| 23. | Services - Load Balancers |
| 24. | Annotations |
| 25. | HPA - Horizontal Pod Autoscaler |
| 26. | CA - Cluster Autoscaler |
| 27. | Config Maps |
| 28. | RBAC - Role & Role Bindings |
| 29. | RBAC - Cluster Role & Cluster Role Bindings |
| 30. | Virtual Kubelet |
| 31. | Secrets - Image Pull Secrets |
List of Docker Images on Docker Hub
| Application Name | Docker Image Name |
|---|---|
| Simple Nginx V1 | stacksimplify/kubenginx:1.0.0 |
| Spring Boot Hello World API | stacksimplify/kube-helloworld:1.0.0 |
| Simple Nginx V2 | stacksimplify/kubenginx:2.0.0 |
| Simple Nginx V3 | stacksimplify/kubenginx:3.0.0 |
| Simple Nginx V4 | stacksimplify/kubenginx:4.0.0 |
| Backend Application | stacksimplify/kube-helloworld:1.0.0 |
| Frontend Application | stacksimplify/kube-frontend-nginx:1.0.0 |
| Kube Nginx App1 | stacksimplify/kube-nginxapp1:1.0.0 |
| Kube Nginx App2 | stacksimplify/kube-nginxapp2:1.0.0 |
| User Management Web Application | stacksimplify/kube-usermgmt-webapp:1.0.0-MySQLDB |
List of Docker Images you build in Azure Container Registry
| Application Name | Docker Image Name |
|---|---|
| ACR attached to AKS | YOUR_ACR_REPO.azurecr.io/app1/kube-nginx-acr:v1 |
| ACR with Service Principal | YOUR_ACR_REPO.azurecr.io/app2/acr-app2:v1 |
| ACR with Service Principal | YOUR_ACR_REPO.azurecr.io/custom2aksnginxapp1:BUILDID |
Sample Applications
- Nginx Applications
- User Management Web Application built using Spring Boot using MySQL as underlying storage
What will students learn in your course?
- You will learn to build Azure AKS Production grade clusters using Azure AKS CLI
- You will learn terraform from basics and create terraform manifests for provisioning Azure AKS Production grade clusters
- You will learn to provision Azure AKS Clusters using Terraform and Azure DevOps.
- You will learn 30+ kubernetes concepts and use 21 Azure Services in combination with Azure AKS
- You will implement DevOps concepts with Azure DevOps Continuous Integration Pipelines and Continuous Deliver Pipelines also called Release Pipelines
- You will write Azure DevOps CI Pipelines from scratch using Starter Pipelines
- You will write kubernetes manifests with confidence after going through live template writing sections
- You will learn Kubernetes Fundamentals in both imperative and declarative approaches
- You will learn writing & deploying k8s manifests for storage concepts like storage class, persistent volume claim pvc, mysql
- You will learn to switch from native Azure Disks to Azure MySQL Database using k8s external name service
- You will learn writing and deploying load balancer k8s manifests for Azure Standard Load Balancer
- You will learn writing ingress k8s manifests by enabling features like context path based routing, domain name based routing, SSL with LetsEncrypt and External DNS.
- You will learn writing k8s manifests for Azure Virtual Nodes (serverless) and do mixed mode workload deployments in both Azure Linux NodePools and Virtual Nodes.
- You will learn using ACR - Azure Container Registry in combination with AKS in 3 ways (ACR Attach, using Service Principal, on Virtual Nodes).
- You will learn to enable Autoscaling features like HPA & Cluster Autoscaler
- You will learn Docker fundamentals by implementing usecases like download image from Docker Hub and run on local desktop and build an image locally, test and push to Docker Hub.
- You will master many kubectl commands over the process
- You will learn to integrate Azure AKS with Azure Active Directory for AKS Admins to be created managed in Azure Active Directory
- You will learn Kubernetes RBAC concepts like role, role-binding, cluster role, cluster role binding in combination with Azure AD for Azure AKS granular level access
Are there any course requirements or prerequisites?
- You must have an Azure Cloud account to follow with me for hands-on activities.
- You dont need to have any basic Docker or kubernetes knowledge to start this course.
Who are your target students?
- Azure Architects or Sysadmins or Developers who are planning to master Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for running applications on Kubernetes
- Any beginner who is interested in learning kubernetes on cloud using Azure AKS.
- Any beginner who is interested in learning Azure DevOps, Terraform to provision Azure Kubernetes Clusters
Github Repositories used for this course
- Azure Kubernetes Service with Azure DevOps and Terraform
- Azure DevOps for Kubernetes Workloads running on Azure AKS Cluster
- Provision Azure AKS Cluster using Terraform and Azure DevOps
- Docker Fundamentals
- Presentation with 250 Slides outlining the various architectures and designs we are going to do in this course
- Important Note: Please go to these repositories and FORK these repositories and make use of them during the course.
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- Real Implementation Experience
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