Kubernetes: Managing Containers at Scale

Background

This repo will contain examples to learn:

• Creating shared volume mounts for Databases
• Creating highly available (HA) websites using Deployments
• Deploying basic Services to communicate with HA pods
• Calico Networking for Pod-to-Pod communication
• Common K8s troubleshooting
• Basic K8s DevOps with Tekton
• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for cluster/user resource control

We will be using minikube on GitHub Codespaces to explore K8s. To learn how to setup your codespace environment, please reference this document.

Outline

• Week 1

  a. Scavenger Hunt (Optional) - helps us explore our minikube environment and how to use the kubectl tool.

  b. Cyber Monday - main project focused on exploring Deployments, Horizontal Pod Autoscalers, and Services.

• Week 2

  a. Pesky Persistent DB - explore deploying databases in microservice ecoysystem with the help of Deployments, Configmaps, and Persistent Volumes

• Week 3

  a. RBAC-to-the-future - learn about introducing role-based access control on cluster resources to help scale users interacting with our clusers

  b. Calico - learn about the basics of pod-to-pod networking to create finer control of cluster resources.

• Week 4

  a. Tekton - learn about the basics using Tekton for CI/CD in kubernetes