NGINX for Kubernetes lab

WIP: Collection of exercises to get acquainted with Kubernetes and exposing services in using NGINX

Table of Contents:

1. Deploy Kubernetes to the cloud

   1. Amazon Web Services (AWS) - EKS and ECR

2. Deploy a sample application

3. Exposing Services in Kubernetes

   1. ClusterIP
   2. Port-forward
   3. NodePort
   4. LoadBalancer
   5. Ingress Controller

4. Install NGINX Plus Ingress Controller

   1. Install NGINX Plus Ingress Controller using Manifests
   2. Install NGINX Plus Ingress Controller using Helm - todo

5. Expose a sample application with the ingress Controller

   1. Expose a sample application with ingress
   2. Expose a sample application with VirtualServer and VirtualServerRoute - todo

6. NGINX Plus Ingress Controller Real-time metrics

   • NGINX Plus Dashboard - Live Activity Monitoring
   • Grafana and Prometheus
     • Install kube-prometheus-stack using Helm
     • Enable NGINX Plus Ingress Controller metrics for Prometheus using Kubernetes manifests

7. Load Testing Ingress

   • EC2 test client setup

TO DO / Ideas:

• Deploy Kubernetes to the cloud

  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Digital Ocean

• Ingress vs VirtualServer and VirtualServerRoute resources

  • Ingress resource
  • VirtualServer resource
  • VirtualServerRoute resource

• Kubernetes ingress controllers

  • Envoy
  • HAProxy
  • Traefik
  • NGINX
  • F5 / NGINX Plus

• open-tracing

• Config Migration: NGINX Open Source vs NGINX Plus

• Zero/Minimizing Downtime During Deployments

• Benchmarking Ingress

• NGINX Ingress Operator

• NGINX Ingress Operator on Red Hat OpenShift