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• Step-by-Step Guide to Deploying and Managing Redis on Kubernetes
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Pre-requisite:

• Introductory Slides
• Deep Dive into Kubernetes Architecture

Preparing 5-Node Kubernetes Cluster

PWK:

• Preparing 5-Node Kubernetes Cluster
• Running Portainer on 5 Node Kubernetes Cluster

GKE

• Setting up GKE Cluster
• Setting up Weavescope for Visualization on GKE

Docker Desktop for Mac

• Setting up Kubernetes Cluster on AWS using Kops running on Docker Desktop for Mac

Ubuntu

• Setting up Kubernetes on Ubuntu

Using Kubectl

• Kubectl for Docker Beginners
• Accessing Kubernetes API
• How to know if Kubernetes is using Docker or Containerd as a runtime

Kubernetes CRUD

• Using Python
• Using Go

Using AI

• Deploying Kubernetes via AI

Pods101

• Introductory Slides
• Deploying Your First Nginx Pod
• Viewing Your Pod
• Where is your Pod running on?
• Pod Output in JSON
• Executing Commands against Pod
• Terminating a Pod
• Adding a 2nd container to a Pod
• Labels and Selectors in a Pod

Kubernetes Tools for Pods

• Kubetail

ReplicaSet101

• Introductory Slides
• Creating Your First ReplicaSet - 4 Pods serving Nginx
• Removing a Pod from ReplicaSet
• Scaling & Autoscaling a ReplicaSet
• Best Practices
• Deleting ReplicaSets

Deployment101

• Introductory Slides
• Creating Your First Deployment
• Checking the list of application deployment
• Scale up/down application deployment
• Scaling the service to 2 Replicas
• Perform rolling updates to application deployment
• Rollback updates to application deployment
• Cleaning Up

ConfigMaps101

• What are ConfigMaps?

Scheduler101

• How Kubernetes Selects the Right node?
• Node Affinity
• Anti-Node Affinity
• Nodes taints and tolerations

Services101

• Introductory Slides
• Deploy a Kubernetes Service?
• Labels and Selectors
• Service Exposing More Than One Port
• Kubernetes Service Without Pods?
• Service Discovery
• Connectivity Methods
• Headless Service In Kubernetes?

StatefulSets101

• The difference between a Statefulset and a Deployment
• Deploying a Stateful Application Using Kubernetes Statefulset?
• Deploying NFS Server
• Deploying PV
• Deploying PVC
• Using Volume
• Recreate Pod

DaemonSet101

• Why DaemonSets in Kubernetes?
• Creating your first DeamonSet Deployment
• Restrict DaemonSets To Run On Specific Nodes
• How To Reach a DaemonSet Pod

Jobs101

• Creating Your First Kubernetes Job
• Multiple Parallel Jobs (Work Queue)

Ingress101

• What is Kubernetes ingress?
  • NodePort
  • Load Balancer
  • Ingress
  • How to Use Nginx Ingress Controller
  • Ingress Controllers and Ingress Resources
• Ingress with EKS

Gateway API 101

• What is the Kubernetes Gateway API?
• GatewayClass, Gateway, and HTTPRoute
• Lab: Installing Gateway API CRDs
• Lab: Installing NGINX Gateway Fabric
• Lab: Path-Based Routing
• Lab: Traffic Splitting (Canary)
• Lab: Header-Based Routing

RBAC101

• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Overview
• Creating a Kubernetes User Account Using X509 Client Certificate

Service Catalog101

• What is Kubernetes Service Catalog?
• Creating a sample Service Catalog
• Installing Service Catalog Helm Chart

Cluster Networking101

• What Is Cluster Networking In Kubernetes Sense?
• Kubernetes Networking Rules
• Types of Networks
  • Underlay Network
  • Overlay Network
• What is a Container Network Interface (CNI)?
  • AWS VPC CNI for Kubernetes
  • AZURE CNI for Kubernetes
  • Calico
  • Cilium
  • Weave Net from WeaveWorks
  • Flannel
• LAB- Weave Net Implementation

Network Policies101

• What is a Kubernetes Network Policy?
• Creating Your First NetworkPolicy Definition
• How can we fine-tune Network Policy using selectors?
• Deny Ingress Traffic That Has No Rules
• Deny Egress Traffic That Has No Rules
• Allow All Ingress Traffic Exclusively
• Allow All Egress Traffic Exclusively

Monitoring101

• Monitoring in Kubernetes
• Core Monitoring Pipeline
• Services Monitoring Pipeline
• What should you consider in Kubernetes Services Pipeline?
• What about Metrics Visualization?
• Changes To Watch For
  • Heapster is Going Away
  • Metrics Server Will Get More Cool Features

Logging101

• Logging introduction
• Elasticsearch
• Fluentd
• Fluentd on Kubernetes
• Fluent Bit
• ELK on Kubernetes

Autoscalers101

• What are autoscalers
• Autoscaler lab
• Autoscaler helpers

Helm101

• What is Helm?
• Installing a Helm Chart
• Helm Charts
• Helm Chart Hooks
• Helm Chart Testing
• Helm Chart Repository

AKS101

• What is AKS?
• AKS Networking
• AKS IAM
• AKS Storage
• AKS Service Mesh
• AKS KEDA

Security101

• What is DevSecOps?
• Securing your cluster
• OIDC auth with Keycloak

GitOps101

• What is GitOps
• ArgoCD
• ArgoCD with EKS

Managed Kubernetes Service

• Managed Kubernetes Service Intro

EKS101

• What is EKS

LKE101

• What is LKE

GKE101

• What is GKE
• Google Cloud Run
• GKE Service Mesh

Loft101

• What is Loft
• Loft Lab

Shipa101

• What is Shipa
• Shipa Lab

DevSpace101

• What is DevSpace
• DevSpace Lab

KubeSphere101

• What is KubeSphere
• KubeSphere lab

Kubernetes with GitLab 101

• What is GitLab
• Kubernetes with GitLab
• GitLab runner on Kubernetes

Kubernetes with Jenkins

• Jenkins on Kubernetes
• Using Jenkins on Kubernetes

Strimzi (Kafka on Kubernetes)

• What is Kafka
• Running Kafka on Kubernetes

Java client for Kubernetes

• Introduction

KEDA

• What is KEDA
• KEDA lab
• Scaling with KEDA and Prometheus
• Scaling profiles
• Scaling modifiers
• Scaling options

Terraform EKS

• What is Terraform
• Terraform EKS Lab

Disaster Recover

• What is Disaster Recovery
• DR Lab

Kubezoo

• What is Kubezoo
• Kubezoo lab

Karpenter

• What is Karpenter
• Karpenter Lab
• Fine tuning Karpenter
• Upgrading Karpenter

Observability & Operations

• Observability tools

Chaos testing

• What is Chaos testing
• Chaos lab with Chaos Mesh

Rollouts

• What are rollouts
• Rollouts lab

Kyverno

• What is Kyverno
• Kyverno policy types
• Kyverno samples

For Node Developers

• Kubernetes for Node Developers

Cheat Sheets

• Kubernetes Cheat Sheet
• Helm Cheat Sheet

Contributors

• Ajeet Singh Raina
• Sangam Biradar
• Mewantha Bandara
• Rachit Mehrotra
• Saiyam Pathak
• Divyajeet Singh
• Apurva Bhandari

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Contribution Guidelines

See CONTRIBUTING.md for full contribution guidelines, tutorial structure requirements, and how to use the automated validator.

Quick start (local preview)

Step 1. Clone the repository

 git clone https://github.com/collabnix/kubelabs

Step 2. Add _config_dev.yml

Add the following entry for local access

url: http://127.0.0.1:4000

Step 3. Run the container

docker run --rm \
  -v "$PWD:/srv/jekyll" \
  -e BUNDLE_PATH="/srv/jekyll/.bundles_cache" \
  -p 4000:4000 \
  jekyll/builder:3.8 \
  bash -c "gem install bundler && bundle install && bundle exec jekyll serve --host 0.0.0.0 --verbose --config _config.yml,_config_dev.yml"

Further References:

• Kubetools

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