This course aims to equip participants with essential skills in Puppet configuration management, Terraform automation on Azure, and Kubernetes administration through hands-on labs and practical exercises. By the end, participants will proficiently manage and deploy infrastructure and applications using these advanced tools.
Course Outline :
Configuration Management with Puppet
Lesson 1: Introduction & Installation
- What is Puppet and why to use Puppet
- How It works
- Puppet Components
- The Puppet Language
- Prerequisite for Installation
- Lab: Installation Configuration of Puppet Server (Master Node)
- Lab: On server, sign the certificates for nodes.
- Discussion about the File Resource
- Getting help in Puppet
Lesson 2: Configuration Management
- Get details of Resource from the system
- Lab: Creating Our First Manifest
- Lab: Local Manifests on client
- Lab: How to write multiple resource in a single manifest
- Lab: Configuring Tags
- Lab: Recovering Overwritten Files
- Lab: Disable Backup Overwritten Files
- Discussion about the Package and Service Resource
- Lab: Install and Uninstall the Packages
- Lab: Install multiple package
- Lab: Start and Stop the Service
- Lab: Enabling the Service at boot Jme
- Lab: To Reload a specific service
Terraform with Azure
Lesson 1: Introduction of Terraform
- Introduction to Infrastructure as Code and Terraform
- Lab: Installation of Terraform on Windows Comparison between Terraform and Ansible
- Introduction to Azure
- Understanding Terraform Providers
- Lab: Authenticate Azure with Terraform
- Basic Terraform commands: init, plan, apply
Lesson 2: Creating Infra on Azure
- Lab: Defining Provider & Using Basic Terraform commands
- Building Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform
- Lab: Creating Resource Groups
- Lab: Provisioning Virtual Networks, Subnets, Public IPs, and Network Interfaces
- Lab: Deploying Linux Virtual Machine
- Understanding Terraform State file
Kubernetes Administration
Lesson 1: Kubernetes Administration
- Core Concepts
- Overview of Container Orchestration
- Introduction to Kubernetes
- Understanding Kubernetes Architecture
Lesson 2: Installation, Configuration & Validation
- Design a Kubernetes Cluster
- Lab: Installation of Kubernetes 1-Master and 2-Nodes Cluster
- Lab: Choose a Network Solution and Configure
- Lab: Verify Installation with Kubectl command
Lesson 3: Managing Resources
- Understanding Pods, Labels & Selectors
- Lab: Deploying Applications as a Pod
- Lab: Managing Labels & Selector
- Understanding Replication Controller & Replica Set
- Lab: Deploying Replication Controller & Replica Set
- Understanding Services – ClusterIP, NodePort & LoadBalancer
- Lab: Creating & Managing Service
- Understanding Daemon Sets
- Lab: Deploying Applications as Daemon Sets
Lesson 4: Scheduling
- Manual Scheduling of Pods
- Taint and Tolerations
- Lab: Using Manual Scheduling or Taints and Tolerations
Lesson 5: Application Lifecycle Management
- Overview of Deployment
- Deployment Strategies – Blue/Green & Canary
- Lab: Deploying Applications as Deployment
- Lab: Implementing Deployment Strategies on Deployments
Lesson 6: Environment Variable
- Plain Key
- Config Map Secret
- Lab: Using Plain Keys, Config Map & Generic Secret as Environment Variables
- Lab: Mount Environment Variable as Volumes
Lesson 7: Storage
- Understanding Volume Management in K8s
- Types of Volumes Provisioning
- Persistent Volumes
- Persistent Volume Claim
- Lab: Using PV & PVC to attach Persistent Volume to a Pod as HostPath
- Understanding Storage Class
Lesson 8: Security
- Understanding Kubernetes Authentication
- Lab: Creating and Managing Users in Kubernetes
- Lab: Creating Service Accounts
- Understanding Role, ClusterRole, RoleBinding & ClusterRoleBinding
- Lab: Managing Roles and Role Binding
- Lab: Managing Cluster Role and Cluster Role Binding
- Understanding Security Context
- Lab: Adding Security Context to Pod to enable ping
Lesson 9: Networking in Kubernetes
- Understand Basics of Kubernetes
- Networking Understand CNI overview
- Understand Pod Networking Concepts CoreDNS
- Overview of K8s
- Understanding Ingress
- Lab: Configure and Manage Ingress Rule
- Understanding Namespace & Use-Cases Lab: Creating Namespace & Deploying K8s resources in Different Namespace Metal Load Balancer
- Lab: Deploying Metal Load Balancer
Lesson 10: Helm Package Manager
- Introduction to Helm Work with Helm Charts
- Create Helm Charts
- Lab: Installing Helm Package Manager
- Upgrade and Downgrade Helm Charts
- Lab: Deploying Kubernetes Resources using Helm Package Manager
