Red Dog AKS Workshop

Purpose of this repository

Hands-on workshop to guide learning Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and deploy successful cloud native applications.

This repository leverages the reddog applicaton codebase and is created by the Global Black Belt Team from Microsoft.

Prerequisites

• Access to an Azure Subscription
• Access to Azure Cloud Shell
  • https://shell.azure.com/

Workshop Modules

• Environment Preparation (Start here)
  • Network Planning
  • Identity Planning
• Egress lockdown (Optional)
• Cluster Creation / Nodepool Design
• Kubernetes Basics
• Application Manifests and Deployment
  • Version control / Image tags
  • Resource requirements (CPU, memory, etc.)
  • Secret/Config management
  • Health probes
• Monitoring / Logging
  • Azure Monitor
  • Prometheus / Grafana
  • Alerting
  • Tracing / App Insights
• Networking
  • Ingress
  • Network Policy
• Image Management / Container Registry
  • Bring images into ACR
  • Image Security
• CI/CD & GitOps
• Identity and Key Vault
  • AKS Workload Identity
  • Key Vault Provider (CSI Driver)
• Autoscaling
  • Cluster and node autoscaler
  • HPA / KEDA
• AKS Cluster Management
  • Upgrade planning
  • Azure Policy
• Service Mesh
• Troubleshooting (Coming soon)
• Storage (Coming soon)

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