Kubernetes in the Data Center

A Book for deploying Kubernetes systems on Bare Metal

• Chapter 1: Kubernetes on Prem

  1. Course Introduction
  2. Understanding Kubernetes
  3. Planning Your Kubernetes Deployment
     • Tradeoffs of OnPrem
     • Tradeoffs of VMs vs. Bare Metal
     • Tradeoffs of RYO vs. Buying
     • Our Architecture Overview

• Chapter 2: Hardware Configuration

  2. Networking Architecture, Design, and Configuration
     • Video: Configure portchannel
  3. Storage Architecture and Design
  4. Server Architecture and Design
     • Video: Program CIMC, Firmware upgrade, RAID configuration
     • Video: OS Installation

• Chapter 3: Linux Configuration

  1. sudo (redo)
  2. networking (IP Address and networking constructs)
  3. SSH
  4. /etc/hosts
  5. hostnames
  6. Clocks and NTP
  7. Install and Configure Docker
  8. Testing Docker
  9. Swap

• Chapter 4: Kubernetes installation

  1. Dependencies
  2. Kubernetes Networking: Calico, Flannel, Weave, Cannel
  3. kubeadm
  4. Install kubernetes networking
  5. Verify with busy box
  6. Installing MetalLB Load Balancing
  7. kubectl locally
  8. Kubernetes Web UI (Dashboard)
  9. Helm
  10. Cisco ACI for Container Networking
  11. Adding in redundant master nodes

• Chapter 5: Kubernetes Application Storage

  7. Ephemeral
  8. Volumes basics
  9. NFS persistent volume
  10. Persistant Volumes and Volume Claims
  11. MySQL Application Example
  12. Rook
  13. Operators
  14. Minio
  15. Ceph
  16. Backups

• Chapter 6: Application Networking

  8. Networking Types (ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer)
  9. Ingress Controllers: Traefik, Nginx, HA-Proxy
  10. Creating Ingress Rules
  11. TLS
  12. Istio
  13. Istio Example Applications

• Chapter 7: Running Kubernetes

  1. Updating Applications
  2. Batch and Cron Jobs
  3. Daemon Set
  4. Stateful Sets
  5. Serverless Platforms
  6. Autoscaling

• Chapter 8: Kubernetes Monitoring

  9. Prometheus
  10. Kibana, Elastisearch, Fluentd,
  11. Grafana
  12. Vendor Monitoring: App Dynamics, Others

• Chapter 9: Security

  10. Audit Logs
  11. RBAC
  12. LDAP
  13. Harbor
  14. Umbrella