Hands-On Kubernetes, Service Mesh and Zero-Trust

Preface

Docker and Kubernetes 101

• Introduction
• Introduction to Docker
• Introduction to Kubernetes
• Installing Kubernetes
• Kubernetes client
• Strategies to validate cluster quality
• Conclusion
• Points to remember

PODs

• Introduction
• Concept of Pods
• CRUD operations on Pods
• Accessing PODs
• Managing resources
• Data persistence
• Health checks
• POD security
• Conclusion
• Points to remember
• Questions

HTTP Load Balancing with Ingress

• Introduction
• Networking 101
• Ingress specifications and Ingress controller
• Effective Ingress usage
• Advanced Ingress
• Alternate implementations
• API gateways
• Securing network
• Best practices for securing a network
• Conclusion
• Points to remember
• Questions

Kubernetes Workload Resources

• Introduction
• ReplicaSets
• Deployments
• DaemonSets
• Kubernetes Jobs
• Conclusion
• Points to remember
• Questions

ConfigMap, Secrets, and Labels

• Introduction
• ConfigMap
• Secrets
• Managing ConfigMaps and Secrets
• Applying and modifying labels
• Labels selectors
• Defining annotations
• Conclusion
• Points to remember
• Questions

Configuring Storage with Kubernetes

• Introduction
• Storage provisioning in Kubernetes
• StatefulSets
• Installing MongoDB on Kubernetes using StatefulSets
• Disaster recovery
• Container storage interface
• Conclusion
• Points to remember
• Questions

Introduction to Service Discovery

• Introduction
• What is service discovery?
• Service registry
• Registration patterns
• Service discovery in Kubernetes
• Advance details
• Conclusion
• Points to remember
• Questions

Zero Trust Using Kubernetes

• Introduction
• Kubernetes security challenges
• Role-based access control (RBAC)
• Introduction to Zero Trust Architecture
• Zero trust in Kubernetes
• Conclusion
• Points to remember
• Questions

Monitoring, Logging and Observability

• Introduction
• Kubernetes observability deep dive
• Exploring metrics using Prometheus and Grafana
• Logging and tracing
• Defining a typical SRE process
• Responsibilities of SRE
• Selecting monitoring, metrics and visualization tools
• Conclusion
• Points to remember
• Questions

Effective Scaling

• Introduction
• Needs of scaling microservices individually
• Principles of scaling
• Challenges of scaling
• Introduction to auto scaling
• Types of scaling in K8s
• Best practices of scaling
• Conclusion
• Points to remember
• Questions

Introduction to Service Mesh and Istio

• Introduction
• Why do you need a Service Mesh?
• What is a Service Mesh?
• What is Istio?
• Istio architecture
• Installing Istio
• Cost of using a Service Mesh
• Customizing the Istio setup
• Conclusion
• Points to remember
• Questions

Traffic Management Using Istio

• Introduction
• Traffic management via gateways
• Controlling Ingress and Egress traffic
• Shifting traffic between versions
• Injecting faults for testing
• Timeouts and retries
• Circuit breaking
• Conclusion
• Points to remember
• Questions

Observability Using Istio

• Introduction
• Understanding the telemetry flow
• Sample application and proxy logs
• Visualizing Service Mesh with Kiali
• Querying Istio Metrics with Prometheus
• Monitoring dashboards with Grafana
• Distributed tracing
• Conclusion
• Points to remember
• Questions

Securing Your Services Using Istio

• Introduction
• Identity Management with Istio
• Authentication with Istio
• Authorization with Istio
• Security architecture of Istio
• Conclusion
• Points to remember
• Questions