Kubernetes Exercises

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This is a list of exercises to practice the gained knowledge

Implement Blue/Green Deployment

Goals

Implement blue/green deployment using Kubernetes native tools only

Inputs

What is a blue/green deployment: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/BlueGreenDeployment.html
Use two Deployments and a single Service with an appropriate label selector to route either Deployment.
Use the paulbouwer/hello-kubernetes and the MESSAGE env to see which deployment is active. Or alternatively the locally built webapp-color:0.1.

Topics covered

Services
Deployment
Pods

Implement Canary Deployment

Goals

Implement canary deployment using Kubernetes native tools only

Inputs

What is a canary deployment: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/CanaryRelease.html
Use two Deployments and a single Service with an appropriate label selector to route certain ratios of traffic to either Deployment.
Use the paulbouwer/hello-kubernetes image and the MESSAGE env to see which deployment is active. Or alternatively the locally built webapp-color:0.1.

Topics covered

Services
Deployment
Pods

Game of Pods on KodeKloud

Goals

Complete the Game of Pods

Inputs

All you need to know: https://kodekloud.com/courses/game-of-pods/

Topics covered

A lot

Deploy a docker registry to the cluster and push

Goals

Running docker registry on the Kubernetes cluster
Push a locally built docker image to the custom registry

Inputs

Use the registry:2 image

Deploy .NET Microservices Sample Reference Application

Goals

Learn about complex deployments

https://github.com/dotnet-architecture/eShopOnContainers/ https://github.com/dotnet-architecture/eShopOnContainers/tree/dev/deploy/k8s/helm