Azure Container Hackfest Challenge Guide

Below is a series of "challenges" or guided exercises to help attendees learn about Azure Containers and Kubernetes. The goal is to provide a series of exercises that have an expected outcome. Some steps and code will be provided. In the end, the hands-on experience should lead to a deeper level of learning.

Environment Setup

The prerequisites for setting up your machine are below.

-> Note: This has only been tested on Mac OS.

Azure Account with access to deploy at least 10 cores
Azure CLI 2.0
Azure Service Principal with at Least Contributor Rights
Visual Studio Code
Install and configure Golang https://golang.org/doc/install
Bash (Windows users will require "Windows Subsystem for Linux")
Docker
- Docker for Mac
- Docker for Windows
kubectl
helm

Challenges:

Challenge #1: Installing Azure Kubernetes Service / AKS

Challenge #2: Kubernetes Basics

Challenge #3: Deploy app end-to-end

Challenge #4: Service Discovery and Networking

Challenge #5: Ingress Controllers

Challenge #6: Secrets and ConfigMaps

Challenge #7: Helm Deployment

Challenge #8: CI/CD

Challenge #9: Persistent Storage

Challenge #10: Scaling

Challenge #11: Monitoring & Logging

Challenge #12: Troubleshooting & Debugging

Challenge #13: Kubernetes Advanced