k8s-adventure

Setting up your developer environment terminal

• bash profile settings
• byobu
• Kubernetes tools - kubectl, helm
• kubectx, kubens, kube-ps1, k, complete alias
• Free Root DNS
• Things to setup in AWS Account e.g. Route53 hosted zone
• Things to setup in Azure Account
• your common ssh-key for nodes

Installation of Simpler trial Kubernetes Distributions

• k3s
• Minikube
• Kind

Typical things to validate various Kubernetes features

• Ingress Controller
• Kubernetes Dashboard
• Monitoring
• podinfo deployment
• Autoscaling testing (both HPA and cluster)
• Storage testing

Installation of Production Grade Kubernetes Distributions

• KOPS
• EKS
• AKS
• Kubermatic KubeOne
• Kubespray

Installation of Multi-cluster Managers

• Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform (kkp)
• Rancher (To be added)

Explored Features

Storage

• Longhorn (on AWS KOPS)
• EFS

Security

• Using Hashicorp Vault for secrets. (Usage via In-cluster installation with Consul)

Auto-scaling

• Pod Autoscaling via Horizontal Pod Autoscaler ( KOPS, EKS)
• Node autoscaling via Cluster Autoscaler (EKS)

WIP ( External-DNS setup)

WIP Access cloud resouces via kube2iam / aad-pod-identity / gke workload identity etc