Dates
The training takes place during these timeslots:
- June 8: 09h00-17h00 CET
- June 9: 09h00-17h00 CET
- June 10: 09h00-17h00 CET
Audience
Senior developers and technical architects. Infrastructure and solutions architects are also welcome.
Prerequisites
Upfront knowledge of Docker is expected.
Theoretical knowledge of K8S is a plus.
Theoretical knowledge of Even Driven Architecture is a plus (pub/sub, SAGAs…).
Training content
Introducing cloud-native systems and applications
- Cloud and cloud-native vs traditional application development and hosting
- Mindset, expectations, ecosystems
- Infrastructure as Code and the broader CI/CD piece
- DevOps and GitOps
- AKS architecture, the big picture
- Mater API and worked nodes
- Node pools (system vs user node pools)
- Virtual nodes (stories from the field)
- AKS within a broader landing zone (stories from the field)
- AKS vs PaaS
- Benefits
- Caveats
Scaling workloads with KEDA
- Built-in scaling capabilities in AKS
- Horizontal vs vertical scaling
- Cluster-level scaling
- Virtual nodes and their infrastructure (use cases)
- Workload level scaling
- KEDA in a nutshell
- Value proposition and use cases
- Architecture
- Scaling deployments and jobs with KEDA
- Use KEDA with Azure Service Bus and Azure Functions
- Use KEDA with Azure Blob Storage and Virtual Nodes
- Benefits and caveats
Building event-driven and distributed applications with Dapr
- Dapr in a nutshell
- Value proposition and use cases
- Architecture
- Dapr Service Discovery
- Communicate amongst two APIs
- Dapr and Azure iPaaS
- Use Dapr with Azure Service Bus, Event Grid and Functions
- Integration Dapr and Azure API Management
- Use Dapr and Logic Apps orchestrations
- Benefits and caveats
Meshing with AKS
- Service meshes in a nutshell
- Value proposition
- Istio, Linkerd and Open Service Mesh
- Grasping Istio’s architecture
- Introducing Istio architecture
- Introducing Istio features
- Deploying, versioning and securing APIs with Istio
- Internal communication and security
- Exposing services to the outside world
- Working with JWT validation policies and granular service-to-service policies
- Troubleshooting performance and a buggy application with Istio
- Chaos engineering with Istio
- Fault injection, retries
- Getting started with Linkerd
- Introducing Linkerd Architecture
- Troubleshooting performance and a buggy application with Linkerd
- What to choose?
- Linkerd, Istio, Dapr…
Production use considerations
- Best practices
- Advise on HA, monitoring and security
- Learnings from the field
General
Some general information about the training:
- The online training takes place via Microsoft Teams
- Access to an Azure subscription will be provided
- The Azure consumption cost is included in the training price
- All training material is handed over to the participants
- The prerequisite software will be communicated one week before the training
