In keeping with this weeks activities around Containers and AKS, I thought I would take the time to work through the following MS Learn Pathway to cement some of the learnings form this week:

Azure Kubernetes Service Workshop – Learn | Microsoft Docs

• Introduction 5 min
• Exercise – Deploy Kubernetes with Azure Kubernetes Service 15 min
• Exercise – Create a private, highly available container registry 15 min
• Exercise – Deploy MongoDB 15 min
• Exercise – Deploy the ratings API 20 min
• Exercise – Deploy the ratings front end 20 min
• Exercise – Deploy an ingress for the front end 20 min
• Exercise – Enable SSL/TLS on the front-end ingress 15 min
• Exercise – Configure monitoring for your application 10 min
• Exercise – Scale your application to meet demand 5 min
• Summary and cleanup 5 min

This learning path guides you through deploying the relevant AKS Cluster and configure it to manage a fictional company Website:

You will configure the following:

1. Use AKS to deploy a Kubernetes cluster.
2. Configure an Azure Container Registry to store application container images.
3. Deploy the three ratings application components.
   1. Deploy the Fruit Smoothies website document database using Helm 3.
   2. Deploy the Fruit smoothies RESTFul API using deployment manifests.
   3. Deploy the Fruit smoothies website frontend using deployment manifests.
4. Deploy Azure Kubernetes ingress using Helm 3.
5. Configure SSL/TLS on the controller using cert-manager.
6. Configure Azure Monitor for containers to monitor the Fruit Smoothies website deployment.
7. Configure cluster autoscaler and horizontal pod autoscaler for the Fruit Smoothies cluster.

100DaysOfCloud Overview

My Main ReadMe Page is all set up with a bit about me!

The guys at 100DaysofCloud have set up the GitHub repo to be cloned and also have a great repo containing ideas and areas to collaborate on: https://github.com/100DaysOfCloud/100DaysOfCloudIdeas

My Github Journey tracker can be found here: https://github.com/jonnychipz/100DaysOfCloud

Please Watch/Star my repo and feel free to comment of contribute to anything I push! I really look forward to hearing from anyone who is going to jump on the journey around the same time as me! Lets see where I get to in 100 days!

I would encourage others to jump on this journey, I’m not sure that I will be able to commit every day for 100 days, but as long as I can complete 100 days that will be great!