challenge-overview.md

Azure Container Hackfest Challenge Guide

Below is a series of "challenges" or guided exercises to help attendees learn about Azure Containers and Kubernetes. These are not meant the be "hands-on labs" or step-by-step guides. 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

For our Hackfest events, attendees will be provided a VM student environment hosted in Azure. For those setting up their machines manually, the prerequisites 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 Container Service / ACS Engine

Challenge #2: Kubernetes Basics (Pods, Deployments, Services, Namespaces, Health Checks)

Challenge #3: Deploy app end-to-end (Docker->ACR->ACS)

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 (DaemonSets, StatefulSets, Jobs, InitContainers)