Join this workshop and accelerate your journey to production-ready Kubernetes by learning the practical techniques for reliably operating your software lifecycle using the GitOps pattern. The Weaveworks team will be running a full-day workshop, sharing their expertise as users and contributors of Kubernetes and Prometheus, as well as followers of GitOps (operations by pull request) practices.
Using a combination of instructor led demonstrations and hands-on exercises, the workshop will enable the attendee to go into detail on the following topics: • Developing and operating your Kubernetes microservices at scale • DevOps best practices and the movement towards a “GitOps” approach • Building with Kubernetes in production: caring for your apps, implementing CI/CD best practices, and utilizing the right metrics, monitoring tools, and automated alerts • Operating Kubernetes in production: Upgrading and managing Kubernetes, managing incident response, and adhering to security best practices for Kubernetes
Prerequisites: • Basic knowledge of Kubernetes is required. At a minimum practical experience experimenting with Kubernetes is required • You have deployed a few applications to a test cluster, and now want a path forward of how to use Kubernetes in production • Familiarity with the Unix command line • A complete cloud lab environment will be provided, so bring laptop with a modern browser
This workshop doesn’t cover: • Deep knowledge of the Prometheus Query Language. We’ll be working through practical examples, but won’t cover the rest of PromQL • Kubernetes Introduction and concepts. We won’t be going through an overview of Kubernetes, instead we focus on application in the real world.
Agenda: • Welcome & introduction • Getting started with your environment • What is “Production Ready” (cluster & app checklist) • Monitoring a production cluster (Prometheus & Observability) • Building for observability (HPA, Istio Canary, FluentD & Prometheus) • Declarative infrastructure in practice (GitOps model, Infra as code) • Devops and GitOps in practice (CI/CD pipelines, compliance tracking) • Advanced Deployment Patterns (Canary, Blue/Green, A/B testing) • Security best practices (RBAC, Kubernetes security groups, network policies) • Node management and Kubernetes upgrade
