README.md

Containers Lab notes

Prerequisites:

• OS: Windows 10 / Linux / macOS; For Windows 7 users - create Azure VM with ubuntu and install docker there
• Docker on local OS https://www.docker.com/community-edition#/download
• Visual Studio Code https://code.visualstudio.com + extensions:
  • YAML https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=adamvoss.yaml
  • Docker https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=PeterJausovec.vscode-docker
  • Python https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-python.python
  • C# https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.csharp
  • Azure Resource Manager Tools https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=msazurermtools.azurerm-vscode-tools
  • Visual Studio Team Services https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vsts.team
  • Azure Account https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.azure-account
  • Azure CLI Tools https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.azurecli
  • NuGet Package Manager https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jmrog.vscode-nuget-package-manager
• Azure CLI 2.0 (on Windows: https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCliWindows, OSX and Linux: https://azure.github.io/projects/clis/ or https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli?view=azure-cli-latest)
• Optional
  • .NET Core 2.0 https://www.microsoft.com/net/download
  • Azure Storage Explorer https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/features/storage-explorer
• GitHub account https://github.com
• Docker Hub account https://hub.docker.com

Lab scenario

Attendees guide: https://github.com/palma21/k8slab

if you get stuck - its a really good idea to use this :)

https://github.com/palma21/k8slabproctor

to get kubernetes dashboard up and running use:
kubectl proxy
127.0.0.1:8001
add the following to the end: /     

               USE THIS WHEN YOU ARE USING AZURE FREE [update git]:
az acs create --orchestrator-type kubernetes --resource-group workshopno --name myK8SCluster --agent-count 1 --generate-ssh-keys --verbose
 

use this for if you cannot share your c drive:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/stevelasker/2016/06/14/configuring-docker-for-windows-volumes/  

Free version: remember to add following in the azure portal (in order to deploy containers services):

az provider register -n microsoft.compute
az provider register -n microsoft.ContainerService
az provider register -n Microsoft.Storage
az provider register -n Microsoft.network

Free account does NOT work in West UK!

  Symantec AV protection can block kubectl get-credential command while running inside Linux sub system for Windows. Sudo apt-get update also fails.

Advanced Kubernetes lab: https://github.com/tkubica12/kubernetes-demo

Contact

Bartłomiej Zass, bzass@microsoft.com