Application development, CI/CD, testing and monitoring: Kubernetes approach

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Summary notes about application and service development in Kubernetes: documentation, diagrams, guides, samples and bibliography

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1. Evolution of containers and orchestrators
2. Distributed complexity and isolation restrictions in containers
3. Kubernetes goals and usage advantages
4. Common container patterns
5. 12-Factor application principles
6. Cloud Native application principles in Kubernetes
7. Importance of development and QA/Production environment parity
8. One-click start with Kubernetes dashboard as starting learning point
9. Kubernetes architecture high level overview
   • Control plane definition
   • Simplified Kubernetes Application structure map
   • Kubectl, kube-proxy, kubeadm, kubelet, kubefed core utilities
   • Etcd High Available configuration store
   • API Server
   • Scheduler
   • Controller manager
   • Cloud Controller manager
   • cAdvisor, Heapster, metrics-server and state-metrics-server
   • Flannel, CNI and other Cluster network managers
   • Imperative vs. Declarative Kubernetes state management
   • Reconciliation Control Loop as core Kubernetes concept
   • Common workload resources
   • Common storage resources
   • RBAC and Access Control resources
   • Stateless vs. Stateful Kubernetes services
   • Kubernetes design patterns
   • Custom Resource Definition as extensibility point in Kubernetes
   • Operator SDK
10. The hard choice: LoadBalancer Service or Ingress(or both)
    • LoadBalancer Service type
    • Nginx-Ingress, Ingress-Nginx
    • Traefik
    • Heptio Contour
    • Kong
    • HAProxy
    • Heptio Gimbal
    • MetalLB
11. CSI providers. Distributed persistent storage options in Kubernetes:
    • Rook
    • Ceph
    • Gluster
    • Minio
12. Kubernetes in Cloud
    • Landscape Overview
    • Cluster Federation and High Availability
13. Kubernetes in development environment
    • Overview
    • Kubernetes as Docker Engine orchestrator
    • Garden
    • Minikube
    • Kubeadm Vagrant cluster
    • Kubeadm dind cluster
    • kind
    • Kubespray
14. Kubernetes On-Premise solutions
    • CoreOS Tectonic
    • OpenShift
    • Mirantis
    • Mesosphere DC/OS Kubernetes
    • Rancher
    • kubevirt
    • Kubernetes CDK
15. Kubernetes management tools
    • kubectl utility
    • VS Code extension for Kubernetes
    • kube-shell
    • kube-prompt
    • kubebox
    • kubefuse
    • Kubernetes Dashboard
    • Kubernetic
    • kubesec
    • skopeo
    • Heptio Velero
    • kubespy
    • helm-monitor
16. Connect Kubernetes cluster with your local machine
    • kubectl proxy and port-forward
    • Datawire Ambassador, Forge and Telepresence
    • kubefwd
    • Azure Dev Spaces
17. Simplifying k8s resource management
    • Helm
    • Ksonnet
    • Terraform
    • Pulumi
    • Kustomize
    • Skaffold
    • Kaniko, Makisu, buildah and buildkit
    • Gitkube
    • Kompose
    • Draft
    • Kubeapps
18. Serverless technologies compatible with Kubernetes
    • Kubeless
    • OpenFaaS
    • virtual-kubelet
19. Improve application management and delivery speed with Service Mesh
    • Service Mesh concepts
    • Istio
    • Istion namespace injection
    • Network configuration
    • Istio CRD overview
    • Security
    • Built-in netrics, distributed request tracing and mesh visualization
20. Extend Kubernetes cluster functionality with operators
    • Prometheus operator
    • Vault operator
    • Etcd operator
    • cert operator
    • DB operator
    • shell operator
    • flagger operator
21. CI/CD pipeline setup in Cloud Native application development
    • Release strategies
    • IaaS abd GitOps princeples
    • Cloud-provided CI/CD overview
    • Azure DevOps
    • AWS CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy and CodePipeline
    • Google Cloud Build
    • WeaveWorks Weave Flux GitOps Operator
    • Jenkins X and Cloudbees
    • GoCD
    • Drone
    • Argo
    • Spinnaker
    • GitLab CI/CD
22. Improving cluster observability and resource provisioning by monitoring systems integration
    • Cloud and paid solutions: Datadog, Sysdig, Splunk, Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch, GKE Stackdriver
    • Application metrics and alerting with Prometheus and Grafana
    • Prometheus pull and push metrics collection strategies
    • Choice between classic Prometheus configuration and CRD resource controller
    • Service Tracing with Jaeger
23. Cluster logs collection
    • Elastic Stack(Fluentd/Logstash, ElasticSearch, Kibana)
    • Difference between logstash and fluentd
    • Log collection scheme
    • EFK stack deployment and integration
24. Integration, Acceptance, Conformance and Security testing in Kubernetes
    • Heptio Sonobuoy Diagnostic tool
    • kube-monkey Chaos testing tool
    • Brigade and Kashti
    • kube-bench
    • kube-hunter
    • PowerfulSeal
    • popeye
    • chaosblade
    • kube-score