Kubernetes: Your First Project

Learn how to take a regular static website (that usually runs on a virtual machine) and migrate it into a containerized Helm chart running on Kubernetes.

Introduction

• Your first project on Kubernetes
• What you should know
• Configuring AWS access

1. The Project/The Mission

• Our application: Pre-Kubernetes
• Our application: Post-Kubernetes

2. A Brief Overview of Kubernetes

• How Docker containers work
• What is Kubernetes?

3. Testing Locally with Docker

• Installing Docker
• Writing our project's Dockerfile
• Building the Docker image from the Dockerfile
• Writing our project's makefile
• Testing the website with make
• Challenge: Write a teardown make target
• Solution: Write a teardown make target

4. Running Kubernetes Locally with kind

• What is kind?
• Installing kind
• Creating the kind cluster
• Creating the kind cluster with make
• Creating a local Docker Registry
• Creating the local Docker Registry with make
• Linking the local Docker Registry to the kind cluster
• Linking the kind registry with make
• Challenge: Deleting kind clusters with make
• Solution: Deleting kind clusters with make

5. Our First Kubernetes Manifests

• Understanding Kubernetes manifests: Part 1
• Understanding Kubernetes manifests: Part 2
• Creating a Deployment
• Creating a Service
• Understanding Ingress and Ingress controllers
• Creating the Ingress
• Configuring kind to use Ingress controllers

6. Our First Helm Chart

• What is Helm?
• Creating our Chart metadata
• Creating our Chart values
• Templatizing a Deployment
• Deploying our Helm Chart with make
• Challenge: Change the port number
• Solution: Change the port number

7. We'll Do It Live

• From local testing to EKS: What's changing?
• Explaining the kubeconfig
• Logging into an AWS EKS cluster with kubectl
• Deploy our Docker image into AWS ECR with the Docker CLI
• Deploying our Helm Chart into AWS EKS with make
• The smoke test: Does it work?
• Cleaning up

Conclusion

• Next steps