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Setting up your developer environment terminal ¶

• bash profile settings
• byobu
• Kubernetes tools - kubectl, helm
• kubectx, kubens, kube-ps1, k, complete alias
• Free domain name (TLD)
• Things to setup in AWS Account e.g. Route53 hosted zone
• Things to setup in Azure Account
• your common ssh-key for nodes

Installation of Simpler trial Kubernetes Distributions ¶

• k3s
• Minikube
• Kind

Installation of Production Grade Kubernetes Distributions ¶

• KOPS
• EKS
• AKS
• Kubermatic KubeOne
• Kubespray

Typical things to validate various Kubernetes features ¶

Please access deploy page to access exact command to deploy these items in your cluster.

• Ingress Controller
• Kubernetes Dashboard
• Monitoring
• podinfo deployment
• Autoscaling testing (both HPA and cluster)
• Storage testing

Installation of Multi-cluster Managers ¶

• Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform (kkp)
• Rancher (To be added)

Explored Features ¶

Storage ¶

• Longhorn (on AWS KOPS)
• EFS

Security ¶

• Using Hashicorp Vault for secrets. (Usage via In-cluster installation with Consul)
• Authentication via OIDC using Keycloak / Dex

Auto-scaling ¶

• Pod Autoscaling via Horizontal Pod Autoscaler ( KOPS, EKS)
• Node autoscaling via Cluster Autoscaler (EKS) FIXME

Automated DNS Management for services ¶

• External DNS in KOPS

Access native cloud resouces from pods ¶

• kube2iam
• aad-pod-identity
• gke workload identity

Cost Optimizations ¶

• Using spot instances in AWS

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