The AKS Hands-on workshop

This repo contains hands-on labs to learn to configure, deploy and manage AKS clusters for real-world use cases.

Agenda

2-day format agenda

Labs

Setup

1. Complete pre-requisites and environment setup (30 minutes)
2. Create Basic AKS Cluster (60 minutes)

Administration

1. AKS Cluster Upgrades (60 minutes)

Security

1. Create AKS Private Cluster (60 minutes)
2. Create AKS Private Cluster limiting network traffic with Azure Firewall (60 minutes)
3. Using Microsoft Entra Workload Identity with AKS (60 minutes)

Networking

1. Configure TLS for Application Routing add-on (Managed NGINX) (60 minutes)
2. Configure TLS for NGINX Ingress Controller (60 minutes)

Storage

1. Persistent Storage in AKS - Deploy SQL Server on AKS (60 minutes)

Scaling

1. Autoscaling using Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and Cluster Autoscaler (60 minutes)
2. Autoscaling with the KEDA add-on and workload identity on AKS (90 minutes)

CI/CD

1. Deploy to AKS using GitHub Actions (60 minutes)

Reference

The labs above are a compilation adapted/updated primarily from the following workshops/resources:

• Azure RedDog AKS Workshop
• What The Hack - AKS Enterprise Grade
• What The Hack - Advanced Kubernetes
• Hands on AKS Automatic
• AKS Landing Zone Accelerator
• Azure AKS Documentation
• AKS DevSecOps Workshop