Introduction

IBM Kubernetes Service Workshop

In the workshop you will learn about foundational open source technologies and industry-wide accepted best practices for building modern, scalable, portable, and robust applications. You will learn about deploying and managing microservice applications on top of the IBM Kubernetes Service (IKS) environment. We will also discuess some of the most common pitfalls to watch out for.

Setup

Cloud Workshop + Cloud Shell Setup Instructions	Run these steps to setup your environment for the labs

Agenda Day 1

Topic	Description
Welcome	Introductions & Objectives
Lecture: Overview of Docker (with Demo)	What is Docker?
Lecture: Overview of Kubernetes	What is Kubernetes?
BREAK
Lab Environment Setup	Run these steps to setup your environment for the labs
Hands On Lab: Kubernetes	Kubernetes Introduction Labs (Deploying & Scaling Apps)
LUNCH
Lecture: Helm	Helm Overview Lecture
Lab: Helm	Deploy Cloud Native Applications using Helm
BREAK
Lecture: CI/CD Options for Kubernetes	Covers briefly... why CICD for microservices, Jenkins, Jenkins X, Tekton, and ArgoCD
Lab: CI/CD for Kubernetes	Jenkins Pipelines in IKS Lab
BREAK
Lecture: 12 Factors	Cloud Native Development – 12 Factor
Wrap up	Questions?

Agenda Day 2

Topic	Description
Welcome	Day 1 Recap / Questions
Lecture: Application Modernization	Learn about Application Modernization Migration Approaches
Lecture: App Modernization Migration	Learn about Application Modernization Migration Approaches
Lecture: Microservices	Microservices Principles, Patterns and Implementation Considerations
BREAK
Lab: Deploy Microservices
Deploy Microservices Application Lab
Lecture: Kubernetes Extensions	Overview of Kubernetes Extensions, custom resource definitons, operators
BREAK
Lab: Custom Resources and Operators	Working with custom resource definitions
Lunch
Lecture: Istio	Overview of Istio Service Mesh
BREAK
Lab: Istio	Working with Istio (Deploying Applications and Traffic Management)
Wrap up	Questions?

Technology Used

• Docker

• Kubernetes

• Helm

• IBM Kubernetes Service

• Jenkins

• Istio

Presenters

• John Zaccone

• Rojan Jose

• Javier Torres