Terraform AKS baseline clusters – deployment walkthrough

Terraform AKS baseline clusters – deployment walkthrough, available at $19.99, has an average rating of 4.42, with 58 lectures, based on 6 reviews, and has 49 subscribers.

You will learn about Create AKS clusters with Azure CLI and Terraform CLI Be able to deploy an AKS baseline cluster based on the reference from Azure Architecture Center Understand how (and where) to change Terraform variables to configure the cluster How to wrap Azure CLI in bash shell scripts to make it idempotent This course is ideal for individuals who are Cloud Engineer with experience on a different public cloud, or bare metal. You've worked with managed Kubernetes on a different cloud provider (AWS EKS, Google GKE, Oracle OKE) and want to get up to speed on AKS quickly or Developer / DevOps. You want to better understand the infrastructure where your application runs, to make being on-call a nicer experience or IT Operations. You know other Azure services, but haven't worked with AKS. or Network Engineer. You come from a classical networking background, working with routers and switches, but you're being asked questions about Azure's Virtual Networks, route tables, and Azure Firewall. It is particularly useful for Cloud Engineer with experience on a different public cloud, or bare metal. You've worked with managed Kubernetes on a different cloud provider (AWS EKS, Google GKE, Oracle OKE) and want to get up to speed on AKS quickly or Developer / DevOps. You want to better understand the infrastructure where your application runs, to make being on-call a nicer experience or IT Operations. You know other Azure services, but haven't worked with AKS. or Network Engineer. You come from a classical networking background, working with routers and switches, but you're being asked questions about Azure's Virtual Networks, route tables, and Azure Firewall.

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Summary

Title: Terraform AKS baseline clusters – deployment walkthrough

Price: $19.99

Average Rating: 4.42

Number of Lectures: 58

Number of Published Lectures: 58

Number of Curriculum Items: 58

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 58

Original Price: $39.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Create AKS clusters with Azure CLI and Terraform CLI
Be able to deploy an AKS baseline cluster based on the reference from Azure Architecture Center
Understand how (and where) to change Terraform variables to configure the cluster
How to wrap Azure CLI in bash shell scripts to make it idempotent

Who Should Attend

Cloud Engineer with experience on a different public cloud, or bare metal. You've worked with managed Kubernetes on a different cloud provider (AWS EKS, Google GKE, Oracle OKE) and want to get up to speed on AKS quickly
Developer / DevOps. You want to better understand the infrastructure where your application runs, to make being on-call a nicer experience
IT Operations. You know other Azure services, but haven't worked with AKS.
Network Engineer. You come from a classical networking background, working with routers and switches, but you're being asked questions about Azure's Virtual Networks, route tables, and Azure Firewall.

Target Audiences

Cloud Engineer with experience on a different public cloud, or bare metal. You've worked with managed Kubernetes on a different cloud provider (AWS EKS, Google GKE, Oracle OKE) and want to get up to speed on AKS quickly
Developer / DevOps. You want to better understand the infrastructure where your application runs, to make being on-call a nicer experience
IT Operations. You know other Azure services, but haven't worked with AKS.
Network Engineer. You come from a classical networking background, working with routers and switches, but you're being asked questions about Azure's Virtual Networks, route tables, and Azure Firewall.

In this course, we’re going to deploy AKS clusters using different Infrastructure as Code approaches. Some of the key topics that we’ll cover include:

Creating a cluster with Azure CLI
Using the Azure CLI in an idempotent way, so you can run and re-run the code without generating warnings and errors
We’ll switch to using Terraform, and see how useful the module for Azure AKS is, which may be all you need to spin up some test clusters
We’ll spend the bulk of the course on walking through the AKS Baseline Cluster from the Azure Architecture Centre, but converted from a massive Azure Bicep file into individual Terraform resources which are considerably easier to understand. This will enable you to use Terraform variables to toggle the creation of the resources you need in your own context.

Launch your first AKS cluster in 15 minutes with Azure CLI. We turn the steps in the Azure quickstart tutorial into idempotent bash shell scripts, so you can run them again and again. We’ll run through the full process, including deploying an application to the cluster, and then deleting the cluster, resource group and Kubernetes context.

Create an Azure storage account and container to store Terraform state. We’ll use bash shell scripts to wrap Azure CLI commands to create a backend for Terraform, and set up the storage firewall to allow access from your IP address.

Create the Minimum Viable Product in Terraform – using a remote backend to maintain state, take an Azure resource group through the Terraform lifecycle of init, plan, apply, destroy.

A cluster in 15 minutes – this time via Terraform. Use the official Azure Terraform Module to create a cluster in minutes. Similar to creating a cluster with Azure CLI, the Terraform code will create a resource group, virtual network, subnet, and AKS cluster.

Split code into subscription, hub, spoke, and cluster. Use Terraform’s count keyword, combined with boolean variables to control the creation of resources. Prepare your code for production by a separation of concerns into hub and spoke networking, and choose whether to use the expensive Azure Firewall for your outbound routing.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Course introduction

Lecture 1: Course overview

Lecture 2: Course code download and structure

Lecture 3: Instructor biography and experience

Chapter 2: AKS cluster with Azure CLI

Lecture 1: Azure Quickstart and Shell Scripts

Lecture 2: Script 2.1 – Prerequisites

Lecture 3: Script 2.2 – Create a Resource Group

Lecture 4: Script 2.3 – Create an AKS cluster in 10 minutes

Lecture 5: Script 2.4 – Run a report on the newly-created AKS cluster

Lecture 6: Script 2.5 – Connect to the AKS cluster with Azure CLI and kubectl

Lecture 7: Script 2.6 – Deploy the Store Application

Lecture 8: Script 2.7 – Test the Store Application

Lecture 9: Script 2.8 – Delete resources

Lecture 10: Script 2.9 – Tidy up kube config

Chapter 3: First steps with Terraform

Lecture 1: Terraform CLI introduction

Lecture 2: Code directory 3 – Create Storage Account for Terraform state

Lecture 3: Code directory 4 – Create a Resource Group with Terraform

Lecture 4: Code directory 5 – Create AKS cluster with Terraform module

Lecture 5: Code directory 6 – Use Terraform variables well

Chapter 4: Create AKS baseline with Terraform

Lecture 1: What is the AKS baseline architecture?

Lecture 2: IaC wrapper script and .tfvars variable sets

Lecture 3: Variable set 100 – Subscription Resource Group

Lecture 4: Variable set 110 – Cost Alerts

Lecture 5: Variable set 120 – Register Kubernetes providers

Lecture 6: Script 7.2.1 – Create Self-Signed certificates with OpenSSL

Lecture 7: Script 7.2.2 – Validate Self-Signed certificates with OpenSSL

Lecture 8: Script 7.3 – Create Entra ID groups and users

Lecture 9: Variable set 200 – Spoke Resource Group

Lecture 10: Variable set 210 – Spoke monitoring

Lecture 11: Variable set 220 – Spoke networking

Lecture 12: Variable set 230 – Spoke Public IP

Lecture 13: Cluster introduction

Lecture 14: Variable set 300 – Cluster Resource Group

Lecture 15: Variable set 310 – Cluster Identities

Lecture 16: Variable set 320 – Cluster Monitoring

Lecture 17: Variable set 330 – Cluster Azure Container Registry

Lecture 18: Variable set 340 – Cluster Policies

Lecture 19: Variable set 350 – Cluster Keyvault

Lecture 20: Script 7.2.3 – Upload Certificate and Secrets to Azure Keyvault

Lecture 21: Variable set 360 – Cluster Application Gateway

Lecture 22: Variable set 370 – AKS cluster

Lecture 23: Variable set 380 – Bootstrap AKS cluster with Flux GitOps

Lecture 24: Script 7.7 – Validate bootstrapped AKS cluster

Lecture 25: Script 7.8 – Ensure namespaces and policies are present

Lecture 26: Script 7.9 – Deploy Traefik Ingress Controller

Lecture 27: Script 7.10 – Deploy ASP.Net Sample App

Lecture 28: Connect to Sample App

Lecture 29: Script 7.11 – Validate Web Application Firewall protection

Lecture 30: Variable set 400 – Hub Resource Group

Lecture 31: Variable set 410 – Hub Monitoring

Lecture 32: Variable set 420 – Hub Networking

Lecture 33: Variable set 430 – Hub Azure Firewall

Lecture 34: Variable set 440 – Peer Spoke and Hub VNETs

Lecture 35: Variable set 450 – User Defined Routing Spoke to Hub

Lecture 36: Variable set 460 – Recreate AKS cluster with User Defined Routing

Lecture 37: Variable set 470 – Bootstrap AKS cluster

Lecture 38: Look at Azure firewall logs

Lecture 39: Variable set 000 – Destroy all resources

Chapter 5: Thank you and next steps

Lecture 1: Thank you, and next steps

Instructors

Nick Romney
DevOps and Security Specialist

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