Needless to say you'll need a laptop! Any OS is fine (Mac is recommended and that's the only machine we've tested on) but make sure the following prerequisites are met prior to the session:
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Prerequisite 1: Git is installed
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Prerequisite 2: A valid Azure subscription is available. You can get a trial account from https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/.
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Prerequisite 3: The
azCLI from https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli is installed on the laptop OR you can use the cloud shell as outlined in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-shell/overview -
Prerequisite 4: Limits in Azure are set low. File support tickets to get the limits bumped up for your subscriptions. We will need cores (60-100 recommended) to be spun up in West UK which supports some of the configurations.
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Prerequisite 5: A familiarity with the Azure portal and the CLI (attended a 1-day Azure course for instance).
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Prerequisite 6: A Docker Hub account from https://hub.docker.com/. This is optional if you're OK skipping portions of a few exercises.
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Prerequisite 7: The labs from https://github.com/ragsns/dockeronazure.git installed locally either via a
git clonecommand or by downloading a zip file from the remote repository.
Each directory is in a separate sub-directory. Ensure that you're in the sub-directory when you're working on a particular exercise and you're issuing the CLI commands from the subdirectory pertaining to the exercise.
It is recommended that you run through these exercises sequentially since they are progressive with some dependencies. Each exercise should take about 10-20 mins. to complete.
- Exercise 1: Login to Azure and Spin up Docker VMs
- Exercise 2: Gentle Intro to Docker - Skip this if you're already familiar with Docker
- Exercise 3: Docker Compose
- Exercise 4: Docker Swarm
- Exercise 5a: Kubernetes or K8S with ACS [You can try both 5a and 5b or one of them]
- Exercise 5b: Kubernetes or K8S with AKS [You can try both 5a and 5b or one of them]
- Exercise 6: Helm (optional)
- Exercise 7: Draft (optional)
- Exercise 8: Container Instances
- Exercise 9: A Complete Multi-container application
Docker Getting Started Material at https://docs.docker.com/get-started/
Kubernetes at https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/kubernetes-basics/
Docker Swarm on Azure at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-service/dcos-swarm/container-service-swarm-mode-walkthrough
Docker Swarm on Azure at https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/azureedu/2017/05/15/docker-swarm-on-azure/
Kubernetes on Azure at https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/azureedu/2017/04/23/how-can-i-get-started-with-kubernetes-on-azure-container-services/
Helm getting started at https://docs.helm.sh/using_helm/#quickstart
Draft getting started at https://github.com/Azure/draft
Azure getting started at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/get-started/
My Colleague Jim Stuertevant's Docker workshop - https://github.com/jsturtevant/docker-azure-fundamentals-workshop/
Free book on .NET Microservices Architecture at https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/thank-you/microservices-architecture-ebook
Please contact me on Twitter @ragss.