In this liveProject, you’ll take an existing application and model it in Kubernetes. You’ll work with a prepackaged application for IoT company Widgetario to explore the core concepts of Kubernetes such as Pods and Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, and Secrets. You’ll complete common tasks like routing network traffic, performing application updates, and configuring the app to run with high availability and scale. This project will ground you in the best practices of deploying an app to Kubernetes, with a fully working demo that can run with high availability and scale.

In this liveProject, you’ll properly configure a Kubernetes app so that it’s secure and resilient in production. Working with a previously deployed application, you’ll set up the app to read configuration settings from the cluster so you can use the same Docker images in test and production. Extend your app’s specifications to activate Kubernetes’s self-healing, defend against attackers with security controls, and run a replicated database in containers. Once you’re finished, you’ll have a securely deployed demo app that’s resilient against whatever production throws at it.

In this liveProject, you’ll go hands-on to build an automated CI/CD pipeline for a Kubernetes-based application so your team can roll out new releases whenever there’s a new feature to go live. The pipeline you build will use the same process to make updates to the application platforms. You’ll work with a pre-deployed and working version of an application as you use Helm to create a single deployment package for all environments, configure safe automated deployments, and use affinity rules and selectors to prepare for high availability.

In this liveProject, you’ll improve on half-finished legacy work to add security, logging, and centralized monitoring to a Kubernetes cluster. Picking up where a previous employee left off, you’ll implement the final requirements of a Kubernetes application so that it’s ready to go live. You’ll establish secure access for testers and SREs, set up log collection and storage with the EFK stack, and deploy and configure the Prometheus tool to collect metrics from all the application components. Finally, you’ll set up an HTTP certificate and an ingress controller to listen for incoming traffic so it can be routed to your company’s domain. When you’re finished, you’ll be ready to flip the switch and set your application live!