NGINX for Kubernetes lab

WIP: Collection of exercises to get acquainted with Kubernetes and exposing services in using NGINX

Table of Contents:

1. Deploy Kubernetes to the cloud

   1. Amazon Web Services (AWS)
   2. Microsoft Azure - TODO
   3. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - TODO
   4. Digital Ocean - TODO

2. Deploy a sample application

3. Exposing Services in Kubernetes

   1. ClusterIP
   2. Port-forward
   3. NodePort
   4. LoadBalancer
   5. Ingress Controller - TODO

TO DO / Ideas:

• Ingress vs VirtualServer and VirtualServerRoute resources

  • Ingress resource
  • VirtualServer resource
  • VirtualServerRoute resource

• Kubernetes ingress controllers

  • Envoy
  • HAProxy
  • Traefik
  • NGINX
  • F5 / NGINX Plus

• NGINX Plus Ingress Controller

  • Config Migration: NGINX Open Source vs NGINX Plus
  • Real-time metrics
    • NGINX Plus Dashboard
    • Grafana and Prometheus

• Zero/Minimizing Downtime During Deployments

• Benchmarking Ingress

• NGINX Ingress Operator on Red Hat OpenShift