Mirantis Cloud Native Platform Bootcamp (CN253)

This course combines all topics of CN100, CN110, CN212 and CN213

Containerization motivations and implementation

• • Usecases
• • Comparison to virtual machines

Creating, managing and auditing containers

• • Container implementation from the Linux kernel
• • Container lifecycle details
• • Core container creation, auditing and management CLI

Best practices in container image design

• • Layered filesystem implementation and performance implications
• • Creating images with Dockerfiles
• • Optimising image builds with multi-stage builds and image design best practices

Single-host container networking

• • Docker native networking model
• • Software defined networks for containers
• • Docker-native single-host service discovery and routing

Provisioning external storage

• • Docker volume creation and management
• • Best practices and usecases for container-external storage.

Setting up and configuring a Swarm

• • Operational priorities of container orchestration
• • Containerized application architecture
• • Swarm scheduling workflow & task model
• • Automatic failure mitigation
• • Swarm installation & advanced customization

Deploying workloads on Swarm

• • Defining workloads as services
• • Scaling workloads
• • Container scheduling control
• • Rolling application updates and rollback
• • Application healthchecks
• • Application troubleshooting
• • Deploying applications as Stacks

Networking Swarm workloads

• • Swarm service discovery and routing implementation
• • Routing strategies for stateful and stateless workloads
• • Swarm ingress traffic

Provisioning dynamic configuration

• • Application configuration design
• • Environment variable management
• • Configuration file management
• • Provisioning sensitive information

Provisioning persistent storage

• • Storage backend architecture patterns
• • NFS backed Swarms

Monitoring Swarm

• • What to monitor in production-grade Swarms
• • Potential Swarm failure modes & mitigations
• • Swarm workload monitoring

Mirantis Kubernetes Engine Architecture

• • Production-grade deployment patterns
• • Containerized components of MKE
• • Networking & System requirements for MKE
• • Installing MKE via Launchpad for high availability

Access Control in MKE

• • MKE RBAC systems
• • PKI, client bundle and API authentication
• • Swarm and Kubernetes access control comparison

L7 Networking Features

• • Interlock for Swarm
• • Istio for Kubernetes
• • Sticky sessions, canary or blue/green deployments, and cookie usage for both orchestrators

MKE Support Dumps

• • Generating and understanding MKE support dumps
• • Finding critical information in support dumps for troubleshooting MKE
• • Enabling and exporting API audit logs for disaster post-mortem

MKE Troubleshooting

• • Correlating MKE symptoms with components
• • Probing and reading MKE state databases
• • Recovering failed MKE managers
• • MKE backups & restore
• • Disaster recovery in event of critical MKE failure

Mirantis Secure Registry Architecture

• • Production-grade deployment patterns
• • Containerized components of MSR
• • Networking & System requirements for MSR
• • Installing MSR via Launchpad for high availability
• • Integrating external storage into MSR

Access Control in MSR

• • MSR RBAC system

Content Trust

• • Defeating man in the middle attacks with The Update Framework & Notary
• • Content Trust usage in MSR

Security Scanning

• • Auditing container images for known vulnerabilities
• • Setting up MSR security scanning
• • Security scan integration in continuous integration

Repository Automation

• • Continuous integration pipeline architecture featuring MSR
• • Promoting and mirroring images through pipelines
• • Integrating MSR with external tooling via webhooks

Image Management

• • Image pruning and garbage collection strategies and automation
• • Registry sizing strategy
• • Content caching for distributed teams

MSR Troubleshooting

• • Correlating MSR symptoms with components
• • Probing and reading MSR state databases
• • Recovering failed MSR replicas
• • MSR backups & restore
• • Disaster recovery in event of critical MSR failure