labs-overview.md

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Welcome to the Application Platform for LKE labs! If you are going to use the Application Platform for LKE or like to learn Kubernetes, these labs are for you. Step by step we'll guide you in how to build, deploy, secure and observe containerized applications on Kubernetes. The labs cover the most common activities performed by developer- and/or DevOps teams.

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Make sure everything is ready to get started

Provision a LKE Kubernetes cluster and install the Application Platform

Lab prerequisites

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Create code repositories and build/push images

Create private Git repositories

Build images

Trigger builds

Push images to Harbor

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Create workloads

Create Sealed secrets

Create Kubernetes resources with Argo CD

Use the Catalog

Create a workload using the developer catalog

Configure the auto image updater

Create Projects

Create a PostgreSQL database

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Expose workloads

Publicly expose workloads

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Secure workloads

Scan images for vulnerabilities

Scan running containers for vulnerabilities

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Monitor and debug workloads

View container logs

View container metrics

Using custom metrics

Monitoring availability of Services

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Advanced Labs

Use external private Git repositories

Create network policies

Tracing with OpenTelemetry

Canary Deployments

Create a RabbitMQ cluster