LTRCLD-2397 - Create Your Multi-Cloud Platform with Infrastructure-as-Code

Glossary

1. Cisco ACI: Application Centric Infrastructure
2. IaC: Infrastructure as Code
3. Ansible
4. Terraform
5. NaaS: Network as a Service
6. IaaS: Infrastructure as a Service
7. KaaS: Kubernetes as a Service
8. AAC: ACI as Code
9. CNI: Container Network Interface

Learning Objectives

1. Use Git for version control
2. Express IaC configurations
3. Use GitLab for CI/CD development
4. Leverage GitLab CI/CD for automated testing and deployment
5. Experience NaaS and IaaS by enabling communication between VMs and containers.
6. Learn the basics of KaaS by deploying a k8s cluster and a containerized applications.
7. Learn the basics of k8s networking and observability by installing Isovalent Cilium onto a k8s cluster.

Steps

1. Learn about the GitLab environment and CI/CD pipelines
2. Modify an existing ACI tenant into a fully automated fashion with IaC
3. Deploy VMs on vCenter and create a Rancher k8s cluster using IaC principles.
4. Install k8s network platform using Isovalent Cilium
5. Interact with the k8s cluster
6. Deploy a containerized microservices application on a k8s cluster
7. Observe the apps using Isovalent Hubble
8. Deploy a Google Cloud k8s cluster
9. Connect clusters using Isovalent Mesh
10. Load balance traffic between clusters
11. Deploy a gaming application