k8s-adventure

Setting up your developer environment terminal

bash profile settings
byobu
Kubernetes tools - kubectl, helm
kubectx, kubens, kube-ps1, k, complete alias
Free Root DNS
Things to setup in AWS Account e.g. Route53 hosted zone
Things to setup in Azure Account
your common ssh-key for nodes

Installation of Simpler trial Kubernetes Distributions

k3s
Minikube
Kind

Typical things to validate various Kubernetes features

Ingress Controller
Kubernetes Dashboard
Monitoring
podinfo deployment
Autoscaling testing (both HPA and cluster)
Storage testing

Installation of Production Grade Kubernetes Distributions

KOPS
EKS
AKS
Kubermatic KubeOne
Kubespray

Installation of Multi-cluster Managers

Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform (kkp)
Rancher (To be added)

Explored Features

Storage

Longhorn (on AWS KOPS)
EFS

Security

Using Hashicorp Vault for secrets. (Usage via In-cluster installation with Consul)

Auto-scaling

Pod Autoscaling via Horizontal Pod Autoscaler ( KOPS, EKS)
Node autoscaling via Cluster Autoscaler (EKS)

WIP ( External-DNS setup)

WIP Access cloud resouces via kube2iam / aad-pod-identity / gke workload identity etc