chrisjen83 / k3s-labs

Hands-On Lab Guides for Classroom Kubernetes Training

K3s Tutorials

This repository has been designed to guide you through basic steps of Kubernetes and Docker. The environment which these tutorials are designed for is Rancher K3s running on a 4 node Raspberry Pi 4 cluster. All docker images have been created in multi-arch for AMD64 and ARM64.

To get the most out of these tutorials please follow the below labs in order.

Setup Up Lab Environment

​ Download Lab VM

​ Kubectl Config File

​ Once you have your lab VM running clone via git this repo into the VM. We will be using these files for all of the tutorials.

# mkdir -p ~/git/
# cd ~/git
# git clone https://github.com/chrisjen83/k3s-labs.git

Docker Labs

​ Deploy a Docker Image

​ Understand Docker Networking

Setup Kubernetes

1. Deploy a K3s Load Balancer

2. Deploy MongoDB ARM64

   Dell EMC ECS Metadata Search GUI

   1. Deploy ECS Metadata Search

   Photo Album Application

   1. Deploy Photo Album Web Page
   2. https://github.com/chrisjen83/k3s-labs/tree/master/ecs_meta_search)

Handy Links

When working with YAML spaces are a critical part of the language. One wrong space and the YAML is unusable. I have found a very good YAML formatter which helps you resolve strange syntax and formatting errors in your YAML. If during the course you have a YAML format or syntax error give this website a go.

Kubernetes YAML Linter