A Sample Kubernetes Project With Useful Illustrations

• Environment specification

Operating System

Windows 11

Docker Desktop & Docker Engine Version

$ docker version
Client:
 Version:           27.4.0
 API version:       1.47
 Go version:        go1.22.10
 Git commit:        bde2b89
 OS/Arch:           windows/amd64
 Context:           desktop-linux

Server: Docker Desktop 4.37.1 (178610)
 Engine:
  Version:          27.4.0
  API version:      1.47 (minimum version 1.24)
  Go version:       go1.22.10
  Git commit:       92a8393
  OS/Arch:          linux/amd64
  Experimental:     false
 containerd:
  Version:          1.7.21
  GitCommit:        472731909fa34bd7bc9c087e4c27943f9835f111
 runc:
  Version:          1.1.13
  GitCommit:        v1.1.13-0-g58aa920
 docker-init:
  Version:          0.19.0
  GitCommit:        de40ad0

Kubernetes Vesrion

$ kubectl version
Client Version: v1.30.5
Kustomize Version: v5.0.4-0.20230601165947-6ce0bf390ce3
Server Version: v1.30.5

Helm Version

$ helm version
version.BuildInfo{Version:"v3.12.2", GitCommit:"1e210a2c8cc5117d1055bfaa5d40f51bbc2e345e", GitTreeState:"clean", GoVersion:"go1.20.5"}

WSL Version

$ wsl --version
WSL version: 2.3.26.0
Kernel version: 5.15.167.4-1
WSLg version: 1.0.65
MSRDC version: 1.2.5620
Direct3D version: 1.611.1-81528511
DXCore version: 10.0.26100.1-240331-1435.ge-release
Windows version: 10.0.22631.4602

• Deployment of a staged application with Helm

• Deployment of NGINX Ingress Controller and Accessing applications through Ingress

• Deployment and Access the Kubernetes Dashboard

• Installation of Cert-Manager and Generation of Self signed certificate for TLS termination

• Deployment of Kube-Prometheus Stack and Accessing Prometheus Metrics & Grafana Visualizations

• Deployment of Prometheus-Exporter for a MongoDB Application and Accessing MongoDB Prometheus Metrics

• Deployment of ArgoCD and Leveraging Continuous Deployment with it

• Illustration of Stakater Reloader

• Installation of EFK Stack for K8s logging

• Illustration of following Kubernetes Pod & Container specific tasks:

  1. In Place Container's CPU & Memory Resource Adjustment

  2. Different Pod QoS in action

  3. Illustration of Native SideCar

to be continued