Course Overview
This course provides hands-on learning for developers and administrators who create automation and integration applications. The course focuses on:
- Automating container applications using HPE storage arrays
- HPE modules for Ansible-enabled automated storage provisioning
- SDK to communicate with the HPE storage array over the WSAPI REST interface
- Container Storage Interface that provides persistent storage for your containerized applications and popular container platforms like Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift
- Tools and techniques to automate deployment of an application in Kubernetes with persistent storage
Moyens d'évaluation :
- Quiz pré-formation de vérification des connaissances (si applicable)
- Évaluations formatives pendant la formation, à travers les travaux pratiques réalisés sur les labs à l’issue de chaque module, QCM, mises en situation…
- Complétion par chaque participant d’un questionnaire et/ou questionnaire de positionnement en amont et à l’issue de la formation pour validation de l’acquisition des compétences
Who should attend
Developers and administrators who create automation and integration applications
Prerequisites
Prior to this course, students should have experience with:
- Basic storage concepts
- Virtualization concepts, including Docker and Kubernetes
- Scripting or coding
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate the use of the WSAPI REST interface
- Describe the use of storage in a Docker environment
- Configure a Kubernetes environment that uses HPE Primera/HPE 3PAR or HPE Nimble Storage
- Deploy applications that use persistent volumes in a Kubernetes environment
Course Content
Module 0: Course Overview
- Course overview and objectives
- Course benefits
Module 1: Overview of Automating HPE Storage for a Container Environment
- Benefits of HPE storage for containers
- Containers and storage plugins overview
- Challenges in providing storage in a container environment
- Use cases—DevOps CI/CD pipeline, IT operations, lift and shift, CaaS
- Storage operations for containers
- The need for a storage plug-in
Module 2: Using the Storage API
- Storage API objects overview
- Using the API for storage management
- Exercise: Using Curl to make API calls to storage API
- Exercise: Creating scripts to manage storage using the API
Module 3: Using PowerShell
- Overview of PowerShell
- Using PowerShell Invoke-RestMethod to access the storage API
- Exercise: Create and run PowerShell scripts to access the storage API
- Exercise: Install and use an HPE storage PowerShell toolkit to create scripts
Module 4: Using Ansible Automation for Storage Management
- Installing and configuring Ansible modules for storage
- Creating and managing storage volumes using Ansible playbooks
- Exercise: Orchestrating storage with Ansible playbooks
Module 5: Docker and Storage
- Docker and storage overview
- Storage operations in Docker
- Creating and managing volumes
- File sharing operations
- Cloning and snapshots
- Troubleshooting storage in Docker
Module 6: Kubernetes and Storage
- Kubernetes overview
- Overview of the Kubernetes environment and architecture
- Use cases for persistent storage
- Storage in Kubernetes
- HPE storage platforms for Kubernetes
- Creating persistent storage
- Managing the containerized volume plug-in
- HPE storage platforms for Kubernetes
- Storage plugins for Kubernetes
- FlexVolume driver
- Container Storage Interface
- Exercise: Installing the Container Storage Interface for Kubernetes
- Automated storage provisioning
- Configuring automated volume management in Kubernetes
- Exercise: Configuring automated volume management in Kubernetes
- Deploying applications with automated volume creation and attachment
- Common controls for persistent storage
- Dynamic provisioning for Kubernetes
- Access modes for PVCs
- Advanced policy-based provisioning
- Self-service zero-copy clones of PVCs
- Setting the default storage class
Labs
- Exercise: Creating persistent volume claims
- Exercise: Setting the default storage class
- Exercise: Deploying an application with automated volume creation and attachment
- Exercise: Volume replication, backup and recovery operations
- Exercise: Using storage in a CI/CD environment
- Exercise: Using the NFS Server Provisioner for the HPE CSI
- Exercise: Using host-based volume encryption
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