🚀 Labs Repository

Welcome to my labs repo! Here, you'll find a collection of hands-on labs and projects I've created to explore various DevOps and cloud-native topics. Each lab links to its respective GitHub repository. Feel free to explore around.

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📚 Table of Contents

• 🚀 Labs Repository
  • 📚 Table of Contents
  • General
  • Certification Labs
  • 🌐 Linux & Networking Labs
  • 🟧 AWS Labs
  • 🌀 Kubernetes Labs
  • 🟡 Messaging & Queueing Tools Labs (Kafka, Pulsar, ZMQ)
  • 🔵 Cilium Labs (Kubernetes Networking)
  • 🛠 Platform related labs
    • 🌟 Getting Started

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General

1. General Playground - General playground.
2. General Notes - all my study notes migrated from notion/hardcopy to github.

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Certification Labs

1. Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate KCNA - Note: A documentation of notes & curated useful resources to help you prepare for the Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate Exam (KCNA) Feel free to share them :)
2. Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist CKS - A set of curated exercises to help you prepare for the CKS exam.
3. Certified Kubernetes Administrator CKA - A set of curated exercises to help prepare you for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator Exam by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

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🌐 Linux & Networking Labs

1. UNIX Networking - Repo documenting all my networking notes in the unix, containers, cloud and k8s space.
2. ZeroTier VPN - ZeroTier VPN.
3. VPN on AWS & Azure - VPN on AWS and Azure.
4. Learn Linux & Networking - Learn Linux & Networking.
5. Net scanning tools - This tool scans your local network to discover live hosts and checks whether specific ports are open on those hosts. The script performs the following steps:.
6. Tailscale VPN - Run Tailscale VPN (agent/relay) in a container.
7. Tailscale on AWS - Tailscale on AWS.

🟧 AWS Labs

1. EKS Observability - EKS observability.
2. VPN on AWS & Azure - VPN on AWS and Azure.
3. ECS Drainer - ECS Drainer.
4. Node Drainer Lambda - Node Drainer Lambda.
5. Blue Green on AWS ECS - Blue Green on AWS ECS.
6. Traefik on AWS ECS - Traefik on AWS ECS via Terraform.
7. Terraform AWS Shield Advanced - Terraform AWS Shield Advanced.
8. Cloud Native Demo - Cloud Native Demo.
9. Cloud Native DNS - Cloud Native DNS.
10. ArgoCD on AWS EKS - ArgoCD on AWS EKS.

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🌀 Kubernetes Labs

1. K8s Platform Local Setup on Kind - Setup a local K8s platform using Kind.
2. K8s bare metal setup - Setup a K8s cluster on bare metal.
3. Cloud Native Demo - Cloud Native Demo.
4. Cloud Native DNS - Cloud Native DNS.
5. ArgoCD on AWS EKS - ArgoCD on AWS EKS.
6. K8s conf - K8s config.

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🟡 Messaging & Queueing Tools Labs (Kafka, Pulsar, ZMQ)

1. Kafka on Kubernetes - Deploy and manage Kafka on Kubernetes using Strimzi.
2. Kafka on AWS MSK - Deploy and manage Kafka on AWS MSK.
3. Kafka Security - Set up security for Kafka with mTLS (SSL/TLS encryption.)
4. Kafka Raw K8s - Deploy and manage Kafka on Kubernetes without Strimzi.
5. Kafka Security on EC2 - Kafka Security on EC2.
6. ZMQ Demo - ZMQ Demo.
7. Pulsar Playground - Pulsar playground.

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🔵 Cilium Labs (Kubernetes Networking)

1. Cilium Network Policies - Basic demo of Cilium network policies.
2. Cilium Hubble - Cilium on Kind. Advanced demo.
3. Cilium IPv6 - Cilium with IPv6.

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🛠 Platform related labs

Labs consisting of crossplane, homelab, nomad, localstack, nginx, traefik, etc.

1. Crossplane on Kind - Crossplane on Kind.
2. Homelab with multipass - K8s cluster using Multipass, Ansible, and k3s.
3. Nomad Demo - Nomad demo.
4. Localstack Demo - Localstack demo.
5. ECS Localstack - ECS with Localstack.
6. EKS Localstack - EKS with Localstack.
7. NGINX Demo - NGINX demo.
8. Traefik ingress k8s - Traefik ingress controller on k8s.
9. Traefik DNS Cloudflare - Traefik with DNS challenge for Cloudflare.
10. ZeroTier VPN - ZeroTier VPN.
11. Envoy Demo - Envoy lab.
12. Prometheus Labs - Prometheus labs.
13. ELK Ansible - ELK stack with Ansible.
14. GH Runner on K8s - GH Runner on K8s.
15. Traefik middlewares - Traefik middlewares.
16. ECS Drainer - ECS Drainer.
17. Node Drainer Lambda - Node Drainer Lambda.
18. AMI Build - AMI Build.
19. Kubeflow ML on EKS - Kubeflow ML on EKS.
20. Terraform & Packer - Terraform & Packer.
21. Packer to build custom Vagrant boxes - Packer to build custom Vagrant boxes.
22. Homelab with Multipass v2 for Raspberry Pi - Homelab with Multipass v2 for Raspberry Pi.
23. CDN Fastly Demo - CDN Fastly Demo.
24. GitOps bootstrap - GitOps bootstrap.
25. GitOps ArgoCD - GitOps ArgoCD.
26. GitOps Demo - GitOps Demo.
27. Terraform Provider for Istio - Terraform, Terragrunt and Terratests labs.

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🌟 Getting Started

Each lab includes detailed instructions in the respective repository. Clone the repos, follow the setup steps and enjoy the labs!

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Enjoy! 🎉

P.S. I'm not perfect. Please feel free to give me feedback and any suggestions on any improvements to these labs