Pre-requisites

Pre-requisites¶

2. Capture The Flag ¶

Connect to Capture The Flag server using your Major League Cyber’s credentials
Authorize this workshop to access your profile
You are redirected to Challenges that are questions asked during Exercises in each Lab.

3. Site ID and region ¶

A dedicated environment is created for each user
Ask F5 instructor for your {{site_ID}} and your {{region}}
During Labs, reuse those variables in command lines. For example replace {{site_ID}} by 1

4. Jumphost ¶

Logging into your lab System:

Copy-paste private SSH key here to a local file jumphost.key
On Mac/Linux, modify the rights of your local file jumphost.key with the command: below:

chmod 600 jumphost.key

On Windows use SecureCRT or Putty: download jumphost.ppk for Putty.
Open an SSH session to jumphost-aksdistrict{{site_ID}}.{{region}}.cloudapp.azure.com. Log in as user cyber authenticated with private key jumphost.key.

ssh -i jumphost.key cyber@jumphost-aksdistrict{{site_ID}}.{{region}}.cloudapp.azure.com

Elevate your privilege:

sudo su -

Get your kubeconfig:

cat .kube/config

5. Lens ¶

Donwload Lens here
Install and run Lens
Add your AKS cluster in Catalog by copy-paste the output of cat .kube/config get in the previous step

If you see any charts for CPU, Memory as shown in the picture below, stop here. If not, you are running an older version of Lens, so continue further steps.

Edit cluster settings

Edit metrics:
- PROMETHEUS: Prometheus Operator
- PROMETHEUS SERVICE ADDRESS: monitoring/prometheus-kube-prometheus-prometheus:9090

Connect to cluster

Browse into your cluster

6. NGINX Controller ¶

Share your Public IP address to F5 instructor using monip.io
F5 instructor will allow your Public IP
Connect to NGINX Controller
Login / Password: devops{{ site_ID }}@f5cloudbuilder.dev / NGINXC0ntroller!

The architecture of labs shows microservices application deployed to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). It uses a basic AKS configuration that can be the starting point for most deployments. Participating to this lab assumes a basic knowledge of Kubernetes as described in this Kubernetes Networking 101 lesson.

Optionaly, you can also read this article that introduce you to infrastructure and DevOps considerations of running a microservices architecture on AKS.