Application Gateway Ingress Controller (AGIC) Made Easy

A Comprehensive and Practical Course: Containers, K8s, Web Applications, Routing, Security, Monitoring, HA and others

Created by: courscape.com by Andrei Barbu | Microsoft employee working daily with AKS, ARO, ACI, ACR
Microsoft Employee working on AKS, ARO, ACI, ACR and more

What Will I Learn?

• Containerization, Kubernetes, AKS, Application Gateway basics
• What Application Gateway Ingress Controller (AGIC) is, networking considerations, deployment methods
• How to expose applications via custom domain name
• AGIC routing and other AGIC-related annotations
• How to create multiple types of TLS/SSL certificates and expose applications via HTTPS, using TLS/SSL termination or End-to-End TLS/SSL
• AGIC-related security, including Web Application Firewall (WAF)
• Other AGIC-related configurations like restricting it to specific namespaces or sharing the Application Gateway with other Azure services
• How to monitor and troubleshoot the Application Gateway and its traffic
• How to achieve reliability and high availability

Requirements

• It is good to have basic knowledge of Containerization, Linux, Networking, Kubernetes, Azure, Application Gateway, and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) but I am explaining most of the concepts at specific points in the course

Target audience

• Anyone that would like to expose containerized web application running in Azure
• Developers and architects interested in learning how to deploy and manage applications using AGIC
• AKS/Kubernetes administrators or operators who want to understand how to integrate AGIC into their AKS/Kubernetes clusters for advanced ingress capabilities
• DevOps engineers responsible for managing and optimizing application delivery in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using AGIC
• IT professionals interested in leveraging the benefits of Web Application Firewall (WAF) and other security features provided by AGIC in Azure
• Administrators that looking to achieve high availability for their web applications
• Anyone who is looking to learn a new skill