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

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

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
• 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
• 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

lab outline

Lab Exercise Overview Part 1: Using the HPE Storage APIs

• Lab 1: Using the REST APIs with Linux and Curl
• Lab 2: Using PowerShell scripts to allocate storage
• Lab 3: Using Ansible with HPE storage

Part 2: Automating HPE storage for applications with Kubernetes

• Lab 4: Deploying the HPE Container Storage Interface for Kubernetes
• Lab 5: Configuring automated volume management in Kubernetes
• Lab 6: Creating persistent volume claims
• Lab 7: Setting the default storage class
• Lab 8: Deploying an application with automated volume creation and attachment
• Lab 9: Creating a snapshot and a clone
• Lab 10: Storage in a CI/CD environment
• Lab 11: Using the NFS Server Provisioner for the HPE CSI
• Lab 12: Using host-based volume encryption

Developers and administrators who create automation and integration applications

Prior to this course, students should have experience with:

• Basic storage concepts
• Virtualization concepts, including Docker and Kubernetes
• Scripting or coding