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HPE Storage: Containers and Automation HN5A3S

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Duration
2 Days
Delivery
(Online and onsite)
Price
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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
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