Workshops on Praveen Salitra

Terraform with Azure

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

This half-day online workshop focused the concepts of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform. I chose Azure Cloud as the target Cloud Service Provider and covered:

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Landscape
Terraform OSS, Cloud, Enterprise
Terraform Concepts
- CLI
- State
- Providers
- Workspaces
- Basic Commands
- Plan vs Apply
- Modules
Hands-On
- Setup an AKS cluster and Azure PostgreSQL service
Review a Production Setup

During the workshop, the 40+ attendees followed the hands-on exercises on deploying a microservice in a containerized fashion on Azure Kubernetes Service and accessing those endpoints using Ingress Controllers. Entire cluster deployment as well as Kubernetes workload was deployed using Terraform.

Cloud Networking 101

Thu, 04 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

I went through the concepts of:

Network Models (OSI and TCP/IP)
IP Addresses
- IPv4 vs IPv6
- CIDR and Subnet Masking
- Private Networks
- VPC/VNET, Subnets
- NAT Gateways
- Sizing Recommendations
DNS
Load Balancers
- Layer 4 vs Layer 7
- LB vs Proxy
Network Security
- AWS Security Groups
- AWS NACLs
- Azure Firewalls

Container Orchestration with Azure Kubernetes Service

Fri, 06 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

This one-day in-person workshop focused on bringing concepts of Containers and Container Orchestration to the front-end and back-end engineers. During the day, I covered:

Container vs Virtual Machine
Container Fundamentals
Docker and Docker Compose
Docker Volumes
Overview of the Kubernetes Architecture
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Setup using Terraform
Azure Active Directory integration with AKS
kubectl Fundamentals
Ingress Controller Fundamentals and Installation
externaldns installation
SSL certification automation using cert-manager
Kubernetes Persistent Volumes

During the workshop, the 50+ attendees followed the hands-on exercises on deploying a microservice (Spring Boot, Python, and Node) in a containerized fashion on Azure Kubernetes Service and accessing those endpoints using Ingress Controllers. The services were backed by PostgreSQL databases running along with Kubernetes Persistent Volume attached to the Pod.

RESTful APIs with Node and NestJS

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

A brand new workshop focusing on developing RESTful API microservices using modern server side JavaScript frameworks like NestJS and TypeORM. Over the 5 day period (2 hours each) of this online workshop, I covered:

JavaScript Fundamentals
TypeScript Fundamentals
NestJS Fundamentals
Developing RESTful APIs with NestJS
TypeORM Fundamentals and connectivity with PostgreSQL
Swagger Integration for API documentation
Testing (unit and integration) NestJS based RESTful API

This workshop paved the way for using JavaScript on the fullstack: front-end and back-end RESTful APIs on lot of our future projects. We were able to use the same concepts of JavaScript/TypeScript both for React/Angular based web apps and for the NestJS based APIs.

Kubernetes Masterclass - Fall 2018

Thu, 27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

1. Deep Dive into Kubernetes Architecture and Components

In this session, I went through an overview of containers and understood how Kubernetes has become Gold Standard in container orchestration frameworks.

I answered questions like:

What is a container?
Why you should use containers?
What infrastructure do you need to run containers?
How Kubernetes (aka k8s) fits into the world of containers?
What are the components that make a Kubernetes cluster?
How Kubernetes orchestrates containers?
Who are the competitors of Kubernetes?

2. Setup a High-Available Kubernetes Cluster on AWS using kops

In this session, I talked about how to setup Kubernetes on the local machine. And then went through the complex production-ready setup of Kubernetes on AWS infrastructure.

Modern Microservices with Spring Boot and Docker

Fri, 01 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

A brand new workshop focusing on Spring Boot based microservice development and containerization using Docker and Docker Swarm. Over the 18 day period (2 hours each) of this online workshop, I covered:

Git
Java8 Fundamentals
Spring Fundamentals
Spring Boot for implementing RESTful API
Spring Data JPA for Database Operations
Swagger for API documentation
Docker and Docker Compose
Secrets Management with Docker and Spring Cloud
Jenkins deployment and configuration on AWS EC2 cluster
AWS RDS
AWS Route 53, Load Balancer
Testing RESTful APIs

The attendees worked on a workshop project focused on using above technologies and submitting it for the final review.

Getting Started with Containers on AWS

Thu, 02 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This two day workshop focused on bringing Cloud concepts to the front-end and back-end engineers. During the two day in-person sessions, I covered:

AWS Cloud - Regions, AZs
AWS Console, AWS IAM, AWS SDK, CLI
Domain Name System (DNS), Route 53
AWS SES, SNS
AWS S3, CloudFront
Nginx, Load Balancing
AWS EC2, AMI, EBS
AWS VPC, Subnets, Security Groups, NACL
Docker, Docker Registry
Docker Compose
Docker Swarm
AWS RDS

During the workshop, the 80+ attendees followed the hands-on exercises on deploying a microservice (Spring Boot and Node) in a containerized fashion on Docker Swarm running on AWS EC2 cluster.

Fullstack Web Development Using Angular and Spring Boot

Tue, 01 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000

A brand new workshop focusing on newer Angular (>2) and Spring Boot based microservice development. Over the 25 day period (2 hours each) of this online workshop, I covered:

Git
JavaScript Fundamentals and Advance Topics
TypeScript Fundamentals
Angular Fundamentals
Testing Angular Components
Java8 Fundamentals
Spring Fundamentals
Spring Boot for implementing RESTful API
Spring Data JPA for Database Operations
Swagger for API documentation
Testing RESTful APIs

The attendees worked on a workshop project focused on using above technologies and submitting it for the final review.

RESTful APIs with Java8 and Spring Boot

Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000

A huge upgrade to my previous Java workshops, this series focused on developing RESTful APIs with the popular microservice architecture in the mind. Over the 16 day period (2 hours each) of this online workshop, I covered:

Git
Maven
Java8 Fundamentals
Spring Fundamentals
JPA with Hibernate and Spring ORM
Spring Boot for implementing RESTful API
Spring Data JPA for Database Operations
Swagger for API documentation
Testing RESTful APIs

The attendees worked on a workshop project focused on using above technologies and submitting it for the final review.

Fullstack Web Development Using AngularJS and Spring

Mon, 02 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This workshop series focused on fullstack web development with front-end and RESTful APIs with the most popular framework at the time. Over the 28 day period (2 hours each) of this online workshop, I covered:

Git
Grunt and NPM
HTML5 Fundamentals
CSS3 Fundamentals
JavaScript Fundamentals and Advance Topics
AngularJS Fundamentals
Testing AngularJS Components
Maven
Spring Fundamentals
JPA with Hibernate and Spring ORM
Spring for implementing RESTful API
Testing RESTful APIs

The attendees worked on a workshop project focused on using above technologies and submitting it for the final review.

RESTful APIs with Java and Jersey

Fri, 01 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This workshop series focused on developing RESTful APIs at the time when old school MVC patterns were a norm. Over the 5 day period (2 hours each) of this online workshop, I covered:

Git
Maven
Java Fundamentals
JPA with EclipseLink
MySQL
Jersey for implementing RESTful API
Testing RESTful APIs

The attendees worked on a workshop project focused on using above technologies and submitting it for the final review.

The same series was repeated for the next 8 months and helped around 500+ engineering graduates to get a head start in the backend engineering and RESTful APIs.

Modern Web Development with AngularJS

Wed, 02 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This is the first workshop that I have ever done on the modern technologies and frameworks. Over the 21 day period (2 hours each) of this online workshop, I covered:

Git
Grunt and NPM
HTML5 Fundamentals
CSS3 Fundamentals
JavaScript Fundamentals and Advance Topics
AngularJS Fundamentals
Testing AngularJS Components

The attendees worked on a workshop project focused on using above technologies and submitting it for the final review.

The same series was repeated for the next 12 months and helped around 1050+ engineering graduates to get a head start in the web development.