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## AWS
# AWS
### AWS Exercises
## AWS Exercises
Note: Provided solutions are using the AWS console. It's recommended you'll use IaC technologies to solve the exercises (e.g. Terraform).<br>
Note 2: Some of the exercises cost money and can't be performed using the free tier/resources
**Note**: Provided solutions are using the AWS console. It's recommended you'll use IaC technologies to solve the exercises (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi).<br>
**2nd Note**: Some of the exercises cost money and can't be performed using the free tier/resources
#### AWS - IAM
* [AWS IAM](#exercises-aws-iam)
* [AWS EC2](#exercises-aws-ec2)
* [AWS ELB](#exercises-aws-elb)
* [AWS Auto Scaling Groups](#exercises-aws-asg)
* [AWS VPC](#exercises-aws-vpc)
* [AWS Databases](#exercises-aws-databases)
* [AWS DNS](#exercises-aws-dns)
* [AWS Containers](#exercises-aws-containers)
* [AWS Lambda](#exercises-aws-rambda)
* [AWS Elastic Beanstalk](#exercises-aws-elastic-beanstalk)
* [AWS Misc](#exercises-aws-misc)
<a name="exercises-aws-iam"></a>
### IAM
|Name|Topic|Objective & Instructions|Solution|Comments|
|--------|--------|------|----|----|
@ -15,7 +28,8 @@ Note 2: Some of the exercises cost money and can't be performed using the free t
| Credential Report | IAM | [Exercise](credential_report.md) | [Solution](solutions/credential_report.md) | Easy |
| Access Advisor | IAM | [Exercise](access_advisor.md) | [Solution](solutions/access_advisor.md) | Easy |
#### AWS - EC2
<a name="exercises-aws-ec2"></a>
### EC2
|Name|Topic|Objective & Instructions|Solution|Comments|
|--------|--------|------|----|----|
@ -32,7 +46,8 @@ Note 2: Some of the exercises cost money and can't be performed using the free t
| Create an AMI | EC2, AMI | [Exercise](create_ami.md) | [Solution](solutions/create_ami.md) | Easy |
| Create EFS | EC2, EFS | [Exercise](create_efs.md) | [Solution](solutions/create_efs.md) | Easy |
#### AWS - ELB
<a name="exercises-aws-elb"></a>
### ELB
|Name|Topic|Objective & Instructions|Solution|Comments|
|--------|--------|------|----|----|
@ -40,21 +55,24 @@ Note 2: Some of the exercises cost money and can't be performed using the free t
| Multiple Target Groups | ELB, ALB | [Exercise](alb_multiple_target_groups.md) | [Solution](solutions/alb_multiple_target_groups.md) | Easy |
| Network Load Balancer | ELB, NLB | [Exercise](network_load_balancer.md) | [Solution](solutions/network_load_balancer.md) | Easy |
#### AWS - Auto Scaling Groups
<a name="exercises-aws-asg"></a>
### Auto Scaling Groups
|Name|Topic|Objective & Instructions|Solution|Comments|
|--------|--------|------|----|----|
| Auto Scaling Groups Basics | ASG | [Exercise](auto_scaling_groups_basics.md) | [Solution](solutions/auto_scaling_groups_basics.md) | Easy |
| Dynamic Scaling Policy | ASG, Policies | [Exercise](asg_dynamic_scaling_policy.md) | [Solution](solutions/asg_dynamic_scaling_policy.md) | Easy |
#### AWS - VPC
<a name="exercises-aws-vpc"></a>
### VPC
|Name|Topic|Objective & Instructions|Solution|Comments|
|--------|--------|------|----|----|
| My First VPC | VPC | [Exercise](new_vpc.md) | [Solution](solutions/new_vpc.md) | Easy |
| Subnets | VPC | [Exercise](subnets.md) | [Solution](solutions/subnets.md) | Easy |
#### AWS - Databases
<a name="exercises-aws-databases"></a>
### Databases
|Name|Topic|Objective & Instructions|Solution|Comments|
|--------|--------|------|----|----|
@ -62,7 +80,8 @@ Note 2: Some of the exercises cost money and can't be performed using the free t
| Aurora DB | RDS | [Exercise](aurora_db.md) | [Solution](solutions/aurora_db.md) | Easy |
| ElastiCache | ElastiCache | [Exercise](elasticache.md) | [Solution](solutions/elasticache.md) | Easy |
#### AWS - DNS
<a name="exercises-aws-dns"></a>
### DNS
|Name|Topic|Objective & Instructions|Solution|Comments|
|--------|--------|------|----|----|
@ -71,36 +90,76 @@ Creating Records | Route 53 | [Exercise](creating_records.md) | [Solution](solut
Health Checks | Route 53 | [Exercise](health_checks.md) | [Solution](solutions/health_checks.md) | Easy |
Failover | Route 53 | [Exercise](route_53_failover.md) | [Solution](solutions/route_53_failover.md) | Easy |
#### AWS - Containers
<a name="exercises-aws-containers"></a>
### Containers
|Name|Topic|Objective & Instructions|Solution|Comments|
|--------|--------|------|----|----|
| ECS Task | ECS, Fargate | [Exercise](ecs_task.md) | [Solution](solutions/ecs_task.md) | Easy |
#### AWS - Lambda
<a name="exercises-aws-lambda"></a>
### Lambda
|Name|Topic|Objective & Instructions|Solution|Comments|
|--------|--------|------|----|----|
| Hello Function | Lambda | [Exercise](hello_function.md) | [Solution](solutions/hello_function.md) | Easy |
| URL Function | Lambda | [Exercise](url_function.md) | [Solution](solutions/url_function.md) | Easy |
#### AWS - Elastic Beanstalk
<a name="exercises-aws-elastic-beanstalk"></a>
### Elastic Beanstalk
|Name|Topic|Objective & Instructions|Solution|Comments|
|--------|--------|------|----|----|
| Simple Elastic Beanstalk Node.js app | Elastic Beanstalk | [Exercise](elastic_beanstalk_simple.md) | [Solution](solutions/elastic_beanstalk_simple.md) | Easy |
#### AWS - Misc
<a name="exercises-aws-misc"></a>
### Misc
|Name|Topic|Objective & Instructions|Solution|Comments|
|--------|--------|------|----|----|
| Budget Setup | Budget | [Exercise](budget_setup.md) | [Solution](solutions/budget_setup.md) | Easy |
| No Application :'( | Troubleshooting | [Exercise](no_application.md) | [Solution](solutions/no_application.md) | Easy |
### AWS Self Assessment
## AWS Self Assessment
#### AWS - Global Infrastructure
* [AWS Global Infrastructure](#questions-aws-global-infra)
* [AWS IAM](#questions-aws-iam)
* [AWS EC2](#questions-aws-ec2)
* [AMI](#questions-aws-ec2-ami)
* [EBS](#questions-aws-ec2-ebs)
* [Instance Store](#questions-aws-ec2-instance-store)
* [EFS](#questions-aws-ec2-efs)
* [Pricing Models](#questions-aws-ec2-pricing-models)
* [Launch Templates](#questions-aws-ec2-launch-templates)
* [ENI](#questions-aws-ec2-eni)
* [Placement Groups](#questions-aws-ec2-placement-groups)
* [AWS Containers](#questions-aws-containers)
* [AWS ECS](#questions-aws-containers-ecs)
* [AWS Fargate](#questions-aws-containers-fargate)
* [AWS S3](#questions-aws-s3)
* [AWS Disaster Recovery](#questions-aws-disaster-recovery)
* [AWS ELB](#questions-aws-elb)
* [AWS Auto Scaling Group](#questions-aws-asg)
* [AWS Security](#questions-aws-security)
* [AWS Databases](#questions-aws-db)
* [AWS RDS](#questions-aws-db-rds)
* [AWS Aurora](#questions-aws-db-aurora)
* [AWS DynamoDB](#questions-aws-db-dynamodb)
* [AWS ElastiCache](#questions-aws-db-elasticache)
* [AWS RedShift](#questions-aws-db-redshift)
* [AWS VPC](#questions-vpc)
* [AWS DNS](#questions-aws-dns)
* [AWS Monitoring and Logging](#questions-aws-monitoring-logging)
* [AWS Billing and Support](#questions-aws-billing-support)
* [AWS Automation](#questions-aws-automation)
* [AWS Misc](#questions-aws-misc)
* [AWS HA](#questions-aws-ha)
* [AWS Production Operations and Migrations](#questions-aws-migrations)
* [AWS Scenarios](#questions-aws-scenarios)
* [AWS Architecture Design](#questions-aws-architecture-design)
<a name="questions-aws-global-infra"></a>
### Global Infrastructure
<details>
<summary>Explain the following
@ -137,7 +196,8 @@ False. The minimum is 2 while the maximum is 6.
* Pricing: the pricing might not be consistent across regions so, the price for the same service in different regions might be different.
</b></details>
#### AWS - IAM
<a name="questions-aws-iam"></a>
### IAM
<details>
<summary>What is IAM? What are some of its features?</summary><br><b>
@ -273,7 +333,8 @@ This policy permits to perform any action on any resource. It happens to be the
IAM Access Advisor
</b></details>
#### AWS - EC2
<a name="questions-aws-ec2"></a>
### EC2
<details>
<summary>What is EC2?</summary><br><b>
@ -305,7 +366,8 @@ True. As opposed to IAM for example, which is a global service, EC2 is a regiona
AMI. With AMI (Amazon Machine Image) you can customize EC2 instances by specifying which software to install, what OS changes should be applied, etc.
</b></details>
##### AWS EC2 - AMI
<a name="questions-aws-ec2-ami"></a>
#### EC2 - AMI
<details>
<summary>What is AMI?</summary><br><b>
@ -395,7 +457,8 @@ Storage Optimized:
EBS
</b></details>
##### AWS EC2 - EBS
<a name="questions-aws-ec2-ebs"></a>
#### AWS EC2 - EBS
<details>
<summary>Explain Amazon EBS</summary><br><b>
@ -492,7 +555,8 @@ SSD: gp2, gp3, io1, io2
True.
</b></details>
##### AWS EC2 - Instance Store
<a name="questions-aws-ec2-instance-store"></a>
#### AWS EC2 - Instance Store
<details>
<summary>If you would like to have an hardware disk attached to your EC2 instead of a network one (EBS). What would you use?</summary><br><b>
@ -513,7 +577,8 @@ It is mostly used for cache and temporary data purposes.
Yes, the data on instance store is lost when they are stopped.
</b></details>
##### AWS Storage - EFS
<a name="questions-aws-ec2-efs"></a>
#### AWS EC2 - EFS
<details>
<summary>What is Amazon EFS?</summary><br><b>
@ -579,7 +644,8 @@ Performance Mode (General Purpose): Used for web serving, CMS, ... anything that
* Infrequent access: lower prices to store files but it also costs to retrieve them
</b></details>
##### AWS EC2 - Pricing Models
<a name="questions-aws-ec2-pricing-models"></a>
#### AWS EC2 - Pricing Models
<details>
<summary>What EC2 pricing models are there?</summary><br><b>
@ -840,7 +906,8 @@ True. This is because the operating system isn't restarted or stopped.
* Usually combined with Reserved Instances and Saving Plans to achieve cost saving
</b></details>
##### AWS EC2 - Launch Template
<a name="questions-aws-ec2-launch-templates"></a>
#### AWS EC2 - Launch Template
<details>
<summary>What is a launch template?</summary><br><b>
@ -859,7 +926,87 @@ In addition, launch template has the clear benefits of:
* support creating parameters subsets (used for re-use and inheritance)
</b></details>
#### AWS - Lambda
<a name="questions-aws-ec2-eni"></a>
#### AWS EC2 - ENI
<details>
<summary>Explain Elastic Network Interfaces (ENI)</summary><br><b>
[AWS Docs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-eni.html): "An elastic network interface is a logical networking component in a VPC that represents a virtual network card."
</b></details>
<details>
<summary>Name at least three attributes the Elastic Network Interfaces (ENI) can include</summary><br><b>
1. One public IPv4 address
2. Mac Address
3. A primary private IPv4 address (from the address range of your VPC)
</b></details>
<details>
<summary>True or False? ENI are not bound to a specific availability zone</summary><br><b>
False. ENI are bound to specific availability zone.
</b></details>
<details>
<summary>True or False? ENI can be created independently of EC2 instances</summary><br><b>
True. They can be attached later on and on the fly (for failover purposes).
</b></details>
<a name="questions-aws-ec2-placement-groups"></a>
#### AWS EC2 - Placement Groups
<details>
<summary>What are "Placement Groups"?</summary><br><b>
[AWS Docs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/placement-groups.html): "When you launch a new EC2 instance, the EC2 service attempts to place the instance in such a way that all of your instances are spread out across underlying hardware to minimize correlated failures. You can use placement groups to influence the placement of a group of interdependent instances to meet the needs of your workload."
</b></details>
<details>
<summary>What Placement Groups strategies are there?</summary><br><b>
* Cluster: places instance close together in an AZ.
* Spread: spreads the instance across the hardware
* Partition: spreads the instances across different partitions (= different sets of hardware/racks) within an AZ
</b></details>
<details>
<summary>For each of the following scenarios choose a placement group strategy:
* High availability is top priority
* Low latency between instances
* Instances must be isolated from each other
* Big Data applications that are partition aware
* Big Data process that needs to end quickly</summary><br><b>
* High availability is top priority - Spread
* Low latency between instances - Cluster
* Instances must be isolated from each other - Spread
* Big Data applications that are partition aware - Partition
* Big Data process that needs to end quickly - Cluster
</b></details>
<details>
<summary>What are the cons and pros of the "Cluster" placement group strategy?</summary><br><b>
Cons: if the hardware fails, all instances fail
Pros: Low latency & high throughput network
</b></details>
<details>
<summary>What are the cons and pros of the "Spread" placement group strategy?</summary><br><b>
Cons:
* Current limitation is 7 instances per AZ (per replacement group)
Pros:
* Maximized high availability (instances on different hardware, span across AZs)
</b></details>
<a name="questions-aws-identify-service"></a>
### Lambda
<details>
<summary>Explain what is AWS Lambda</summary><br><b>
@ -892,9 +1039,11 @@ False. Charges are being made when the code is executed.
True
</b></details>
#### AWS - Containers
<a name="questions-aws-containers"></a>
### Containers
##### AWS Containers - ECS
<a name="questions-aws-containers-ecs"></a>
#### Containers - ECS
<details>
<summary>What is Amazon ECS?</summary><br><b>
@ -941,7 +1090,8 @@ EC2 Instance Profile used by ECS agent on an EC2 instance to:
Using EFS is a good way to share data between containers and it works also between different AZs.
</b></details>
##### AWS Containers - Fargate
<a name="questions-aws-containers-fargate"></a>
#### Containers - Fargate
<details>
<summary>What is AWS Fargate?</summary><br><b>
@ -964,7 +1114,8 @@ While in AWS Fargate, you don't provision or manage the infrastructure, you simp
True.
</b></details>
#### AWS - S3
<a name="questions-aws-s3"></a>
### S3
<details>
<summary>Explain what is AWS S3?</summary><br><b>
@ -1124,7 +1275,8 @@ Learn more [here](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/transfer-accel
<summary>What storage options are there for EC2 Instances?</summary><br><b>
</b></details>
#### AWS Disaster Recovery
<a name="questions-aws-disaster-recovery"></a>
### Disaster Recovery
<details>
<summary>In regards to disaster recovery, what is RTO and RPO?</summary><br><b>
@ -1150,7 +1302,8 @@ Lowest - Multi-site
Highest - The cold method
</b></details>
#### AWS CloudFront
<a name="questions-aws-cloudfront"></a>
### CloudFront
<details>
<summary>Explain what is CloudFront</summary><br><b>
@ -1184,7 +1337,8 @@ True
A transport solution which was designed for transferring large amounts of data (petabyte-scale) into and out the AWS cloud.
</b></details>
#### AWS - ELB
<a name="questions-aws-elb"></a>
### ELB
<details>
<summary>What is ELB (Elastic Load Balancing)?</summary><br><b>
@ -1368,7 +1522,8 @@ True
The period of time or process of "draining" instances from requests/traffic (basically let it complete all active connections but don't start new ones) so it can be de-registered eventually and ELB won't send requests/traffic to it anymore.
</b></details>
#### AWS - Auto Scaling Group
<a name="questions-aws-asg"></a>
### Auto Scaling Group
<details>
<summary>Explain Auto Scaling Group</summary><br><b>
@ -1445,7 +1600,8 @@ Lifecycle hooks allows you perform extra steps before the instance goes in servi
Lifecycle hooks in pending state.
</b></details>
#### AWS - Security
<a name="questions-aws-securtiy"></a>
### Security
<details>
<summary>What is the shared responsibility model? What AWS is responsible for and what the user is responsible for based on the shared responsibility model?</summary><br><b>
@ -1583,9 +1739,11 @@ Amazon definition: "AWS Certificate Manager is a service that lets you easily pr
Learn more [here](https://aws.amazon.com/certificate-manager)
</b></details>
#### AWS - Databases
<a name="questions-aws-db"></a>
### Databases
##### AWS Databases - RDS
<a name="questions-aws-db-rds"></a>
#### Databases - RDS
<details>
<summary>What is AWS RDS?</summary><br><b>
@ -1718,7 +1876,8 @@ Note: The token has a lifetime of 15 minutes
True. Since read replicas add endpoints, each with its own DNS name, you need to modify your app to reference these new endpoints to balance the load read.
</b></details>
##### AWS Databases - Aurora
<a name="questions-aws-db-aurora"></a>
#### Databases - Aurora
<details>
<summary>What do you know about Amazon Aurora?</summary><br><b>
@ -1770,7 +1929,8 @@ True. If your read replica instances exhaust their CPU, you can scale by adding
Aurora multi-master is perfect for a use case where you want to have instant failover for write node.
</b></details>
##### AWS Databases - DynamoDB
<a name="questions-aws-db-dynamodb"></a>
#### Databases - DynamoDB
<details>
<summary>What is AWS DynamoDB?</summary><br><b>
@ -1800,7 +1960,8 @@ Amazon definition: "Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is a fully managed, highly
Learn more [here](https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/dax)
</b></details>
##### AWS Databases - ElastiCache
<a name="questions-aws-db-elasticache"></a>
#### Databases - ElastiCache
<details>
<summary>What is AWS ElastiCache? In what use case should it be used?</summary><br><b>
@ -1857,7 +2018,8 @@ True.
* Session Store: store temporary session data in cache
</b></details>
##### AWS Databases - RedShift
<a name="questions-aws-db-redshift"></a>
#### Databases - RedShift
<details>
<summary>What is AWS Redshift and how is it different than RDS?</summary><br><b>
@ -1892,7 +2054,8 @@ Learn more [here](https://aws.amazon.com/documentdb)
EBS
</b></details>
#### AWS - VPC
<a name="questions-aws-vpc"></a>
### VPC
<details>
<summary>What is VPC?</summary><br><b>
@ -2063,83 +2226,7 @@ It's better if Kratos uses a subnet of size /26 but good luck telling him that.
<summary>In order for AWS Lambda to have internet access</summary><br><b>
</b></details>
##### AWS EC2 - ENI
<details>
<summary>Explain Elastic Network Interfaces (ENI)</summary><br><b>
[AWS Docs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-eni.html): "An elastic network interface is a logical networking component in a VPC that represents a virtual network card."
</b></details>
<details>
<summary>Name at least three attributes the Elastic Network Interfaces (ENI) can include</summary><br><b>
1. One public IPv4 address
2. Mac Address
3. A primary private IPv4 address (from the address range of your VPC)
</b></details>
<details>
<summary>True or False? ENI are not bound to a specific availability zone</summary><br><b>
False. ENI are bound to specific availability zone.
</b></details>
<details>
<summary>True or False? ENI can be created independently of EC2 instances</summary><br><b>
True. They can be attached later on and on the fly (for failover purposes).
</b></details>
##### AWS EC2 - Placement Groups
<details>
<summary>What are "Placement Groups"?</summary><br><b>
[AWS Docs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/placement-groups.html): "When you launch a new EC2 instance, the EC2 service attempts to place the instance in such a way that all of your instances are spread out across underlying hardware to minimize correlated failures. You can use placement groups to influence the placement of a group of interdependent instances to meet the needs of your workload."
</b></details>
<details>
<summary>What Placement Groups strategies are there?</summary><br><b>
* Cluster: places instance close together in an AZ.
* Spread: spreads the instance across the hardware
* Partition: spreads the instances across different partitions (= different sets of hardware/racks) within an AZ
</b></details>
<details>
<summary>For each of the following scenarios choose a placement group strategy:
* High availability is top priority
* Low latency between instances
* Instances must be isolated from each other
* Big Data applications that are partition aware
* Big Data process that needs to end quickly</summary><br><b>
* High availability is top priority - Spread
* Low latency between instances - Cluster
* Instances must be isolated from each other - Spread
* Big Data applications that are partition aware - Partition
* Big Data process that needs to end quickly - Cluster
</b></details>
<details>
<summary>What are the cons and pros of the "Cluster" placement group strategy?</summary><br><b>
Cons: if the hardware fails, all instances fail
Pros: Low latency & high throughput network
</b></details>
<details>
<summary>What are the cons and pros of the "Spread" placement group strategy?</summary><br><b>
Cons:
* Current limitation is 7 instances per AZ (per replacement group)
Pros:
* Maximized high availability (instances on different hardware, span across AZs)
</b></details>
#### AWS - Identify the service or tool
### Identify the Service
<details>
<summary>What would you use for automating code/software deployments?</summary><br><b>
@ -2346,7 +2433,8 @@ API Gateway - to define the URL trigger (= when you insert the URL, the function
Kinesis
</b></details>
#### AWS - DNS (Route 53)
<a name="questions-aws-dns"></a>
### DNS (Route 53)
<details>
<summary>What is Route 53?</summary><br><b>
@ -2578,7 +2666,8 @@ False. Route 53 Multi Value is not a substitute for ELB. It's focused on client-
False. DNS service can be Route 53 (where you manage DNS records) while the domain itself can be purchased from other sources that aren't Amazon related (e.g. GoDadday).
</b></details>
#### AWS Monitoring & Logging
<a name="questions-aws-monitoring-logging"></a>
### Monitoring & Logging
<details>
<summary>What is AWS CloudWatch?</summary><br><b>
@ -2616,7 +2705,8 @@ Read more about it [here](https://aws.amazon.com/sns)
* Publishers - the provider of the message (event, person, ...)
</b></details>
#### AWS Billing & Support
<a name="questions-aws-billing-support"></a>
### Billing & Support
<details>
<summary>What is "AWS Organizations"?</summary><br><b>
@ -2709,7 +2799,8 @@ True. You pay differently based on the chosen region.
AWS Definition: "AWS Infrastructure Event Management is a structured program available to Enterprise Support customers (and Business Support customers for an additional fee) that helps you plan for large-scale events such as product or application launches, infrastructure migrations, and marketing events."
</b></details>
#### AWS Automation
<a name="questions-aws-automation"></a>
### Automation
<details>
<summary>What is AWS CodeDeploy?</summary><br><b>
@ -2723,7 +2814,8 @@ Learn more [here](https://aws.amazon.com/codedeploy)
<summary>Explain what is CloudFormation</summary><br><b>
</b></details>
#### AWS - Misc
<a name="questions-aws-misc"></a>
### Misc
<details>
<summary>Which AWS service you have experience with that you think is not very common?</summary><br><b>
@ -2910,7 +3002,8 @@ AWS definition: "Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed message qu
Learn more about it [here](https://aws.amazon.com/sqs)
</b></details>
#### AWS - High Availability
<a name="questions-aws-ha"></a>
### High Availability
<details>
<summary>What high availability means from AWS perspective?</summary><br><b>
@ -2919,7 +3012,8 @@ Learn more about it [here](https://aws.amazon.com/sqs)
* Application/Service should survive (= operate as usual) a data center disaster
</b></details>
#### AWS - Production Operations and Migrations
<a name="questions-aws-migrations"></a>
### Production Operations and Migrations
<details>
<summary>Describe in high-level how to upgrade a system on AWS with (near) zero downtime</summary><br><b>
@ -2978,7 +3072,8 @@ For example, if you go to your instances in the AWS console you might see that t
Go to the security group of your instance(s) and enable the traffic that NLB should forward (e.g. TCP on port 80).
</b></details>
#### AWS - Scenarios
<a name="questions-aws-scenarios"></a>
### Scenarios
<details>
<summary>You have a load balancer running and behind it 5 web servers. Users complain that every time they move to a new page, they have to authenticate, instead of doing it once. How can you solve it?</summary><br><b>
@ -3027,7 +3122,8 @@ Use Amazon EventBridge so every time a file is uploaded to an S3 bucket (event)
Such task should have an ECS Task Role so it can get the object from the S3 bucket (and possibly other permissions if it needs to update the DB for example).
</b></details>
#### AWS - Architecture Design
<a name="questions-aws-architecture-design"></a>
### Architecture Design
<details>
<summary>You've been asked to design an architecture for high performance and low-latency application (millions of requests per second). Which load balancer would you use?</summary><br><b>

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## Containers
# Containers
### Containers Exercises
## Containers Exercises
|Name|Topic|Objective & Instructions|Solution|Comments|
|--------|--------|------|----|----|
|Running Containers|Basics|[Exercise](running_containers.md)|[Solution](solutions/running_containers.md)
|Containerized Web Server|Basics|[Exercise](containerized_web_server.md)|[Solution](solutions/containerized_web_server.md)
|Working with Images|Image|[Exercise](working_with_images.md)|[Solution](solutions/working_with_images.md)
|Containerized Web Server|Applications|[Exercise](containerized_web_server.md)|[Solution](solutions/containerized_web_server.md)
|Containerized Database|Applications|[Exercise](containerized_db.md)|[Solution](solutions/containerized_db.md)
|Containerized Database with Persistent Storage|Applications|[Exercise](containerized_db_persistent_storage.md)|[Solution](solutions/containerized_db_persistent_storage.md)
|My First Dockerfile|Dockerfile|[Exercise](write_dockerfile_run_container.md)|
|Run, Forest, Run!|Restart Policies|[Exercise](run_forest_run.md)|[Solution](solutions/run_forest_run.md)
|Layer by Layer|Image Layers|[Exercise](image_layers.md)|[Solution](solutions/image_layers.md)
|Containerize an application | Containerization |[Exercise](containerize_app.md)|[Solution](solutions/containerize_app.md)
|Multi-Stage Builds|Multi-Stage Builds|[Exercise](multi_stage_builds.md)|[Solution](solutions/multi_stage_builds.md)
### Containers Self Assessment
## Containers Self Assessment
* [Containers 101](#questions-containers-101)
* [OCI](#questions-oci)
* [Images](#questions-images)
* [Basic Commands](#questions-basic-commands)
* [Volume](#questions-volume)
* [Storage](#questions-containers-storage)
* [Dockerfile](#questions-dockerfile)
* [Architecture](#questions-architecture)
* [Docker Architecture](#questions-docker-architecture)
@ -29,9 +31,10 @@
* [Docker Networking](#questions-docker-networking)
* [Security](#questions-security)
* [Docker In Production](#questions-docker-in-production)
* [Rootless Containers](#questions-rootless-containers)
<a name="questions-containers-101"></a>
#### Containers 101
### Containers 101
<details>
<summary>What is a Container?</summary><br><b>
@ -98,7 +101,7 @@ You should choose containers when:
</b></details>
<a name="questions-oci"></a>
#### Containers - OCI
### OCI
<details>
<summary>What is the OCI?</summary><br><b>
@ -118,7 +121,7 @@ Create, Kill, Delete, Start and Query State.
</b></details>
<a name="questions-images"></a>
#### Containers - Images
### Images
<details>
<summary>What is a container image?</summary><br><b>
@ -154,7 +157,7 @@ docker.io docker.io/rahulgadre/snake-game
<details>
<summary>How to list the container images on certain host?</summary><br><b>
CONTAINER_BINARY=podman # or docker
CONTAINER_BINARY=podman
$CONTAINER_BINARY images
```
@ -165,7 +168,7 @@ Note: you can also use `$CONTAINER_RUNTIME image ls`
<summary>How to download/pull a container image without actually running a container?</summary><br><b>
```
CONTAINER_BINARY=podman # or docker
CONTAINER_BINARY=podman
$CONTAINER_BINARY pull rhel
```
</b></details>
@ -375,7 +378,7 @@ Cons:
</b></details>
<a name="questions-basic-commands"></a>
#### Containers - Basic Commands
### Basic Commands
<details>
<summary>How to list all the containers on a given host?</summary><br><b>
@ -437,18 +440,73 @@ With the -d flag. It will run in the background and will not attach it to the te
`docker container run -d httpd` or `podman container run -d httpd`
</b></details>
<details>
<summary>If you'll run <code>sleep 100</code> inside a container, will you see it when listing all the processes of the host on which the container runs? Why?</summary><br><b>
</b></details>
<a name="questions-volume"></a>
#### Containers - Volume
<details>
<summary>True or False? If image <code>httpd-service</code> has an entry point for running the httpd service then, the following will run the container and eventually the httpd service <code>podman run httpd-service ls</code></summary><br><b>
False. Running that command will override the entry point so the httpd service won't run and instead podman will run the `ls` command.
</b></details>
<details>
<summary>True or False? Running <code>podman restart CONTAINER_NAME</code> kills the main process inside the container and runs it again from scratch</summary><br><b>
False. `podman restart` creates an entirely new container with the same ID while reusing the filesystem and state of the original container.
</b></details>
<a name="questions-containers-storage"></a>
### Storage
<details>
<summary>Container storage is said to be ephemeral. What does it mean?</summary><br><b>
It means the contents of the container and the data generated by it, is gone when the container is removed.
</b></details>
<details>
<summary>True or False? Applications running on containers, should use the container storage to store persistent data</summary><br><b>
False. Containers are not built to store persistent data and even if it's possible with some implementations, it might not perform well in case of applications with intensive I/O operations.
</b></details>
<details>
<summary>You stopped a running container but, it still uses the storage in case you ever resume it. How to reclaim the storage of a container?</summary><br><b>
In order to reclaim the storage of a container, you have to remove it.
</b></details>
<details>
<summary>How to create a new volume?</summary><br><b>
`docker volume create some_volume`
```
CONTAINER_BINARY=podman
$CONTAINER_BINARY volume create some_volume
```
</b></details>
<details>
<summary>How to mount a directory from the host to a container?</summary><br><b>
```
CONTAINER_BINARY=podman
mkdir /tmp/dir_on_the_host
$CONTAINER_BINARY run -v /tmp/dir_on_the_host:/tmp/dir_on_the_container IMAGE_NAME
```
In some systems you'll have also to adjust security on the host itself:
```
podman unshare chown -R UID:GUID /tmp/dir_on_the_host
sudo semanage fcontext -a -t container_file_t '/tmp/dir_on_the_host(/.*)?'
sudo restorecon -Rv /tmp/dir_on_the_host
```
</b></details>
<a name="questions-dockerfile"></a>
#### Containers - Dockerfile
### Dockerfile
<details>
<summary>What is a Dockerfile?</summary><br><b>
@ -539,7 +597,7 @@ Instructions such as ENTRYPOINT, ENV, EXPOSE, create image metadata and they don
</b></details>
<a name="questions-architecture"></a>
#### Containers - Architecture
### Architecture
<details>
<summary>How container achieve isolation from the rest of the system?</summary><br><b>
@ -613,8 +671,14 @@ Multiple namespaces: pid,net, mnt, uts, ipc, user
* SElinux
</b></details>
<details>
<summary>True or False? Containers have ephemeral storage layer</summary><br><b>
True. The ephemeral storage layer is added on top of the base image layer and is exclusive to the running container. This way, containers created from the same base image, don't share the same storage.
</b></details>
<a name="questions-docker-architecture"></a>
#### Containers - Docker Architecture
### Docker Architecture
<details>
<summary>Which components/layers compose the Docker technology?</summary><br><b>
@ -791,7 +855,7 @@ Because each container has its own writable container layer, and all changes are
</b></details>
<a name="questions-docker-compose"></a>
#### Containers - Docker Compose
### Docker Compose
<details>
<summary>Explain what is Docker compose and what is it used for</summary><br><b>
@ -810,7 +874,7 @@ In general, it's useful for running applications which composed out of several d
</b></details>
<a name="questions-docker-images"></a>
#### Containers - Docker Images
### Docker Images
<details>
<summary>What is Docker Hub?</summary><br><b>
@ -867,7 +931,7 @@ By default, Docker uses everything (all the files and directories) in the direct
</b></details>
<a name="questions-networking"></a>
#### Containers - Networking
### Networking
<details>
<summary>What container network standards or architectures are you familiar with?</summary><br><b>
@ -880,7 +944,7 @@ CNI (Container Network Interface):
</b></details>
<a name="questions-docker-networking"></a>
#### Containers - Docker Networking
### Docker Networking
<details>
<summary>What network specification Docker is using and how its implementation is called?</summary><br><b>
@ -916,7 +980,7 @@ True. An endpoint can connect only to a single network.
</b></details>
<a name="questions-security"></a>
#### Containers - Security
### Security
<details>
<summary>What security best practices are there regarding containers?</summary><br><b>
@ -937,7 +1001,7 @@ True. An endpoint can connect only to a single network.
</b></details>
<a name="questions-docker-in-production"></a>
#### Containers - Docker in Production
### Docker in Production
<details>
<summary>What are some best practices you following in regards to using containers in production?</summary><br><b>
@ -973,3 +1037,44 @@ Restart Policies. It allows you to automatically restart containers after certai
* no: don't restart the container at any point (default policy)
* on-failure: restart the container when it exists due to an error (= exit code different than zero)
</b></details>
<a name="questions-rootless-containers"></a>
<details>
<summary>Explain Rootless Containers</summary><br><b>
Historically, user needed root privileges to run containers. One of the most basic security recommendations is to provide users with minimum privileges for what they need.
For containers it's been the situation for a long time and still for running some containers today from docker.io, you'll need to have root privileges.
</b></details>
<details>
<summary>Are there disadvantages in running rootless containers?</summary><br><b>
Yes, the full list can be found [here](https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/rootless.md).
Some worth to mention:
- No binding to ports smaller than 1024
- No images sharing CRI-O or other rootful users
- No support running on NFS or parallel filesystem homerdirs
- Some commands don't work (mount, podman stats, checkpoint, restore, ...)
</b></details>
<details>
<summary>Give one example of rootless containers are more safe from security perspective</summary><br><b>
In rootless containers, user namespace appears to be running as root but it doesn't, it's executed with regular user privileges. If an attacker manages to get out of the user space to the host with the same privileges, there's not much he can do because it's not root privileges as opposed to containers that run with root privileges.
</b></details>
<details>
<summary>When running a container, usually a virtual ethernet device is created. To do so, root privileges are required. How is it then managed in rootless containers?</summary><br><b>
Networking is usually managed by Slirp in rootless containers. Slirp creates a tap device which is also the default route and it creates it in the network namepsace of the container. This device's file descriptor passed to the parent who runs it in the default namespace and the default namespace connected to the internet. This enables communication externally and internally.
</b></details>
<details>
<summary>When running a container, usually a layered file system is created, but it requires root privileges. How is it then managed in rootless containers?</summary><br><b>
New drivers were created to allow creating filesystems in a user namespaces. Drivers like the FUSE-OverlayFS.
</b></details>

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## Containerized DB
1. Run a container with a database of any type of you prefer (MySql, PostgreSQL, Mongo, etc.)
2. Verify the container is running
3. Access the container and create a new table (or collection, depends on which DB type you chose) for students
4. Insert a row (or document) of a student
5. Verify the row/document was added
Click [here for the solution](solutions/containerized_db.md)

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# Containerized DB with Persistent Storage
1. Run a container with a database of any type of you prefer (MySql, PostgreSQL, Mongo, etc.)
1. Use a mount point on the host for the database instead of using the container storage for that
2. Explain why using the host storage instead of the container one might be a better choice
2. Verify the container is running

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1. Run a containerized web server in the background and bind its port (8080) to a local port
2. Verify the port (8080) is bound
3. Reach the webserver from your local host
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# Containerized DB
1. Run a container with a database of any type of you prefer (MySql, PostgreSQL, Mongo, etc.)
2. Verify the container is running
3. Access the container and create a new table (or collection, depends on which DB type you chose) for students
4. Insert a row (or document) of a student
5. Verify the row/document was added
## Solution
```
# Run the container
podman run --name mysql -e MYSQL_USER=mario -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=tooManyMushrooms -e MYSQL_DATABASE=university -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=MushroomsPizza -d mysql
# Verify it's running
podman ps
# Add student row to the database
podman exec -it mysql /bin/bash
mysql -u root
use university;
CREATE TABLE Students (id int NOT NULL, name varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (id));
insert into Projects (id, name) values (1,'Luigi');
select * from Students;
```

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# Containerized DB with Persistent Storage
1. Run a container with a database of any type of you prefer (MySql, PostgreSQL, Mongo, etc.)
1. Use a mount point on the host for the database instead of using the container storage for that
2. Explain why using the host storage instead of the container one might be a better choice
2. Verify the container is running
## Solution
```
# Create the directory for the DB on host
mkdir -pv ~/local/mysql
sudo semanage fcontext -a -t container_file_t '/home/USERNAME/local/mysql(/.*)?'
sudo restorecon -R /home/USERNAME/local/mysql
# Run the container
podman run --name mysql -e MYSQL_USER=mario -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=tooManyMushrooms -e MYSQL_DATABASE=university -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=MushroomsPizza -d mysql -v /home/USERNAME/local/mysql:/var/lib/mysql/db
# Verify it's running
podman ps
```
It's better to use the storage host because in case the container ever gets removed (or storage reclaimed) you have the DB data still available.

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# Apache Kafka
## Kafka Exercises
|Name|Topic|Objective & Instructions|Solution|Comments|
|--------|--------|------|----|----|
## Kafka Self Assessment
* [Kafka 101](#questions-kafka-101)
<a name="questions-kafka-101"></a>
### Kafka 101
<details>
<summary>What is Kafka?</summary><br><b>
[kafka.apache.org](https://kafka.apache.org): "Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications."
In other words, Kafka is a sort of distributed log where you can store events, read them and distribute them to different services and do it in high-scale and real-time.
</b></details>
<details>
<summary>What Kafka is used for?</summary><br><b>
- Real-time e-commerce
- Banking
- Health Care
- Automotive (traffic alerts, hazard alerts, ...)
- Real-time Fraud Detection
</b></details>
<details>
<summary>What is a "Producer" in regards to Kafka?</summary><br><b>
An application that publishes data to the Kafka cluster.
</b></details>
<a name="questions-kafka-architecture"></a>
### Kafka Architecture
<details>
<summary>What's in a Kafka cluster?</summary><br><b>
- Broker: a server with kafka process running on it. Such server has local storage. In a single Kafka clusters there are usually multiple brokers.
</b></details>

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- Developer Workflow Support: built-in CI/CD (openshift pipelines), built-in container registry and tooling for building artifacts from source to container images
</b></details>
<details>
<summary>True or False? To run containers on OpenShift, you have to own root privileges</summary><br><b>
False. OpenShift supports rootless containers by default.
</b></details>
<a name="openshift-architecture"></a>
## OpenShift - Architecture

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