Virtual Livefire Solutions: Modernize Your Apps

Livefire Solutions, Global Strategic Programs

AT-A-GLANCE
Virtual Livefire aims to bring the same classroom experience of an on-site Livefire class to online attendees. It consists of individual deep-dive sessions taken from current Livefire curriculum about advanced topics and integrations. Each session consists of a lecture and a custom Livefire hands-on lab designed to simulate a real-world customer use case and implementation.
TARGET AUDIENCE
  • Cloud Native Platforms Architects
  • Network and Data Center Architects
DELIVERY METHOD
  • Instructor-led online
  • 30% lecture, 70% hands on lab
COURSE DURATION
Two hours of instructor-led lecture followed by approximately 5 hours of hands-on lab time.
PREREQUISITES
Highly Recommended:
  • Containers and Kubernetes fundamentals: https://kube.academy/
  • VMware vSphere with Kubernetes: Deploy and Manage [V7]
AVAILABILITY
This session is being offered by invitation only to VMware SI/SO, MSC and Ignite partners, along with internal customer-facing employees. Roadmap topics may be discussed; therefore, a signed NDA is required.
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
  • Have a full-size laptop.
  • Secondary device is recommended for reading and lab materials, which are only delivered electronically.
  • Please ensure you have the US Keyboard mapping added to your devices.
Session Overview
The Modernize Your Apps session is a full-day event, in which the Livefire team will reveal how VMware has leveraged Kubernetes to satisfy the demands of the developers’ community through a new self-service model and flexible list of “better-together” integrated solutions. You will gain insight into how the VMware enterprise-ready Kubernetes-based build solutions such as Tanzu Build Service, Tanzu Application Catalog and runtime Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, can be used together to make your applications future-ready.
Lecture Topics
The course will focus on the following areas:
  • The lecture is approximately 2 hours and covers the following topics:
  • Review of Tanzu Editions and how they apply for Modern Apps
  • Technical overview of the Tanzu Build Service
  • Technical overview of the Tanzu Application Catalog
  • Technical overview of the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Multicloud (TKGm) and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service for vSphere (TKGs)
Lecture Topics
The course will focus on the following areas:
  • The lab is approximately 5 hours and covers the following tasks:
  • Review of the initial lab environment
  • Introduction to new developer tools
  • Deploying a simple application
  • Modifying and deploying the application
  • More complex modifications and deployments of the simple application
  • Working with Tanzu Build Service
  • Exploring application build with Tanzu Build Service (TBS)
  • Implementation and usage of the Harbor integrated container registry
  • Deploying a modern application
  • Modifying configuration and redeploying the application
  • Modifying code and redeploying the application
  • Working with Tanzu Application Catalog (TAC)
  • Initiating data persistence and redeploying the application
  • Other modifications and deployments