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