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[piyushsachdeva]

Your organization is evolving, and your CTO wants to streamline the build and deployment process. As a DevOps engineer, you have been tasked to deploy a local docker images registry on Kubernetes to store the docker images in the namespace called “democloudops” and should meet the following requirements:

Cluster Provisioning:

• Provision a Kubernetes regional cluster with at least three worker nodes. ✅
• Ensure that the nodes are distributed across different availability zones. ✅

Sample Deployment:

• The Docker registry should be deployed with three replicas, and each replica should be scheduled on a separate node. ✅ Pod runs in a container with image registry:2.8.2 and name as registry-cloudops ✅ Container name should have been registry-cloudops The application container should store images under /var/lib/10weeksofcloudops. ✅

Storage:

• Configure a Persistent Volume (PV) to store data for the application. ⛔ Claim name doesn't match
• The PV should request at least 50Gi of storage space. ✅
• Ensure the data stored in the PV survives pod restarts. ✅

Container Configuration:

• The application container should expose itself on port 5000. ✅
• Kubelet should perform health checks on the registry-cloudops and restart the pod if it doesn't respond on TCP port 5000 for 30 seconds. ✅
• Kubelet should wait for 15 seconds before performing its first health check ✅
• The container should request 1Gi Memory, and the limit should be 2Gi ✅

Init Container:

• Implement an init container within the registry-cloudops deployment to ensure the presence of the data directory required by the Docker registry. ✅
• The init container should use an Alpine-based image and create the data directory "/var/lib/10weeksofcloudops" if it doesn't exist. ✅

Service Exposure:

• Create a Kubernetes load balancer service to expose the application externally. ✅
• The service should map an external port to port 5000 on the pods. ✅

Network Policies:

• Implement Network Policies to restrict incoming and outgoing network traffic for the Docker registry pods.⛔
• Allow necessary communication while enforcing security practices. ⛔

Secrets and ConfigMap:

• Store sensitive information in Kubernetes Secrets, such as authentication credentials for the Docker registry.✅
• Utilize a ConfigMap to manage configuration settings for the Docker registry deployment. ✅

Backup and Recovery:

• Define a backup strategy for the data stored in the Persistent Volume. ✅
• Explore options for restoring the registry in case of data loss or pod failures. ✅

Perform cluster upgrade to 1 major version

• After the upgrade, make sure that your cluster is healthy, including the workload ⛔ Please use the detailed steps to perform the upgrade manually with all the steps in sequence

Other comments

• Please try to fix the errors I have mentioned above
• Please make sure your GitHub and Blog has the exact details
• Well done completing it till the end; it was a solid effort, kudos to you!

[piyushsachdeva]

@HARSHALJETHWA19 Thank you for completing the #10weeksofcloudops challenge, please see my comments above.