When does class start/end?
Classes begin promptly at 9:00 am, and typically end at 5:00 pm.
This expert-led workshop guides students through the deployment of the ForgeRock Identity Platform™ (the Platform) on a Kubernetes cluster running in Google Kubernetes Environment (GKE). The workshop initially describes how to use the ForgeRock Cloud Developer’s Kit (CDK) to deploy a sample configuration of the Platform, which includes ForgeRock® Access Management (AM) and ForgeRock® Identity Management (IDM), which share ForgeRock® Directory Service (DS) as an identity store. The CDK is used to configure the Platform and redeploy the updated configuration in an existing Kubernetes cluster. Students then create a new cluster using Pulumi tools and deploy the Platform by following the Cloud Deployment Model (CDM). Monitoring add-ons tools are included with the CDM example. The skills gained by performing deployments with the CDK and CDM reference examples, help you identify the Kubernetes cluster and the Platform configuration requirements needed for preparation to move deployments into other environments, such as test and production. The last chapter of the workshop explores how to migrate the ForgeRock Entertainment Company (FEC) portal configuration from the IDM Core Concepts course to Kubernetes. This workshop uses the ForgeRock DevOps documentation set as a reference for the hands-on labs instead of providing a dedicated Student Workbook, as offered with the Core Concepts courses. You will work with the instructor to improvise any steps that are necessary for the given lab environment. Also, it is important that you have already successfully completed the relevant ForgeRock Core Concepts courses before attending this workshop. It is beneficial that you also have experience working with DevOps technology such as Kubernetes, Skaffold, Kustomize, Git, among other related tools.
Skills Gained
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:
- Introduce the Platform and deploy a default configuration using DevOps techniques.
- Configure the Platform using the Cloud Developer Kit (CDK).
- Deploy a configuration of the Platform based on the Cloud Deployment Model (CDM).
- Prepare the Platform for deployment to multiple environments.
- Migrate the FEC Portal sample application to Kubernetes.
Who Can Benefit
This workshop is aimed at technical audiences who are responsible for deploying and managing the Platform on Kubernetes. This includes, but is not limited to, those with the following responsibilities:
- Developers who are responsible for deploying and configuring the Platform in a DevOps development environment, and helping others migrate those deployments to production.
- Other technical audiences, such as system integrators, consultants, architects, administrators, and sales/support engineers who need to learn how to plan deployments and configure clusters suitable for deploying the Platform in the cloud.
Prerequisites
The following are the prerequisites for successfully completing this course:
- Completion of the ForgeRock University [AM-400, IDM-400, DS-400, IG-400 (optional)] Core Concept courses, to ensure that you know:
- How to configure and administer DS, AM, Amster, IDM, and (optionally) ForgeRock® Identity Gateway (IG).
- How to use the appropriate commands and user interfaces for each component.
- Students should already be familiar with the following technologies and be able to use the related commands to deploy and manage software in a DevOps environment:
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- kubectl command
- A cloud provider that supports Kubernetes, such as GKE, EKS, or AKS
- Skaffold
- Kustomize
- Optionally, Pulumi (or Terraform) for creating clusters
- Git and Git registries
