HPE Storage: Containers and Automation

This course provides hands-on learning for developers and administrators who create automation and integration applications. The course focuses on automating container applications using HPE storage arrays and:
• HPE modules for Ansible-enabled automated storage provisioning
• an SDK to communicate with the HPE storage array over the WSAPI REST interface
• the HPE Volume Plugin for Docker that provides persistent storage for your containerized applications and popular container platforms like Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift
• the tools and techniques to automate deployment of an application in Kubernetes with persistent storage

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Demonstrate the use of the WSAPI REST interface
• Configure and use a Docker environment using the Docker storage plugin
• Configure a Kubernetes environment that uses HPE Primera/3PAR storag

• Developers and administrators who create automation and integration applications

• Basic storage concepts
• Virtualization concepts, including Docker and Kubernetes
• Scripting or coding

Course Overview

• Course overview and objectives
• How this course benefits students

Overview of Automating HPE Storage for a Container Environment

•  Benefits of HPE storage for containers
•  Containers and storage plugins overview – Challenges in providing storage in a container environment – Use cases—DevOps CI/CD pipeline, IT operations, lift and shift, CaaS – Storage operations for containers – The need for a storage plug-in

Using the Storage API

•  Storage API objects overview
•  Using the API for storage management
•  Exercise: Using Curl to make API calls to storage API
•  Exercise: Creating scripts to manage storage using the API

Using PowerShell

• Overview of PowerShell
• Using PowerShell Invoke-RestMethod to access the storage API
• Exercise: Create and run PowerShell scripts to access the storage API
• Exercise: Install and use an HPE storage PowerShell toolkit to create scripts

Using Ansible Automation for Storage Management

• Installing and configuring Ansible modules for storage
• Creating and managing storage volumes using Ansible playbooks
• Exercise: Orchestrating storage with Ansible playbooks

Docker and Storage

• Docker and storage overview
• HPE Volume Plugin for Docker overview
• Deploying the plugin
• Storage operations in Docker

Kubernetes and Storage

• Kubernetes overview
• Storage in Kubernetes
• Storage plugins for Kubernetes
• Automated storage provisioning
• Exercise: Setting the default storage class
• Exercise: Deploying an application with automated volume creation and attachment
• Exercise: Volume replication, backup and recovery operations