To help you go further with the Akamai App Platform, additional instructions are provided to help you with common use cases. We recommend reviewing these labs to learn how to use the App Platform or if you would like to learn more about Kubernetes. They will guide you in how to build, deploy, secure, and observe containerized applications on Kubernetes. The labs cover the most common activities performed by developers and DevOps.

Prerequisites

Before continuing with the labs in this section, verify that the following prerequisites are met.

1. DNS has been configured (for manual installations only -- not applicable when deployed automatically through LKE).

2. The Prometheus is enabled.

3. Enable additional apps on the platform level to support the following labs:

   Lab	App
   Create container images	Harbor
   Trigger builds	Harbor
   Manually Push images to Harbor	Harbor
   Scan running containers for vulnerabilities	Prometheus, Grafana, Trivy Operator
   View container logs	Loki, Grafana
   Tracing with Open Telemetry	Loki, Otel, Tempo
   Create a RabbitMQ cluster	RabbitMQ

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   For the Tracing with Open Telemetry Lab, tracing needs to be configured in the Istio and Nginx Ingress apps.

4. A team called labs is created with Dashboards and Alerts enabled. See here how to create teams.

5. A user account is created and added to the labs team. In the labs we'll be using the user labs-user@labs.com. See here how to create users and assign them to teams.

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   An organization in Gitea is automatically created for each team. Only members of the team are added to the Owners group of this organization. When using the platform-admin account, make sure to add your account to the Owners group of the team's organization in Gitea.

6. The Kube API URL has been added to the Cluster Settings. Select the platform view and click on Settings in the left menu. Then click on Cluster. When using LKE: You can find the Kube API URL in the summary of your LKE cluster. Here it is called the Kubernetes API Endpoint. You can remove :443 at the end.

Labs

Create and register code repositories and create images

• Create code repositories
• Register code repositories
• Create container images
• Trigger builds
• Push images to Harbor

Create workloads

• Create sealed secrets
• Using Argo CD
• Use the Catalog
• Create Workloads
• Configure auto image updater
• Create a PostgreSQL database

Expose workloads

• Publicly expose workloads

Secure workloads

• Scan your images for vulnerabilities
• Scan your running containers for vulnerabilities
• Detect threats in running containers

Monitor and debug workloads

• View container logs
• View container metrics
• Using custom metrics
• Monitoring service availability

Advanced labs

• Configuring network policies
• OpenTelemetry
• Canary deployment
• Create rabbitMQ Cluster

Additional labs:

• Use a Git client
• Configuring a CNAME