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- HANDS-ON LABJeremy CookMonitoring K8s with the Kubernetes Dashboard, Prometheus, and GrafanaIntermediateDuration: Up to 2 hours and 30 minutesAuthor: Jeremy Cook; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: In this hands-on lab, you'll learn how to set up an effective monitoring solution using the Kubernetes Dashboard, Prometheus, and Grafana.; Duration: Up to 2 hours and 30 minutes; Content Topics: DevOps, Monitoring, Deployment, Compute; This hands-on lab has: 7 Lab steps
- HANDS-ON LABLogan RakaiDeploy Container Workloads with Amazon LightsailBeginnerDuration: Up to 1 hourAuthor: Logan Rakai; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Use Lightsail containers to deploy a container workload and monitor it in this lab.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Compute; This hands-on lab has: 5 Lab steps
- HANDS-ON LABTiarnan GilesCloud Incident Response & Forensics: Introductory LabBeginnerDuration: Up to 1 hour and 5 minutesAuthor: Tiarnan Giles; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: In this, the first lab in the series, you will be performing analysis on how the attacker gained access to the system.; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 5 minutes; Content Topics: Security Investigations; This hands-on lab has: 6 Lab steps
- HANDS-ON LABJeremy CookOpenShift - Build and Deploy a Simple Web ApplicationBeginnerDuration: Up to 2 hoursAuthor: Jeremy Cook; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: In this Lab scenario, you'll first use S2I to create a basic builder container image. The builder container image will then be used to build a runtime container image containing a simple static web portal application frontend. You'll then use the oc tool to launch and expose the containerized web portal application.; Duration: Up to 2 hours; Content Topics: Containers; This hands-on lab has: 7 Lab steps
- HANDS-ON LABJeremy CookAmazon EKS - Observability with Prometheus and GrafanaIntermediateDuration: Up to 2 hoursAuthor: Jeremy Cook; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: In this lab, you'll learn how to integrate Prometheus and Grafana monitoring applications together into an effective and cohesive monitoring solution.; Duration: Up to 2 hours; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This hands-on lab has: 6 Lab steps
- HANDS-ON LABDaniel WoodTroubleshooting Kubernetes: Cluster Node FailuresAdvancedDuration: Up to 30 minutesAuthor: Daniel Wood; Difficulty: Advanced; Description: Detect, diagnose, and remedy Kubernetes cluster node failures.; Duration: Up to 30 minutes; Content Topics: Deployment, Compute, DevOps; This hands-on lab has: 3 Lab steps
- HANDS-ON LABDaniel WoodTroubleshooting Kubernetes: Cluster Access IssuesAdvancedDuration: Up to 30 minutesAuthor: Daniel Wood; Difficulty: Advanced; Description: Detect, diagnose, and remedy cluster access issues.; Duration: Up to 30 minutes; Content Topics: Deployment, Compute, DevOps; This hands-on lab has: 3 Lab steps
- LAB CHALLENGEAndrew BurchillAmazon Elastic Container Service ChallengeBeginnerDuration: Up to 1 hourAuthor: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Test your Amazon Elastic Container Service challenge skills in this hands-on lab as you tasked with deploying a web application; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This lab challenge has: 1 Lab step
- HANDS-ON LABDaniel WoodBackup and Restore a Kubernetes ClusterIntermediateDuration: Up to 40 minutesAuthor: Daniel Wood; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Perform a backup and restore cluster management operation of a Kubernetes cluster in this lab.; Duration: Up to 40 minutes; Content Topics: Containers; This hands-on lab has: 3 Lab steps
- HANDS-ON LABTiarnan GilesCloud Incident Response & Forensics: Foundation LabBeginnerDuration: Up to 1 hour and 10 minutesAuthor: Tiarnan Giles; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: In this lab, the second in the series, you will be performing further incident response and forensic analysis to determine what the attacker did within the container.; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 10 minutes; Content Topics: Security Investigations; This hands-on lab has: 6 Lab steps
- HANDS-ON LABLogan RakaiDocker Windows Containers PlaygroundBeginnerDuration: Up to 2 hoursAuthor: Logan Rakai; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: This Docker Windows container playground provides full access to a Windows Docker host. The playground is a safe and secure sandbox environment for you to explore your own ideas, follow along with Cloud Academy courses, or answer your own questions.; Duration: Up to 2 hours; Content Topics: Development, DevOps; This hands-on lab has: 2 Lab steps
- LAB CHALLENGEAndrew BurchillAmazon Elastic Container Service End-To-End ChallengeBeginnerDuration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutesAuthor: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Put your Amazon ECS skills to the test in this hands-on lab as you are tasked with deploying a container from beginning to end.; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This lab challenge has: 1 Lab step
- HANDS-ON LABJun FritzProvisioning an Amazon ECS Cluster Using TerraformIntermediateDuration: Up to 45 minutesAuthor: Jun Fritz; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Learn how to deploy an Amazon ECS cluster into an existing Amazon VPC using Terraform in this hands-on lab.; Duration: Up to 45 minutes; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This hands-on lab has: 5 Lab steps
- HANDS-ON LABDaniel WoodCKA Practice Exam: Workloads and SchedulingIntermediateDuration: Up to 50 minutesAuthor: Daniel Wood; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Prepare for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam by solving practice problems and reviewing their solutions in this lab on workloads and scheduling.; Duration: Up to 50 minutes; Content Topics: Deployment, Compute, DevOps; This hands-on lab has: 4 Lab steps
- HANDS-ON LABLogan RakaiScanning Container Images for Known VulnerabilitiesBeginnerDuration: Up to 30 minutesAuthor: Logan Rakai; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn how to scan container images for known vulnerabilities using Trivy in this lab.; Duration: Up to 30 minutes; Content Topics: Security vulnerabilities, threats and countermeasures, Containers; This hands-on lab has: 3 Lab steps
- HANDS-ON LABDaniel WoodCKA Practice Exam: StorageIntermediateDuration: Up to 1 hourAuthor: Daniel Wood; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Prepare for the Storage domain of the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam in this lab with exam-like tasks and a solution guide.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Deployment, Compute, DevOps; This hands-on lab has: 4 Lab steps
- HANDS-ON LABBhupinder SinghUsing Security Contexts to Secure Kubernetes ClustersAdvancedDuration: Up to 40 minutesAuthor: Bhupinder Singh; Difficulty: Advanced; Description: Practice defense in depth in Kubernetes using the security context security primitive in this lab.; Duration: Up to 40 minutes; Content Topics: Deployment, Compute, DevOps; This hands-on lab has: 2 Lab steps
- HANDS-ON LABParveen SinghAzure Web Application and Container App PlaygroundIntermediateDuration: Up to 2 hoursAuthor: Parveen Singh; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Hone your Azure Web App skills in a free-reign, empty Azure environment by creating and managing web applications, container apps, and container registry in any way you see fit.; Duration: Up to 2 hours; Content Topics: Containers, Web; This hands-on lab has: 2 Lab steps
- HANDS-ON LABJeremy CookAmazon EKS - Deploy Cilium CNI and Secure Pod Communications using Network PoliciesIntermediateDuration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutesAuthor: Jeremy Cook; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: In this Lab scenario, you'll learn how to reconfigure an EKS cluster to utilize Cilium as its CNI provider.; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This hands-on lab has: 8 Lab steps
- HANDS-ON LABJeremy CookAmazon EKS - Traffic Routing with IstioIntermediateDuration: Up to 2 hoursAuthor: Jeremy Cook; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: In this lab scenario, you'll learn how to use Istio to perform traffic routing to a pair of sample web applications, V1 and V2, deployed into an Amazon EKS cluster.; Duration: Up to 2 hours; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This hands-on lab has: 6 Lab steps
- LAB CHALLENGEAndrew BurchillYAML Configuration File ChallengeBeginnerDuration: Up to 40 minutesAuthor: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Put your YAML syntax skills to the test in this hands-on challenge lab as you are tasked with writing a configuration file.; Duration: Up to 40 minutes; Content Topics: Development; This lab challenge has: 2 Lab steps
- HANDS-ON LABAndrew BurchillConfiguring Systems and Tools Using YAMLBeginnerDuration: Up to 1 hourAuthor: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn how to configure systems and tools as you work practically with YAML in an integrated development environment.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Development; This hands-on lab has: 2 Lab steps
- HANDS-ON LABAndrew BurchillReading, Writing, and Parsing YAML FilesBeginnerDuration: Up to 1 hourAuthor: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn how to read, write data in a YAML file and parse it with the Python scripting language in this hands-on lab.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Development; This hands-on lab has: 2 Lab steps
- HANDS-ON LABCalculated SystemsContainerizing Go Applications with Docker: AdvancedIntermediateDuration: Up to 1 hourAuthor: Calculated Systems; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Build a web server using Go and learn how to efficiently containerize it with Docker in this lab.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Development; This hands-on lab has: 6 Lab steps