IT Operations

Author: Mark Secrist; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Using Test Driven Development (TDD) practices, complete a partially provided Python solution, being guided by a set of given Python unit tests. Specifically, you must complete the implementation of a function that calculates the volume discounts for an ecommerce platform, ensuring that the solution passes the provided set of unit tests.; Duration: Up to 2 hours and 7 minutes; Content Topics: Test Driven Development (TDD); This lab challenge has: 2 Lab steps

Author: Jun Fritz; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Put your Amazon EKS skills to the test in this hands-on lab as you are tasked with deploying a Kubernetes cluster from beginning to end.; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This lab challenge has: 1 Lab step

Author: Parveen Singh; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Learn how to set up Azure Route Table with custom routes, configure Network Virtual Appliance on a Windows machine, and test the effective custom route.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Networking, Compute; This hands-on lab has: 3 Lab steps

Author: Parveen Singh; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Learn how to configure Azure Front Door to use with Azure Storage accounts in this hands-on lab.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Microsoft Azure; This hands-on lab has: 3 Lab steps

Author: Jun Fritz; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn how to build a versioning solution for Amazon S3 bucket policies using a serverless architecture in this hands-on lab.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This hands-on lab has: 5 Lab steps

Author: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn how to use AWS Lambda to health check an application and integrate it into an AWS CodePipeline in this hands-on lab.; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This hands-on lab has: 6 Lab steps

Author: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn how to use SSH software to gain shell access on remote hosts in this hands-on lab.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Networking, Management, Operating System; This hands-on lab has: 5 Lab steps

Author: Paul Thomas; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: This lab takes you through the steps of setting up monitoring in the cloud. Using EC2s you will use Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards, and Splunk for logging. The process will take you through setting up the servers, installing the tooling and writing sample code. When the code runs (and fails) you will track that activity in the appropriate dashboards to assist you in your future troubleshooting.; Duration: Up to 4 hours; Content Topics: Site Reliability; This hands-on lab has: 10 Lab steps

Author: Daniel Wood; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Prepare for the Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) exam by solving practice problems and reviewing their solutions in this lab on cluster hardening.; Duration: Up to 50 minutes; Content Topics: Deployment, Compute, DevOps, Security; This hands-on lab has: 3 Lab steps

Author: Daniel Wood; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn how to detect threats in a Kubernetes cluster with Falco in this lab.; Duration: Up to 35 minutes; Content Topics: Containers; This hands-on lab has: 3 Lab steps

Author: Jeremy Cook; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: In this hands-on lab, participants will learn how to configure Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) tasks to use Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) to provide block storage-based storage volumes.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This hands-on lab has: 6 Lab steps

Author: Daniel Wood; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn how to secure containers running in Kubernetes with AppArmor in this lab.; Duration: Up to 35 minutes; Content Topics: Containers; This hands-on lab has: 3 Lab steps

Author: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn how to implement header-based routing and its primary use cases in this hands-on lab.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This hands-on lab has: 3 Lab steps

Author: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn how to create a Amazon API Gateway WebSocket API and how to use it for a simple stock ticker in this hands-on lab.; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This hands-on lab has: 6 Lab steps

Author: Parveen Singh; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Learn how to reference Azure App Configuration to fetch configuration settings directly from the application's source code in this hands-on lab.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: DevOps; This hands-on lab has: 4 Lab steps

Author: Parveen Singh; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Put your Azure App Configuration skills to test by deploying the resource and adding configuration settings in this hands-on lab challenge.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Microsoft Azure; This lab challenge has: 2 Lab steps

Author: Parveen Singh; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Put your Azure Automation Account State Configuration (DSC) skills to test in this hands-on lab challenge.; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes; Content Topics: Microsoft Azure; This lab challenge has: 2 Lab steps

Author: Adil Islam; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn how to upgrade the deployment version of Azure DevOps Server in this hands-on lab.; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 45 minutes; This hands-on lab has: 6 Lab steps

Author: Paul Thomas; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: This lab uses an AWS infrastructure — Web, Application, and Database, to help you explore stress testing tools. You will configure the infrastructure in all these tools, configure them and then run a series of tests to assess their affects. Observability is the key to any successful platform and using monitoring, logging, and tracing to understand the operations is critical, especially when a bottle neck may be introduced. Using these stress tools allows you to simulate such a situation and discover how your platform behaves under workload. This will assist in troubleshooting, trending, etc. in the future.; Duration: Up to 4 hours; Content Topics: Site Reliability; This hands-on lab has: 12 Lab steps

Author: Daniel Wood; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Prepare for the Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) exam by solving practice problems and reviewing their solutions in this lab on minimizing microservice vulnerabilities.; Duration: Up to 50 minutes; Content Topics: Deployment, Compute, DevOps, Security; This hands-on lab has: 3 Lab steps

Author: Daniel Wood; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Prepare for the Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) exam by solving practice problems and reviewing their solutions in this lab on system hardening.; Duration: Up to 50 minutes; Content Topics: Deployment, Compute, DevOps, Security; This hands-on lab has: 3 Lab steps

Author: Daniel Wood; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Prepare for the Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) exam by solving practice problems and reviewing their solutions in this lab on cluster setup.; Duration: Up to 50 minutes; Content Topics: Deployment, Compute, DevOps; This hands-on lab has: 3 Lab steps

Author: Jeremy Cook; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: In this hands-on lab, participants will learn how to configure Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) tasks to use Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) as shared storage.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This hands-on lab has: 6 Lab steps

Author: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Put your Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service and AWS Identity and Access Management skills to the test in this hands-on lab challenge.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This lab challenge has: 1 Lab step