IT Operations

Author: Jeremy Cook; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Put your AWS FinOps skills to the test in this hands-on lab as you are tasked with cost-optimizing an already deployed web application.; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes; Content Topics: Management; This lab challenge has: 1 Lab step

Author: Daniel Wood; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn how to assess Kubernetes cluster security using kube-bench in this lab.; Duration: Up to 30 minutes; Content Topics: Security vulnerabilities, threats and countermeasures, Containers; This hands-on lab has: 3 Lab steps

Author: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn how to replace an NGINX server with an Application Load Balancer in this hands-on laboratory.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Networking, Compute; This hands-on lab has: 5 Lab steps

Author: Logan Rakai; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Practice configuring admission controllers to improve the security of your Kubernetes cluster in this lab.; Duration: Up to 45 minutes; Content Topics: Containers; This hands-on lab has: 3 Lab steps

Author: Ben Lambert; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: OpenTelemetry has become the standard for collecting telemetry data from your applications and infrastructure. Learn how to instrument applications to provide key insights.; Duration: Up to 2 hours and 30 minutes; Content Topics: Site Reliability; This hands-on lab has: 9 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: Beginner; Description: Learn how to use Python SDK to authenticate and interact with Azure Web Apps in this hands-on lab.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; This hands-on lab has: 3 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: Logan Rakai; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Learn how to deploy and manage infrastructure across multiple cloud providers using Terraform and Ansible.; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes; Content Topics: Management, DevOps, Deployment; This hands-on lab has: 5 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: Parveen Singh; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Put your Azure Virtual Network NAT Skills with Azure Function to test Outbound connectivity in this hands-on lab challenge.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Microsoft Azure; This lab challenge has: 2 Lab steps

Author: Jeremy Cook; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Serverless X-Ray Logging and Monitoring; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This hands-on lab has: 6 Lab steps

Author: QA; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: AI Engineer L6 M1 Workshop Day 1 Lab; Duration: Up to 6 hours; Content Topics: Machine Learning; This hands-on lab has: 3 Lab steps

Author: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn how to optimise AWS compute and autoscaling for cost efficiency in this hands-on lab.; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This hands-on lab has: 5 Lab steps

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: 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: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn how to combine AWS Global Accelerator and AWS WAF with an Application Load Balancer for low latency global routing in this hands-on lab.; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes; Content Topics: Networking, Management, Security, Compute; This hands-on lab has: 4 Lab steps

Author: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn how to set up and configure an Amazon S3 File Gateway in this hands-on lab experience.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Storage, Compute; This hands-on lab has: 5 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