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Pluralsight The IT Ops Labs: Maintain, Monitor, and Troubleshoot Kubernetes

Title: The IT Ops Labs: Maintain, Monitor, and Troubleshoot Kubernetes

Author: Luca Berton

Time: 1h 25m

Published: ✅ 31st May 2024

In this lab, you’ll practice monitoring in Kubernetes. When you’re finished, you’ll have know how to maintain and troubleshooting using command-line tools.

Pluralsight The IT Ops Labs: Maintain Monitor and Troubleshoot Kubernetes

Table Of Contents

• Challenge 1: Get Started in the Lab Environment

Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!

• Challenge 2: Manage etcd Configuration

You'll manage etcd configurations, perform backups, and restore data in Kubernetes, enhancing system integrity and availability.

• Challenge 3: Upgrade Kubernetes

You'll upgrade the control plane node of a Kubernetes cluster, which is crucial for security, performance, and new features.

• Challenge 4: Explore Logs

You'll explore Kubernetes logging architecture by setting up and managing logs across pods, nodes, and control plane components for improved troubleshooting and maintenance.

• Challenge 5: Monitor Events

You will learn about Kubernetes events, and how to monitor them.

• Challenge 6: Troubleshoot Kubernetes Clusters

Test your troubleshooting capabilities on a Kubernetes worker node.

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See also: Pluralsight The IT Ops Sessions: Event-Driven Ansible

Pluralsight The IT Ops Labs: Configure and Manage Kubernetes Storage and Scheduling

Title: The IT Ops Labs: Configure and Manage Kubernetes Storage and Scheduling

Author: Luca Berton

Time: 1h 28m

Published: ✅ 14th March 2024

In this IT Ops Lab, you’ll practice Kubernetes storage and scheduling administration. When you’re finished, you’ll know how to manage Kubernetes storage and scheduling using command-line tools.

Pluralsight The IT Ops Labs: Configure and Manage Kubernetes Storage and Scheduling

Table Of Contents

• Challenge 1: Get Started in the Lab Environment

Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!

• Challenge 2: Provision Storage Statically

Dive into managing Kubernetes storage with a focus on Static Provisioning. Learn to create and bind Persistent Volumes and Persistent Volume Claims, ensuring data persistence and accessibility.

• Challenge 3: Provision Storage Dynamically

Explore dynamic volume provisioning in Kubernetes by deploying an application with NFS storage. You will then test persistence and access to data across pod lifecycle events.

• Challenge 4: Configure Deployments Using Environment Variables

Learn to configure Kubernetes pods using environment variables, with a focus on updating them across different deployment scenarios.

• Challenge 5: Use Kubernetes Secrets to Store Sensitive Configuration Data

You'll create and access Kubernetes Secrets to store and manage sensitive information like usernames and passwords, both from the command line and within a pod.

• Challenge 6: Manage Kubernetes ConfigMaps for Environment and File-Based Configurations

You'll create ConfigMaps in Kubernetes to manage environment variables and file-based configurations for different deployment environments, including production and QA (Quality Assurance).

• Challenge 7: Control the Kubernetes Scheduler

To finish this lab, you’ll manage the Kubernetes scheduler.

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The IT Ops Sessions: Ansible Generative AI with Lightspeed, Google Bard, and ChatGPT

Title: The IT Ops Sessions: Ansible Generative AI with Lightspeed, Google Bard, and ChatGPT

Author: Luca Berton

Time: 34m 50s

Published: ✅ 30th August 2023

In this IT Ops Session, you’ll learn how to apply artificial intelligence to speed up our productivity and save time during our Ansible development. When you’re finished with this session, you’ll have a better understanding of the state of the art of artificial intelligence for Ansible core creation and infrastructure automation.

Pluralsight The IT Ops Sessions: Ansible Generative AI with Lightspeed, Google Bard, and ChatGPT

Table Of Contents

• Introduction
• Ansible
• System Integration with Ansible
• Generative AI
• ChatGPT
• Google Bard
• Ansible Lightspeed
• Future of Ansible Lightspeed
• Outro

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See also: Pluralsight The IT Ops Sessions: Using Ansible Sign and Verify

The IT Ops Sessions: Event-Driven Ansible

Title: The IT Ops Sessions: Event-Driven Ansible

Author: Luca Berton

Time: 22m 0s

Published: ✅ 17th March 2023

In this IT Ops Session, you’ll learn how to get started with Event-Driven Ansible and Ansible Rulebooks.

Pluralsight The IT Ops Sessions: Event-Driven Ansible

Table Of Contents

• Overview
• System Integration with Ansible
• Why Event-Driven Ansible?
• Installation
• Ansible Rulebook
• Example Usage
• Example Execution
• Future of Event-Driven Ansible

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The IT Ops Sessions: Using Ansible Sign and Verify

Title: The IT Ops Sessions: Using Ansible Sign and Verify

Author: Luca Berton

Time: 31m 46s

Published: ✅ 22nd December 2022

In this IT Ops Session, you’ll learn how to use the ansible-sign command line utility to sign and verify using a GPG signature our Ansible Project.

Pluralsight The IT Ops Sessions: Using Ansible Sign and Verify

Table Of Contents

• Introduction
• Ansible
• Getting Hacked
• Ansible Trusted Code
• Ansible Validated Contents
• Project Sign and Verify
• Ansible Project Verification
• Outro
• Thank you

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See also: Project signature verification with GPG and ansible-sign

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