
Wind River Cloud Platform Essentials
The Wind River® Cloud Platform Essentials course provides engineers with a fast, cost-effective way to acquire the skills necessary to deploy, monitor, and maintain a Cloud Platform system and applications.
Course Description
The Wind River® Cloud Platform Essentials course provides engineers with a fast, cost-effective way to acquire the skills necessary to deploy, monitor, and maintain a Cloud Platform system and applications.
Course Results
After this course, participants will be able to perform the following:
- Deploy, provision, and monitor Cloud Platform
- Deploy user applications on Cloud Platform
- Scale containerized user applications up or down
- Upgrade, roll up, and roll back user application software releases
- Monitor application software, examine operation logs, and monitor and debug a system
Products Supported
- Wind River Cloud Platform
Who Should Attend
- Cloud Platform service and network architects, system architects and administrators, and application developers
Course Format
- This four-day expert-led course consists of lectures and lab sessions.
- Attendees use Cloud Platform to gain experience with the topics presented.
- Participants examine and exercise simulated network topologies in hands-on labs.
- Participants receive individual guidance from an expert engineer who has extensive experience with Wind River technologies.
Audience
- Cloud Platform service and network architects, system architects and administrators, and application developers
Syllabus
Day 1
Wind River Cloud Platform Overview
- Overview
- Use cases
- Cloud Platform architecture
- Deployment configurations
System Installation and backup
- Automated installation and commissioning
- Deployment manager
- System data collection
- Distribute cloud configuration
- Backup and restore
- LAB: Getting Started with the Cloud Platform Lab Environment
System Inventory and Configuration
- System inventory
- System configuration
Cloud Platform Service Manager
- Service manager for high availability
- Avoiding split-brain scenarios
Cloud Platform Fault Manager
- Cloud Platform fault management
- Cloud Platform alarm management
Day 2
Cloud Platform Networking
- Kubernetes networking overview
- Calico networking plug-in for Kubernetes
- Debugging Kubernetes networking
Maintenance Overview
- Maintenance overview
- Service maintenance
- Process maintenance
- Fault detection
- System state maintenance
- Maintenance alarms and logs
Cluster Monitoring
- Event handler for administrator actions
- Host state change notifications
- Process monitoring
- Watchdog, heartbeat, and file system monitoring
Cluster Hardware Maintenance
- Interface and resource monitoring
- BMC access and thread execution unit monitoring
- Host sensor monitoring
System Monitoring
- Cluster and infrastructure monitoring
Day 3
Docker Containers
- Container overview
- Docker
- Docker images
- Container networks
Container Orchestration
- Container orchestrator overview
- The Kubernetes container orchestrator
- Container application management
- The Armada toolset
- LAB: Accessing Cloud Platform from Outside a Cluster
- LAB: Deploying and Debugging Applications on Cloud Platform
Managing Applications With Cloud Platform
- Application management
- Cloud Platform and application monitoring
- Service configuration
- LAB: Deploying Applications with the Helm Package Manager
- LAB: Applying Rolling Updates and Canary Releases to Applications on Cloud Platform
Day 4
Use Case Whiteboarding and Demonstrations
- Bootstrapping and installing Cloud Platform
- Configuring Cloud Platform in a distributed cloud
- Implementing PCI passthroughs and SR-IOV device passthroughs
- Monitoring Cloud Platform
- Using the Cloud Platform centralized management panel
Prerequisites
Prerequisite Course
- None
Prerequisite Skills
- Familiarity using the Linux OS and its CLI (available from a thirdparty resource such as the Linux Foundation)
- Understanding of networking fundamentals (Ethernet, switching, routing)
- Familiarity with the fundamentals of Kubernetes orchestration (available from a third-party resource such as the Linux Foundation)
Related Courses
- None
COURSE DETAILS SUMMARY
- Duration: 4 Days
- Course Information: View
- Format: Lectures and Labs
- Type: Instructor-led
- Price/Schedule: TBD