Workshop Exercise 1.1 - Preflight and Introduction
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Objective
- Understand the lab topology, provided hardware (if applicable), and how to access virtual instances (again, if applicable).
- Understand how to use the workshop exercises.
These first few lab exercises will be exploring the lab and gathering baseline information for use in later excercises.
Guide
Your Lab Environment
This lab makes use of many different services: some dedicated to you, some shared. Later steps will walk through accessing these services. In addition, links to the services are available on your student page.
Dedicated Services
| Service | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Ansible Controller | Automation controller for running Ansible automation |
| Process Control Application | Example application to be deployed to edge devices |
| RHSI (Skupper) | Service Interconnect (Skupper) deployment with router and console |
Shared Services
| Service | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Gitea Source Control | SCM with a webUI for code storage |
| Student Pages | Web pages containing information and links |
| OS-tree Repo | ostree repository containing files for provisioning devices |
There are additional services deployed for building images, device provisioning, etc, however these will not be interacted with directly in this workshop.
Completing the Exercises
This entire workshop can be run from a web browser. SSH will be used for some exercies, however the terminal section of cockpit will give you a web-based way to interact with a shell. Accessing this is covered in a later section.
Optionally, feel free to use SSH and an IDE on your personal device.
Note
If you need more information on new Ansible Automation Platform components, bookmark this landing page https://red.ht/AAP-20
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