Lab Environment

The lab environment includes 2 Openshift clusters and 3 VMs.

Openshift clusters:

1. AIOps OCP Cluster - Not required for this lab.
2. Apps SNO Cluster - An instance of Single Node OpenShift where demo applications (Robot Shop & Quote of the Day) have been pre-installed for you to begin looking at monitoring applications with Instana. Quote of the Day has also been integrated with IBM MQ and ACE running on the mqace VM to demonstrate further the Instana Servers monitoring capabilities.

Virtual Machines:

1. Guacamole VM - A RHEL VM that will be used as the bastion host into the lab network. Guacamole has access to all lab VM's and clusters and will be your primary workstation for these labs.
2. Instana - An Ubuntu VM with an instance of Instana Server and Instana Agent running running on K3s.
3. MQACE - An Ubuntu VM that contains the pre-installed IBM ACE and MQ middleware.

Prerequisites

To complete this lab you will need:

• Instana License

  IBM Business Partners can get a 2 week trial Instana License from IBM PartnerWorld - Software Access Catalog as part of the IBM Partner Packages.

  IBMers can get access to an Instana License here

  • Download/Agent Key (Required when requesting the lab environment)
  • Sales Key (Required when requesting the lab environment)

Requesting a Lab Environment

Below is a live chart showing Tech Zone capacity in each available region. When requesting your environment it would be wise to select the region that has the most capacity available.

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You can follow these instructions if you need guidance on how to request a lab.

For this lab we will be using the Jam-in-a-Box: Instana - Explore collection.