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Lab Environment

In this lab you will have access to two Openshift clusters:

  1. AIOps cluster - A full installation of OCP that includes Instana, Instana Agent and Turbonomic all pre-installed Instana and Turbonomic Server.
  2. Apps cluster - An instance of Single Node OpenShift that has Kubeturbo, Instana Agent and the demo applications RobotShop and Quote Of The Day pre-installed.

You will be diving into Turbonomic and learning about Turbonomic Policies and Actions. In the lab you will configure an SLO policy for the Robot Shop application to understand how Turbonomic ARM uses target data already configured to make action recommendations that will assure application performance.

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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)

  • Turbonomic License key (Required when requesting the lab environment)

    IBM Business Partners can get a trial Turbonomic License from IBM Passport Advantage

    IBMers can follow the same instructions but use the internal downloads site

    • Sign in to the appropriate link as mentioned above and select Software download

    • Search for "IBM Turbonomic Application Resource Management On-Prem" and select the latest version.

    • Use the twisties to expose and download the part with a name similar to "IBM Turbonomic Application Resource Management On-Prem X.XX License Key and Quick Start Guide"

    • The License key is in the download Quick Start Guide under the heading Importing license key

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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Follow these instructions for step by step guidance on requesting a lab environment in IBM Tech Zone.

Request Tech Zone environment: