Lab Environment
Introduction
In this section we’ll walk through the process of:
- Initiating the setup of the lab environment
- Deploying several observability agents
- Verifying the setup and deployment steps performed
Topology
This lab environment consists of the following components:
- AWS Cloud9 (Browser based IDE backed by EC2)
- TeaStore - The TeaStore is a reference and test micro-service application which emulates a basic web store for tea and tea supplies
- On-Premises Infrastructure
- Cisco Intersight Kubernetes Service (IKS)
- Cisco HyperFlex running VMware ESXi 6.7
- Cisco ACI
- HAProxy
- Public Cloud: AWS
- Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
- Payment Gateway running externally
- AppDynamics
- ThousandEyes
- Intersight
The diagram below provides illustrates the deployment of the TeaStore lab application.

Next
We’ll initiate the setup of the lab environment.