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.

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Next  

We’ll initiate the setup of the lab environment.