pAS fundamentals

This PAS Fundamentals training course provides administrators and operators with the theoretical understanding and hands-on experience needed to manually install and manage a Pivotal Platform Installation. The course begins with an introduction to BOSH and, how to use it. This builds the foundation for installing Ops Manager and the Pivotal Application Service, configuring users, roles, and quotas, and setting up the platform for logging and monitoring. Upon completion of this course, participants will have the skills necessary to go from setup through maintenance of their organization’s cloud platform.

  • Administrators responsible for the installation, configuration and management of a Pivotal Platform installation.

  • Access to a Linux environment or install Windows subsystem for Linux.
  • Experience using the Linux command line interface.
  • Permission to install software.
  • Access to Google Cloud via browser and command line.
  • Completion of a Cloud Foundry developer course is preferred, but not required.

At the end of the PAS Fundamentals course, students will be able to:

  • Understand a BOSH release and how a BOSH deployment is used
  • Understand the BOSH architecture and how it enables Pivotal Platform
  • Understand the Pivotal Application Service architecture and how it impacts developers
  • Install Pivotal Platform
  • Create users and assign roles
  • Manage org and space quotas
  • Monitor Pivotal Platform
  • Use BOSH to explore, troubleshoot and deploy releases

COURSE AGENDA

  • Introduction
  • Deploy, Patch & Upgrade
  • Deploy a simple release
  • Inside the VM
  • Persistent Disks
  • Patch the OS
  • Upgrade Nginx
  • Beyond the basics
  • Deploy a distributed system
  • Deploy Concourse
  • CredHub
  • Troubleshooting Concourse Deployment
  • Concourse Day 2 Operations
  • Deploy an app to PAS
  • Set up a jumpbox
  • Deploy ops manager
  • Deploy BOSH director
  • Deploy Pivotal Application Service
  • Installing Healthwatch
  • Install MySQL
  • Orgs, spaces, roles, and quotas