Description

Duration

3 Days

18 CPD hours

This course is intended for

Experienced system administrators or network administrators, software and DevOps engineers

Overview

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Describe VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer architecture
Describe VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer components and main functions
Explain VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer key features and benefits
Describe and leverage VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer REST API
Describe and leverage VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer SDKs with extended focus on Python SDK
Leverage REST API and SDK features and functions to provision application delivery components
Describe and leverage VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer Ansible and Terraform integrations
Describe and leverage VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer Github, Docker (avinetworks/avitools), Ansible Galaxy and other open source resources to accelerate the automation planning and implementation
Leverage VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer Ansible and Terraform integrations to provision infrastructure components
Leverage VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer Ansible and Terraform integrations to automate and streamline application delivery services provisioning

This three-day, fast-paced course provides comprehensive training on how to automate infrastructure and application components of VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi Networks) solution. This course covers key application delivery features of NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi Networks) features and functionality offered in VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer 18.2 release and focuses on how to plan and implement automation of infrastructure and application components leveraging REST API, SDK or automation solutions such as Ansible, Terraform or similar. Access to a software-defined data center environment is provided through hands-on labs to reinforce the skills and concepts presented in the course.

Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics

Course objectives

Introduction to NSX Advanced Load Balancer

Introduce NSX Advanced Load Balancer

Discuss NSX Advanced Load Balancer use cases, and benefits

Explain NSX Advanced Load Balancer architecture and components

Explain the management, control, data, and consumption planes and functions

Virtual Services Configuration Concepts

Explain Virtual Service components

Explain Virtual Service types

Explain and configure basic virtual services components such as Application Profiles, Network Profiles,Pools and Health Monitors

Pools Configuration Concepts

Explain and deep dive on Pool configuration options

Describe multiple load balancing algorithms

Explain multiple Health Monitor types

Explain multiple Persistent profiles

Explain and configure Pool Groups

Leveraging NSX Advanced Load Balancer REST API

Explain NSX Advanced Load Balancer automation vision

Explain and introduce NSX Advanced Load Balancer REST API

Describe NSX Advanced Load Balancer REST API methods and capabilities

Describe NSX Advanced Load Balancer REST API session handling properties such authentication, API versioning and tenancy model

Deep dive on NSX Advanced Load Balancer REST API Object Model

Explain and investigate NSX Advanced Load Balancer REST API leveraging browser and command line utilities

Explain and interact with NSX Advanced Load Balancer REST API leveraging browser, Postman and Curl

Explain Swagger-based API Documentation

Explain and leverage NSX Advanced Load Balancer Inventory API

Explain and leverage NSX Advanced Load Balancer methods such as GET, PUT, POST and PATCH and associated queries, filters and parameters

Deep dive on NSX Advanced Load Balancer PATCH method

Explain and leverage NSX Advanced Load Balancer Analytics API

Explain and leverage NSX Advanced Load Balancer MACRO API

NSX Advanced Load Balancer Software-Defined Kits (SDKs) and ControlScripts

Introduce NSX Advanced Load Balancer SDKs

Describe, install and leverage NSX Advanced Load Balancer Python SDK

Deep dive on NSX Advanced Load Balancer Python SDK

Describe and leverage Golang SDK

Leverage NSX Advanced Load Balancer open source resources such as Github, etc to accelerate SDKs adoption

Describe NSX Advanced Load Balancer Events and Alerts framework

Introduce ControlScripts foundations

Leverage ControlScripts to automate configuration changes and alerts remediation

Automating NSX Advanced Load Balancer Application Delivery Services with Ansible and Terraform

Introduce NSX Advanced Load Balancer Configuration Orchestration and Management vision

Introduce and explain Ansible foundations

Describe Ansible and NSX Advanced Load Balancer Ansible capabilities

Deep dive and implement NSX Advanced Load Balancer Ansible Core configuration modules (avinetworks/avisdk)

Deep dive and implement Ansible NSX Advanced

Load Balancer Declarative configuration role (avinetworks/aviconfig)

Leverage Swagger NSX Advanced Load Balancer REST API models to develop and implement Ansible playbooks

Explain application delivery configuration automation

approach and models

Apply configuration automation models with Ansible

Introduce and explain Terraform foundations

Describe Terraform and NSX Advanced Load Balancer Terraform capabilities

Deep dive and implement NSX Advanced Load Balancer Terraform Provider

Leverage Swagger NSX Advanced Load Balancer REST API models to develop and implement Terraform plans

Apply configuration automation models with Terraform

Automating NSX Advanced Load Balancer Infrastructure with Ansible and Terraform

Introduce NSX Advanced Load Balancer infrastructure Automation vision

Describe infrastructure deployment approach and capabilities

Describe Ansible and NSX Advanced Load Balancer Ansible Infrastructure deployment approach and capabilities

Describe Terraform and NSX Advanced Load Balancer Terraform deployment approach and capabilities

Leverage Terraform to deploy Controllers and perform system configuration, including control plane cluster setup

Leverage Terraform to provision Cloud, Service Engine Groups and Service Engine components

Describe and leverage Ansible roles to deploy Controllers and perform initial system configuration, including control plane cluster setup

Leverage Ansible declarative and core roles to provision Cloud, Service Engine Groups and Service Engine components

Describe and implement combined Terraform + Ansible model to streamline NSX Advanced Load Balancer solution deployment

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