Automation
Preparing for the HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate certification
Preparation guide for the Terraform Associate: format, official objectives (IaC concepts, workflow, state, modules, HCP Terraform), commands to master, st…
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Cloud computing
Preparing for the Google Associate Cloud Engineer certification
Preparation guide for the Associate Cloud Engineer: format, the five domains (setup, planning, deployment, operations, access and security), gcloud comman…
Cloud computing
Preparing for the Azure Administrator Associate certification (AZ-104)
Preparation guide for the AZ-104: format, the five domains (identities and governance, storage, compute, network, monitoring), practical skills to acquire…
Cloud computing
Preparing for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification (SAA-C03)
Preparation guide for the AWS Solutions Architect Associate: format, the four domains (security, resilience, performance, costs), reference architectures …
Observability
Dynatrace security and governance: advanced IAM, policies, SSO, audit and data protection
Secure and govern Dynatrace: SSO and SCIM, groups, IAM policies with conditions, security contexts and buckets, audit logs, data masking and privacy, Appl…
Observability
Bindplane configurations: sources, processors, destinations and versions
Build Bindplane configurations: sources, processors and destinations, the pipeline editor, snapshots, versions, drafts, comparison and rollback.
Observability
OpenTelemetry Collector: processors (transforming, filtering and protecting telemetry)
Master OpenTelemetry Collector processors: batch, memory_limiter, attributes, resource, filter, transform (OTTL), k8sattributes, tail_sampling, order in t…
Observability
Beats: Filebeat, Metricbeat, Winlogbeat and their configuration
Written version of the video lessons: role of each Beat, configuration structure, inputs, modules, processors, outputs and the setup command.
Observability
Other log sources and queues: syslog, Fluent Bit, Kafka, Redis
Written version of the video lessons: collect syslog, Fluent Bit and other sources, then insert a queue (Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ) between collection and in…
Observability
Logstash: role, pipeline concept and installation
Written version of the video lessons: what Logstash is for, how a pipeline works (inputs, filters, outputs, queue, workers) and how to install it.
Observability
Logstash: inputs and outputs
Written version of the video lessons: common inputs (beats, file, tcp/udp, http, kafka, jdbc) and outputs (elasticsearch with data streams, file, s3, kafk…
Observability
Logstash: filters, grok and dissect
Written version of the video lessons: essential filters (mutate, date, json, kv, drop), the grok plugin and its patterns, dissect, and how to choose betwe…
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