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Configure RobotShop Application

In this section you will connect to the existing Kubernetes Cluster and create an Applciation for RobotShop.

πŸš€ TASK: Create Kubernetes Connection (Observer)

🌏 Documentation for the Task: Creating Kubernetes connections

A Kubernetes connection provides data about workloads in a Kubernetes cluster and namespace that you choose.

It loads baseline topology data, such as information about pods, worker nodes, and containers, as well as status from Kubernetes.

Create a Kubernetes connection to create a Topology for the internal RoboShop application.

    1. In the CP4AIOPS β€œHamburger” Menu select Define/Data and tool connections

    2. Click Add connection

    3. Under Kubernetes, click on Add connection

    4. Click Connect

    5. πŸ”Ž Get the data from your configuration file MY_CONFIGURATION.txt - section 2.5 Configure Applications - RobotShop Kubernetes Observer

      ./tools/11_practicum/get_configuration_info.sh > MY_CONFIGURATION.txt
    6. Fill out the first section of fields (Add connection):

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      Name: RobotShop
      Data center: robot-shop
    7. Click Next

    8. Fill out the first section of fields (Set advanced options):

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      Kubernetes master IP address: 172.21.0.1
      Kubernetes API port: 443
      Token: from MY_CONFIGURATION.txt
      Trust all HTTPS certificates: true
      Correlate analytics events: true
      Namespaces to observe: robot-shop
    9. Click Next

    10. Click Done

    11. The Integration should show Running and eventually Successunder Schedule

πŸš€ TASK: Configure RobotShop Application

🌏 Documentation for the Task: Defining and editing applications

You define applications by adding Resource Groups, icons and tags, assigning business criticality levels, and setting service disruption costs.

Create an application with all RobotShop related Resource Groups.

    1. In the CP4AIOPS β€œHamburger” Menu select Operate/Resource management

    2. Select tab Applications

    3. Click Define Application

    4. Select the two Resource Group

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    5. Click Next

    6. Click Next

    7. Enter Name RobotShop

    8. Click on the heart to Mark as favorite

    9. Enter 1000 into Estimated cost per minute for service disruption

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    10. Click Define Applications

Page last updated: 03 November 2022