CompTIA Cloud+: Troubleshooting Automation and Orchestration Issues

IN THIS COURSE

• 1.  Course Overview
  1m 48s
  In this video, you’ll learn more about your instructor and this course. In this course, you’ll learn about automation and orchestration issues that occur due to user account and group permission issues, change management process miscommunications, and DNS and server name changes. Next, you’ll learn about automation and orchestration issues that occur due to IP address scheme changes, changing availability zones, third-party versioning issues, and tool incompatibility issues. FREE ACCESS
• 2.  User Accounts and Service Accounts
  8m 38s
  In this video, you’ll examine potential automation and orchestration issues that can arise from incorrect user or service account permissions or mismatched accounts being specified for a particular task. First, you’ll learn more about user accounts and service accounts. Most users use their accounts on a daily basis to access resources in a networking environment or to perform various tasks manually. Services themselves do many of the same things. They just aren't performed manually. FREE ACCESS
• 3.  Change Management Process Issues
  6m 17s
  In this video, you’ll learn how the orchestration and automation process can become problematic due to breakdowns or failures in the change management process. You’ll see these two processes are inherently at odds with each other because orchestration and automation tend to rely on things staying the same, whereas change management deals with implementing change. The key is to ensure your change management processes include or address your automation. FREE ACCESS
• 4.  DNS and Server Name Change Issues
  6m 43s
  In this video, you’ll learn how changes to server names or issues with DNS, or domain name service, can result in problems with your automated processes. You’ll see this may involve the use of scripts, commands, or other tasks that reference servers and other hosts explicitly by name. This means if any of those names should change, your processes will most certainly fail unless your automation is updated accordingly. FREE ACCESS
• 5.  IP Address Scheme Change Issues
  3m 43s
  In this video, you’ll examine considerations for issues that may arise with your orchestration or automation processes due to a change in the IP addressing scheme of your network environment. This could be due to reasons including the adoption of new services, including a migration to the cloud. Or, it could be because of the implementation of new sites or branch offices in a hybrid cloud. Growth of the organization could also cause this problem. FREE ACCESS
• 6.  Location Change Automation Issues
  8m 41s
  In this video, you’ll examine potential issues that can arise with automated workloads due to changes in your location. You’ll learn that locations in the cloud take the form of regions and zones. The impact regions and zones can have on a workload comes down to the fact that when you make a request of a compute resource, you’re required to provide the region or the zone in which that request should be carried out. FREE ACCESS
• 7.  Versioning Mismatch Automation Issues
  6m 3s
  In this video, you’ll examine possible issues that can arise in your automation and orchestration tasks due to version conflicts or feature mismatches. In this case, version refers to the target systems on which the orchestrated processes will run, and the orchestration itself. For example, an automated process might be targeted at a specific server. It might execute a task that’s dependent on that server having the correct version of an application or operating system. FREE ACCESS
• 8.  Automation Tool Compatibility Problems
  5m 47s
  In this video, you’ll examine potential compatibility issues between automation and orchestration software platforms or processes that can cause issues with deploying your solutions. You’ll review the distinction between automation and orchestration. These are often used interchangeably in daily conversation, but automation is a part of the orchestration process. Automation refers to the completion of a single task in an automated manner. It does not require any kind of manual intervention or invocation. FREE ACCESS
• 9.  Job Validation
  5m 39s
  In this video, you’ll examine the process of validating your automated or orchestrated processes to ensure they’re behaving as expected and completing successfully. You’ll see orchestrated processes can be very complex and involve many components. There are many places where things can go wrong. Processes may fail in an obvious way, or it might complete but with subtle errors that are more difficult to isolate. Process validation begins with analysis of your design and implementation. FREE ACCESS
• 10.  Patch Management
  9m 9s
  In this video, you’ll look at patch management. You’ll learn about issues that can arise with your automated or orchestrated processes due to failures related to patching and updating your applications and operating systems. The most common kind of failures you’ll encounter is a patch installation that was attempted and failed or a system that has yet to receive a patch that is required by the automation process being targeted at that system. FREE ACCESS
• 11.  Creating an Automation Account in the Cloud
  4m 20s
  In this video, you’ll watch a demo. In this demo, you’ll look at setting up an Automation Account. You’ll see Microsoft Azure is used onscreen, so you’ll see some options that are specific to Azure. An automation account in Azure allows you to run processes such as PowerShell scripts or runbooks using this account, without needing a virtual machine to host those processes. FREE ACCESS
• 12.  Course Summary
  44s
  In this video, you’ll summarize what you’ve learned in the course. You’ve examined cloud automation and orchestration issues and causes. You explored how user and group permissions and change management affect automation and orchestration. You also looked at the effect of DNS and server name changes, effective changes to your IP addressing scheme, location changes, and version conflicts. You looked at automation tool compatibility issues and how they can affect deployment. FREE ACCESS