Orchestration and Monitoring
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>> Hey there, Cybrarians. Welcome back to
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the Linux plus course here at Cybrary.
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I'm your instructor, Rob Goelz.
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In today's lesson, we're going to be
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discussing orchestration and monitoring.
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Upon completion of this lesson,
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you are going to be able to
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understand the orchestration components and processes,
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as well as differentiate between
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agent and agentless monitoring tools.
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System administration has largely moved on
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>> from where we once were where we were only
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>> managing a handful of servers.
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Nowadays, systems administrators often
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manage hundreds or even thousands of servers,
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and each of these servers can have
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varying levels of complexity
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>> and different requirements.
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>> When we're trying to deal with
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>> that complexity in scale,
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>> system administrators now use orchestration tools.
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Orchestration simplifies those complex tasks
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and automation is part of this.
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It configures processes to occur automatically.
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In this module, we're going to
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cover orchestration concepts,
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tools, and their purpose,
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but we won't be diving into setup, configuration,
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or administration because that's
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beyond the scope of the Linux plus exam.
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Throughout this module, we will cover
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the orchestration components and processes.
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Components include things like monitoring,
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which is this lesson, as well as
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procedures and attributes, as well as inventory.
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Orchestration processes include
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>> infrastructure automation
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>> with infrastructure as code,
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automated configurations, and build automation.
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Orchestration monitoring tools help to track
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system health and may also provide
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>> logging and reporting.
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>> There are generally two types of monitoring tools.
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There are agent monitoring tools.
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These require software installations
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on a system or in a container.
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This software in agent collects monitoring data
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>> and then transfers it back to a centralized server.
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>> Now that centralized server can provide reporting,
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alerting, and also possibly analysis of that data.
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By comparison, we also have agentless monitoring tools.
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In this case, no software is installed.
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Instead, preexisting system utilities or
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software are used to get the data that we need
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for monitoring and the monitoring server
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may receive data from
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the system or it may query
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the system using those preexisting system utilities.
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In this lesson, we covered the evolving role
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>> of the system administrator
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>> and the part orchestration plays,
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>> we talked about the orchestration components
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and processes that leverage orchestration,
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and then we talked about
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orchestration monitoring tools such
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as agent monitoring and agentless monitoring tools.
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Thanks so much for being here,
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>> and I look forward to seeing you in the next lesson.
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