Platform Engineer Networking bootcamp

This repository contains the files for the Platform Engineer Networking bootcamp.

Lab credentials

Week 1 - Scrum & DevOps

• Scrum slides
• Scrum questions
• DevOps

Week 2 - VCS & Linux

VCS Labs

Day 1: Git Basics

• 1.1 - Introduction to Git CLI
• 1.2 - Introduction to GitHub
• 1.3 - Push, Pull, and Conflict Resolution
• 1.4 - Essential Git Commands

Day 2: Git Workflows

• 2.1 - VCS in Visual Studio
• 2.2 - Branching and Pull Requests
• 2.3 - Tags and Releases
• 2.4 - Collaborators
• 2.5 - Repository Settings

Day 3: Advanced GitHub

• 3.1 - Branch Protection
• 3.2 - Forks
• 3.3 - Organizations and Teams
• 3.4 - Workflows

Linux Labs

Day 1: File System Basics

• 1.0 - Connect to VM
• 1.1 - File Navigation
• 1.2 - File Details
• 1.3 - File Processing and Compression
• 1.4 - File Processing Challenge

Day 2: System Monitoring and Process Management

• 2.1 - Editing Files
• 2.2 - System Monitoring
• 2.3 - Linux Jobs
• 2.3 - Process Management
• 2.4 - Operators
• 2.5 - Monitoring Challenge

Day 3: Scripting and Permissions

• 3.1 - Scripting Basics
• 3.2 - Users, Groups, and Permissions
• 3.3 - Finding Files
• 3.4 - Find, Scripting, and User Challenge

Day 4: System Administration

• 4.1 - Package Management
• 4.2 - Networking
• 4.3 - Service Management
• 4.4 - Disk Management

Day 5: Advanced Configuration

• 5.1 - Common Configurations
• 5.2 - Scheduling
• 5.3 - SELinux Basics
• 5.4 - System Administration Tool

Week 3 - Network Fundamentals Labs

Day 1: Networking Basics and IP Addressing

• 1.0 - Cisco Packet Tracer Installation and Discovery
• 1.1 - Networking Fundamentals with Cisco Packet Tracer
• 1.2 - IP Addressing and Subnet Planning Using VLSM
• 1.3 - IPv6 Configuration

Day 2: Network Services and Security

• 2.1 - DHCP, DNS & NAT/PAT
• 2.2 - ACL & Wireless Security
• 2.3 - Comprehensive Troubleshooting Scenario

Day 3: Network Diagnostics and Design

• 3.1 - Network Diagnostics & Verification
• 3.2 - Build & Verify a Complete Small Office Network

Day 4: Network Security

• 4.1 - L2 Attack & Defence Simulation
• 4.2 - ACL-Based Firewall Rules & DMZ Design
• 4.3 - Standard & Extended ACLs: Multi-Department Access Control

Day 5: Routing Protocols and Capstone

• 5.1 - Multi-Router Static Routing
• 5.2 - OSPF Single-Area Configuration
• 5.3 - Full Network Capstone

Week 4 - Routing and Switching Essentials Labs

Day 1: VLANs and Layer 2 Switching

• 1.1 - VLANs and Trunking
• 1.2 - Inter-VLAN Routing (Router-on-a-Stick)
• 1.3 - Spanning Tree Protocol and EtherChannel
• 1.4 - VLAN Security and Best Practices

Day 2: Layer 3 Switching and Redundancy

• 2.1 - Inter-VLAN Routing with a Multilayer Switch (SVIs)
• 2.2 - First-Hop Redundancy with HSRP
• 2.3 - VLAN and Trunk Troubleshooting Scenario
• 2.4 - Two-Site Office Network: VLANs, HSRP & OSPF

Day 3: AWS Networking Fundamentals

• 3.0 - Getting Started with AWS: EC2 Instances and AWS Console
• 3.1 - Building a VPC Architecture in AWS
• 3.2 - Understanding and Configuring AWS Security Groups
• 3.3 - AWS Network ACLs (NACLs)

Day 4: AWS DNS and Load Balancing

• 4.1 - Configuring DNS with Amazon Route 53
• 4.2 - Building a Load-Balanced Web Tier
• 4.3 - VPC Peering and Hybrid Connectivity

Day 5: AWS High Availability and Troubleshooting

• 5.1 - Multi-AZ High Availability Web Application
• 5.2 - VPN Failover and CloudWatch Monitoring
• 5.3 - Troubleshooting Common VPC Issues

Week 6 - IaC

Terraform Labs

Day 1: Terraform Basics

• 1.0 - Terraform Setup
• 1.1 - Terraform First Instance
• 1.2 - Terraform Variables
• 1.3 - Terraform Working with Variables
• 1.4 - Terraform More Variables

Day 2: Terraform Intermediate

• 2.1 - Terraform Backends
• 2.2 - Terraform Data
• 2.3 - Terraform Modules

Day 3: Terraform Advanced

• 3.1 - Terraform Resource Dependency
• 3.2 - Terraform Workspaces and tfvars
• 3.3 - Terraform Functions
• 3.4 - Terraform Drift Fix

Day 4: Terraform HCP

• 4.1 - Terraform HCP Cloud
• 4.2 - Terraform HCP Modify
• 4.3 - Terraform HCP Module
• 4.4 - Terraform Health Drift Detection

Day 5: Terraform Testing

• 5.1 - Terraform Unit Testing
• 5.2 - Terraform Integration Testing
• 5.3 - Terraform Challenge

Week 7 - Ansible

Ansible Labs

Day 1

• 1.0 - Connect to Ansible Controller
• 1.1 - Ansible inventory
• 1.2 - Ansible ad-hoc
• 1.3 - Ansible playbook fundamentals

Day 2

• 2.1 - Ansible Variables
• 2.2 - Ansible Roles
• 2.3 - Delegate Tasks
• 2.4 - AAP Inventory and Credentials

Day 3

• 3.1 - AAP Projects and Jobs
• 3.2 - Ansible Playbook Error Handling
• 3.3 - Ansible Templates

Day 4

• 4.1 - Ansible Surveys
• 4.2 - Ansible Vault
• 4.3 - RBAC
• 4.4 - AAP Workflows
• 4.5 - Develop an Ansible module

Day 5

• Ansible Bonus labs

Python Labs

Day 1: Python Basics

• 1.1 - Python Command Line Basics
• 1.2 - VS Code SSH Setup
• 1.2 - Python Virtual Environments and Package Management
• 1.3 - Python Modules and Script Basics

Day 2: Data Structures and OOP

• 2.1 - Python Data Structures and References
• 2.2 - Python Object-Oriented Programming Basics
• 2.3 - Generators, Comprehensions, and Decorators

Day 3: Error Handling and I/O

• 3.1 - Python Exception Handling
• 3.2 - File I/O and Serialization
• 3.3 - PowerShell and Python for Network Tasks

Day 4: Networking and Projects

• 4.1 - Python Socket Programming Basics
• 4.2 - Python OOP Web Server Challenge

Infrastructure Automation

Day 1: GitHub Actions CI/CD

• 1.1 - Introduction to GitHub Actions Workflows
• 1.2 - GitHub Actions Docker Build and Push
• 1.3 - GitHub Actions CI/CD Pipeline Enhancements
• 1.4 - GitHub OIDC Authentication for AWS

Day 2: Jenkins and Deployment

• 2.1 - Self-Hosted CI/CD with Jenkins
• 2.2 - Manual Deployment to AWS EC2
• 2.3 - Ansible Configuration Management

Day 3: Infrastructure as Code with Packer and Terraform

• 3.1 - Terraform Multi-AZ Infrastructure Automation
• 3.2 - Building Golden AMIs with Packer and GitHub Actions
• 3.3 - Terraform Infrastructure with Custom AMI

Day 4: Kubernetes and GitOps

• 4.1 - Multi-Environment Zero-Downtime Deployments
• 4.2 - GitOps with Kubernetes and Argo CD
• 4.3 - GitOps Automation with Version Injection

Day 5: Advanced GitOps and Disaster Recovery

• 5.1 - Blue/Green Deployments with Argo Rollouts
• 5.2 - Hybrid Cloud Disaster Recovery with Multi-Region Redundancy

Scripting APIs Labs

Day 1: REST & Flask

• 1.1 - Python REST API
• 1.2 - Python Flask

Day 2: API Keys, JWT, HTTPS

• 2.1 - Python API Keys
• 2.2 - Python JWT
• 2.3 - Python API HTTPS
• 2.4 - Sample Solution

Day 3: SOAP & Jinja2

• 3.1 - Python SOAP
• 3.2 - Python Jinja2

Day 4: API Rating, Reverse Proxy, OAuth

• 4.1 - Python API Rating
• 4.2 - Python Reverse Proxy
• 4.3 - Python API OAuth

Day 5: API Project

5.0 - Python API Project

Monitoring Labs

Day 1: Monitoring Fundamentals

• 1.1 - Grafana
• 1.2 - API Telemetry
• 1.3 - Loki
• 1.4 - K8s Lab Environment

Day 2: Prometheus & Kubernetes

• 2.1 - PromQL
• 2.2 - K8s Lab Info
• 2.3 - Custom Metrics

Day 3: Dashboards & Alerts

• 3.1 - Advanced Dashboard
• 3.2 - Alerts
• 3.3 - Exporters

Day 4: Observability & OTEL

• 4.1 - Deploy API
• 4.2 - OTEL