Lab no longer has bastion and classroom VM's

[Nikkie]

I am currently working on DO322. One of the important VM's is the bastion node which is needed in building an OCP cluster. Since last week, I noticed the bastion and classroom VM's are missing. I already tried to delete and create a new lab env, no luck.

[shashi01]

@Nikkie 

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I have reviewed your screenshot and understand the concern, although the bastion and classroom VMs are showing as Active.

Since you have already tried deleting and recreating the lab environment without success, this could either be a backend issue with the lab provisioning or an intentional change in the lab design. I recommend raising a support ticket with the Red Hat Training Support team and sharing this screenshot along with your observations. They will be able to verify whether this is a platform-side issue or part of an updated lab layout.

It appears this could be an intentional design decision for the lab, as there doesn’t seem to be any direct requirement for user to access these particular VMs.

[Nikkie]

HI @Shashi 

Could you guide me on how to raise that case to the Training Support Team. I'm not sure what queue or keywords to search in service-now.

Thank you,

Nikkie

[shashi01 · Accepted solution]

@Nikkie, Top left corner navigation bar.

[Chetan_Tiwary_]

@Nikkie Your lab env is perfectly fine. All VMs are up and active. There is no console access to bastion and classroom VM as it is not required for learners.

In this course, the main computer system used for hands-on learning activities (exercises) is utility and workstation.

[Nikkie]

Thank you Chetan. I guess I was just wondering why those consoles were gone, they were always there in the previous courses that I have done. Even on the ones where they are not needed yet. I can confirm console is needed in the classroom VM though. That would open a jupyter notebook where you can, and be used as terminal session into the nodes. This is a faster alternative to the workstation VM.

I have not tried the accessing the bastion VM yet, but you are right since ssh is its only use, console may not be needed.