DO040 – Red Hat Agile Integration Technical Overview — Lesson 1: Agile Integration Drivers, Distributed Architecture, and Cloud-Native Principles

Learning Objectives

• Interpret the architecture, dependencies, and expected behavior of integration modernization, distributed architecture, and cloud-native principles.
• Apply team autonomy and platform capabilities while preserving reviewable technical evidence.
• Recognize and correct the risk where a hidden prerequisite causes the first configuration step to produce an incomplete result.

Detailed Topics

• integration modernization: apply the concept to an enterprise integration team modernizing tightly coupled middleware into reusable cloud-native services, record the relevant settings or decisions, and explain the operational consequence.
• distributed architecture: apply the concept to an enterprise integration team modernizing tightly coupled middleware into reusable cloud-native services, record the relevant settings or decisions, and explain the operational consequence.
• cloud-native principles: apply the concept to an enterprise integration team modernizing tightly coupled middleware into reusable cloud-native services, record the relevant settings or decisions, and explain the operational consequence.
• team autonomy: apply the concept to an enterprise integration team modernizing tightly coupled middleware into reusable cloud-native services, record the relevant settings or decisions, and explain the operational consequence.
• platform capabilities: apply the concept to an enterprise integration team modernizing tightly coupled middleware into reusable cloud-native services, record the relevant settings or decisions, and explain the operational consequence.

Instructor Demonstration

The instructor demonstrates agile integration drivers, distributed architecture, and cloud-native principles by tracing the relevant architecture, commands, configuration, messages, and evidence. The walkthrough highlights how a hidden prerequisite causes the first configuration step to produce an incomplete result and shows how to isolate the cause without masking dependent issues.

Hands-On Exercise

Build a baseline and capture the initial state for Agile Integration Drivers, Distributed Architecture, and Cloud-Native Principles. Add verified outcomes to the agile integration capability map, modernization options, governance model, and phased transformation plan.

1. Confirm the scope, versions, access, dependencies, and success criteria.
2. Perform the workflow while recording commands, settings, output, and platform events.
3. Test one expected case and one controlled exception specific to this lesson.
4. Retest the correction and document ownership, rollback, and follow-up actions.

Scenario Analysis

• Identify which dependency most strongly influences integration modernization in the stated scenario.
• Compare two approaches for team autonomy and explain the security, reliability, and support trade-offs.
• Decide what evidence must be retained in the agile integration capability map, modernization options, governance model, and phased transformation plan before operational acceptance.

Troubleshooting Guidance

Begin with the first observable difference from the expected result. Check architecture, access, dependencies, and starting conditions separately, then correlate logs, events, commands, and configuration history. Do not accept the initial assumption that a hidden prerequisite causes the first configuration step to produce an incomplete result; confirm the cause with a reproducible retest.

Validation Checklist

• The required architecture, access, dependencies, and starting conditions were checked and recorded.
• The normal path and a course-specific exception were tested.
• The agile integration capability map, modernization options, governance model, and phased transformation plan links conclusions to commands, configuration, logs, or other objective evidence.
• Corrective actions, rollback steps, ownership, and handover notes are complete.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply Agile Integration Drivers, Distributed Architecture, and Cloud-Native Principles, explain the observed Red Hat platform behavior, and support the result with a reviewable agile integration capability map, modernization options, governance model, and phased transformation plan.