IP Addressing and Subnetting Lab

🛠 Lab from the Platform Engineering Bootcamp. Used in Week 4. Bootcamp landing page: https://academy.tekanaid.com/bootcamps/platform-engineering-bootcamp Parent course(s):

• Week 4: Networking Fundamentals for Platform Engineers (slug: networking-fundamentals-platform-engineers)

🟡 Beta bootcamp lab. Hands-on instructions, check scripts, and solve scripts are in place. Lab is part of the running TaskFlow project that grows across all 21 weeks of the bootcamp.

In this hands-on lab, you'll learn essential IP addressing and subnetting skills that platform engineers use daily. You'll work with IPv4 addresses, calculate subnets using CIDR notation, and design a complete network architecture for a small company.

You'll use real networking tools like ping, traceroute, and IP calculators to understand how IP addresses work, how to divide networks into subnets, and how to plan IP address allocation efficiently.

By the end of this lab, you'll understand:

• IPv4 address structure and classes
• Subnetting with CIDR notation
• Network and broadcast address calculation
• Practical subnet design for multi-tier applications
• IP address allocation best practices