eXtreme Automation

This 3-day workshop focuses on solving challenges that organisations face when implementing DevOps initiatives. It introduces principles of DevOps and tools that help reach full automation of infrastructure provisioning and software delivery. Theoretical background as well as practical hands-on examples of tools like Ansible, Docker, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Serverless and many others are given during this workshop.

Day 1

Introduction to DevOps, infrastructure as code, immutable infrastructure, idempotence principle, delivery pipelines, GitOps
Managing virtual/cloud resources with IaC, tooling overview, building first infrastructure configuration pipeline with Terraform
Managing multi-cloud/multi-data-center resources with Terraform and Terraform modules
Integrating with classic server provisioning tools like Ansible
Dynamic inventories, network management, building complex infrastructure delivery pipelines, organizing teamwork

Day 2

Managing base machine images with Packer
Introduction to containers and container management
Building/publishing images, running containers with Docker
Implementing complex use cases with Docker Compose
Using Kubernetes to run container workloads
Using Helm charts and Kubernetes operators
Leveraging service mesh features with Linkerd

Day 3

Introduction to observability: logs, metrics, traces
Configuring Prometheus jobs and exporters, creating Grafana data sources and dashboards
DevSecOps: integrating linters, security policy checkers, vulnerability scanners
Leveraging managed FaaS: OpenFaaS, Chalice, Serverless
Implementing a chat bot for Slack for effective ChatOps
Introduction to chaos engineering

What You Get

Unique content - real-life use cases, modern infrastructure, CI/CD/GitOps principles shown in practice.
Certificate of attendance - you will get a shareable online certificate.
Exam after the course - you may pass an optional 1-hour exam and get your score printed on the certificate.
Workshop happens online - join from the convenience of your office or home.
Video recordings will be available after the course - you can revisit some topics later.
Live and interactive - you can ask questions in the chat or over audio and get live clarifications.
Q&A session in the end of each day - you will to get answers to more complex questions in a 1-hour long Q&A session.
Quizzes and polls during the course - learning should be fun!
Practical exercises with solutions - lots of simple and not-so-simple tasks to practice with during the course; Solutions will be provided afterwards.
Additional home work - for those who want to practice more after the course; Homework will be reviewed and supplemented by constructive feedback.
Lifetime e-mail support - you can get answers on anything related to the course content as well as advice based on your company specific situation.
All Materials Are Included - Slides, code, snippets, cheatsheets etc.