Automate your data center like the cloud!
What you'll learn
- Automate Windows and Linux virtual machine creation with Packer
- Provision servers into VMWare from Packer virtual machine templates using Terraform
- Configure virtual machines using Ansible
- Integrate secure credential management into Packer, Ansible and Terraform using Vault
- Dynamically create Ansible inventories from terraform plans
- Deploy full application stacks with multiple servers and application configurations using Terraform and Ansible
- Deploy, setup and manage build processes using Packer, Terraform, Vault and Ansible in Jenkins
- Setup and configure the GOGS git server
- Setup and configure Jenkins build server with integration to Git
Requirements
- VMWare or similar virtualization skillset
- Basic understanding of Linux systems
- Basic networking concepts
Description
Learn how to automate your data center in a devops manner while staying focused with on-prem data centers. There are simply too many courses on automation covering the native cloud providers while ignoring where the majority of workloads still run!I start each section with an introduction of concepts and then walk you through installation, configuration and execution of each toolset and concept.
We'll learn how to:
- Create a centralized build server in Ubuntu
- Automate Windows and Linux virtual machine creation with Packer
- Provision servers into VMWare from Packer virtual machine templates using Terraform
- Configure virtual machines using Ansible
- Integrate secure credential management into Packer, Ansible and Terraform using Vault
- Dynamically create Ansible inventories from terraform plans
- Deploy full application stacks with multiple servers and application configurations using Terraform and Ansible
- Deploy, setup and manage build processes using Packer and Terraform in Jenkins
- Setup and configure the GOGS git server
I am very passionate about supporting 3 organizations that are aiming to help find cures for health issues that have profoundly impacted those around me throughout my life. As a result a portion of my earnings will go to each of these initiatives (15% of all earnings):
5% to the Alzheimer's Association
5% to the National Alliance on Mental Illness
5% to the American Cancer Society
Who this course is for:
- VMWare administrators looking to grow skillsets in devops and automation
- Software developers, engineers and architects interested in integrating with on-prem data center infrastructure provisioning
- Linux administrators looking to spend more time on value-add activities
- DevOps, SRE and automation engineers and administrators looking to enhance their skillsets
- Presales architects focused on devops and automation
- Sales engineers focused on devops and automation
- Cloud engineers and architects looking to build better hybrid data center integration
- Directors and managers looking to push their teams
