IaC Crash Course - Workshop

Description

In this workshop, I’ll show you Infrastructure as Code concepts, methodologies and best practices through a series of modules. The topics covered include IaC fundamentals, common IaC tools and platforms. The techniques are vendor-free and work for any cloud (eg. Azure, AWS, and GCP). When completing this workshop, you’ll be up and running with IaC fundamentals and best-practices for production environments.

Prerequisites

• JSON/YAML
• Version Control Systems (i.e. git)
• Basic Networking
• Cloud Infrastructures

Table Of Contents

• Lessons: Introduction, Prerequisite, Who’s it for?, Course structure

• Skills: TBD
• Tools: TBD
• Lessons: TBD

• Skills: Virtualization, Provisioning
• Tools: VirtualBox, Vagrant
• Lessons: Install, Initialise, Install VM, Boot, Provision, Teardown, Rebuild, Providers, Best Practices, Help, Troubleshoot

• Skills: Provisioning
• Tools: Chef, kitchen, RuboCop, Foodcritic, chefspec, Serverspec
• Lessons: Install, Client, Server, Components, Cookbooks, Secrets, Linting, Testing, Best Practices, Help, Troubleshoot

• Skills: Provisioning
• Tools: Puppet, Litmus, rspec
• Lessons: Install, Agent, Modules, Cookbooks, Secrets, Linting, Testing, Best Practices, Help, Troubleshoot

• Skills: Provisioning
• Tools: ansible, ansible-galaxy, molecule, mitogen
• Lessons: Install, Galaxy, Tasks, Playbooks, Inventories, Modules, Templates, Roles, Linting, Testing, Best Practices, Help, Troubleshoot

• Skills: Provisioning
• Tools: ...
• Lessons: Install, Commands, Linting, Testing, Best Practices, Help, Troubleshoot

• Skills: Provisioning, Packaging Images
• Tools: Packer, ansible, chef, puppet, shell
• Lessons: Install, Builders, Provisioning, Post-Processors, Linting, Testing, Best Practices, Help, Troubleshoot

• Skills: IaC
• Tools: Terraform, Terrascan, Terrasec
• Lessons: Install, Plan, Apply, State, Providers, Destroy, Variables, Modules, Linting, Testing, Security, Best Practices, Help, Troubleshoot

• Skills: cloud instance initialization
• Tools: cloud-init
• Lessons: Install, User Data, Instance Data, Linting, Testing, Best Practices, Help, Troubleshoot

• Skills: Docker, Container
• Tools: docker, docker-compose, docker hub, docker bench
• Lessons: Install, Commands, Dockerfile, Registry, Ports, Volumes, Docker-Compose, Testing, Security, Best Practices, Help, Troubleshoot.

• Skills: Container, Kubernetes
• Tools: kubernetes, minikube
• Lessons: Install, Mini-distro, Containers, Nodes, Pod, Services, Load Balancer, DeploySet, ReplicaSet, Policies, Storage, Networking, Linting, Testing, Best Practices, Help, Troubleshoot.