Data Center DevOps: On-Prem Infrastructure Like The Cloud

Learn how to apply ansible, terraform, vault, packer, jenkins and git to automate your data center

Created by: Tom Hearn
Technology Architect

What Will I 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

Target audience

• 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