What will you learn on this course:

In this course, you'll learn how to use some popular DevOps tools to create a working Devops Infrastructure on your own laptop. This course provides an overview of DevOps practices. It doesn't go into heavy depth or theory, but provides examples for you to follow along with and expand upon as part of your further development in the DevOps world.

What the course covers:

Setup your PC with Vagrant, VirtualBox and Git.

Get Familiar with Vagrantfile configuration 

Create three Vagrant VMs to host a web application.

Your web application will be load balanced via nginx configuration.

You'll Install and configure a Puppet Master in Vagrant.

Write puppet modules to manage your Vagrant node configuration.

You will host a small webapp on Github and use the code in your project.

Install and configure ServerSpec.

Test your VM builds with ServerSpec to give us confidence they have built correctly. 

I've designed this course based on real DevOps practices from an infrastructure point of view. All of the above will be managed by one Vagrantfile so with one command, you will setup all of this infrastructure within minutes.

This course will help you understand the underlying infrastructure that supports modern day DevOps processes. The lessons learnt in this course will give you a footing to carry on developing and extending what you've learned.

What you’ll learn

You're going to learn about the infrastructure that supports a DevOps environment.

You'll build your own puppet master and write puppet modules. You'll build VM's using Vagrant (configured with puppet) and manage a web application using an nginx webserver and load balancer. We're going to setup ServerSpec (and write your own tests) to test your infrastructure and prove its configured correctly.

By the end of the course you'll have a good understanding of how to build the infrastructure that supports DevOps. It will give you a fantastic grounding in the concepts and structures of DevOps and will help you take a step closer a DevOps role.

Are there any course requirements or prerequisites?

Laptop/PC (64bit) - with VT-x support

Admin rights to install Software

Internet Connection

Experience of command line Linux

Experience of Vi or VIM

Who this course is for:

People who work in IT either as a Linux Admin or Developer.

Anyone who wants to learn about "infrastructure as code".