Infrastructure as Code

• Foundational DevOps principles that guide the design and management of infrastructures through code.
• Learn best practices and industry patterns that ensure efficient and maintainable IaC implementations.
• Use of industry used tools, versatile infrastructure provisioning tools, will be at the heart of this course practical journey.
• Put theory into practice, implementing concepts learned from course material.
• Hands-on experience with a public cloud provider, where we create, modify, and manage infrastructure resources in a code-driven manner

Knowledge: The student has

• knowledge of how infrastructure can be managed as code using the same principles as in software development.
• knowledge of concepts, processes, and tools used in Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• insight into the major public cloud solutions where IaC is utilized.
• knowledge of various tools within IaC and where and how to use them.

Skills: The student can

• provision and manage IT infrastructure using code.
• use tools to develop and perform version control against code.
• articulate their professional choices around the use of IaC.
• find and refer to information and literature and assess its relevance for issues that can be solved using IaC.
• introduce changes in a production environment through version-controlled repositories and test environments.
• use code to perform simple and repetitive operations in a data center or public cloud provider.

General Competence: The student

• can plan and carry out work-related tasks and projects independently and as a participant in a group, in accordance with ethical requirements and guidelines within IaC.
• has insight into how development and operations are united in the DevOps philosophy.
• has insight into how to troubleshoot infrastructures using infrastructure as code.

• Lectures
• Written resources
• Online resources
• Laboratory work and problem solving