This course will provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to efficiently operate, manage, and scale an organization's dynamic IT infrastructure. Students will learn to write and use state-of-the-art tools that generate efficient interaction with standard network protocols and effectively manage complex network systems. Upon successful course completion, students will have the ability to use automation to effectively improve operational agility using configuration management automation tools for the purpose of control, configuration, and management of common system administration tasks.
Learning Objectives
Install and configure an IT infrastructure configuration management automation tool. Create and manage hosts and prepare them for IT infrastructure automation. Run individual ad hoc automation tasks from the command line. Write scripts to consistently automate multiple tasks and apply them to managed hosts. Automate common system administration tasks using an IT infrastructure configuration management tool.