• Online, Self-Paced
Course Description

Automation becomes critical when a system needs to scale. Discover how automation is critical to building highly scalable systems and software.

Learning Objectives

IT Infrastructure Automation: Automation and Scalability

  • work with automation tools to manage scalability issues in an IT environment
  • manage and provision scalable IT services
  • automate deployments to infrastructure using IT automation tools
  • use automation to automatically scale IT resources based on current or projected needs
  • recognize that you must enable autoscaling by using an appropriate deployment tier
  • identify the issues around building systems that can scale automatically
  • describe how to create and use an automation account in the Cloud
  • describe how automating network load balancing can maintain and scale IT processes
  • describe how to automate traffic routing
  • describe how automation can be used to dynamically scale IT resources

Framework Connections

The materials within this course focus on the Knowledge Skills and Abilities (KSAs) identified within the Specialty Areas listed below. Click to view Specialty Area details within the interactive National Cybersecurity Workforce Framework.