DevOps
Infrastructure as Code and GitOps: Terraform, Ansible and Argo CD
Manage infrastructure as code: declarative or imperative, Terraform (providers, state, plan, modules, drift), Ansible for configuration, immutable infrast…
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Observability
Automation and infrastructure as code for Elasticsearch: API, Terraform, Ansible and CI/CD
Automate Elasticsearch administration: REST API and clients, the elasticstack Terraform provider (templates, ILM, roles), Ansible, ECK with GitOps and CI/…
Automation
Ansible: the inventory (static, dynamic, groups and variables)
Understand and master the Ansible inventory: INI and YAML files, groups, host and group variables, patterns, dynamic inventories and the ansible-inventory…
Automation
Ansible: ad-hoc commands
Run immediate actions on a fleet of servers with ansible: the ping, command, shell, copy, apt, service and setup modules, parallelism, privileges and best…
Automation
Ansible: structuring your code with roles
Create, organize and reuse Ansible roles: directory layout, defaults, tasks, handlers, templates, dependencies, ansible-galaxy and best practices.
Automation
Ansible: generating dynamic files with Jinja2 and facts
Create dynamic configuration files: Jinja2 templates, variables, facts, filters, loops, conditions, lookups and checking with validate.
Automation
Ansible: managing security (Vault, SSH, privileges and secrets)
Securing Ansible: Ansible Vault, SSH key authentication, become and sudo, no_log, hardening the controller and managing secrets in CI/CD.
Automation
Ansible: managing your infrastructure with playbooks (Infrastructure as Code)
Write production playbooks: project structure, plays, handlers, tags, serial strategy, error handling blocks, progressive deployment and multi-tier orches…
Automation
Ansible: driving your automations with a graphical interface (AWX, Semaphore, AAP)
Compare and install Ansible's graphical interfaces: AWX, Ansible Automation Platform, Semaphore and Rundeck. Inventories, credentials, job templates, RBAC…
Automation
Ansible: going further (testing, quality, CI/CD and performance)
Industrialize Ansible: ansible-lint, yamllint, Molecule, continuous integration, collections, execution environments, mitogen and performance optimization.
Automation
Ansible best practices: structure, idempotence, security and quality
Ansible best practices: project organization, naming, FQCN, idempotence, modules rather than shell, variables and precedence, Vault, tags, tests, linting,…
Observability
Workflows and AutomationEngine: automating notifications and remediation
Automate with Dynatrace Workflows (AutomationEngine): event-based, scheduled and on-demand triggers, DQL, JavaScript and HTTP tasks, Slack, Teams, Jira, S…
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