Month 11: Cloud Automation and Infrastructure as Code

Week 1: Introduction to Infrastructure as Code (IAC) Concepts

Day 1: Importance of IAC and its role in DevOps

Day 2: Key IAC concepts: declarative vs. imperative approach

Day 3: Benefits of IAC: versioning, repeatability, and collaboration

Day 4: IAC best practices: modularity, idempotency, and testing

Day 5: Hands-on activity: Getting started with a simple IAC project

Week 2: Cloud-Specific IAC Solutions

Day 1: Introduction to AWS CloudFormation

Day 2: Hands-on activity: Creating a CloudFormation Stack

Day 3: Introduction to Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates

Day 4: Hands-on activity: Deploying resources using ARM templates

Day 5: Introduction to GCP Deployment Manager

Day 6: Hands-on activity: Creating a Deployment Manager configuration

Week 3: Terraform and Multi-Cloud IAC

Day 1: Introduction to Terraform

Day 2: Terraform providers, resources, and state management

Day 3: Hands-on activity: Deploying resources using Terraform

Day 4: Multi-cloud IAC with Terraform

Day 5: Advanced Terraform concepts: modules, data sources, and provisioners

Day 6: Hands-on activity: Building a multi-cloud environment using Terraform

Week 4: Configuration Management – Ansible, Chef, and Puppet

Day 1: Importance of configuration management in IAC

Day 2: Introduction to Ansible

Day 3: Hands-on activity: Writing and executing Ansible playbooks

Day 4: Introduction to Chef

Day 5: Hands-on activity: Creating and applying Chef recipes

Day 6: Introduction to Puppet

Day 7: Hands-on activity: Writing and applying Puppet manifests