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Infrastructure as a Service Training for Beginners

Infrastructure as a Service Training for Beginners

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Beginner level

Recommended experience

5 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Automate IT tasks using Ansible playbooks, inventory, and Ansible Tower

  • Provision and manage cloud infrastructure with Terraform across AWS, Azure, and GCP

  • Implement scalable configuration management using Puppet manifests

  • Apply Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools to real-world DevOps workflows for efficiency and reliability

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Assessments

9 assignments

Taught in English

There are 3 modules in this course

This Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) course offers a structured path to mastering leading configuration management and provisioning tools—Ansible, Terraform, and Puppet. Begin with Ansible, understanding its role as a powerful pull configuration tool, exploring its architecture, playbooks, inventory, and enterprise features like Ansible Tower. Progress to Terraform, a widely adopted IaC tool used for automating cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Gain hands-on experience with Terraform commands, workflows, and provider integrations. Conclude with Puppet, where you’ll learn configuration management through real-world demos, writing manifests, understanding Puppet architecture, and exploring how companies use it at scale.

To succeed, learners will have a basic understanding of cloud. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Automate infrastructure with Ansible playbooks and Tower - Provision multi-cloud resources using Terraform - Manage configurations with Puppet and reusable manifests - Apply IaC tools to real-world DevOps workflows Ideal for DevOps engineers, system admins, & IT professionals.

Master Ansible automation in this hands-on module. Learn what Ansible is, why it's used, and how it functions as a pull configuration tool. Explore its architecture, core components like playbooks and inventory, and how automation workflows operate. Get introduced to Ansible Tower and real-world use cases like Hootsuite, making this module ideal for DevOps and IT professionals.

What's included

9 videos1 reading3 assignments

9 videos•Total 15 minutes
  • Why Ansible?•2 minutes
  • What is Ansible?•1 minute
  • Ansible - Pull configuration tool•2 minutes
  • Ansible Architecture•1 minute
  • Playbook•2 minutes
  • Inventory•1 minute
  • Working of Ansible•1 minute
  • Ansible Tower•1 minute
  • Use case by Hootsuite•4 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
  • Course Syllabus•10 minutes
3 assignments•Total 70 minutes
  • Assessment for Ansible•40 minutes
  • Quiz on Introduction to Ansible•15 minutes
  • Quiz on Ansible in Practice •15 minutes

Get started with Terraform and essential IaC tools in this hands-on module. Learn what Terraform is, how it automates infrastructure provisioning, and why it's a top choice for DevOps teams. Explore key tools, commands, and workflows through real-world examples. Build, manage, and version cloud infrastructure efficiently using Terraform with providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP.

What's included

2 videos3 assignments

2 videos•Total 18 minutes
  • What is Terraform?•12 minutes
  • Hands on Example•6 minutes
3 assignments•Total 60 minutes
  • Assessment for Terraform•30 minutes
  • Quiz on Introduction to Terraform•15 minutes
  • Quiz on A Hands-On Guide•15 minutes

Explore Puppet in this comprehensive module designed for IT automation. Learn what Puppet is, why it's essential for configuration management, and how it works. Understand its architecture and key components. Gain practical experience through demo installations, writing manifests, and hands-on labs. Discover how top companies use Puppet to streamline infrastructure and scale DevOps workflows.

What's included

10 videos3 assignments

10 videos•Total 48 minutes
  • Why Puppet?•1 minute
  • What is Puppet?•1 minute
  • Components of Puppet•2 minutes
  • Puppet Architecture•3 minutes
  • Working of Puppet•4 minutes
  • Demo Install Apache Part - 1•15 minutes
  • Demo Install Apache Part - 2•5 minutes
  • Companies adopting Puppet•1 minute
  • Writing manifests in Puppet•2 minutes
  • Hands-on Demo•15 minutes
3 assignments•Total 70 minutes
  • Assessment for Puppet•40 minutes
  • Quiz on Introduction to Puppet•15 minutes
  • Quiz on Using Puppet in Real-World Scenarios•15 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a cloud computing model that delivers virtualized computing resources—like servers, storage, and networking—over the internet, allowing businesses to scale infrastructure on demand.

The main objectives of IaaS are to reduce hardware costs, increase scalability, enhance flexibility, and enable faster deployment of applications and services.

The core components of IaaS are compute (virtual machines), storage (block and object storage), and networking (virtual networks, firewalls, load balancers).

IaaS is implemented by choosing a cloud provider (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), setting up virtual resources via a dashboard or APIs, configuring security and access controls, and deploying applications on the cloud infrastructure.

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