2026-02-04, 09:00–13:00, B.1.036
Infrastructure-as-code is a large landscape. Talks typically focus on a specific tool and provide introductory to in-depth knowledge for that tool, which is great! In practice one needs to bring a combinations of tools together to deploy some application or service. This workshop aims to provide you with a lab environment and some guidance to do just that, in practice.
In this workshop you will wear the coat of a DevOps engineer. The mission: package and deploy an application using configuration management tools. The idea is to gain hands-on experience with a combination of popular tools used in the infrastructure-as-code and configuration management landscape. Learning as you go and, hopefully, have fun along the way!
With the support of some explanatory slides and a trainer as your guide, you will explore a Python application stored in Git, learn about automated tasks in VSCode, package your application in a container image (using Docker or Podman), define infrastructure using OpenTofu, write an Ansible Playbook to deploy the and test if you were successful. If not... more opportunity to learn, fix and demystify the landscape of Infrastructure-as-Code.
I'm a trainer and consultant at AT Computing. A problem solver by nature, loves to help others and a proponent of free open source software. Outside of work my time goes to taking care of my family, being an active volunteer technician and tour guide at the HomeComputerMuseum and enjoying good coffee, food and the occasional special brew.