Level Up your Infrastructure Skills

In this presentation, I challenge the audience to work on fifteen scenarios to up-level their infrastructure engineering skills.

This version of the talk was given at devopsdays Kraków in April 2023.

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Companion Code: github.com/workloads

Transcript

1. Level up your Infrastructure
   Skills with a Compute Cluster
   

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2. Sr. Developer Advocate at HashiCorp
   he / him
   @ksatirli
   Kerim
   Satirli
   

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3. Challenge:
   become a better ops engineer
   

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4. Infrastructure Security Orchestration
   Packaging
   Networking
   

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5. Infrastructure Security Orchestration
   Packaging
   Networking
   compute
   storage
   databases
   APIs
   mailing
   load balancing
   authentication
   authorization
   databases
   enc. at-rest
   applications
   algorithms
   constraints
   architectures
   hardware supp.
   delivery method
   formats
   limits
   architecture
   security
   patching
   provenance
   domain reg.
   DNS
   ingress / egress
   authorization
   observability
   protocols networking
   disaster recovery
   

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7. What we need
   

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8. +
   

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9. +
   Ops Engineering
   Training
   

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10. Path:
    Packaging
    01
    

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11. create an image that is 99% complete
    Scenario 1
    create an image that supports multiple targets
    Scenario 2
    create an image pipeline that is trustable
    Scenario 3
    

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12. Path:
    Infrastructure
    02
    

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13. Scenario 1
    Scenario 2
    Scenario 3
    dynamically configure images using cloud-init
    make infrastructure changes predictable
    alter infrastructure based on external inputs
    

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14. Security
    03
    

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15. Scenario 1
    Scenario 2
    Scenario 3
    make infrastructure changes predictable
    manage passwords and API tokens externally
    manage user directories and access policies
    

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16. Networking
    04
    

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17. Scenario 1
    Scenario 2
    Scenario 3
    create secure ingress / egress flows
    build observability into your network stack
    update DNS based on cluster utilization
    

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18. Orchestration
    05
    

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19. Scenario 1
    Scenario 2
    Scenario 3
    deploy workloads based on hardware requirements
    experiment with different deployment methods
    build a pipeline to run an app on an orchestrator
    

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20. !
    

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21. is a Team Sport.
    Engineering
    

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22. Co-op Learning
    https://github.com/workloads
    

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23. Thank you
    speakerdeck.com/ksatirli
    

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