Automating Automation Workshop with Tyler Sparks and Casey Burnett

Automating Automation Workshop
There is an abundance of information about automating apps, but what about the critical infrastructure to manage application automation? This is a workshop diving into a working example of how to automate your application automation. Stop clicking around in cloud vendor consoles and get your automation, AUTOMATED!

Workshop will cover automating
- Core infrastructure creation (networks, VPC, tagging)
- VCS environment and restoration of data
- Core infrastructure upgrades
- Build environment
- Trusted registry
- Deployment system and target for application builds

Toolchain
- AWS
- Terraform
- Gitlab
- Docker

After this workshop you should have a working knowledge of how to use open source tools to set up a private, fully functioning, automated, web application environment on AWS that is DEV READY!

Pre-Workshop checklist
- Plan to participate!
- Have a free AWS account created with API keys ready for use
https://aws.amazon.com/free/
- Install Terraform
https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html
- Install Docker
https://www.docker.com/get-started

Sponsors:
- Gitlab
- others to be added