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The SE Latam Hack Night on Github provides a challenge with free learning resources for IaC technologies with a learn-by-doing approach focused on practical, hands on skills.
All the content on this site revolves around challenging exercises, with different levels, which align tightly with the common customer operations.
- Amazon account (You have an extra step if you use your own account, but also bonus points!)
- GitHub account
- Git client installed on your laptop (optional)
- Access to VMware Cloud Assembly (CAS LATAM org, it's going to be provided one day before the event)
- Access to Wavefront (Sandbox – Workspace One)
- Ninja Google search skills
- Configure AWS environment as cloud destination
- Use your group name as a prefix for everything
- Fork git repository for basic blueprint (cas-iac)
- Some basic Git commands are:
git clone
git add
git commit
Great tutorial if you need one: http://www.justait.net/2016/10/github-basics-1.html
- Create an integration between your GitHub project and Cloud Assembly
- Use your team’s name as your hostname
- Provision Deployment
It’s just a guide line, do it on your way….. Google is your friend and you can always check the CMBU Blogs 😉
Change code to add:
- Input for different flavors, like:
- Small, Medium and Large
- Apache installation
- Wavefront apache integration (use wavefront-sandbox)
- Add tag:
- key = team
- value = “Your team’s name”
- Commit change to git (command line is a bonus)
- Make a new deployment
- Create deployment using latest blueprint
- Approval policy
- Delete deployment