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Introduction to Ansible Molecule
Explore the fundamentals of Ansible Molecule in this hands-on lab, designed to introduce learners to automated testing for Ansible roles and playbooks. Participants will gain practical experience in setting up test scenarios, running Ansible Molecule's various stages from the command line, and integrating Ansible Molecule with a CICD pipeline.
CICD for Automation Engineers
This lab is a component of the Infrastructure Automation Automated Testing learning path in the Infrastructure Automation with Ansible Learning Series. The goal of this learning path is to provide hands-on and practical exposure to the concepts of implementing Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery.
The lab will utilize Gitea as the Source Code Manager (SCM) which includes Gitea Actions for executing CICD Workflows. Gitea Actions map almost identically to GitHub actions so the Gitea specific knowledge gained maps directly to GitHub implementations. The general concepts learning through this lab are also valuable and applicable across other implementations.
Implementing Static Code Analysis
Ensuring your code meets syntactical and style standards is an important part of the automation development process. This training lab will introduce you to different linters that can be used in an Ansible automation development lifecycle.
A linter is a tool that analyzes source code to identify and report potential errors, bugs, stylistic errors, and other issues, helping to improve code quality.
You will learn about two different linters and multiple points of execution to ensure that only clean code reaches your production branch.
Automation Core Concepts
The Automation Foundations learning path is designed to prepare infrastructure architects and engineers for the journey toward automation. Automation in practice includes a broad ecosystem of skills beyond the specific language or system chosen to automate or orchestrate. This learning path targets building that ecosystem of skills to ensure your automation journey is successful. The fundamental skills covered in this learning path include Linux operating system concepts, setting up your development environment, version control and collaboration features, formats for your data, and application programming interfaces. Each concept covered in this learning path is coupled with both content and hands-on exercises to solidify the knowledge.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Hands-On Lab Workshop: Prompt Engineering Lab
Join our virtual lab workshop to master prompt engineering using the Prompt Blueprint—a structured approach for creating effective prompts for AI models. This session covers the fundamentals of prompt engineering, including how to use blueprint elements such as task, context, constraints, persona, format, and tone to progressively improve AI responses. Participants will engage in hands-on exercises, to experiment with prompt design and customization for real-world scenarios. Live Q&A with experts is included—ideal for anyone interested in maximizing the value of generative AI tools in their workflows.
Research Note: HPE NVIDIA Launch AI Factory Lab in France to Boost European AI Autonomy
HyperFRAME Research: HPE and NVIDIA are expanding their global AI factory initiatives by opening a sovereign AI Factory Lab in France and a separate Private AI Lab in London.
Agentic AI in the Workforce
AI Agents represent the next evolutionary step in the AI process from AI Assistants. AI Agents can act, and not just respond, to take actions toward achieving goals. WWT's Workforce AI Solutions Architect, Nathan Hull, describes the journey of Agentic AI and the different levels of AI Agents.
Learning OpenShift and Kubernetes with Windsurf
Windsurf, an AI coding assistant, revolutionizes learning Kubernetes and OpenShift by enhancing understanding and efficiency. It accelerates troubleshooting, automates tasks and clarifies complex concepts, transforming daunting challenges into manageable opportunities. While AI aids learning, mastering fundamentals remains crucial for effective use and maximizing its potential.
DevOps
Why Kubernetes is the Platform of Choice for Artificial Intelligence
This report explores Kubernetes' role in AI, analyzing its capabilities in managing AI workloads, its benefits over traditional infrastructure and its unique features that make it the platform of choice for AI.
How to Automate Everything Right: WWT's 6 Principles of Automation
Automation plays a critical role in our daily work, touching solutions that span technologies, partners and industries. In our many years of working with clients, we've identified six principles that can help organizations automate everything right.
Automation Priorities for 2025
A step-by-step guide to achieving automation success.
Jersey Mike's: Securely Scaling Cloud Capabilities to Meet Demand
Learn how WWT accelerated Jersey Mike's cloud journey with a new cloud foundation and reimagined mobile app that delivers a new digital experience to customers.
Infrastructure Automation
CICD for Automation Engineers
This lab is a component of the Infrastructure Automation Automated Testing learning path in the Infrastructure Automation with Ansible Learning Series. The goal of this learning path is to provide hands-on and practical exposure to the concepts of implementing Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery.
The lab will utilize Gitea as the Source Code Manager (SCM) which includes Gitea Actions for executing CICD Workflows. Gitea Actions map almost identically to GitHub actions so the Gitea specific knowledge gained maps directly to GitHub implementations. The general concepts learning through this lab are also valuable and applicable across other implementations.
Implementing Static Code Analysis
Ensuring your code meets syntactical and style standards is an important part of the automation development process. This training lab will introduce you to different linters that can be used in an Ansible automation development lifecycle.
A linter is a tool that analyzes source code to identify and report potential errors, bugs, stylistic errors, and other issues, helping to improve code quality.
You will learn about two different linters and multiple points of execution to ensure that only clean code reaches your production branch.
Introduction to Ansible Molecule
Explore the fundamentals of Ansible Molecule in this hands-on lab, designed to introduce learners to automated testing for Ansible roles and playbooks. Participants will gain practical experience in setting up test scenarios, running Ansible Molecule's various stages from the command line, and integrating Ansible Molecule with a CICD pipeline.
Automation Core Concepts
The Automation Foundations learning path is designed to prepare infrastructure architects and engineers for the journey toward automation. Automation in practice includes a broad ecosystem of skills beyond the specific language or system chosen to automate or orchestrate. This learning path targets building that ecosystem of skills to ensure your automation journey is successful. The fundamental skills covered in this learning path include Linux operating system concepts, setting up your development environment, version control and collaboration features, formats for your data, and application programming interfaces. Each concept covered in this learning path is coupled with both content and hands-on exercises to solidify the knowledge.
Zero Trust
Hands-On Lab Workshop: Zscaler Zero Trust – Branch Connector and Airgap
Join our virtual hands-on lab to explore Zscaler's Zero Trust Branch (ZTB) platform, focusing on Branch Connector and Airgap technologies. This session demonstrates how Zscaler's modern approach moves beyond legacy network architectures to enforce least-privilege access and advanced micro-segmentation. You'll see how each endpoint is isolated, dramatically reducing the attack surface and preventing lateral movement—crucial for containing breaches and limiting internal threats.
Participants will tour the Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA), Zscaler Private Access (ZPA), and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) consoles, and observe how policies and rule sets provide granular control over user and device access for both internal (East-West) and external (North-South) traffic. The lab is read-only, but you'll be able to view all Zscaler modules and their settings in action
Check Point Targets Enterprise Ai cybersecurity And Zero Trust With Quantum Firewall Release
Check Point Software Technologies has rolled out a major update to its Quantum Firewall Software, introducing 20 new features aimed at helping enterprises secure Ai transformations, implement Zero Trust strategies and unify hybrid mesh network protection.
Zero Trust with F5 BIG-IP APM, SSLO & WAF
In this lab we will be addressing a specific set of BIG-IP (versatility) characteristics: authentication and orchestration. In doing so, we will also be showing you some powerful capabilities of BIG-IP APM and SSL Orchestrator.
Partner POV | Closing the Zero Trust Collaboration Gap in Unified Communications
Zero Trust enhances security but can hinder collaboration by obscuring traffic details crucial for IT troubleshooting. Riverbed NPM+ bridges this gap, restoring visibility without compromising security. It ensures seamless user experiences in encrypted environments, reducing downtime and support costs, while maintaining productivity and executive confidence. Security and collaboration coexist harmoniously.
Cloud Networking
F5 Distributed Cloud WAAP Use Cases Demo
Several of the fundamental principles of F5 Distributed Cloud (XC) are highlighted in this lab environment.
You will be simulating a customer during the lab who needs to verify the safety of an application. The objective is to verify the applications safety of on-premises or application on cloud before and after enabling F5 Distributed Cloud Console WAAP Capabilities by sending attacks to the application.
GCP Networking Fundamentals Lab
Welcome to the Google Cloud Networking Fundamentals lab! This lab provides a hands-on learning experience for essential networking concepts and practices using the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Throughout the lab challenges, you will gain practical knowledge in setting up Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), configuring firewall rules, deploying VM instances, and implementing load balancing. Challenge 1 focuses on VPC setup and firewall rules, Challenge 2 covers VM instances and IP addresses, Challenge 3 involves SSH configuration and external firewall rules, and Challenge 4 explores load-balancing setup. By completing these challenges, you will develop a strong foundation in GCP networking and be able to apply these skills in real-world scenarios.
Infoblox DNS Management & Federated IPAM for Multi-Cloud Environments
This learning path provides a comprehensive introduction to Infoblox's integrated DNS, and IP Address Management solution, with a focus multi-cloud environments. Through structured modules—including a video, an article, & a hands-on labs—participants will gain practical experience with core capabilities such as centralized IPAM, cross-cloud DNS synchronization, federated governance, and policy-based automation.
Partner POV | 7 Scenarios Where Private Connectivity Beats the Internet
In today's data-driven world, businesses must choose the right networking solutions to optimize performance, security, and costs. Discover seven scenarios where private connectivity outshines the internet.
Networking
Hands-On Lab Workshop: SR-MPLS with ISIS for Network Engineers
Join our virtual lab workshop to learn Segment Routing with MPLS (SR-MPLS) using ISIS and Fast Reroute. This session covers SR-MPLS fundamentals, including simplified service deployment via the MPLS data plane and Prefix label advertisement through standard ISIS/OSPF extensions, removing Classical LDP requirements. Participants will configure basic routing and SR-MPLS with ISIS on Cisco routers and set up SR-MPLS over ISIS plus BGP L3VPN/L2VPN on Cisco XRv9000 virtual routers. Live Q&A with experts is included—ideal for Network Engineers interested in transitioning to SR-MPLS networking.
Partner POV | Intel, Cisco Collaboration Delivers Industry's First Systems Approach for AI Workloads at the Edge
Cisco Unified Edge with Intel Xeon 6 delivers a future-ready AI infrastructure, boosting performance and security while reducing network traffic through real-time inferencing at the data source.
Partner POV | Optical transport technology advancements for utilities
Earlier this year, I blogged about the increasing demands on the power grid and how communication networks can help power utilities ensure reliable, secure service delivery. Adding power generation and distribution capacity is a significant undertaking, and utilities should complement it with a communication network that monitors, controls and secures the grid with ease.
Partner POV | How thin transponders help you get more from coherent pluggables
In life, we sometimes face choices where neither option is perfect and both require trade-offs. Imagine you're choosing between two cars: one is a fuel-efficient compact car with excellent mileage but low horsepower, and the other is a powerful sports car that delivers thrilling performance but consumes far more fuel.
Network Security
How F5 Drives Citrix VDI Excellence in Application Delivery
This lab discusses the collaboration between F5 technologies and Citrix VDI to enhance security and performance in virtual desktop infrastructure. F5's security-first approach and performance optimization strengthen Citrix VDI environments, meeting the needs of remote workforces and setting new standards for secure and high-performance virtualized experiences. The hardware and software used in the lab include 5 Windows Servers (v2016) and 1 F5 BIG-IP APM (v17.1.0.1).
Zero Trust with F5 BIG-IP APM, SSLO & WAF
In this lab we will be addressing a specific set of BIG-IP (versatility) characteristics: authentication and orchestration. In doing so, we will also be showing you some powerful capabilities of BIG-IP APM and SSL Orchestrator.
Achieve OWASP Compliance Through BIG-IP AWAF
Systems are at higher risk without a concerted, repeatable application security configuration process. In this lab, you will learn how to build a declarative AWAF policy and achieve OWASP Top Ten (2021) compliance with the BIG-IP OWASP Compliance Dashboard. A complete CI/CD pipeline is used to deploy our AWAF policy to the BIG-IP system using Application Services 3 Extension (AS3) and Ansible.
CrowdStrike and Zscaler Private Access Integrated Lab
WWT's ATC CrowdStrike and Zscaler Integrated lab exists to showcase the integration between CrowdStrike's Falcon Platform, Zscaler Private Access and Zscaler Client Connector through relevant use cases.