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Infrastructure Automation Foundations

We know what it takes to create and maintain an automation-minded IT workforce, we live it. We will show you how to build a strong, scalable platform for your infrastructure automation transformation.

What is Infrastructure Automation?

Elevating individuals and their work by reducing the time they spend on repetitive tasks.

What Should We Consider?

Automation skills development, DevOps principles with IT operations, creating an automation Center of Excellence.

What Does Success Look Like?

Service delivery speed and agility that allows you to respond to and support ever-changing demands.

Start Your Infrastructure Automation Journey

We help you deliver automated infrastructure, no matter where you are on your journey. We will help you build a sustainable, automation-centric culture while delivering solutions which solve your most urgent needs. Along the way, expect your IT operations to build speed, agility, and camaraderie while simultaneously reducing risk, improving uptime, and delivering secure solutions.

How Do We Get Started?

Start with an envisioning workshop to determine where you are, where you want to go, and establish a plan to get there.

How Do We Model Our Culture?

Join our DevNet Study Group Community to connect with both WWT automation experts and aspiring automation learners.

How Do We Enable and Scale Our Teams?

Work with our automation mentors to create a culture of continuous learning and innovation.

What We Do

CONSULTING

Technical and business expertise to guide your automation initiatives and align technical work streams with strategic, organization-wide goals.

LAB SERVICES

Build, test, deploy, and iterate with confidence using our integrated, full-stack multi-OEM environments, on-demand labs, development sandboxes, and custom proof of concept pods.

SERVICE DELIVERY

Quickly deploy and adopt your automated infrastructure, new applications and features, plus their supporting hardware and software integrations.

TECHNICAL ENABLEMENT

Personalized automation mentoring and enablement to help you build an automation-minded culture built on safety, reliability, and organization-wide learning.

 

 Empowering the IT Community with Automation Skills

 Teaching is one of the ways we make sure we never stop learning.  We invite you to join us on our mission to help active and aspiring technologists build and expand their automation skills.  Our Programmability and Automation Meetup Group on  meetup.com welcomes anyone, anywhere, at any skill level.

 

Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start.

Simon Sinek

Your IT barrier is glass...so smash it.

Begin the journey. Break the wall. You can do this.

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Infrastructure Automation Labs

Data-driven Automation with Netbox

In this hands-on lab, learners will explore how to build and configure a data-driven automation workflow using Ansible Automation Platform and NetBox. The lab guides users through practical exercises that demonstrate how real-time source of truth changes can trigger automated configuration. Participants will configure NetBox event rules and webhooks to emit actionable events, set up Event-Driven Ansible event streams to receive and process those events, and create rulebook activations that respond intelligently. By the end of the lab, learners will have a working solution that tightly integrates their source of truth with automation workflows—enabling scalable, responsive infrastructure management.
Advanced Configuration Lab
151 launches

Ansible Automation Workshop - Pure Ansible Lab

Learn to automate Pure FlashArray on Purity using Ansible. This lab provides an overview of Ansible and dives into how it works together to simplify automation for Pure Storage solutions.
Advanced Configuration Lab
269 launches

Ansible Automation Workshop - F5 BIG-IP Ansible Lab

This lab focuses on using Ansible to efficiently manage F5 BigIP configurations. It covers setting up the development environment, working with Ansible inventory, creating playbooks for automating tasks on F5 BigIP devices, deploying configuration changes, and a bonus challenge of setting up an Active/Standby configuration and performing configuration synchronization. The lab aims to provide participants with hands-on experience in automating F5 BigIP configuration management using Ansible.
Foundations Lab
192 launches

Pure Ansible Automation Lab

If you are familiar with Ansible and want to learn how to use Ansible with the Pure Storage FlashArray, continue on with this lab that demonstrates how to simplify automation of a Pure Storage FlashArray. *** If you are a Storage admin, new to automation, and want to learn how to automate your Pure Storage environment using Ansible, check out this lab instead that teaches the basics of Ansible from a storage admin point of view.- "Ansible Automation Workshop - Pure Ansible Lab" (https://www.wwt.com/lab/ansible-automation-workshop-pure-ansible-lab)
Advanced Configuration Lab
1018 launches

Installing Terraform and Setting up an Development Environment

Terraform simplifies infrastructure management through code, but a well-configured development environment is key to efficiency. This lab will walk you through setting up Terraform in Visual Studio Code (VSCode), ensuring a smooth and optimized workflow followed by a playground to introduce multiple install scenarios.
Advanced Configuration Lab
17 launches

Kubernetes Experience Lab with Spectro Cloud

Deploy a Kubernetes cluster on vSphere with SpectroCloud Palette in this hands-on lab. Learn to integrate, automate, and manage container orchestration in a virtualized environment, empowering IT professionals to modernize enterprise workloads with streamlined deployment techniques.
Advanced Configuration Lab
173 launches

Introduction to Data Formats

Data encoding formats are an essential skill of an automation engineer. This lab will take a hands-on approach to teaching you about three common formats: YAML, JSON and XML.
Foundations Lab
185 launches

GraphQL Application Programming Interface (API) Fundamentals

GraphQL is a query language for the API that is flexible and efficient. Application programming interfaces expose access to the system from other systems. Understanding how to utilize the API unlocks endless possibilities in your automation journey.
Foundations Lab
113 launches