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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.
Hands-On Lab Workshop: Infrastructure Source of Truth:Netbox
Join us for the Virtual Lab Workshop, where we'll introduce the Infrastructure Source of Truth Learning Series. This series is designed for infrastructure engineers to learn how to manage data for automation effectively. You'll explore the concept of a "Source of Truth" (SoT) and key considerations for building one. The session covers two SoT solutions: Text File-based SoT and NetBox as a SoT. In the Text File module, you'll learn how to manage and use text files in automation. The NetBox module will teach you how to interface with NetBox for managing variable data and inventory. The workshop includes hands-on labs with guided challenges to reinforce these concepts, providing practical experience with both file-based and NetBox SoT solutions.
Automation Priorities for 2025
A step-by-step guide to achieving automation success
Infrastructure Automation with Ansible
The infrastructure automation learning series is an educational program designed to equip individuals with the skills and knowledge needed to automate and manage complex IT infrastructures efficiently. Participants learn how to streamline and standardize infrastructure deployment, configuration, and management processes. The series delves into best practices for creating scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure, enabling learners to implement automation solutions effectively within various IT environments. By the end of the program, individuals gain a comprehensive understanding of automation tools and strategies that enhance productivity, reduce manual intervention, and optimize infrastructure operations.
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.
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Infrastructure Automation and DevOps Solutions
From WWT's DevOps practice, Matthew Perry, Senior Director of DevOps Enablement and Tyler Hatton, Technical Solutions Architect, discuss the challenges that our customers face around DevOps. They also review how WWT can help customers in this practice and WWT's capabilities and solutions in DevOps.
Instrumenting AI for Network Operations at a Federal Healthcare Agency
A federal healthcare agency is leveraging AI, network data and a proven operational workflow engine to automate its network operations. By integrating AI into day-zero configurations, routine network administration and common troubleshooting tasks, network operators are significantly increasing their efficiency. A WWT automation consultant is at the forefront, guiding the agency in applying AI-driven solutions to streamline and modernize its network management.
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)
Network Automation Maturity Model
Our Network Automation Maturity Model gives organizations a structured framework for moving from limited automation to a fully autonomous network. Discover where your organization stands today and the steps you can take to level up.
Automation Briefing
Organizations across every industry are looking to automation to give their business a competitive advantage. In many cases, automation is already underway with multiple grassroots efforts. Automation is the cornerstone that allows IT to provide consumable infrastructure for development and application teams inside your organization. Automation is also key to reducing toil and having engineering and operations teams focus on important work and driving your business into the future. However, for many, getting started with Automation can seem like a daunting task, and prioritizing where to start can be a difficult decision.
Overcoming Shadow AI to Drive Enterprise AI Adoption
AI is transforming enterprises — but are businesses actually using it effectively? In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, experts Jon Duren and Jay Custard explore the real challenges of enterprise AI adoption — from underutilized AI tools and shadow AI risks to the struggle of proving AI's ROI.
Modernizing DoD Infrastructure in the Face of Change
Massive investments in IT infrastructure will be needed for the DoD to effectively leverage AI, advanced cybersecurity measures and cloud adoption — all critical to mission readiness. However, these investments must consider talent shortages, technical debt and other operational challenges. Join WWT experts Chris Morgenstern, DoD Consulting Solutions Architect, and Tim Robinson, DoD Principal Solutions Architect, as they discuss modernizing DoD infrastructure in the face of change.
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.
The Convergence Connection: Empowering Product Excellence through IT-OT Alignment
Visibility across IT/OT environments, including data visibility and the ability to improve digital experiences, remains a top challenge for manufacturers.
Join WWT Senior Manufacturing Advisor Tim Householder as he talks about how aligning IT design to OT needs can help bridge the gap between IT and OT to help produce higher quality products, make more data driven decisions and drive a better end user experience. Tim also details industry trends in the near- and long-term, discusses ways leaders can maximize security and how to advance automation initiatives.
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.
Hands-On Lab Workshop: Infrastructure Source of Truth:Netbox
Join us for the Virtual Lab Workshop, where we'll introduce the Infrastructure Source of Truth Learning Series. This series is designed for infrastructure engineers to learn how to manage data for automation effectively. You'll explore the concept of a "Source of Truth" (SoT) and key considerations for building one. The session covers two SoT solutions: Text File-based SoT and NetBox as a SoT. In the Text File module, you'll learn how to manage and use text files in automation. The NetBox module will teach you how to interface with NetBox for managing variable data and inventory. The workshop includes hands-on labs with guided challenges to reinforce these concepts, providing practical experience with both file-based and NetBox SoT solutions.
Before Automation: A Reality Check on IT Fundamentals
Many organizations aspire to enabling infrastructure automation, GitOps and self-healing systems but struggle with IT fundamentals like network stability, asset management, observability and identity access. Without a strong foundation, automation efforts will struggle. We'll explore the key fundamentals that organizations must have before embarking on their automation journey as well as some common pitfalls usually encountered.
Years of Workshops: Industry Trends in Infrastructure Automation
An examination of data from the Infrastructure Automation Envisioning Workshop that WWT has conducted since 2022. We examine current challenges and trends we see.
Linux Basics for Automation Engineers
The everyday life of an automation engineer will invariably require a fundamental understanding of Linux. This lab is focused on exposing aspiring automation engineers to the foundational concepts of the Linux operating system.
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.
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.
REST Application Programming Interface (API) Fundamentals
Application programming interfaces expose access to the system from other systems. Understanding how to utilize the API unlocks endless possibilities in your automation journey.
Development Environments - Getting Started
Development Environments
Development environments are the first step on your automation journey.
This track will help define what a development environment is and provide some hands-on exposure to one solution.
Container Basics for Automation Engineers
This lab is intended to teach the consumer functional skills related to utilizing containers in the realm of automation.
Red Hat OpenShift 4.11 Sandbox
In this lab environment, you will walk through deploying your own OpenShift 4.11 cluster on vSphere. The deployment method walked through uses the 'Installer-Provisioned Infrastructure' method. Once deployed, use some of our linked use cases or carve your path to experience what OpenShift offers.