IaaS Orchestration 101

Trainees will get a guided tour of IaaS orchestration API templating systems (e.g. AWS CloudFormation), including a high-level overview of the lower-level APIs they provide access to.

  • Orchestration API Overview

  • An introduction to Resources

  • Custom resources

  • Effective use of Orchestration APIs

Building Blocks

Trainees will learn how to leverage the four primary primitives provided by SparkleFormation, and a close look at the SparkleFormation CLI tool (sfn).

  • Components

  • Dynamics

  • Registry

  • Templates

  • sfn walkthrough

Practical Application

Trainees will be taught how to apply what they've learned using best-practices to compose example stacks for popular application architectures and services, including:

  • Infrastructure architecture best practices

  • The "Hello World" of application stacks

  • VPC creation and discovery

  • Isolating resources and nested stacks

Workshops

Trainees will spend an entire day in a series of workshops, covering advanced topics and receiving hands-on assistance from trainers, including:

  • Defining and triggering Configuration Management

  • SparkleFormation infrastructure development workflows

  • Reusability and organizational standards enforcement

  • Extending capabilities with Custom Resources

Professional Services

On-site training comes with 2-days of Professional Services provided by one of BLAH's Senior Operations Engineers. Professional services will be custom-tailored to the unique needs of the Customer (e.g. bootstrapping migration to SparkleFormation from native Orchestration API templates, assessment and enhancement of existing SparkleFormation templates, etc).

Training Packages

SparkleFormation Training sessions are hosted via Google Hangout and at Centrl Office, in the "Pearl District" area of Downtown Portland, Oregon. Training sessions will be limited to groups of up to 20-users. On-site training sessions are also available for organizations located in the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan and Australia.

Professional On-Site

Duration

2-days

4-days

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IaaS Orchestration 101

Building Blocks

Practical Application

SparkleFormation Workshops

Professional Services

Cost

$999 per seat

$20,000

Upcoming Schedule

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