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Infrastructure Automation Bootcamp

Stop Managing Servers Manually. Automate Everything.

A hands-on bootcamp covering Terraform, Ansible, Packer and compliance automation at scale — for engineers who want to eliminate manual infrastructure work and bring every server under version control.

Duration8 Weeks

Total Hours64 Hours

LevelBeginner–Intermediate

FormatOnline + Offline

CertificateYes

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Delivery Format

Train How You Learn Best

💻 Online — Live Instructor-Led

Live sessions via Zoom with a ZippyOPS practitioner. 4 sessions per week, all recordings provided. Ask questions in real time and get code reviewed live.

🏢 Offline — Chennai Lab Sessions

In-person at ZippyOPS Chennai labs. Mon–Fri batches. Lab machines provided. Direct hands-on access to instructors throughout every session.

Who Should Attend

Is This Bootcamp Right for You?

✅ This bootcamp is for you if…

Sysadmins and infrastructure engineers moving to IaC
DevOps engineers who want deeper Terraform and Ansible skills
Cloud engineers wanting to manage all resources entirely in code
Engineers who want to achieve compliance automation across server fleets

📋 Prerequisites

Solid Linux fundamentals
Basic cloud concepts (any provider)
Some scripting experience — Bash or Python

Full Curriculum

What You'll Learn — Week by Week

IaC Foundations & Terraform Basics

Weeks 1–2

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Why IaC matters — configuration drift, auditability and the case for version control
Terraform architecture — providers, resources, state and the HCL language
Core workflow — init, plan, apply, destroy and state management
Variables, locals, outputs and data sources
Working with AWS, Azure and GCP Terraform providers
Lab: Write Terraform to provision a complete 3-tier application environment from scratch

Advanced Terraform Patterns

Week 3

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Module design — reusable, composable modules with input validation
Remote state with S3 and DynamoDB — state locking and team workflows
Workspaces vs separate state files — when to use each
Terraform testing — tflint, checkov, Terratest and plan testing in CI
Terraform Cloud and Atlantis for team collaboration
Lab: Build a production-grade modular Terraform codebase with CI/CD automated plan and apply

Ansible for Configuration Management

Weeks 4–5

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Ansible architecture — control node, managed nodes, inventory and SSH
Playbooks, tasks, handlers, variables, facts and conditionals
Roles — structure, defaults, templates, files and dependencies
Ansible Vault for secrets management
Dynamic inventory for AWS, Azure and GCP
Idempotency in practice — writing playbooks safe to run repeatedly
Lab: Write an Ansible role that configures a fresh Ubuntu server to CIS Benchmark Level 2

Packer & Golden Image Management

Week 6

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Golden images — why pre-baked AMIs are better than cloud-init scripts
Packer HCL — builders, provisioners and post-processors
Building AWS AMIs, Azure VM images and Docker images with Packer
Image testing with InSpec and automated validation in CI
Image lifecycle management — versioning, patching and deprecation
Lab: Build a Packer pipeline producing hardened, tested AWS AMIs from a GitHub Actions workflow

Patch Automation & Fleet Management

Week 7

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Patch management fundamentals — vulnerability windows and patching SLAs
Ansible canary patching — patch 10%, validate, then roll out fleet-wide
AWS Systems Manager (SSM) — automated patching and Run Command
Pre and post-patch health validation automation
Compliance reporting — automated patch compliance dashboards
Lab: Build a zero-touch patch automation system updating a 20-server fleet with health validation

Compliance Automation & Capstone

Week 8

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CIS Benchmarks — understanding Level 1 and Level 2 controls across Linux and Windows
ArmorPlane — continuous CIS scanning, auto-remediation and safe rollback
Integrating compliance scanning into CI/CD pipelines
Compliance dashboards in Grafana — real-time scoring for CISO and leadership
Capstone: Packer-built images, Terraform-provisioned infra, Ansible-configured servers, ArmorPlane-enforced compliance
Live review with ZippyOPS Infrastructure Automation engineers

On Completion

Earn Your ZippyOPS Certificate

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ZippyOPS Certified Infrastructure Automation Engineer (ZCIAE)

Validates practical Terraform, Ansible and configuration management skills through a capstone project managing a full multi-environment infrastructure estate from code.

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