TELE 6420 — Infrastructure Automation Design and Tools
4 semester hoursGraduateLectureusually offered: fallBostonTraditional
Exposes students to best practices for infrastructure automation, which is highly critical in the design and deployment of network and server infrastructure that supports microservices architecture applications on public cloud (IaaS) services. Provides hands-on experience with IaC (infrastructure as code) technologies for provisioning and deprovisioning, configuration, patching, security, monitoring, alerting, logging, etc., for infrastructure components ranging from network devices to servers to entire virtual data centers. Focuses on both individual and team projects involving the use of IaC tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Git, Selenium, Netmiko, Paramiko, CFEngine, Docker, and Kubernetes for infrastructure deployment and automation.
Prerequisites
Offering history
| Term | Sections | Enrolled | Capacity | Full | Open seats/section |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2024 | 1 | 10 | 30 | 33% | 20.0 |
| Fall 2025 | 1 | 2 | 30 | 7% | 28.0 |
| Spring 2026 | 1 | 9 | 30 | 30% | 21.0 |
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Meeting times
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Professors
Fall
- Rajiv Shridhar (100% of students) · reviews
Spring
- Rajiv Shridhar (100% of students) · reviews
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Links
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