Automation Thinking Lab
Learn to identify automation opportunities and create your first automation scripts.
Lab Overview
🛠Lab from the Platform Engineering Bootcamp. Used in Week 1. Bootcamp landing page: https://academy.tekanaid.com/bootcamps/platform-engineering-bootcamp Parent course(s):
- Week 1: DevOps & Platform Engineering Overview (slug: devops-platform-engineering-overview)
🟡 Beta bootcamp lab. Hands-on instructions, check scripts, and solve scripts are in place. Lab is part of the running TaskFlow project that grows across all 21 weeks of the bootcamp.
This hands-on lab teaches you how to think about automation in platform engineering.
You'll learn to:
- Analyze manual workflows to identify automation opportunities
- Create simple but effective automation scripts
- Implement automation best practices (error handling, logging, idempotence)
- Document automation decisions and reasoning
- Understand when to automate and when not to
Perfect for beginners starting their journey in DevOps and Platform Engineering, this lab provides practical experience with real-world automation scenarios that platform engineers encounter daily.
Key Resources:
What You'll Learn
Identify repetitive manual processes that are candidates for automation
Design automation solutions by breaking workflows into discrete, scriptable steps
Evaluate automation trade-offs including maintenance cost and failure modes
Apply an automation-first mindset to common platform engineering scenarios
Prerequisites
linux-essentials
bash-basics
command-line-basics
Technologies Covered
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This lab is part of the DevOps & Platform Engineering Overview course
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