Automation Thinking Lab
Learn to identify automation opportunities and create your first automation scripts.
Lab Overview
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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