Learn Data Center Automation Through Gamification

Erik Veld, Infrastructure Architect at Xebia

Learn Data Center Automation Through Gamification

With a constantly changing set of tools and accompanying principles in data center automation, how do you keep up and learn all the intricacies of these tools?

In this talk I will show how we built the HashiContest platform for HashiConf EU with Terraform, Vault, Consul and Nomad. The contest platform teaches modern data center automation through gamification of the learning process.

What if companies could create their own competition, with a copy of their environment, and then simulate scenarios (such as failures) in order to teach their engineers how to deal with them. --

HashiCorp is the leader in multi-cloud infrastructure automation software. The HashiCorp software suite enables organizations to adopt consistent workflows to provision, secure, connect, and run any infrastructure for any application. HashiCorp open source tools Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, Vault, Consul, Nomad, Boundary, and Waypoint are downloaded tens of millions of times each year and are broadly adopted by the Global 2000. Enterprise versions of these products enhance the open source tools with features that promote collaboration, operations, governance, and multi-data center functionality.

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