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The SE Latam Hack Night on Github provides a challenge with free learning resources for IaC technologies with a learn-by-doing approach focused on practical, hands on skills.

All the content on this site revolves around challenging exercises, with different levels, which align tightly with the common customer operations.

• Amazon account (You have an extra step if you use your own account, but also bonus points!)
• GitHub account
• Git client installed on your laptop (optional)
• Access to VMware Cloud Assembly (CAS LATAM org, it's going to be provided one day before the event)
• Access to Wavefront (Sandbox – Workspace One)
• Ninja Google search skills

• Configure AWS environment as cloud destination
  • Use your group name as a prefix for everything
• Fork git repository for basic blueprint (cas-iac)
  • https://github.com/duboc/cas-iac
• Some basic Git commands are:

git clone
git add
git commit

Great tutorial if you need one: http://www.justait.net/2016/10/github-basics-1.html

• Create an integration between your GitHub project and Cloud Assembly
• Use your team’s name as your hostname
• Provision Deployment

Change code to add:

• Input for different flavors, like:
  • Small, Medium and Large
• Apache installation
  • Wavefront apache integration (use wavefront-sandbox)
• Add tag:
  • key = team
  • value = “Your team’s name”
• Commit change to git (command line is a bonus)
• Make a new deployment

1. Create deployment using latest blueprint
2. Approval policy
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3. Delete deployment