IT 385 - Advanced Scripting and Automation

1. Describe and understand the advantages of Automation in IT.
2. Perform and explain how to install automation tools such as Ansible.
3. Develop simple automation scripts using automation tools such as Ansible using YAML syntax.
4. Understand how to use automation tools to handle simple to complex scalable deployments.

1. Plan, implement, administer, and support appropriate information technologies and systems to help an organization achieve its goals and objectives. Information technologies and systems may include: servers, client computers, mobile devices, operating systems, network applications, local area networks, wide area networks, wireless networks, network segments, intranets, and so on. 

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.