Practical tasks to learn more about DevOps

  • Task 04. Using Ansible to configure Wordpress on VirtualBox.

    One day you were on local DevOps conference and one guy talked about Configuration Management on laptop, using Vagrant and Ansible. He mentioned that Vagrant allows you configure and operate virtual machines using only command line and Ansible allows you configure all you need. You were so excited about that...

  • Task 03. Scripting. Automate installation of WordPress.

    Authors want to try out new blogging platform. They asked you to install and setup WordPress for everyone. Suddenly you realised that there are already 30 editors working in online magazine “GamePlayer”. You hear behind your back Paul’s voice: “You can do it 30 times or you can write once...

  • Task 02. Setup WordPress on VirtualBox.

    Time goes and our online magazine started hiring writers and editors. Soon they gonna writing their articles and put it into internet. CTO decided that best platform for this would be WordPress, as it’s used by many companies like The Walt Disney Company, Tech Crunch, The New Yorker and many...

  • Task 01. Linux administration. Install packages, start services, troubleshoot if something not working. VM on Virtualbox.

    Here the story begins. You are working on video games magazine that wants to go digital (yes, only now in 2021) as a first SRE/DevOps guy, who helps right now with infrastructure. Paul, your manager asked you to prepare server to host new site. Task Setup Ubuntu on Virtual Machive...

  • Advanced shell scripting.

    You probably know programm ps, that allow to see a lot of information about given process. Your task would be to write bash script proc_info.sh that will get pid (process id) and shows following information: who run this process what command was used to run process what environment variables this...