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IIKG3005 - Infrastructure as Code

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Examination arrangement

Examination arrangement: School exam
Grade: Letter grades

Evaluation Weighting Duration Grade deviation Examination aids
School exam 100/100 3 hours E

Course content

  • Foundational DevOps principles that guide the design and management of infrastructures through code.
  • Learn best practices and industry patterns that ensure efficient and maintainable IaC implementations.
  • Use of industry used tools, versatile infrastructure provisioning tools, will be at the heart of this course practical journey.
  • Put theory into practice, implementing concepts learned from course material.
  • Hands-on experience with a public cloud provider, where we create, modify, and manage infrastructure resources in a code-driven manner

Learning outcome

Knowledge: The student has

  • knowledge of how infrastructure can be managed as code using the same principles as in software development.
  • knowledge of concepts, processes, and tools used in Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
  • insight into the major public cloud solutions where IaC is utilized.
  • knowledge of various tools within IaC and where and how to use them.

Skills: The student can

  • provision and manage IT infrastructure using code.
  • use tools to develop and perform version control against code.
  • articulate their professional choices around the use of IaC.
  • find and refer to information and literature and assess its relevance for issues that can be solved using IaC.
  • introduce changes in a production environment through version-controlled repositories and test environments.
  • use code to perform simple and repetitive operations in a data center or public cloud provider.

General Competence: The student

  • can plan and carry out work-related tasks and projects independently and as a participant in a group, in accordance with ethical requirements and guidelines within IaC.
  • has insight into how development and operations are united in the DevOps philosophy.
  • has insight into how to troubleshoot infrastructures using infrastructure as code.

Learning methods and activities

  • Lectures
  • Written resources
  • Online resources
  • Laboratory work and problem solving

Compulsory assignments

  • Exercises

Further on evaluation

Mandatory assignments (exercises) need to be approved in order to be able to take the exam.

There will be 2 to 4 mandatory exercises during the semester. Further information and the exact number will be specified at the start of the semester.

Re-sit exam in August.

Course materials

Course literature and material will be announced at the start of the course

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From To
IMT3005 7.5 AUTUMN 2021
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Facts

Version: 1
Credits:  7.5 SP
Study level: Third-year courses, level III

Coursework

Term no.: 1
Teaching semester:  AUTUMN 2024

Language of instruction: English, Norwegian

Location: Gjøvik , Trondheim

Subject area(s)
  • Information Security
  • Information Technology and Informatics
Contact information
Course coordinator:

Department with academic responsibility
Department of Information Security and Communication Technology

Timetable

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Examination

Examination arrangement: School exam

Term Status code Evaluation Weighting Examination aids Date Time Examination system Room *
Autumn ORD School exam 100/100 E INSPERA
Room Building Number of candidates
Summer UTS School exam 100/100 E INSPERA
Room Building Number of candidates
  • * The location (room) for a written examination is published 3 days before examination date. If more than one room is listed, you will find your room at Studentweb.
Examination

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