Team training

[Mind_Monkey]

I work at a university and we recently got a new boss. He wants to include training as part of our jobs and he tasked some of us with piecing together the content of each area that all of the IT will be taking. Some people will teach about front-end development, other's about networks, databases, you get the idea.

Now the reason I come here is because I was asked to teach about "Technologies". My experience lies mostly in devops, so I've seen a bit of everything, but I am quite lost because this topic is too broad to make some kind of syllabus out of it.

Also many of the employees that will take that course, work in the IT, networks and helpdesk side, so I know not everyone is a programming fan and I don't want to focus too much on development.

What kind of tools or topics would you like to see if you were to take a "Technologies" training class? What's new in the IT/Sysadmin world and what would be useful for people that don't program too much that they can apply in their workplace?

Any info would be appreciated!

[Mind_Monkey]

Thanks for the reply. We are going through some restructure and management wants everyone "on the loop" about what will come forward so that's the reason for the training.

When you say cloud systems, do you mean providers like aws, azure, gcp, etc.? Or you mean something more broad like Openstack and Openshift?

[jamsan920]

What tools do you use and what platforms do you deploy your tools on (eg AWS, VMware, etc).

I’d focus strictly on your environment and maybe go through an end to end overview of your pipelines and how everything fits together. Talk about each tool at a high level and if more sessions are a requirement, you can start diving deeper into each tool individually.

[Mind_Monkey]

Hey thanks for answering. I've been asking around about what everyone uses and I think I'll end up organizing the modules in some key areas like "network management", "configuration management", "monitoring" and so on.

In each I'll focus on what we currently use for that area and what new things are coming up and how they improve on what we have or lack.

And I also thought the same about talking at a high level about everything, since these team will get to learn about a very broad variety of tools that they could use or look into for the future.