Today the Datanauts talk about how to automate an MCSA lab project using Chef. MCSA, or Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate, is a Microsoft certification program that offers credentials for a variety of Microsoft products and services, such as Windows Server, SQL, Azure, and so on.

Our guest is Brett Johnson, a senior consultant at VMware. We talk with Brett about the options for setting up labs, explore a few free options, and then drill into the ability to stand up a Windows domain in a cloud provider using Chef and Terraform.

This is a project Brett is working on. He started the project to save time standing up servers and make more efficient use of study time.

You can follow him on Twitter or read his writing on technical topics at Brett’s IT Blog.

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Brett on GitHub

Brett’s Web site

Brett on Twitter

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