Workshops

When a workshop is a better fit than a training course

A training course conveys a defined body of knowledge to a mixed group. This is the right path when fundamentals are missing. A workshop takes a different approach: we work on your environment, with your requirements and your open questions. This is particularly worthwhile when a decision is pending, a team needs to get on the same page, or a project needs to be set in motion.

A combination is often useful: first the standard training for the basics, followed by a workshop for application to your own case.

Typical workshop topics

The scope and structure are developed during the preliminary talk. Customers regularly request these topics:

• PostgreSQL in operation: Reviewing backup and recovery strategies, designing high availability, and going through performance questions on your own database.
• Datenbank-Migration: Vorbereitung eines Umstiegs von einem proprietären System auf PostgreSQL, inklusive Machbarkeit und Aufwandsschätzung.
• Virtualisierung mit Proxmox VE: Cluster- und Storage-Design für die eigene Infrastruktur, Planung einer Migration von VMware.
• Automation: Mapping recurring tasks with Ansible, from the first playbook to a structure that is sustainable for the team.
• Linux and infrastructure: Operating concepts, security, update strategies, and monitoring for the existing landscape.
• Kubernetes and containers: Getting started or deepening knowledge based on your own applications instead of textbook examples.

Your topic isn’t listed? Our portfolio extends much further; a look at the software overview shows the full range. Just send us an inquiry.

How a workshop works

Before the appointment, we clarify the objectives, participants, and existing knowledge in a short preliminary talk. This forms the basis for the agenda. For us, a workshop consists predominantly of practical work: we work together with your technical staff on realistic scenarios, often directly in a test environment.

Where appropriate, this produces results that you can continue to use afterwards: a working prototype, a documented target architecture, or a set of playbooks as a basis for your own automation. At the end, you won’t have a set of slides gathering dust on a shelf, but something you can actually build upon.

Why credativ

We have been managing open-source infrastructure in mission-critical use since 1999. Those who lead a workshop at our company are not full-time trainers, but consultants in day-to-day business. You can tell by the answers: when asked how a procedure behaves in an emergency, you don’t get a formula from the documentation, but experience from projects where it really mattered.

Wir sind herstellerunabhängig. Wenn sich im Workshop zeigt, dass ein anderer Weg besser zu Ihnen passt als der zunächst geplante, sagen wir das. Und falls Sie über den Workshop hinaus Unterstützung brauchen, steht unser Open Source Support Center mit Support bis 24/7 bereit.

Request workshop

Briefly describe your topic and the framework. We will get back to you within one business day with an initial assessment and a proposal for a preliminary talk. Non-binding and free of charge.