A week of free, standalone live-demo webinars during National Training Week (20–26 July 2026), designed to funnel beginners and career-switchers into the next intake of the Infratify DevOps bootcamp.
Content is generalised (decoupled) from the bootcamp curriculum in
../slides-devops-bootcamp/outlines/2026. Learning outcomes there are distilled into
short, motivation-first "Why X?" tasters — nothing invented, just compressed.
Live hub: https://infratify.github.io/ntw/ · Repo: Infratify/ntw
The printed-poster QR code (ml.my/infratify-ntw) redirects to that hub page.
| Aspect | Decision |
|---|---|
| Shape | Series of 5 standalone sessions, one topic each |
| Format | Instructor live demo — attendees watch, zero setup |
| Channel | Zoom webinar, up to 300 participants per session |
| Audience | Absolute beginners ("FOR BEGINNERS" on every banner) |
| Naming | Per-session "Why X?" convention (motivation-first) |
| Brand | Infratify · Instructor Ts. Ariff Azman (Course Instructor) |
| Credentials | HRD Corp Accredited Trainer · MBOT Professional Technologist (PT26010105) · HRD Corp Registered Training Provider |
| Positioning | Honest, short sharing sessions (a short intro per topic, not a full course) |
| Primary CTA | Single "Join the DevOps bootcamp" button at the top (no repeated upsell) |
The demo-is-the-proof rule: every "Why?" is answered by the live demo, not argued in slides. Pose the painful manual way → then the tool does it live in one move. This keeps the sessions out of the theory ditch (the reason the pure-DevOps-theory topic was dropped).
A viewer who attends all five watches one plain web page become global infrastructure.
| Day | Session | Time (MYT) | Banner theme | Live-demo wow moment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 20 Jul | Why Linux? | 10:30 AM | gold/black | FOSS rapid-fire (weather, world map, QR codes in the terminal) + an AI agent coding live over free-tier models |
| Tue 21 Jul | Why Git & GitHub? | 10:30 AM | red | the page goes live on the public internet in 2 min |
| Wed 22 Jul | Why Cloud? | 10:30 AM | orange | a real server on AWS, global via Cloudflare |
| Thu 23 Jul | Why Docker? | 10:30 AM | Docker blue | one command → running web server |
| Fri 24 Jul | Why Infra as Code? | 10:00 AM | purple | entire infra built from code, then destroyed in seconds |
All sessions on Zoom. Sat/Sun 25–26 Jul: buffer / encore / office-hours for warm leads.
Pattern: why X? → BECAUSE → icon + 2-word benefit ×3. These are the finalized banners in
assets/banners/ (web-optimized WebP + JPG fallback; full-res source stays in the .rar, gitignored).
| Benefit | Benefit | Benefit | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| powers everything | full control | free forever |
| Benefit | Benefit | Benefit | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| never forget | team ready | career proof |
| Benefit | Benefit | Benefit | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| no hardware | scales instantly | goes global |
| Benefit | Benefit | Benefit | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| works everywhere | ship anywhere | blazingly fast |
| Benefit | Benefit | Benefit | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| perfectly repeatable | rebuild anytime | fully automated |
Fuller copy for registration detail (3 max, traceable to the outline LOs).
- Why Linux? — Why servers run Linux · Files without a mouse · SSH into servers
- Why Git & GitHub? — End version-name chaos · Build together, safely · Publish a live URL
- Why Cloud? — Rent servers, not hardware · Deploy to the world · Fast, secure, global
- Why Docker? — End "works on mine" · Ship anywhere, identically · One command, live server
- Why Infra as Code? — Stop clicking, start coding · Infrastructure from code · Build, configure, destroy
Copy-paste text for the NTW / HRD Corp course submission forms. Each form has two parts: a course overview (summary, target audience, trainer, program details) and a course contents summary (topics, learning outcomes, delivery method). The trainer information, target audience, and delivery method are identical for all five sessions, so they are written once below; the per-session blocks only vary the summary, schedule, topics, and outcomes.
Learning outcomes are deliberately introductory (recognise / explain / describe level). These are short sharing sessions, so they promise a working understanding and a starting point, not mastery.
Trainer information Ts. Ariff Azman (full name Ts. Ariff Bin Azman) is a DevOps trainer with Infratify, an HRD Corp Registered Training Provider. He is an HRD Corp Accredited Trainer and a Professional Technologist registered with the Malaysia Board of Technologists (MBOT), registration number PT26010105. His training focuses on practical DevOps skills for beginners and career-switchers, using live demonstrations rather than slides. Trainer profile: https://trainer.opariffazman.com [Expand with years of experience, industry background, and past engagements as needed.]
Target audience Absolute beginners and career-switchers with no prior DevOps, system administration, or programming background. Suitable for students, working professionals considering a move into IT or software, and anyone curious about how modern applications are built and run. No prerequisites and no software setup are required; participants learn by watching the trainer work through each concept live.
Method of delivery Online live webinar delivered over Zoom. The trainer leads the session as a live knowledge-sharing and demonstration: each idea is shown on screen in real time, followed by questions through the Zoom chat or Q&A. Participants take part by watching and asking questions; nothing needs to be installed on their side. Because each session is a short introduction, it concentrates on the core idea and a live demonstration rather than exhaustive coverage of the topic.
Program details (shared) Platform: Zoom (joining link provided on registration). Capacity: up to 300 participants per session. Fee: free, offered as part of National Training Week 2026. Duration: 2 hours per session. Language: mixed (English and Bahasa Malaysia). Level: beginner. Per-session dates and times are listed in each block below.
Summary An introduction to Linux, the operating system that runs most of the world's servers and cloud platforms. In this short session the trainer shows what Linux is, why it is the standard choice for servers, and what it looks like to work with it on a real running machine. The goal is to remove the fear of the command line and show beginners why Linux is worth learning.
Topics covered
- What Linux is and where it runs (servers, cloud, phones, and devices)
- Why servers run Linux: stability, control, open source, and cost
- A first look at the Linux command line
- Moving around files and folders without a mouse
- Connecting to a remote server with SSH (live demonstration)
Learning outcomes By the end of the session, learners will be able to:
- Explain what Linux is and why it is so widely used on servers
- Recognise basic command-line navigation and file commands
- Describe how a user connects to a remote Linux server
- Identify practical next steps for learning Linux hands-on
Summary An introduction to version control with Git and collaboration with GitHub, the tools professional developers use to track every change and work together on code. The trainer demonstrates how Git records the full history of a project so nothing is ever lost, and how GitHub lets people build together and publish work online. The session finishes by publishing a simple page to a live public web address.
Topics covered
- The problem with saving files as "final", "final_v2", and "final_final"
- What Git is and how it records the history of a project
- What GitHub is and how it supports teamwork
- Making a change, committing it, and viewing history (live demonstration)
- Publishing a page to a live URL with GitHub (live demonstration)
Learning outcomes By the end of the session, learners will be able to:
- Explain what version control is and the problem Git solves
- Describe the roles of Git and GitHub in a team workflow
- Recognise a basic commit-and-history workflow
- Understand how a GitHub profile can act as a public portfolio
Summary An introduction to cloud computing: renting computing power over the internet instead of buying and maintaining your own hardware. The trainer shows how a real server can be launched in the cloud in minutes and made available to users worldwide, and explains on-demand resources, scaling, and global reach in plain language.
Topics covered
- What "the cloud" actually is: someone else's servers, rented on demand
- Why organisations move from owning hardware to renting cloud resources
- Launching a real server in the cloud (live demonstration)
- Making a service reachable to users around the world (live demonstration)
- Cost, scaling, and security at a beginner level
Learning outcomes By the end of the session, learners will be able to:
- Explain what cloud computing is in plain terms
- Describe the advantages of renting cloud resources over owning hardware
- Recognise how a server is provisioned in the cloud
- Understand the ideas of scalability and global delivery
Summary An introduction to containers with Docker, the technology that packages an application together with everything it needs so it runs the same way on any machine. The trainer demonstrates how a single command can start a running web server, and explains how Docker ends the familiar "but it works on my machine" problem.
Topics covered
- The "works on my machine" problem and why environments differ
- What a container is and how Docker packages an application
- The difference between an image and a container, at a beginner level
- Starting a web server with a single Docker command (live demonstration)
- Why containers make software portable and consistent
Learning outcomes By the end of the session, learners will be able to:
- Explain what Docker and containers are in plain terms
- Describe the problem that containers solve
- Recognise the basic idea of building and running a container
- Understand why containers make applications portable
Summary An introduction to Infrastructure as Code (IaC): describing servers and infrastructure in text files so they can be built, rebuilt, and destroyed automatically instead of being set up by hand. The trainer demonstrates how an entire environment can be created from code and then removed in seconds, and explains why this makes infrastructure repeatable and reliable.
Topics covered
- The problem with setting up infrastructure by clicking through consoles
- What Infrastructure as Code means, with Terraform and Ansible as examples
- Describing infrastructure in code (live demonstration)
- Building and then destroying a full environment from code (live demonstration)
- Why IaC makes infrastructure repeatable and automated
Learning outcomes By the end of the session, learners will be able to:
- Explain what Infrastructure as Code is and the problem it solves
- Describe how infrastructure can be defined in text files
- Recognise the build, rebuild, and destroy workflow
- Understand why IaC improves repeatability and automation
index.html — a single static landing page, the funnel destination the poster QR points to.
It shows:
- Week-at-a-glance schedule — the five finalized banners as a responsive grid, each tinted with its own theme colour, with an accessible day/time caption. The cards are display tiles, not links.
- Honest sharing-session framing — "a short walk-through of a single topic... an introduction, not a full course" — so the page doesn't read as an upsell.
- One CTA — a single "Join the DevOps bootcamp" button in the hero (the old bottom "Ready to go deeper?" panel was removed).
Dogfooding angle: it's a static site shipped on GitHub Pages via .github/workflows/deploy.yml —
the exact thing demonstrated in Why Git & GitHub? and Why Cloud?.
- The hero "Join the DevOps bootcamp" CTA goes to the official bootcamp page:
https://ml.my/infratify-devops-bootcamp(redirects toinfratify.com/devops-bootcamp). - Trainer profile is linked from the footer name:
https://ml.my/op-tp(redirects totrainer.opariffazman.com). - The poster QR (
ml.my/infratify-ntw) still lands on this hub, which then funnels to the bootcamp page.
Icons are inline MDI SVGs (no external font/CDN); copy has had a humanizer pass (no em/en dashes, no emoji).
- Free-session sign-up — if the five Zoom webinars need their own registration (separate from the bootcamp), that link isn't on the page yet. Right now every CTA points at the bootcamp.
- Language — copy is English; a Bahasa Malaysia version may suit the NTW crowd (outlines are in BM).
- Old repo —
officialdad/ntwwas the initial scaffold host; superseded byInfratify/ntw. It can be archived/deleted separately (that Pages site is not referenced by any poster).
Derived from the bootcamp curriculum outlines and schedule in
../slides-devops-bootcamp/outlines/2026/ (first-in-family sessions: DevOps, Linux 1–4,
Git 1–2, GitHub 1–2, AWS 1, Cloudflare 1, Docker 1).