This intensive five-day hands-on course is designed to provide technical staff with a start to finish introduction to Python application programming for infrastructure automation. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of Python API features and how to code with a wide range of third party and vendor-specific libraries for controlling cloud and virtualized infrastructure. Students will gain hands-on experience with Python and systems applications in a best-practices microservices/DevOps style environment. Upon completion of the course, attendees will have the skills and information necessary to begin developing purpose-built Python applications to integrate with and control infrastructure systems in an enterprise setting.