IT Training

We specialise in many areas of IT, but mostly focus on automation, DevOps, Linux/Unix and Scripting areas. We are able to train in many other areas, so please contact us first or if you have exhausted all your other options.

We can provide trainers for your own courses, or courseware and trainers to deliver a specific course, or bespoke courses that meet your needs.

You may prefer to have your own Academy, apprenticeship or graduate training program - and we are more than happy to help you work out the best approach and delivery to get your new or existing employees up to speed.

Just some of the areas we can help with;

  • Bespoke DevOps Academy
  • Automated system deployment
    • Chef
    • Puppet
    • Ansible
    • Terraform
    • Cloudformation
    • Vagrant
  • Unix/Linux beginner to System Admin and API
  • Scripting (Shell, Python, Perl, PowerShell, JavaScript, VBScript)
  • Networking (TCP/IP protocol stack, debugging, configuring and monitoring)

  • Cloud (AWS and Azure)
  • Developer Pipeline Automation
    • Jenkins
    • TeamCity
    • IBM uDeploy
    • GoCD
  • Virtual Environments and Containers
    • VirtualBox
    • Docker
    • Kubernetes & OpenShift
  • Databases (RDBMs and NoSQL language and administration)

Contact us to discuss your needs as we can't list everything and we're adding all the time.

Courses & Courseware

Courses that can be delivered now are listed below. Click on the course for an overview. If you have any special requirements or need a bespoke course please Email us and we'll get back to you.

Courses can be licensed from us for your own use if you have a trainer.

Courses delivered by TPS Services Ltd will be delivered at your company site, or chosen location, and prices are per person.

Licensing

TPS Services Ltd will license its courses to other companies for a fee.

The fee is based on the following conditions:

  • A fixed fee per course
  • Each license is for a named course
  • Each time you run one of the courses you pay TPS Services Ltd the cost of that license
  • If for example you have 2 Perl Introductions you will pay for 2 licenses, regardless of how many people are on each course
  • If you have 2 Perl Introductions and a Unix Administration course that will be 3 license payments
  • Dates for the course run(s) must be provided
  • Names of those people who will be given a copy of the materials must be provided

Course materials can be supplied in either;

  • Electronic PDF format
  • Printed notes (extra cost)

Contact us to discuss your needs as we can't list everything and we're adding all the time.

Published IT Books

The Grass Is Greener - Linux As A Desktop

This book was written to help beginners and non-techincal people to get in to Linux and understand why those who know about computers and work with the big systems use this as their favourite operating system rather than some of those other glamour systems that cost a fortune and tend to, well lets say cause more problems when they go wrong.

Where to buy;

Powershell Troubleshooting Guide (Author: Mike Shephard)

This book I was asked to technically review.

Where to buy;

Contact us to discuss your needs as we can't list everything and we're adding all the time.

Steve's Blog

Click here to visit Steve's technical blog