“To provide students with a virtual training environment, SANS instructors needed a way to spin up ephemeral Amazon EC2 instances and related resources that host the environment. The instructors needed to send a request to the ops team, who would spin up the infrastructure using a semi-automated process operated through Jira tickets and Rundeck. That platform kicked off Bash scripts, and those kicked off another tool that ran still other scripts that made commits to Git to do all of this.”