Course Abstract
DevOps is a growing movement that encourages closer collaboration of developers and system operations to help business goals to be achieved efficiently and on time. Software development and infrastructure scaling are very fast-paced nowadays. That brings a necessity of larger automation, measurement and information sharing for all involved processes. This 2-day workshop focuses on solving challenges that organizations face when implementing DevOps initiatives. It introduces principles of DevOps and tools that help reach full automation of infrastructure provisioning and software delivery. Theoretical background as well as practical hands-on examples of tools like Vagrant, Docker, AWS and others are given during this workshop.
Topics Covered in the DevOps Masterclass
Introduction to DevOps
- The story
- Problems
- Main principles
Automation is the key
- Why to automate?
- What to automate?
- How to automate?
- When to not automate?
- Automation arguments
- Mathematical models
- Process automation
Continuous X
Configuration management
- Metadata management
- Maturity model
Infrastructure automation
- Managing environments
- Developer’s machine
- From development to production
- Infrastructure scaling
Cloud infrastructure
- Public clouds
- Private clouds
- Containerization
Tooling
- Local development
- Infrastructure connectivity
- Infrastructure provisioning
- Infrastructure testing
- Infrastructure monitoring
Lab work
- Vagrant
- Packer
- Docker
- AWS
- Bash/Sshoogr/Fabric
- Puppet/Chef
- Jenkins
- ELK
Prerequisites
This course is directed at participants with at least one year real life experience working with Agile methods and insights in the basics of DevOps.
Target Audience
Developers, software architects, technical project managers, system administrators.
Learning Objectives
- Understand principles behind DevOps
- Understand principles behind effective configuration management
- Use provisioning tools (Puppet, Chef or Ansible) to configure infrastructure
- Use virtualization tools like VirtualBox, Vagrant, Docker and AWS EC2
