DevOps Fundamentals

Chapter 1. DevOps Fundamentals

• Why DevOps
• What is DevOps?
• Collaborative, Matrixed and Cross-Functional Teams
• Key Components of Successful DevOps Teams
• DevOps-ification
• DevOps Vocabulary
• DevOps Goals
• Not DevOps - Crush Buzzwords
• Driving Business Outcomes with DevOps
• Technology-Enabled Business
• DevOps Key Enabler for Digital Transformation
• Core Values and Mission
• Core Values - Culture
• Core Values - Automation
• Core Values - Measurement
• Core Values - Sharing
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Value Stream Mapping
• Behavioral Patterns for Success
• DevOps Org Structures
• DevOps Team - Separate
• DevOps Merged Organization
• DevOps Overlapped Organization
• Organizational Structure Leadership
• What Does Continuous Delivery Mean?
• Deployment Pipelines
• Your Organization is Doing CD if …
• Pipelining for CD
• Continuous Integration
• CI Pipeline
• CD & CI Methodologies
• Key Tool Categories for CI/CD
• Summary

Chapter 2. Cloud Technical Introduction

• A Bit of History
• Wikipedia Entry
• Cloud Computing at a Glance
• Electrical Power Grid Service Analogy
• Capacity Planning Concepts and Challenges
• Coping with Computing Demand the Traditional Way
• Coping with Computing Demand the Cloud Way
• The Origin of the Cloud Computing
• Grid Computing vs Cloud Computing
• What Drives Cloud Adoption?
• The NIST Perspective
• Five Characteristics of the Cloud
• The Three Cloud Service Models (NIST)
• The Cloud Computing Spectrum: IaaS, PaaS and SaaS
• Cloud Service Model Implementations
• The Four Cloud Deployment Models (NIST)
• The NIST Cloud Definition Framework
• Cloud Deployment Model Dynamics
• Virtualization
• Virtualization Qualities (1/2)
• Virtualization Qualities (2/2)
• Cloud Infrastructure - Virtual Machines
• A Bootable OS Image
• Block Storage for Instances
• Cloud Object Storage
• SOA and the Cloud
• Cloud Risks to Consider
• DevOps Security Concerns
• Amazon WS Technical Lessons When Moving To the Cloud
• Architecting for HA in AWS (Same Data Center)
• Architecting for HA in AWS (Different AZs)
• Summary

Chapter 3. Standing Up DevOps

• Standing Up DevOps
• Things to Look For and Avoid
• IT Assets Ownership
• Viewing Applications As Products, not Projects
• DevOps in the Enterprise
• IT Governance
• Governance and Risk Mitigation
• DevOps Adoption Steps
• Select DevOps Techniques and Practices
• Service Quality Metrics
• Summary

Chapter 4. DevOps Tools

• The Choice of Cloud Platform
• IaaS for DevOps
• PaaS for DevOps
• FaaS and Serverless
• Containerization Tools
• Container Orchestration Tools
• Container Orchestration Tools (Contd.)
• System Configuration Automation and Management
• Continuous Integration (CI) Systems
• Continuous Integration (CI) Systems (Contd.)
• Build and Dependency Management Systems
• Select DevOps Tools
• Select DevOps Tools (Contd.)
• Summary

Chapter 5. Introduction to Puppet

• What is Puppet
• Puppet's Domain Specific Language
• "Infrastructure-as-code" in Puppet
• Example of the Puppet DSL
• Main Puppet Artifacts
• Puppet Design
• Puppet Workflow Orchestration
• Facter
• Facter Fact Discovery
• Facter Example
• Extending Facter
• Geppetto
• Puppet Lab Services
• Puppet Enterprise Licensing
• Puppet Enterprise Support
• Puppet Enterprise Feature Set (1/2)
• Puppet Enterprise Feature Set (2/2)
• Summary

Chapter 6. Containerization Systems Overview

• Virtualization
• Hypervisors
• Hypervisor Types
• Type 1 Hypervisors
• Type 2 Hypervisors
• Type 1 vs Type 2 Processing
• Paravirtualization
• Virtualization Qualities (1/2)
• Virtualization Qualities (2/2)
• Disadvantages of Virtualization
• Containerization
• Virtualization vs Containerization
• Where to Use Virtualization and Containerization
• Popular Containerization Systems
• What are Linux Containers
• Docker
• OpenVZ
• Solaris Zones (Containers)
• Container Orchestration Tools
• Docker Swarm
• Kubernetes
• Mesos and Marathon
• Mesos and Marathon (contd.)
• Summary

Chapter 7. Introduction to Kubernetes

• What is Kubernetes
• What is a Container
• Container – Uses
• Container – Pros
• Container – Cons
• Composition of a Container
• Control Groups
• Namespaces
• Union Filesystems
• Popular Containerization Software
• Microservices
• Microservices and Containers / Clusters
• Microservices and Orchestration
• Microservices and Infrastructure-as-Code
• Kubernetes Container Networking
• Kubernetes Networking Options
• Kubernetes Networking – Balanced Design
• Summary

Chapter 8. Kubernetes – From the Firehose

• What is Kubernetes?
• Container Orchestration
• Kubernetes Basic Architecture
• Kubernetes Detailed Architecture
• Kubernetes Concepts
• Cluster and Namespace
• Node
• Master
• Pod
• Label
• Annotation
• Label Selector
• Replication Controller and Replica Set
• Service
• Storage Volume
• Secret
• Resource Quota
• Authentication and Authorization
• Routing
• Registry
• Using Docker Registry
• Summary

Chapter 9. Docker Introduction

• What is Docker
• Where Can I Ran Docker?
• Docker and Containerization on Linux
• Linux Kernel Features: cgroups and namespaces
• The Docker-Linux Kernel Interfaces
• Docker Containers vs Traditional Virtualization
• Docker as Platform-as-a-Service
• Docker Integration
• Docker Services
• Competing Systems
• Docker Command-line
• Starting, Inspecting, and Stopping Docker Containers
• Docker Application Container Public Repository
• Registries
• Your Own Docker Image Registry
• One Process per Container
• The Dockerfile
• A Sample Dockerfile
• Summary

Chapter 10. Introduction to Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Jenkins-CI

• Foundation of Agile AppDev
• XP Flow
• Extreme Programming
• Agile Development
• What is Continuous Integration
• What is Continuous Integration (cont'd)
• Typical Setup for Continuous Integration
• Setup Notes for Continuous Integration
• CI with Artifact Management
• What is Continuous Delivery?
• Why Continuous Delivery?
• DevOps and Continuous Delivery
• Continuous Delivery Challenges
• Continuous Delivery vs Continuous Deployment
• Jenkins Continuous Integration
• Jenkins Features
• Running Jenkins
• Summary

Chapter 11. Installing and Running Jenkins

• Downloading and Installing Jenkins
• Running Jenkins as a Stand-Alone Application
• Running Jenkins as a Stand-Alone Application (cont'd)
• Running Jenkins on an Application Server
• The Jenkins Home Folder
• Installing Jenkins as a Windows Service
• Initial Configuration
• Configuration Wizard
• Configuration Wizard (cont'd)
• Configuring Tools
• Configuring Tools - Best Practices
• Logging in Jenkins
• Custom Log Recorders
• Summary

Chapter 12. Job Types in Jenkins

• Introduction
• Different types of Jenkins Items
• Different types of Jenkins Items (cont'd)
• Configuring Source Code Management(SCM)
• Working with Subversion
• Working with Subversion (cont'd)
• Working with Git
• Storing Credentials
• Service Accounts
• Storing Credentials (cont'd)
• Build Triggers
• Schedule Build Jobs
• Polling the SCM
• Polling vs Triggers
• Maven Build Steps
• Summary

Chapter 13. Securing Jenkins

• Jenkins Security - Overview
• Jenkins Security
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Confidentiality
• Activating Security
• Configure Authentication
• Using Jenkins's Internal User Database
• Creating Users
• Authorization
• Matrix-Based Security
• Note – Create the Administrative User
• Project-based Matrix Authorization
• Project-Based Authentication
• Role Based Access Control
• Conclusion

Chapter 14. Jenkins Plugins

• Introduction
• Jenkins Plugins - SCM
• Jenkins Plugins – Build and Test
• Jenkins Plugins – Analyzers
• Jenkins for Teams
• Installing Jenkins Plugins
• Summary

Chapter 15. Distributed Builds with Jenkins

• Distributed Builds - Overview
• Distributed Builds – How?
• Agent Machines
• Configure Jenkins Master
• Configure Projects
• Conclusion

Chapter 16. Continuous Delivery and the Jenkins Pipeline

• Continuous Delivery
• Continuous Delivery (cont'd)
• DevOps and Continuous Delivery
• Continuous Delivery Challenges
• Continuous Delivery with Jenkins
• The Pipeline Plugin
• The Pipeline Plugin (cont'd)
• Defining a Pipeline
• A Pipeline Example
• Pipeline Example (cont'd)
• Parallel Execution
• Creating a Pipeline
• Invoking the Pipeline
• Interacting with the Pipeline
• Pipeline vs Traditional Jobs
• Conclusion

Chapter 17. Best Practices for Jenkins

• Best Practices - Secure Jenkins
• Best Practices - Users
• Best Practices - Backups
• Best Practices - Reproducible Builds
• Best Practices - Testing and Reports
• Best Practices - Large Systems
• Best Practices - Distributed Jenkins
• Best Practices - Summary