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Course #:WA2451

DevOps Fundamentals Training

This introduction and fundamentals training course covers the core DevOps concepts and principles as well as the ways to stand up the DevOps practice in your organization.

Upon completion of this introduction training course, students will have an understanding of the fundamentals of DevOps’ value proposition; they will also gain practical experience working with select DevOps tools, including Puppet, Jenkins, and others.

This intro to DevOps Fundamentals training course is supplemented by hands-on labs that help attendees and beginners reinforce their theoretical knowledge of the learned material.

Topics

Intro to DevOps practices and tools
Puppet
Technical introduction to cloud computing
Jenkins

Audience

This DevOps Fudamentals course is appropriate for Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, Information Technology Architects, Senior Developers, and Team Leads

Prerequisite

For this DevOps Fundamentals Training course, foundational knowledge of the software delivery problem domain is recommended.

Duration

3 Days

Outline of DevOps Fundamentals Training

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

Lab Exercises

Lab 1. Managing Keys for a Secure Connection
Lab 2. Provisioning Tomcat Web Server in EC2
Lab 3. Learning the Lab Environment
Lab 4. Getting Started with Puppet
Lab 5. Provisioning MySQL Database with Puppet
Lab 6. Getting Started with Docker
Lab 7. Getting Started with Kubernetes
Lab 8. Configure Tools in Jenkins
Lab 9. Create a Jenkins Job
Lab 10. Configure Jenkins Security
Lab 11. Add Development Metrics
Lab 12. Create a Pipeline

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