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DevOps for Managers & Leaders Training

This two-day DevOps workshop is loaded with practical real-world information. From the foremost agile development training company, comes a course to move the dial on your organizations’ DevOps journey. You will leave this course loaded with knowledge on the available people, processes, culture, and tools for DevOps, ready to select what's right for your company and to roadmap the journey for your organization. The class provides two DevOps implementation case studies, a 30-60-90 roadmap to implementing DevOps in your organization, DevOps organizational maturity assessment, as well as, patterns and best practices to enable you to confidently lead a DevOps implementation. This class demystifies the fundamental shift from focusing only on the tools or scripting to using DevOps for measurably higher performance from organizations of all sizes for solving business problems in a timely manner.

As part of DevOps management, you should be aware of how to confidently design a DevOps roadmap for your organization, understand the various key components, and communicate your DevOps progress. DevOps Management also requires you to understand that automation is a key to success and how to create a culture that supports technology-enabled business.

This Training course for a DevOps Manager and leader continue to be in high demand. The topics covered in the course are:

DevOps journey
Cultural alignment
Continuous Integration & Delivery
Continuous Integration Tools
Monitoring
Measurement
Automation Scripting
Agile
Building Tools
Configuration Management
Continuous Code Quality
DevOps DBA
Servers
Cloud Computing & Virtualization
Best Practices

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AUDIENCE

This workshop will be particularly useful for leaders implementing or considering DevOps for their organization including the following:

Anyone in an IT Leadership role
CIOs / CTOs
Lead System Administrators
Software Reliability Engineers
ScrumMasters
Software Managers and Team Leads
IT Project & Program Managers
Product Owners and Managers

TOPICS

Case studies
Tools
Build & release management
Agile
Cloud & Virtualization
Automation & Scripting
Configuration management
Monitoring
Measurement
Version control
Workforce Strategy

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

After completing this course, the student should be able to:

Confidently design a DevOps roadmap for your organization.
Understand the various key components.
Communication and evangelization of your DevOps progress.
How automation is key to success
Understand the key components; tools, processes, and people required
Apply the knowledge to improve reliability of build & release processes
Become literate in the vernacular of DevOps
Learn the metrics and analytics that provide understanding of your organizational maturity
Monitor your team and application lifecycle management effectiveness
Understand how to create a culture that supports technology-enabled business
Apply technology, people and process to shift left
Map out the workforce strategy required for organizational success
Compare other organizational journeys in DevOps to understand options and approaches

PREREQUISITES

A desire to learn how to successfully implement DevOps in your organization.

DURATION

2 day.

Outline of DevOps for Managers & Leaders Training

CHAPTER 1. Devops Journey

Why DevOps?
What is DevOps?
History behind DevOps
Cross functional teams
Key components of successful DevOps
DevOps vocabulary
DevOps goals
Driving business outcomes with DevOps
Summary

CHAPTER 2. Cultural Alignment & Workforce Strategy

Leading the charge to DevOps
Core values and mission
Communication
Collaboration
Value stream mapping
Behavioral patterns
Culture assessment
Summary

CHAPTER 3. Agile & Technology Enabled Business

History of Agile
Managing sprints
Maintaining the backlog
Working with story points
Distributed agile
Kaizen
Kanban
Summary

CHAPTER 4. Configuration Management

Why is configuration management key to DevOps success?
What is configuration management
Terminology
Automation tool comparison
Configuration management tools
Setting up the environment
Deployment
Cloud integration

CHAPTER 5. Building Tools

Build tool history
Repeatability
Notification
Continuous build
Build tool basics
Summary

CHAPTER 6. Continuous Integration & Delivery

What does continuous delivery mean?
What is continuous integration?
Project methodologies
Measuring your organization maturity
Tool selection
IT organization structure
Business continuity
Supportability and sustainability
Summary

Case Study. Global Financial Services

CHAPTER 7. CI Tools

Challenges solved by CI tools
Introduction to Jenkins
Introduction to Hudson
Introduction to Cruise
Introduction to SaltStack
Comparison
Summary

CHAPTER 8. Continuous Code Quality

What is continuous code quality?
Continuous Testing
Seven Axes of Quality
Potential Bugs
Test-Driven Development
Behavior-Driven Development
What is Sonar Qube
SonarQube - Benefits
Summary

Case study. Federated Global Products

CHAPTER 9. Automation scripting

Why automate?
Goals for scripting
Error handling
Logging
Automating versioned builds
Automating continuous integration tests
Automated cleanup
Introduction to Shell scripting
Introduction to Python
Introduction to Ruby
Introduction to Perl
Summary

Case study. Enterprise Telecommunications

CHAPTER 10. Monitoring

What to monitor?
How to monitor?
Why to monitor?
Application Performance Monitoring
Infrastructure monitoring
Monitoring across the stack
Summary

CHAPTER 11. Analytics & Measurement

What to measure?
How to measure?
Why to measure?
Choosing the right metrics
What are your key performance indicators?
Actionable insight
Software quality
Top 5 metrics
Summary

CHAPTER 12. DevOps DBA

DBA role in DevOps
Why are DBAs often left out of the conversation?
Database management with DevOps
Push button CI for database
Managing databases with configuration management
Database self-service
Database configuration as code
Pay to Play or Open Source
Data as an asset
Big Data
NOSQL
Summary

CHAPTER 13. DevOps Best Practices

Who are the folks using the various solutions?
DevOps implementation checklist
Gap assessment survey
Best practices
Patterns
Anti-patterns
Summary

CHAPTER 14. DevOps Action Plan

Appendix A. Servers

Introduction to application servers
WebSphere
Tomcat
Web servers
Tracing and logging
Servlet containers
Fixpack automation
Dependencies
Cluster considerations
High availability
Summary

Appendix B. Cloud & Virtualization

What defines a cloud?
Elasticity
History of cloud
Benefits of cloud
Public, Private, or Hybrid?
Governance in cloud
Cloud deployment
Introduction to AWS
Introduction to Azure
Introduction to SoftLayer
Why virtualization?
Virtual machines
Virtualization with Citrix
Summary

Optional Simulation Day: TP2866 The Phoenix Project

We regularly offer classes in these and other cities. Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Calgary, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Jacksonville, Miami, Montreal, New York City, Orlando, Ottawa, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver, Washington DC.

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