DevOps Webinars

Description: “It worked fine on my machine,” or “the deployment rollback failed,” or “somebody forgot to change the settings from dev to prod.” Sound familiar?
These are challenges that anyone developing and operating software solutions has encountered. For over twenty-five years, these are problems that I’ve been direct witness to (and sometimes the cause of). Thankfully, technology is getting better, and the cause of those problems should be a thing of the past. But they still happen. Why? Often, it’s not because of technology, but of our development and operation processes.
In this seminar, I would like to take the time to explore the gold-standard technologies to manage deployment and operation of applications–especially those designed around a microservice architecture. But technology is only a means to an end. What we really want to explore in this seminar are the processes to manage containerized applications from beginning to end–from dev to prod.
Over the course of this seminar, we’ll explore what is containerization, what is Docker and friends, and more importantly, what are the processes to maximize its value.
This seminar is oriented towards managers and team leads who need to modernize their development and operation process as well as anyone who is curious to know not just what is containerization but how to build our development and operation processes around it.

Related courses: Kubernetes for Developers [WA3007]

Description: The build-up to vSphere 7 began at VMworld with the announcement of Project Pacific. We now have the full release of vSphere 7, with essential services for the modern hybrid cloud, that packs a lot under the hood for our modern IT operations. We now have Kubernetes integration, improved lifecycle management and security plus enhancements to DRS and vMotion.

Watch this session and hear about some of the new features in vSphere 7, how they might apply to your IT operations and what you should be thinking about when it comes time to upgrade.

Speaker | Title: Ken Willard, Senior Instructor

Ken specializes in system virtualization and consolidation (server & desktop), helping technology teams approach virtualization while considering the technical, organizational and political impact. Ken has worked with IT organizations from the commercial, government and non-profit verticals, addressing virtualization in each of these unique environments. In addition to delivering training to both the business partner and end-user communities.

Related training:
TP3004 VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage V7

Description: Kubernetes has become a mainstay deployment platform for modern containerized applications. Each week Google starts over several billion containers that tell us how fast deployments can be with Kubernetes. Kubernetes offers features such as load balancing, and self-healing. Join us for this webinar where we’ll explore various deployment options available in Kubernetes. We’ll also explore how Kubernetes makes your applications resilient.

Related courses: WA3007 Kubernetes for Developers

Description: OpenShift is a certified Kubernetes distribution that makes it an enterprise, trusted, and reliable Kubernetes-based platform. Features like container orchestration, auto-scaling, service discovery, load balancing, auto-failover/self-healing, and quota management are already available in Kubernetes. OpenShift provides various other services such as more granular support for security, and built-in CI/CD pipelines/DevOps capabilities. OpenShift 4.x has many new productive features for developers and ops engineers. Join us for a webinar where we’ll explore various features such as security options, pod scheduling, and scaling in OpenShift.

Related courses: Architecting Microservices with Kubernetes, Docker, and Continuous Integration [WA2675]

Description: DevOps has always included a perspective on how people, process, and technology come together to speed delivery of value to a customer. To that end, Gene Kim’s (and his co-authors) books are iconic namely the Phoenix Project, the DevOps Handbook, Accelerate, and the most recent, the Unicorn Project. In this six part book club, we will study each book in depth with DevOps advocate and senior technical trainer, Michael Forrester from Web Age Solutions. Michael’s near 20 years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, creating effective teams, and CI/CD tooling will be shared as the group discuss the major points of each book including the “dirty little secret” of the DevOps Handbook. Every week recommended reading will be shared (about 50 pages per week) and the book club will meet virtually for 60 minutes to review and discuss. Each weekly meeting will start with 20 minutes of review and transition into thoughtful questions and conversation based on that week’s reading.

Weekly Schedule for 6 weeks for the Phoenix Project (60 minute sessions)
1. Introduction and first six chapters – Thursday 3/26
Future sessions will be scheduled in the upcoming week
2. Chapters 7-12
3. Chapters 13-18
4. Chapters 19-24
5. Chapters 25-30
6. Ending and Chapters 30-35

All meetings will be done through Zoom and will be recorded for sharing and re-watch. Students are responsible for book purchases. A basic code of conduct will be created and socialized to frame discussions and to foster collaboration.

Description:Microservices architecture recommends creating multiple small services. When we use Docker and Kubernetes, we end up creating multiple small Docker images that are deployed to a Kubernetes cluster. In this session we’ll discuss how to deploy a microservices application that is composed of multiple Docker containers, and perform various operations such as upgrade, pause, and resume our deployment. We’ll also discuss how to make our application more resilient by scaling our deployment. Lastly, we’ll discuss how to troubleshoot our deployment by working with logs in Kubernetes.

Description: In this half-day session, you will learn how to use Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform to modernize your applications. In modern applications, real-time information is continuously generated by applications (publishers/producers) and routed to other applications (subscribers/consumers). Apache Kafka is an open source, distributed publish-subscribe messaging system. Apache Kafka has high-throughput and is built to scale-out in a distributed model on multiple servers. Apache Kafka persists messages on disk and can be used for batched consumption as well as real-time applications. In the session, you will also learn what is KSQL and how it is used as a streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka.

Related courses: WA2708 Kafka for Application Modernization

Description: The new ITIL 4 marks the consolidation of many different best practices; ITSM, Agile, DevOps, LEAN, COBIT, and others. In this short lunch and learn we will go over the new ITIL 4 architecture, the new certification programs, and how the new ITIL 4 will help your organization to better plan for digital transformation and build your roadmap for how to leverage these practices to support your organization’s goals.

Patrick von Schlag is an ITIL and Agile Expert with 30 years of IT and business executive management experience. His consultancy Deep Creek Center helps organizations adopt and adapt best practices like ITIL, DevOps, and Agile to drive and improve their business results.

DevOps on AWS

Topics:

1. DevOps Basics
– Brief Overview of DevOps Requirements
– Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery
– Concept of Infrastructure as Code

2. Features of AWS
– Benefits of AWS
– Securing and automating access with IAM
– Overview of Compute options in AWS
– AWS Storage and Database Services
– Messaging and de-coupling in AWS

3. DevOps Tools on AWS
– Developer Tools (CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline)
– Monitoring (CloudWatch, CloudTrail)
– Automation and Orchestration (CLI, Elastic BeanStalk, CloudFormation, AWS OpsWorks)

4. Q/A

Duration: 90 minutes

Description: Learn how large and small organizations continuously release quality, valuable software services to remain ahead of their competition by using DevOps processes and taking advantage of cloud technologies. Learn how any and all member of a DevOps team utilize cloud technologies to work in concert.

In this seminar, we will explore;
• Overview of DevOps and what it is.
• Overview of cloud enablement technologies such as storage and compute.
• Shifting from traditional enterprise architecture to cloud architecture.
• Use cloud technologies to accelerate DevOps processes
• Explore Microsoft Azure resources such as ARM templates, RBAC and other PaSS resources.

Audience: Project leads, developers, architect, system administrators, DBA or anyone who wishes to learn how DevOps and cloud technologies enable the delivery of quality, valuable software.

Related courses:
TP2799 Managing Projects using Azure Board
WA2609 Enabling DevOps with Visual Studio 2015
WA2699 Microservices Development in Windows

Description: It is everyone’s responsibility in a technology-enabled business for to build systems which provide reliability, reproducibility, quality, agility, and security. The pursuit of velocity and high performance doesn’t come without challenges, especially in global organizations with a wide variety of business critical, legacy, third-party and custom software. We’ve put together a playbook that helps teams define goals, address common challenges, and evolve security and operations workflows in their Digital Transformation roadmap for cloud, agile, application modernization, and DevOps.In this webinar we provide straight talk on implementing Secure-SDLC and DevSecOps in a business world and move security from an anchor to an enabler.

Related courses: WA2727 DevSecOps Training: Introduction to Security in SDLC Application

Description: This course is an introduction to Domain Driven Design and how it applies to Microservices.

Topics:

• Domain Driven Design Concepts
• Microservices
• Hexagonal Architecture and Microservices

Related courses: WA2594 Introduction to Domain Driven Design

Topics in this webinar:
• Introduction to DevOps
• Standing up DevOps
• CI/CD/Jenkins
• Docker

Related courses:
WA2593 DevOps for Managers & Leaders
WA2451 DevOps Training: DevOps Fundamentals

Description: Microservices is an architectural style that structures an application as a collection of loosely coupled services, which implement business capabilities. Apache Kafka can play a very important role in implementing Microservices Architecture. Kafka™ is used for building real-time data pipelines and streaming apps. It is horizontally scalable, fault-tolerant, fast, and runs in production in thousands of companies. Come and join us for a webinar where we will discuss how Apache Kafka fits in Microservices Architecture.

Description: Agile combined with DevOps enables application development and delivery teams to accelerate the pace of software engineering with quality. Together these technology patterns unify the organization and are the basis for efficient and effective application modernization. The common theme for both Agile and DevOps is Lean, which brings concepts like focusing on value, eliminating waste, and the principles of digital data supply chain to realize agility and velocity in delivery of products and services. This webinar reviews the adoption of Agile and DevOps, lessons learned, and benefits to your workstream, project, or organization.

Related courses: WA2593 Devops for Managers & Leaders

Description:
Organizations that have successfully laid a foundation for continuous innovation and agility have adopted Microservices architectures to respond rapidly to the never-ending demands of the business. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, IBM and Apple have all adopted Microservice architecture and DevOps best practices and tools. In this 1 hour webinar we explore the major building block in charting a path towards implementing DevOps tools and practices with focus on Microservices architecture.

Related courses:
WA2684 Developing Microservices

Description:
This webinar will help you understand the value proposition and technical aspects of Microservices. Microservices is a pattern that utilizes key concepts of DevOps, Architecture and Digital Transformation. This concept is rapidly becoming a key pattern for enterprise due to the use of services, based on the ideas of reliability, scalability and supportability.

Related courses:
WA2699 Microservices Development in Windows

Description:
This webinar will help you understand the value proposition and technical aspects of Microservices. A concept used to describe rapidly provisionable, independently deployable services with narrow and distinct functionality. The term Microservice describes a rapidly provisionable, independently deployable service with reusable functionality that is accessible over consistent messaging. Adoption of microservices is facilitated by the DevOps practices for continuous deployment and integration of software systems.

Related courses:
WA2684 Developing Microservices
WA2675 Architecting Microservices with Kubernetes, Docker, and Continuous Integration
WA2579 Technical Introduction to Microservices

Description:
Design of modern applications is dictated by dramatic advancements in many IT areas, including methodologies, tools, and new approaches for designing and building applications.
In order to stay relevant, IT professionals need to not only learn new things, but, more importantly, to be able to critically re-evaluate the contents of their professional knowledge baggage.
In this webinar, we will talk about some of the aspects of modern applications architecture.

Related courses:
WA2579 Technical Introduction to Microservices

Description:
In this dynamic seminar, we will look at why DevOps is becoming a critical capability for modern organizations, and how IT leaders can guide their organizations in building DevOps capabilities.

Related courses:
WA2593 – DevOps for Leaders
WA2543 – DevOps Boot Camp

Description:
DevOps is a best practice to deliver Agility via faster release of features crucial to its customers and the business. In this presentation we will explore the building blocks of DevOps – continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD). We will demonstrate Jenkins, Git, Containerization and other common elements of the software stack and show how these enable CI and CD. DevOps culture, metrics and monitoring will also be discussed.

Related courses:
WA2451 DevOps Fundamentals

Description:
The following topics will be covered:
• Building for Fault Tolerance
• Automation & Setting Up AMI
• Automation and Lambda
• Configuring Automation & Load Testing
• Cloud Formation

Description:
Your infrastructure deserves tests too. Puppet is a configuration management solution. It allows you to set up environments, such as, development, test, and production. Test Kitchen is a test harness tool to execute your configured code on one or more platforms in isolation. It has plugin architecture which gives you the freedom to run your code on any cloud, virtualization, or bare metal resources. Come and join us for a webinar where we discuss how integration testing can be performed for Puppet code.

Related courses:
Configuration Management with Puppet

Description:
Chef plays a very important role in DevOps pipeline. It offers Infrastructure as Code that is testable, repeatable, and versionable. It can be used to install services and packages, deploy, and configure applications. It integrates with tools such as Vagrant for provisioning virtual machines for testing code. Come and join us for a webinar where we discuss Chef’s architecture, various tools included in Chef, and various other features supported by Chef e.g. cookbooks, recipes, roles, and environments.

Related courses:
WA2543 DevOps Boot Camp

Description:
This webinar will help you understand the value proposition and technical aspects of microservices, a new and rather fuzzy concept used to describe rapidly provisionable, independently deployable services with narrow and distinct functionality.

Related courses:
WA2579 Technical Introduction to Microservices

Description:
DevOps (development and operations) is an enterprise software development phrase that defines a type of agile relationship between Development and IT Operations. Chef plays a very important role in DevOps pipeline. It is Infrastructure as Code that is testable, repeatable, and versionable. It can be used provisioning the OS, servers (web, application, …), development, testing, and performance monitoring tools. Come and join us for a webinar where we discuss how Chef can be beneficial in DevOps pipeline.

Related courses:
WA2543 DevOps Boot Camp

Description: In this Webinar we’ll examine the DevOps path to Digital Transformation. By focusing on the cultural changes required, automation, and utilization of matrixed teams, organizations can significantly improve their release times, rollbacks times, and overall quality. This discussion will apply the lean approaches that have been used in other industries to drive continuous delivery and integration in application development for business solutions. We will examine setting clear priorities individuals can use to champion DevOps implementation in their own environments.

Description: In this webinar, the top 10 trends in 2016 IT landscape will be discussed. The trends covered will include Mobile Development, DevOps, Agile, Cloud and Big Data.

Description: Do you use agile methods for managing projects? Agile methods can help in accelerating the delivery of initial business value. Continuous planning and feedback ensures that value is maximized throughout the development process. Come and join us for a webinar where we discuss how JIRA Software can assist in managing projects using agile methodology. JIRA Software lets you manage project backlog, plan and execute sprints, and manage releases. It also lets you view useful reports, such as, velocity, various burndown / burn-up charts.

Description: Agile development and DevOps practices are redefining how we develop and deliver software. In this webinar, we show how these practices, despite their very different goals, compliment each other. Join us and see the benefits of Agile and DevOps practices, and how they are easier and more effective when followed together.

Description: We’ll review what DevOps is, where it came from, and the state of DevOps as 2015 draws to a close.

Description: DevOps / Agile Seminar delivered live in Toronto with industry leading experts. These sessions are a great way to expand your knowledge and share information with your industry peers.