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DevOps training (Short)

This training consists of 6 modules, 8 x 2h sessions. Each block has Lab/Homework. The course preparation took 155 mh.

Module 1 - DevOps overview AWS key services. (preparation total: 24 mhr) (2 sessions)

• History of DevOps.
• DevOps as a system.
• GIT as a heart of modern application development.
• Getting in touch with cloud
  • cloud systems history
  • main market players
  • comparison of providers (Azure vs Amazon vs GCP)
  • registering test account on AWS
• AWS key services overview (examples IAM, VPC, EC2, RDS, Dynamo, Lambda, S3, EBS, EFS, CloudWatch, API gateway)
  • DEMOS
    • EC2 ( lunch wordpress install using 2 ec2 instances )
    • EBS EFS ( gui overview )
    • AMI ( gui overview )
      • EBS to AMI
        • create AMI [demo]
        • delete AMI [demo]
    • RDS ( moving wp database to rds mysql )
    • VPC ( public private vpc with access to internet from private)
    • S3 ( creating bucket with static web site )
    • IAM ( creating permissions to access to CLI and EC2, to update s3 content )
    • Lambda ( creating text to speech app )
    • DynamoDB ( storing tts data in DynamoDB )
• LAB = Creating infra and Deploying test app into AWS (manual)
  • Set up infra with GUI
  • Install dependencies and apps
  • Deploy application
  • automate infra and application delivery (cli/boto/Ansible/Terraform/whatever)

Module 2 IaC - infrastructure as a code (total 24 mhr) (2 sessions)

• AWS infrastructure management
  • WEB GUI way - [reference to lecture 1]
  • CLI way [demo]
  • Programmatic way (CLI, Python Boto) [demo]
• Bake vs Broil
  • Installing dependencies and app [homework 1 demo]
  • Baking with Packer [demo - bake in application AMI]
  • Provisioning with Ansible/Chef [demo]
• IaC tools. First steps with Terraform.
  • why do we need IaC
  • Configuration management
    • What is configuration management. Snowflake servers.
    • Pull vs Push models
    • CM main competitors [Chef/Ansible]
    • Chef first steps [demos]
  • Terraform overview
    • first script [demo]
    • project structure [demo]
    • terraform modules [demo]
    • main commands [demo]
    • parametrization [demo]
    • tfstate [demo]
    • remote tfstate [demo]
• How to test infrastructure code.
• LAB = Creating and provisioning infra with IaC
  • Terraform/ + Packer
  • Terraform + Chef/Ansible

Module 3 AWS advanced services. ( 24 mhr) (1 session)

• Load balancing in AWS (ELB)
  • Application balancer
  • Network balancer
  • Classic balancer (depricated)
• Availability zones - basics and usage patterns
• Multi region model overview
• Auto-scaling groups. [demo]
• Route53 strategies
• CloudWatch [demo]
  • spendings trigger
  • logs agregating and watching
• Application deployment policies
  • recreate [demo]
  • blue-green [demo]
  • kanary [demo]
  • AB [demo]
  • shadow [demo]
• CDN via CloudFront [demo]
• LAB (optional)
  • make multi AZ / multi region installation of project
  • set up route53 strategies
  • set up load balancing
  • • implement deployment strategy (blue-green || kanary || AB)

Module 4 Containerisation (total 24 mhr) (1 session)

• Introduction to Docker
• Docker containers
• Docker images. Microservice model.
• Docker. Networks, docker-compose
• Logging and Docker. Distributed tracing
• ECS overview.
• LAB
  • Dockerize App
    • create Dockerfile and compose files
  • Self managed Docker
    • terraform/cf
    • provision host with Docker engine
    • Run and orchestrate dockerized app.
      • docker-compose, docker-machine
  • Docker as a Service
    • terraform/cf to create infra
    • use ECS to host app

Module 5 CI/CD. Monitoring and logging (total 20 mhr) (1 session)

• Building a CI/CD pipeline.
• Introduction to monitoring. Monitoring systems
• Monitoring as Service
• Application and infrastructure monitoring
• Logging. Centalized logging.
• LAB
  • build ci/cd pipeline on top of previous LAB (CI/CD)
  • build a monitoring system for your application
  • build a centralised logging system for your app.
  • Set up an alerting system on top (slack, mail, cell, telegram …)

Module 6 Container orchestration (total 10 mhr) (1 session)

• Introduction to orchestration
• Intro to Kubernetes
• Alternative orchestration systems overview
• Kubernetes.Controllers, Security
• Kubernetes. Network. Storage
• Kubernetes. Helm, Ci/CD
• LAB
  • EKS
    • set up EKS k8s
    • move project to k8s

DevOps training (Full)

This training consists of 8 modules, 8 x 2h sessions. Each block has Lab/Homework. The course preparation took 300 mh

Module 1 - DevOps overview (preparation total: 24 mhr)

• History of DevOps.
• DevOps as a system.
• GIT as a heart of modern application development.
• Modern application delivery model.
• ChatOps and working processes visibility.
• LAB
  • GIT practice
  • Getting familiar with the test app. Use IaC way of creating local application stack (Vagrant, Docker)

Module 2 Introduction to AWS and it’s key services (total 24 mhr)

• Getting in touch with cloud
  • cloud systems history
  • main market players
  • comparison of providers (Azure vs Amazon vs GCP)
  • registering test account on AWS
• AWS key services overview (examples IAM, VPC, EC2, RDS, Dynamo, Lambda, S3, EBS, EFS, CloudWatch, CloudFront)
• First steps with a cloud provider, launching first cloud instances (AWS)
  • WEB GUI way [demo]
  • CLI way [demo]
  • Programmatic way (CLI, Python Boto) [demo]
• LAB =
  • Set up infra with GUI
  • Install dependencies and apps
  • automate infra and application delivery (cli/boto/whatever)

Module 3 IaC - infrastructure as a code (total 24 mhr)

• Infrastructure management models. Working with images
  • AWS related images (AMI)
  • How to create AMI
    • EBS to AMI
      • create AMI [demo]
      • delete AMI [demo]
    • Packer [demo - back in application AMI]
• IaC tools. First steps with Terraform. first steps with CloudFormation
  • why do we need IaC
  • Terraform overview
    • first script [demo]
    • project structure [demo]
    • terraform modules [demo]
    • main commands [demo]
    • parametrization [demo]
    • tfstate [demo]
    • remote tfstate [demo]
  • CloudFormation overview.
    • initial script overview [demo]
    • stack + template [demo]
    • features overview [demo]
    • applying changes and manaing infra example [demo]
• How to test infrastructure code.
• LAB = LAB1 + Terraform/CF/ + Packer

Module 4 Configuration management. Introduction to Chef (total 16)

• What is configuration management. Snowflake servers.
• CM main competitors
• Chef first steps
• Chef in AWS (OpsWorks)
• Testing of configuration code.
• LAB = LAB1 + terraform/CF + Provisioning + use AWS DBaaS

Module 5 Containerisation (total 24 mhr)

• Introduction to Docker
• Docker containers
• Docker images. Microservice model.
• Docker. Networks, docker-compose
• Logging and Docker. Distributed tracing
• ECS overview.
• LAB
  • Dockerize App
  • Self managed Docker
    • terraform/cf
    • provision host with Docker engine
    • Run and orchestrate dockerized app.
  • Docker as a Service
    • terraform/cf to create infra
    • use ECS to host app

Module 6 CI/CD. Monitoring and logging (total 32 mhr)

• Building a continuous integration pipeline.
• Continuous delivery
• Introduction to monitoring. Monitoring systems
• Monitoring as Service
• Application and infrastructure monitoring
• Visualization and interpreting monitoring results. Alerting.
• Logging theory
• LAB
  • build ci/cd pipeline on top of previous LAB (CI/CD)
  • build a monitoring system for your application
  • build a centralised logging system for your app.
  • build an error tracing system
  • Set up an alerting system on top (slack, mail, cell, telegram …)

Module 7 Container orchestration (total 40 mhr)

• Introduction to orchestration
• Intro to Kubernetes
• Alternative orchestration systems overview
• Kubernetes.Controllers, Security
• Kubernetes. Network. Storage
• Kubernetes. Helm, Ci/CD
• LAB
  • k8s manual setup
    • set up a multinode installation of k8s
    • move project to k8s
  • ECS
    • set up ECS k8s
    • move project to k8s

Module 8 AWS HA tools and practices (total 40 mhr)

• load balancing in AWS (ELB)
• Availability zones - basics and usage patterns
• Multi region model overview
• Auto-scaling groups. [demo]
• Route53 strategies
• Application deployment policies
  • recreate [demo]
  • blue-green [demo]
  • kanary [demo]
  • AB [demo]
  • shadow [demo]
• CDN via CloudFront [demo]
• LAB (optional)
  • make multi AZ / multi region installation of project
  • set up route53 strategies
  • set up load balancing
  • • implement deployment strategy (blue-green || kanary || AB)

General management

Hiring and Adaptation

• Adjusting hiring process according to customer and market requirements
• Interviewing candidates as technical and soft skills expert
• Understand if a candidate would fit in with a company culture
• Creating and tracking onboarding plans for new joiners
• Managing knowledge sharing and transition for leavers

Team management

• Prioritize work-life balance, reduce danger of burnout
• recognition for completing tasks, positive reinforcement and actionable feedback for completing it.
• attending events, showing excitement for team progress
• open discussions about the company’s high level goals so they know what’s important and what’s not

People management

• Performace review
• Regular 1-2-1
• Retention red flags