DevOps Training Online

In this DevOps lesson instructor is going to teach what DevOps is. Instructor will give a brief overview of how it is viewed by startups and companies and what it means for SysAdmins. Devops course instructor will also look at how DevOps relates to Chef and automation of the data center.

• What is DevOps?
• History of DevOps
• Dev and Ops
• DevOps definitions
• DevOps and Software Development Life Cycle
• DevOps main objectives
• Infrastructure As A Code
• IaaS Overview
• Paas Overview
• DevOps on the Cloud
• Prerequisites for DevOps
• Introduction to Linux
• Basics of UNIX and Linux Operating Systems
• Linux System administration introduction
• Tools (Jenkins, Chef, Docker, Vagrant and so on.)
• Continuous Testing and Integration
• Continuous Release and Deployment
• Continuous Application Monitoring

• History and evolution of cloud
  
• Cloud computing concepts
  
• Grid Computing vs. Cloud Computing
  
• Characteristics and Benefits of Cloud
  
• Cloud service models (NIST)
  
• IaaS, PaaS and SaaS
  
• Cloud service model implementations
  
• Cloud Deployment Models (NIST)
  
• Virtualization
  
• Virtual Machines
  
• Virtual bootable OS Images
  
• Cloud Storage
  
• SOA and Cloud
  
• Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
  
• Risk in Cloud and DevOps security concerns
  
• Introduction to AWS and AZURE
  

CRITERIA

• 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
  

TOOLS

• The Choice of Cloud Platform
  
• IaaS for DevOps
  
• PaaS for DevOps
  
• Containerization Tools
  
• System Configuration Automation and Management
  
• Continuous Integration (CI) Systems
  
• Build and Dependency Management Systems
  
• Select DevOps Tools
  
• Collaborative Lifecycle Management Solutions from IBM
  
• Rational Team Concert (RTC)
  
• Rational Quality Manager (RQM)
  
• Rational DOORS Next Generation (DNG)
  

Overview of Chef

• Common Chef Terminology (Server, Workstation, Client, Repository etc.)
  
• Servers and Nodes
  
• Chef Configuration Concepts
  

Workstation Setup

• How to configure knife
  
• Execute some commands to test connection between knife and workstation
  

Organization Setup

• Create organization
  
• Add yourself and node to organization
  

Test Node Setup

• Create a server and add to organization
  
• Check node details using knife
  

Databags

• How to create Databags
  
• Add Databags to organization
  

Node Objects and Search

• How to Add Run list to Node
  
• Check node Details
  

Environments

• How to create Environments
  
• Add servers to environments
  

Roles

• Create roles
  
• Add Roles to organization
  

Advanced Chef

• What is foodcritic and TestKichen
  
• Improve and expand on the existing recipes
  
• One-click system launching
  

• Introduction to Puppet
  
• Installation and Configuration of Master server and agents
  
• Managing Manifests
  
• Creating and Managing modules
  
• Version control with Puppet
  

Introduction

• What is Vagrant
  
• Uses of Vagrant in an environment
  

Installation and Configuration

• How to install Vagrant in Windows and Linux
  
• Configure Vagrant
  

Provisioning with Vagrant

• How to use Vagrant to create small virtual
  
• Add required Images to Vagrant
  

Using Vagrant

• Using Vagrant in Chef for Testing
  

GIT REPOSITORY

• What is a version control system?
  
• What is a distributed version control system?
  
• Installation
  
• Different levels of Git configuration
  
• The process of staging and committing
  
• The details of the commit objects
  

NEXUS

• Nexus prerequisites
  
• Installing and Running Nexus
  
• Using the Nexus User Interface
  

INTRODUCTION TO JENKINS-CI

• Continuous Integration with Jenkins Overview
  
• Installation
  
• Configure Jenkins as stand-alone application
  
• Configure Jenkins on an Application Server
  
• Jenkins management
  
• Support for the Git version control systems
  
• Different types of Jenkins Jobs
  
• Setting up a Jenkins job
  
• Scheduling build Jobs
  
• Maven Build Scripts
  
• Securing Jenkins
  
• Authentication
  
• Authorization
  
• Confidentiality
  
• Creating users
  

Jenkins Plugin

• Installing Jenkins Plugins
  
• SCM plugin
  
• Build and test
  
• Analyzers
  
• Distributed builds with Jenkins
  
• Best Practices for Jenkins
  

NAGIOS

• How to monitor the Servers in Nagios
  
• Trigger Alerts in Nagios
  
• How to apply blackouts and remove blackouts
  

ZENOSS

• How to monitor the Servers in Zenoss
  
• Trigger Alerts in Zenoss
  
• How to apply blackouts and remove blackouts
  
• How to check events; CPU, Memory and RAM Graphs for servers
  

• Web Forms
  
• User Controls
  
• Shared UI Code
  
• Business Logic
  

• Configuration Management Activity
  
• Configuration Control
  
• Incident Management
  
• Change Management
  
• Problem Management
  

• Creating Servers and Networks in Cloud
  
• Setting up rules and Application
  
• Difficult Scenarios in environments.
  
• Scaling
  
• Environment testing
  
• Monitoring logs
  

• Other Tools used in DevOps.
  
• Docker