DevOps Practitioner

Overview

DevOps is an emerging practice supporting fast, sustainable software delivery and infrastructure changes through automation while encouraging collaboration of development and operations teams.

This five-day DevOps Practitioner course is designed to give learners from both Dev and Ops teams experience in deploying modern, large scale complex systems in the cloud using a DevOps tools chain to create an end-to-end pipeline supporting continuous integration, configuration management, system provisioning, containerisation, continuous deployment, continuous delivery and continuous monitoring of software delivery and infrastructure changes.

Prerequisites

Essential:

• Some experience as either a developer, operations, or DevOps
• Comfortable with basic terminal commands in Linux – delegates must have knowledge to the level of QA's Linux Fundamentals course
• Understand the concepts of source control

Useful:

• Experience using git
• Experience of using the windows command line
• Programming experience

Objectives

• Gain a foundational understanding of the pillars of DevOps.
• Learn the basics of Cloud Computing with AWS.
• Understand the roles and responsibilities in SRE and DevSecOps.
• Explore the components and workflows of DevOps pipelines.
• Understand the role of build managers and use npm for JavaScript projects.
• Learn the concepts and benefits of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.
• Integrate Jenkins with source control management tools like GitLab and GitHub.
• Create and manage build scripts in Jenkins.
• Understand the basics and benefits of containerisation.
• Learn about Docker and its components.
• Write Dockerfiles to create Docker images.
• Integrate Jenkins with DockerHub for automated builds.
• Use Docker Compose for container orchestration.
• Understand Infrastructure as Code and configuration management.
• Use Terraform for infrastructure provisioning.
• Learn about Kubernetes and its role in container orchestration.
• Manage Kubernetes configurations using Helm.
• Understand the importance of observability in DevOps.
• Learn about the ELK stack for log management and analysis.
• Explore the Kubernetes dashboard for cluster management.
• Learn about Prometheus for monitoring and alerting.

Outline

Day 1:

• pillars of DevOps
• intro to Cloud Computing (AWS)
• intro to SRE/DevSecOps
• DevOps Pipelines

Day 2:

• introduction to build managers (JS and NPM)
• introduction to CI/CD
• integrating Jenkins with SCM
• Jenkins build scripts

Day 3:

• what is containerisation
• intro to docker
• Dockerfiles
• integrating Jenkins and DockerHub
• orchestration with docker compose

Day 4:

• Introduction to IaC and config management
• IaC with Terraform
• orchestration with Kubernetes
• Kubernetes configuration using Helm

Day 5:

• Introduction to observability
• the ELK stack
• Kubernetes dashboard
• Prometheus

Certification

Please note that this course is designed to provide you with a highly practical exploration of many of the key DevOps technologies. There is no specific certification associated with this course.