Extreme Automation - DevOps Masterclass (English)
Course Abstract
DevOps is a growing movement that encourages closer collaboration of developers and system operations to help business goals to be achieved efficiently and on time. Software development and infrastructure scaling are very fast-paced nowadays. That brings a necessity of larger automation, measurement and information sharing for all involved processes. This 2-day workshop focuses on solving challenges that organizations face when implementing DevOps initiatives. It introduces principles of DevOps and tools that help reach full automation of infrastructure provisioning and software delivery. Theoretical background as well as practical hands-on examples of tools like Vagrant, Docker, AWS and others are given during this workshop.
Topics Covered in the DevOps Masterclass
Introduction to DevOps
- The story
- Problems
- Main principles
Automation is the key
- Why to automate?
- What to automate?
- How to automate?
When to not automate?
Automation arguments
- Mathematical models
- Process automation
Configuration management
- Metadata management
- Maturity model
Infrastructure automation
Managing environments
- Developer’s machine
From development to production
Infrastructure scaling
Cloud infrastructure
- Public clouds
- Private clouds
- Containerization
- Local development
Infrastructure connectivity
Infrastructure provisioning
Infrastructure testing
Infrastructure monitoring
- Vagrant
- Packer
- Docker
- AWS
- Bash/Sshoogr/Fabric
- Puppet/Chef
- ELK
Prerequisites
This course is directed at participants with at least one year real life experience working with Agile methods and insights in the basics of DevOps.
Target Audience
Developers, software architects, technical project managers, system administrators.
Learning Objectives
Understand principles behind DevOps
Understand principles behind effective configuration management
Use provisioning tools (Puppet, Chef or Ansible) to configure infrastructure
Use virtualization tools like VirtualBox, Vagrant, Docker and AWS EC2
Kursusansvarlig
Andrey Adamovich
Instruktør
Andrey Adamovich is a software craftsman with many years of experience in different life cycle phases of software creation. He is passionate about defining good development practices, documenting and presenting architecture, reuse of code and design patterns, profiling, and analysis of application performance as well as extreme automation of development and operations activities. At the moment, Andrey works as a free-lance DevOps consultant offering his expertise in implementing DevOps initiatives, selecting automation tooling, switching to infrastructure-as-code and immutable infrastructure and constructing software delivery pipelines. Andrey is a frequent speaker at international conferences and local communities. He presented at more than 60 events in 19 countries. He is one of the leaders of LatCraft – Latvian Software Craftsmanship Community as well as co-founder and organizer of DevTernity conference.