DEVOPS ESSENTIALS
Description
DevOps Essentials (DOE) is a crucial training program designed for IT professionals and teams aiming to streamline software development and deployment processes. This course covers essential DevOps principles, tools, and practices such as continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery/continuous deployment (CD), configuration management, and infrastructure as code (IaC). Participants will gain practical experience in implementing DevOps pipelines, automating workflows, and optimizing collaboration between development and operations teams, enabling faster delivery of high-quality software and improved business agility.
Course Curriculum
- Understanding DevOps
- Definition and Principles of DevOps
- DevOps culture and collaboration
- Benefits and challenges of implementing DevOps
- DevOps Lifecycle
- Overview of DevOps phases (Plan, Code, Build, Test, Deploy, Operate, Monitor)
- Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) concepts
- Automation in the DevOps pipeline
- Tools and Technologies
- Introduction to popular DevOps tools (e.g., Jenkins, Git, Docker)
- Configuration Management Tools (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
- Version control and collaboration tools (e.g., Git, GitHub, GitLab)
- Version Control with Git
- Basics of Version Control
- Setting up and using Git repositories
- Branching and Merging Strategies
- Git Collaboration
- Git branching models (e.g., Gitflow)
- Code Review Best Practices
- Collaborative workflows (e.g., feature branching, pull requests)
- Setting Up a Git Repository and Collaborative Workflow
- Hands-on project to implement version control and Collaboration using Git
- Introduction to Jenkins
- Setting up Jenkins
- Creating and configuring Jenkins jobs
- Building and testing code with Jenkins
- CI/CD Pipelines
- Designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines
- Automated testing in the CI/CD process
- Deployment strategies and best practices
- Project: Implementing CI/CD Pipelines with Jenkins
- Practical application of CI/CD concepts in a project setting
- Introduction to Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Benefits and principles of IaC
- Tools for IaC (e.g., Terraform)
- Managing infrastructure with code
- Configuration Management
- Automating configuration tasks with Ansible
- Puppet and Chef for Configuration Management
- Idempotence and State Management in Configuration
- Infrastructure Automation with IaC and Configuration Management
- Applying IaC and Configuration Management to automate infrastructure
- Monitoring and Alerting
- Importance of monitoring in DevOps
- Setting up monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana)
- Implementing Alerting Mechanisms
- Logging and Centralized Logging Systems
- Logging Best Practices
- Centralized logging systems (e.g., ELK stack)
- Analyzing logs for troubleshooting
- Collaboration and Communication Tools
- Collaboration platforms (e.g., Slack, Microsoft Teams)
- Integrating communication tools in the DevOps workflow
- Collaboration for remote and distributed teams
- DevOps Tools
- Maven
- Ansible
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Jenkins
- Chef