DevOps-tools-course

Intro to DevOps on AWS with various tools and services

Devops tools we will cover

• Infrastructure as code:Cloudformation ( Day 1)
• Infrastructure as code: Terraform ( Day 1)
• SCM: Git and Github
• API Automation: AWS Command Line Interface, boto3 AWS SDK ( Day 1)
• Configuration Management: Ansible ( Day 2)
• Continuous Integration: Jenkins ( Day 2)
• ChatOps: Slack ( Day 3)
• Alerting : SNS (Day 2 and 3)
• Monitoring and Logging: Cloudwatch Metrics + Logs ( Day 3)
• Serverless Automation: AWS Lambda ( Day 3)
• Containers: Docker ( Day 3)

Week 1

• Intro to DevOps

  • Waterfall, Agile, DevOps

    • https://www.guru99.com/waterfall-vs-agile.html
    • https://www.guru99.com/agile-vs-devops.html

  • What is DevOps

    https://aws.amazon.com/devops/what-is-devops/

  • DevOps Culture

    https://www.ca.com/en/blog-automation/what-is-devops-culture.html https://martinfowler.com/bliki/DevOpsCulture.html

• Intro to DevOps ToolChain

  • https://dzone.com/articles/the-ultimate-devops-tools-ecosystem-tutorial-part-2

• AWS Refrehsher

• Setup Slack

• Intro to Git

  • https://git-scm.com/book/en/v1/Getting-Started-Git-Basics
  • http://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/
  • https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials

Week 2 Tentative

• Cloudformation

  • Create a simple stack with cloudformation ( with AWS Management console)
  • Create a simple stack with the AWS CLI
  • Lab

• Terraform

  • create a simple EC2 windows and linux instance with terraform
  • create a VPC with terraform
  • Lab

• AWS CLI

  • S3
  • copy to s3
  • cloudformation
  • EC2 describe

• Intro to Ansible

  • https://www.ansible.com/

  • https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/098639341X/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0

  • https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-for-devops

  • Setup Ansible

    • https://github.com/ravsau/ansible-practice

Week 3 Tentative

• CI/CD with Jenkins

• Install jenkins

• Retrieve password and do initial Jenkins setup

• Install Jenkins plugin

  • http://localhost:8080/pluginManager/available

• create a simple project

  • poll from SCM ( github)
  • Build
  • Copy Artifact to S3
  • Deploy artifact with Ansible

• Immutable infrastructure with Golden Image / AMI

• Review Autoscaling and Load Balancing

  • HTTP Flood to autoscale

• ( Lecture + Demo) Logging , Monitoring , Alerting

• Containerization with Docker Demo

  • create Docker Image
  • Deploy containers
  • Pull from Dockerhub
  • Push to Dockerhub

• Refresh all the concepts covered

Week 5

• Autoscaling Group launch with Cloudformation template

• Load Test http://servermonitoringhq.com/blog/how_to_quickly_stress_test_a_web_server

• AWS Cloudwatch Metrics , Alarms , SNS

  • Create Alarms based on thresholds
  • Send Notification using SNS
  • Cloudwatch Unified Agent
    • Custom Cloudwatch Metrics using
    • Cloudwatch logs
    • labs

• Cloudwatch Monitoring Dashboards

  • Create a dashboard to monitor our ASG

• CICD Whitepaper Review ( HW to finish reading by next week )

  • https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/DevOps/practicing-continuous-integration-continuous-delivery-on-AWS.pdf

• DevOps pro sample exam questions

Week 6

• AWS Native CICD Services Overview ( Codepipeline, Codedeploy, Codecommit , Codebuild)
• Quick Review of CICD Whitepaper
• Deploy a quick app with Codestar https://aws.amazon.com/codestar/
• Review of everything we did so far
• DevOps Exam Sample Questions
• Write a Cloudformation Template from scratch

Links

AWS Meetup

• https://www.meetup.com/Bethesda-Cloud-Computing-Meetup/

Devops Certification Page with sample questions

https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-devops-engineer-professional/

Youtube Playlist

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQP5dDPLts65Cn813783FxPO16cB1RpC-

References

https://github.com/rbngtm1/solution_architect_associate

SAAS vs IAAS vs PAAS

https://www.bmc.com/blogs/saas-vs-paas-vs-iaas-whats-the-difference-and-how-to-choose/