Devops

 

Course Objective

 

This course will introduce to the concepts of devops and various tools used for continuous integration, continuous deployments and configuration management.

Duration

 

30 Hrs

 

Intended audience

 

Linux or Windows administrators

Application developers

Build and Release engineers

QA engineers

Application architects

Project Managers

 

Prerequisites

 

Knowledge on the following is mandatory

 

Creating user, groups on either windows or Linux

Installing packages and configuring web servers like apache or IIS

Installing database and creating schema

Sharing files to remote servers using scp or ftp

Connecting to database using client tools

Should have exposure to XML, YAML and JSON formats

Exposure to any of the programming languages Java, Python, Ruby or Shell scripting

 

Training mode

Classroom or Online

 

Course Content

 

Fundamentals of Ruby

Ruby Overview

Command-line Tools

Core Ruby

Syntax

Functions

Control Flow

Built-in Types

Collections

Blocks and Iterators

How ruby help in chef cookbooks and recipes.

 

Git

Ruby Overview

Central vs Distributed version control

Installing git

Basic usage of git

Git branches

 

Chef

 

Overview of Chef

Workstation setup

Bootstrapping your first node

Dissecting your first Chef run

Introducing the node object

Using Chef resources to build your first cookbook

Knife tool configuration, Chef solo configuration and chef-run.

Writing role and data-bag using knife command.

Using node and cookbook attributes and templates to make your recipes dynamic

Adding cookbook dependencies to leverage existing functionality

Experimenting with template variables, notifications, and controlling idempotency

Using recipe inclusion to keep your recipes easy to read and manage

Bringing server-side resources into your recipes with data bags and search

Writing an Apache cookbook

Refactoring the Apache Cookbook

Writing a Userâ??s Cookbook

Uploading cookbook in git and chef-server.

Defining roles to group similar functionality

Defining environments to use the same structural configuration across operational environments (like development, Q/A, and production)

Using Chef Supermarket and community cookbooks

Building LWRPs (Light weight resource and providers)

Test kitchen and vagrant configuration with chef.

Bookshelf and berks tool in chef.

 

Ansible

 

Overview

Installation

Differences between Chef and Ansible

Ansible modules

playbooks

 

 

 

Jenkins

Overview

Installation

Setting up authentication

Manage plugins from console

Installing github plugin from repository

Adding Ant/Maven support

Configuring email notifications

Continuous deployments using Jenkins

Explore Jenkins system configuration

Analyzing system logs