Cloud & DevOps Course for Undergraduates

• What is Version Control
• Types of Version Control System
• Introduction to SVN
• Introduction to Git
• Git Lifecycle
• Common Git Commands
• Working with Branches in Git
• Merging Branches
• Resolving Merge Conflicts
• Git Workflow

Hands-on Exercise – 

• Git Life cycle Commands
• Pushing Code to Github
• Stashing Code in git
• Creating, Deleting Git Branches
• Reverting a Push to GitHub
• Merging branches using git merge
• Merging branches using git rebase
• Resolving merge conflicts using git merge tool

• Introduction to Docker
• Understanding Docker Lifecycle
• Components of Docker Ecosystem
• Common Docker Operations
• Creating a DockerHub Account
• Committing changes in a Container
• Pushing a Container Image to DockerHub
• Creating Custom Docker Images using Dockerfile

Hands-on Exercise – 

• Common Docker Operations
• Creating a DockerHub Account
• Committing Changes to a Container
• Pushing container to DockerHub
• Creating Local Image Repository
• Building an Image using Dockerfile

• Need of Configuration Management
• Configuration Management Tools
• What is Puppet
• Puppet Architecture
• Setting up Master Slave using Puppet
• Puppet Manifests
• Puppet Modules
• Applying configuration using Puppet
• Puppet File Server

Hands-on Exercise – 

• Setting up Master Slave on AWS
• Testing Connection of nodes with Puppet
• Creating a Manifest
• Deploying Manifest on Node
• Creating a Module
• Deploying sample software on nodes using Puppet Modules and Manifests
• Implementing a File Server Module on Puppet

• What is Ansible?
• Ansible vs Puppet
• Ansible Architecture
• Setting up Master Slave using Ansible
• Ansible Playbook
• Ansible Roles
• Applying configuration using Ansible

Hands-on Exercise – 

• Installing Ansible on AWS
• Creating a Playbook using YAML
• Creating an Ansible Role
• Using Roles in Playbook

• Introduction to Continuous Integration
• Jenkins Master Slave Architecture
• Understanding CI/CD Pipelines
• Creating an end to end automated CI/CD Pipeline

Hands-on Exercise –

• Creating a Jenkins Master Slave on AWS
• Installing Plug-ins in Jenkins
• Creating Jenkins Builds
• Creating Scheduled Builds
• Triggering Jobs using Git Web Hooks
• Using the Pipeline Plugin In Jenkins

• What is Continuous Monitoring
• Introduction to Nagios
• Nagios Architecture
• Monitoring Services in Nagios
• What are NRPE Plugins
• Monitoring System Info using NRPE plugins

Hands-on Exercise – 

• Installing Nagios
• Monitoring of different servers using Nagios

What is Cloud Computing, Cloud Service & Deployment Models, how AWS is the leader in the cloud domain, various cloud computing products offered by AWS, introduction to AWS S3, EC2, VPC, EBS, ELB, AMI, starting off with AWS, getting a detailed understanding of the AWS architecture and the AWS Management Console, virtualization in AWS (Xen hypervisor), what is auto-scaling, AWS EC2 best practices and cost involved.

Hands-on Exercise – Setting up of AWS account, how to launch an EC2 instance, the process of hosting a website and launching a Linux Virtual Machine using an AWS EC2 instance.

Introduction to EC2, Regions & Availability Zones(AZs), Pre-EC2, EC2 instance types, introduction to AWS EC2, comparing Public IP and Elastic IP, demonstrating how to launch an AWS EC2 instance, introduction to AMIs, Creating and Copying an AMI, Introduction to EBS, EBS volume types, EBS Snapshots, Introduction to EFS, Instance tenancy, Reserved and Spot instances, Pricing and Design Patterns.

Hands-on Exercise – Launching an EC2 instance, creating an AMI of the launched instance, copying the AMI to another region, creating an EBS volume, attaching the EBS volume with an instance, taking backup of an EBS volume, creating an EFS volume and mounting the EFS volume to two instances.

Introduction to Elastic Load Balancer, types of ELB – Classic, Network and Application), load balancer architecture, cross-zone load balancing, introduction to Auto Scaling, vertical and horizontal scaling, the lifecycle of Auto Scaling, components of Auto Scaling, scaling options and policy, instance termination, using load balancer with Auto Scaling, Pre-Route 53 – how DNS works, A Name record, CNAME, Alias and latency, routing policy, Route 53 terminologies, Pricing.

Hands-on Exercise – Creating a Classic ELB, creating an Application ELB, creating an auto-scaling group, configuring an auto-scaling group, integrating ELB with Auto Scaling, redirect traffic from domain name to ELB using Route 53.

What is Amazon VPC, VPC as a networking layer for EC2, IP address and CIDR notations, components of VPC – network interfaces, route tables, internet gateway, NAT, security in VPC – security groups and NACL, types of VPC, what is a subnet, VPC peering with scenarios, VPC endpoints, VPC pricing and design patterns.

Hands-on Exercise – Creating a VPC and subnets, creating a 3 Tier architecture with security groups, NACL, Internet gateway and NAT gateway, creating a complete VPC architecture.

Introduction to AWS storage, Pre-S3 – online cloud storage, API, S3 consistency models, storage hierarchy, buckets in S3, objects in S3, metadata and storage classes, object versioning, object lifecycle management, cross-region replication, data encryption, connecting using VPC endpoint, S3 pricing.

Hands-on Exercise – Creating an S3 bucket, uploading objects to the S3 bucket, enabling object versioning in the S3 bucket, setting up lifecycle management for only a few objects, setting up lifecycle management for all objects with the same tag, static website hosting using S3.

What is a database, types of databases, databases on AWS, introduction to Amazon RDS, multi-AZ deployments, features of RDS, read replicas in RDS, reserved DB instances, RDS pricing and design patterns, Introduction to Amazon Aurora, benefits of Aurora, Aurora pricing and design patterns, Introduction to DynamoDB, components of DynamoDB, DynamoDB pricing and design patterns, what is Amazon Redshift, advantages of Redshift, what is ElastiCache, why ElastiCache.

Hands-on Exercise – Launching a MySQL RDS instance, modifying an RDS instance, connecting to the DB instance from your machine, creating a multi-az deployment, create an Aurora DB cluster, creating an Aurora replica, creating a DynamoDB table.

Introduction to CloudFormation, CloudFormation components, CloudFormation templates, the concept of Infrastructure-as-a-code, functions and pseudo parameters, Introduction to Simple Notification Service, how does SNS work, Introduction to Simple Email Service, how does SES work, Introduction to Simple Queue Service, how does SQS work.

Hands-on Exercise – Creating a CloudFormation stack, launching a t2.micro EC2 instance using CloudFormation, using CloudFormation to automate an architectural deployment, creating an SNS topic, creating a subscription within the topic, setting up SES and sending a mail, creating an SQS queue and sending a sample message.