AWS Certification Master's Course

Introduction to Cloud

Introduction to cloud computing and its types, types of cloud models, various cloud vendors, AWS overview, features and importance of AWS, AWS services and security, Use cases, and career opportunities in cloud.

Best Practices in Cloud Platform

Cloud best practices, cloud security best practices, and best practices in Database Service, Compute Service, Network Service, Application Service, Storage Service, Content Delivery Service, Deploy & Management Service.

Computing

Understanding Amazon Machine Image (AMI), various network interfaces, IP classification, Instance and types of Instances, and creating, managing, and troubleshooting Instances

Hands-on Exercise: Creating an EC2 instance on AWS Management Console and connecting to the system

Networking

Introduction to Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and basics of cloud networking, VPC components, custom route tables, VPC peering, public and private subnets, configuring subnets, fundamentals of Network Address Translation (NAT), route tables, NAT high-availability design, NAT server and NAT Gateway

Hands-on Exercise: Creating a Virtual Private Cloud Ecosystem

Storage and Data Management in AWS

Overview of various storage services by AWS, storage limits, storage gateway and security, overview of Elastic Block Storage, Glacier overview, principles of Amazon S3, encryption and S3, S3 CORS, Snowball, and Storage troubleshooting

Hands-on Exercise: Uploading and downloading data from Amazon S3

Autoscaling and Load Balancing

Auto scaling, version updates using auto scaling, load balancing with AWS, Classic Load Balancer, Application Load Balancer, and identifying and distinguishing high availability on AWS

Hands-on Exercise: Scale out and scale in the number of servers with Auto Scaling

Security

Introduction to IAM, groups, user administration and permission, security of AWS account, MFA, security and logging, and policies within the shared responsibility model

Hands-on Exercise: Creating IAM users, role, group, and policies in AWS Management Console

Development with AWS Services

Procedure for Boto3 Python, writing code using AWS SDKs, AWS API Gateway, and AWS CLI, coding for serverless applications, access AWS resources, and creating sample program through Boto3 Python, Refactoring the current on-premise application code and move it to AWS, application optimization to get the best results from AWS features

Monitoring and Troubleshooting

Introduction to cloud monitoring, concepts of CloudWatch, logging basics, tracking API usage and user action with AWS CloudTrail, and troubleshooting

Hands-on Exercise: Allowing CloudTrail Log into S3 bucket and working with CloudWatch logs

CI/CD and Containerization in AWS

• What is Containerization
• Introduction to Docker
• Common Docker Commands
• Introduction to ECS
• What is CI/CD?
• CI/CD in AWS: AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodeCommit

AWS Whitepapers

• AWS Security Best Practices whitepaper, August 2016
• AWS Well-Architected Framework whitepaper, November 2017
• Architecting for the Cloud AWS Best Practices whitepaper, February 2016
• Practicing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery on AWS Accelerating Software Delivery with DevOps whitepaper, June 2017
• Microservices on AWS whitepaper, September 2017
• Serverless Architectures with AWS Lambda whitepaper, November 2017
• Optimizing Enterprise Economics with Serverless Architectures whitepaper, October 2017
• Running Containerized Microservices on AWS whitepaper, November 2017
• Blue/Green Deployments on AWS whitepaper, August 2016

What projects I will be working in this AWS Developer course?

Project 1 : Deploying a Multi-tier website using AWS EC2

Industry :  Internet related

Problem Statement : How to scale a website fast using AWS without the upfront cost

Topics : In this AWS project you will launch an EC2 instance without the need to invest in hardware up front, so you can develop and deploy applications faster. You can use Amazon EC2 to launch as many or as few virtual servers as you need, configure security and networking, and manage storage. Amazon EC2 enables you to scale up or down to handle changes in requirements or spikes in popularity, reducing your need to forecast traffic.

Highlight :

• Launch an EC2 Instance
• Enable Auto Scaling of EC2
• Create an RDS Instance
• Allow traffic from EC2 to RDS Instance

Project 2 : Website Orchestration

Industry : Internet related

Problem Statement : How to orchestrate a website with lesser time and higher availability along with autoscaling.

Topics : In this AWS project you will deploy a high-availability PHP application with an external Amazon RDS database to Elastic Beanstalk. Running a DB instance external to Elastic Beanstalk decouples the database from the lifecycle of your environment. This lets you connect to the same database from multiple environments, swap one database for another, or perform a blue/green deployment without affecting your database.

Highlight :

• Launch a DB instance in Amazon RDS
• Create an Elastic Beanstalk Environment
• Configure Security Groups and Scaling

Introduction to AWS SysOps

Overview of AWS cloud services, discussing about various Amazon AMIs, AWS Global Infrastructure which explains AWS availability regions, and the practical demonstration of launching an AWS EC2 instance

Hands-on Exercise: Account creation on AWS Management Console

Computing

Understanding Amazon Machine Image (AMI), various network interfaces, IP classification, Instance and types of Instances, and creating, managing, and troubleshooting Instances

Hands-on Exercise: Creating an EC2 instance on AWS Management Console and connecting to the system

Networking

Introduction to Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and basics of cloud networking, VPC components, custom route tables, VPC peering, public and private subnets, configuring subnets, fundamentals of Network Address Translation (NAT), route tables, NAT high-availability design, NAT server and NAT Gateway

Hands-on Exercise: Creating a Virtual Private Cloud Ecosystem

Storage and Data Management in AWS

Overview of various storage services by AWS, storage limits, storage gateway and security, overview of Elastic Block Storage, Glacier overview, principles of Amazon S3, encryption and S3, S3 CORS, Snowball, and Storage troubleshooting

Hands-on Exercise: Uploading and downloading data from Amazon S3

Deployment and Provisioning

Auto scaling, version updates using auto scaling, load balancing with AWS, Classic Load Balancer, Application Load Balancer, and identifying and distinguishing high availability on AWS

Hands-on Exercise: Scale out and scale in the number of servers with Auto Scaling

Security and Compliance

Introduction to IAM, groups, user administration and permission, security of AWS account, MFA, security and logging, and policies within the shared responsibility model

Hands-on Exercise: Creating IAM users, role, group, and policies in AWS Management Console

Monitoring and Reporting

Introduction to cloud monitoring, concepts of CloudWatch, logging basics, tracking API usage and user action with AWS CloudTrail, and troubleshooting

Hands-on Exercise: Allowing CloudTrail Log into S3 bucket and working with CloudWatch logs

Configuration Management and Resource Consumption

Configuration management tools, how to reduce cloud cost, creating expenditure alert, monitoring and tagging with CloudWatch, automation and optimization using CloudFormation, AWS UserData, AWS OpsWorks, and CloudFormation: template structure, maintaining templates, parameters, mapping, Init, WaitCondition, outputs, errors, and troubleshooting

Hands-on Exercise: Working on CloudFormation templates

AWS Whitepapers

• Architecting for the Cloud: AWS Best Practices
• AWS Security Best Practices
• Amazon Web Services: Overview of Security Processes
• AWS Well-architected Framework
• Development and Test on AWS
• Backup and Recovery Approaches Using AWS
• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Connectivity Options
• Blue/Green Deployments
• How AWS Pricing Works

Module 01 - Introduction to Cloud Computing & AWS

1.1 What is Cloud Computing
1.2 Cloud Service & Deployment Models
1.3 How AWS is the leader in the cloud domain
1.4 Various cloud computing products offered by AWS
1.5 Introduction to AWS S3, EC2, VPC, EBS, ELB, AMI
1.6 AWS architecture and the AWS Management Console, virtualization in AWS (Xen hypervisor)
1.7 What is auto-scaling
1.8 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.

Module 02 - Elastic Compute and Storage Volumes

2.1 Introduction to EC2
2.2 Regions & Availability Zones(AZs)
2.3 Pre-EC2, EC2 instance types
2.4 Comparing Public IP and Elastic IP
2.5 Demonstrating how to launch an AWS EC2 instance
2.6 Introduction to AMIs, Creating and Copying an AMI
2.7 Introduction to EBS
2.8 EBS volume types
2.9 EBS Snapshots
2.10 Introduction to EFS
2.11 Instance tenancy- Reserved and Spot instances
2.12 Pricing and Design Patterns.

Hands-on Exercise –
1. Launching an EC2 instance
2. Creating an AMI of the launched instance
3. Copying the AMI to another region
4. Creating an EBS volume
5. Attaching the EBS volume with an instance
6. Taking backup of an EBS volume
7. Creating an EFS volume and mounting the EFS volume to two instances.

Module 03 - Load Balancing, Autoscaling and DNS

3.1 Introduction to Elastic Load Balancer
3.2 Types of ELB – Classic, Network and Application
3.3 Load balancer architecture
3.4 Cross-zone load balancing
3.5 Introduction to Auto Scaling, vertical and horizontal scaling, the lifecycle of Auto Scaling
3.6 Components of Auto Scaling, scaling options and policy, instance termination
3.7 Using load balancer with Auto Scaling
3.8 Pre-Route 53 – how DNS works
3.9 Routing policy, Route 53 terminologies, Pricing.

Hands-on Exercise –
1. Creating a Classic ELB
2. Creating an Application ELB
3. Creating an auto-scaling group
4. Configuring an auto-scaling group
5. Integrating ELB with Auto Scaling
6. Redirect traffic from domain name to ELB using Route 53.

Module 04 - Virtual Private Cloud

4.1 What is Amazon VPC,
4.2 VPC as a networking layer for EC2,
4.3 IP address and CIDR notations,
4.4 Components of VPC – network interfaces, route tables, internet gateway, NAT,
4.5 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 –
1. Creating a VPC and subnets,
2. Creating a 3 Tier architecture with security groups,
3. NACL, Internet gateway and NAT gateway,
4. Creating a complete VPC architecture.

Module 05 - Storage - Simple Storage Service (S3)

5.1 Introduction to AWS storage
5.2 Pre-S3 – online cloud storage
5.3 API, S3 consistency models
5.4 Storage hierarchy, buckets in S3
5.5 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 –
1. Creating an S3 bucket
2. Uploading objects to the S3 bucket
3. Enabling object versioning in the S3 bucket
4. Setting up lifecycle management for only a few objects
5. Setting up lifecycle management for all objects with the same tag
6. Static website hosting using S3.

Module 06 - Databases and In-Memory DataStores

6.1 What is a database, types of databases, databases on AWS
6.2 Introduction to Amazon RDS
6.3 Multi-AZ deployments, features of RDS
6.4 Read replicas in RDS, reserved DB instances
6.5 RDS pricing and design patterns
6.6 Introduction to Amazon Aurora, benefits of Aurora, Aurora pricing and design patterns
6.7 Introduction to DynamoDB, components of DynamoDB, DynamoDB pricing and design patterns
6.8 What is Amazon Redshift, advantages of Redshift
6.9 What is ElastiCache, why ElastiCache.

Hands-on Exercise –
1. Launching a MySQL RDS instance
2. Modifying an RDS instance
3. Connecting to the DB instance from your machine
4. Creating a multi-az deployment
5. Create an Aurora DB cluster
6. Creating an Aurora replica
7. Creating a DynamoDB table.

Module 07 - Management and Application Services

7.1 Introduction to CloudFormation
7.2 CloudFormation components
7.3 CloudFormation templates
7.4 The concept of Infrastructure-as-a-code
7.5 Functions and pseudo parameters
7.6 Introduction to Simple Notification Service, how does SNS work
7.7 Introduction to Simple Email Service, how does SES work
7.8 Introduction to Simple Queue Service, how does SQS work.

Hands-on Exercise –
1. Creating a CloudFormation stack
2. Launching a t2.micro
3. EC2 instance using CloudFormation
4. Using CloudFormation to automate an architectural deployment
5. Creating an SNS topic, creating a subscription within the topic
6. Setting up SES and sending a mail
7. Creating an SQS queue and sending a sample message.

Module 08 - Access Management and Monitoring Services

8.1 Pre-IAM, why access management
8.2 Amazon Resource Name (ARN), IAM features
8.3 Multi-factor authentication (MFA) in IAM, JSON
8.4 IAM policies, IAM permissions, IAM roles, identity federation, pricing
8.5 Introduction to CloudWatch, metrics and namespaces, CloudWatch architecture, dashboards in CW, CloudWatch alarms, CloudWatch logs, pricing and design patterns
8.6 Introduction to CloudTrail, tracking API usage.

Hands-on Exercise –
1. Creating IAM users and a group
2. creating an IAM policy and attach it to the group
3. creating an IAM role
4. Setup MFA for a user
5. Creating a CloudWatch dashboard and add metrics
6. Create a CloudWatch alarm which triggers according to CPU Utilization of an EC2 instance
7. Creating a billing alarm
8. Creating a log group
9. Creating a trail.

Module 09 - Automation and Configuration management

9.1 What is AWS Lambda
9.2 How Lambda is different from EC2
9.3 Benefits and limitations of Lambda
9.4 How does Lambda work
9.5 Use cases of Lambda, Lambda concepts
9.6 Integration S3 with Lambda
9.7 What is Elastic Beanstalk, how does Beanstalk work, Beanstalk concepts, Beanstalk pricing
9.8 What is configuration management
9.9 What is AWS OpsWorks, AWS OpsWorks benefits
9.10 CloudFormation vs OpsWorks, services in OpsWorks, AWS OpsWorks Stacks, OpsWorks pricing.

Hands-on Exercise –
1. Creating a Lambda function
2. Setting up Lambda triggers and destinations
3. Creating an Elastic Beanstalk application
4. Uploading a new version of the application to Beanstalk
5. Creating a stack in OpsWorks
6. Launching the instance using OpsWorks and automatically installing the application.

Module 10 - Amazon FSx and Global Accelerator

10.1 What is FSx
10.2 Types of FSx,FSx for Windows server
10.3 How does FSx for Windows File Server work, FSx for Lustre
10.4 Use cases of FSx
10.5 Automatic failover process
10.6 Supported clients and access methods
10.7 What is a Global Accelerator, How Global Accelerator works, Listeners and Endpoints
10.8 What are AWS Organizations, Features of AWS Organizations, Managing multiple accounts
10.9 What are ENIs, ENAs and EFAs, Working with network interfaces
10.10 Enhanced Networking with ENA, EFA with MPI, Monitoring an EFA

Hands-on Exercise:
1. Creating a shared FSx file system between two windows instances
2. Accessing one instance with multiple Elastic IPS using ENI
3. Using Global Accelerator to map instances from 2 regions into one domain name
4. Enabling Enhanced Networking on an Ubuntu instance

Self Paced

Module 11 - Architecting AWS – whitepaper

11.1 Important guidelines for creating a well-architected AWS framework that is resilient and performant
11.2 Designing of fault-tolerant and high-availability architecture
11.3 Resilient storage
11.4 Decoupling mechanism
11.5 Multi-tier architecture solution
11.6 Disaster recovery solution
11.7 Scalable and elastic solutions.

Module 12 - DevOps on AWS

12.1 What is DevOps,
12.2 Introduction to AWS DevOps,
12.3 AWS Developer tools – CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy and CodePipeline, integrating GitHub with CodePipeline,
12.4 Creating a DevOps lifecycle using AWS DevOps tools.

Module 13 - AWS Migration

13.1 What is Cloud migration
13.2 Why migration is important
13.3 Migration process in AWS, the 6 R’s migration strategy
13.4 Virtual machine migration, migrating a local vm onto the AWS cloud
13.5 Migrating databases using Database Migration Service (DMS)
13.6 Migrating a local database to RDS
13.7 Migrating an on-premises database server to RDS using DMS, other migration services.

Module 14 - AWS Architect Interview Questions

14.1 Guidance for clearing the exam, most probable interview questions and other helpful tips for clearing the exam and interview.

AWS Projects Covered

Deploying a Multi-Tier Website on AWS

Using various AWS services such as EC2, ELB, Auto Scaling, VPC, etc. to create a highly available and reliable architecture to host a PHP website. Furthermore, use SNS for sending mails of all your websites operations on AWS and deploy the application in a private subnet & use ELB to expose it. Prevent the website from crashing by dynamically scaling your servers.

Deploying a Website for High Availability and High Resilience

An architecture which should be designed to be highly available. Based on the applications workload, the architecture should automatically scale its servers up and down. To balance the load across all these servers, using a ELB is must and also the architecture should be decoupled to connect an RDS database with an Elastic Beanstalk environment.

Sending Notifications to patients using push notifications

Design an architecture to send notifications to patients based on their doctors’ feedback. Using SNS for sending messages will increase the reliability and resilience. Integrate EC2 with the SNS topic for message storing and by using Public and Private subnets we will have to secure the EC2 instances.

Application to sort objects in an S3 bucket using Beanstalk and Lambda

Uploading an application which could upload objects to an S3 bucket to Elastic Beanstalk. Set up your Lambda functions trigger as Object creation in the S3 bucket to which the Beanstalk application uploads the objects to. Add your Lambda code which will segregate the uploaded objects into separate buckets according to the extension (e.g., .png, .pdf, etc).

Case Study 1 - Using Different Operations on EC2 and EWS

The case study is to replicate or copy EC2 instances to varied regions depending upon the High Availability. Furthermore, the main strategy is to extend the size of EBS volumes without losing the data. The major highlights of this case study are to scale and mount the EBS volumes to different EC2 instances one at a time.

Case Study 2 - Autoscaling Compute Capacity in AWS

The major aim of this case study is to Autoscale (scaling up and down automatically) and Load Balance among multiple EC2 instances within AWS based on varied/defined metrics for Autoscaling instances. Also, the case study deals with and routing custom domains to AWS resources.

Case Study 3 - Creating custom VPCs in AWS

In this case study, the candidate will create a custom VPC in AWS with the help of multiple subnets having both private as well as public access. The route tables are also configured to subnets using the Internet Gateway and NAT Gateway.

Case Study 4 - Using AWS S3 for Lifecycle Access Management

The case study deals with moving artifacts from on-premise to S3 in the most cost-efficient manner. Furthermore, it deals with the creation of Lifecycle rules for events in S3 objects, hosting a static website, and experimenting with the usage of route 53.

Case Study 5 - Highly available Relational Database in AWS

This case study is all about creating a highly available and scalable AWS Database Service in AWS using RDS. The process involves creating Database Architecture, collecting data for real-time analysis, and relocating the latency issues.

Case Study 6 - CloudFormation for Infrastructure as a Cloud

The case study involves provisioning and deploying AWS Resources using AWS CloudFormation. Within the process, the candidate has to define rules for deletion using IaC and also minimize the deployment time.

Case Study 7 - Administering user access using AWS IAM

In this case study, the candidate will create users in IAM for defining granular access that differs with each user. Alongside he/she will also define custom policies that add users to groups.

Case Study 8 - Application Services in AWS and Configuration Management

The main aim of this case study is to use application services in AWS Lambda for deploying code and also conduct configuration management using OpsWork. Alongside, WebApp is also deployed to Elastic Beanstalk.

AWS Services

Overview of AWS Services, AWS Security Services, AWS Compute and Storage, Cloud Watch, Auto Scaling, Load Balancing, AWS S3 Demo, AWS EC2 Instance, and AWS IaaC

Migrating Strategy

Learning the Cloud Adoption Framework for AWS, knowing the 6R Migration Outline, and understanding the Well Architecture Framework

Migration of Database

Introduction to Database services and Database Migration, understanding the challenges involved in Database Migration, learning the tasks of AWS pre-migration and post-migration phase

Hands-on Exercise: Demonstration of a source Database migration which belongs to a non-AWS environment

Migration of Applications

Learning AWS services like Application discovery and Server Migration, Server Migration with and without Agent, migrating the on-premise Microsoft Hyper VM, and migrating the on-premise VMware VM

Hands-on Exercise: Demonstration and learning of migrating on-premise VMware VM to AWS

Migration of Monolithic Applications

Introduction to Docker, learn how docker is used for monolithic applications, introduction to Elastic Container Service (ECS), understand how ECS and docker work together, orchestrate docker containers

Hands-on Exercise: Demonstration and learning of migrating a monolithic application

Module 01 - Infrastructure Setup

1.1 EC2 Walkthrough

1.2 Installation of DevOps Tools on cloud

• • Git
  • Docker
  • Selenium
  • Maven
  • Jenkins
  • Puppet
  • Ansible
  • Kubernetes
  • Nagios

Module 02 - Introduction to DevOps

2.1 What is Software Development
2.2 Software Development Life Cycle
2.3 Traditional Models for SDLC
2.4 Why DevOps?
2.5 What is DevOps?
2.6 DevOps Lifecycle
2.7 DevOps Tools

Module 03 - Continuous Testing

3.1 What is Continuous Testing?
3.2 What is Maven?
3.3 Running Test Cases on Chromium Web Driver
3.4 What is Headless Mode?

Hands-on Exercise – 

1. Using Maven to import dependencies in Eclipse
2. Implementing a headless test using Chrome WebDriver

Module 04 - Continuous Integration using Jenkins

4.1 Introduction to Continuous Integration
4.2 Jenkins Master Slave Architecture
4.3 Understanding CI/CD Pipelines
4.4 Creating an end to end automated CI/CD Pipeline

Hands-on Exercise –

1. Creating a Jenkins Master Slave on AWS
2. Installing Plug-ins in Jenkins
3. Creating Jenkins Builds
4. Creating Scheduled Builds
5. Triggering Jobs using Git Web Hooks
6. Using the Pipeline Plugin In Jenkins

Module 05 - Software Version Control

5.1 What is Version Control
5.2 Types of Version Control System
5.3 Introduction to SVN
5.4 Introduction to Git
5.5 Git Lifecycle
5.6 Common Git Commands
5.7 Working with Branches in Git
5.8 Merging Branches
5.9 Resolving Merge Conflicts
5.10 Git Workflow

Hands-on Exercise – 

1. Git Life cycle Commands
2. Pushing Code to Github
3. Stashing Code in git
4. Creating, Deleting Git Branches
5. Reverting a Push to GitHub
6. Merging branches using git merge
7. Merging branches using git rebase.
8. Resolving merge conflicts using git merge tool

Module 06 - Continuous Deployment: Containerization with Docker

6.1 Introduction to Docker
6.2 Understanding Docker Lifecycle
6.3 Components of Docker Ecosystem
6.4 Common Docker Operations
6.5 Creating a DockerHub Account
6.6 Committing changes in a Container
6.7 Pushing a Container Image to DockerHub
6.8 Creating Custom Docker Images using Dockerfile

Hands-on Exercise – 

1. Common Docker Operations
2. Creating a DockerHub Account
3. Committing Changes to a Container
4. Pushing container to DockerHub
5. Creating Local Image Repository
6. Building an Image using Dockerfile

Module 07 - Containerization with Docker: Ecosystem and Networking

7.1 What are Docker Volumes
7.2 Deploying a Multi-Tier Application using Docker Network
7.3 Using Docker Compose to deploy containers
7.4 What is Container Orchestration
7.5 Container Orchestration Tools
7.6 Introduction to Docker Swarm
7.7 Deploying a 2-Node Cluster using Docker Swarm

Hands-on Exercise – 

1. Creating Docker Volumes
2. Using Docker Compose to deploy multiple containers
3. Deploying a Multi Node Cluster using Docker Swarm
4. Deploying a multi-service app on Docker Swarm

Module 08 - Configuration Management using Puppet

8.1 Need of Configuration Management
8.2 Configuration Management Tools
8.3 What is Puppet
8.4 Puppet Architecture
8.5 Setting up Master Slave using Puppet
8.6 Puppet Manifests
8.7 Puppet Modules
8.8 Applying configuration using Puppet
8.9 Puppet File Server

Hands-on Exercise – 

1. Setting up Master Slave on AWS
2. Testing Connection of nodes with Puppet
3. Creating a Manifest
4. Deploying Manifest on Node
5. Creating a Module
6. Deploying sample software on nodes using Puppet Modules and Manifests
7. Implementing a File Server Module on Puppet

Module 09 - Configuration Management using Ansible

9.1 What is Ansible?
9.2 Ansible vs Puppet
9.3 Ansible Architecture
9.4 Setting up Master Slave using Ansible
9.5 Ansible Playbook
9.6 Ansible Roles
9.7 Applying configuration using Ansible

Hands-on Exercise – 

1. Installing Ansible on AWS
2. Creating a Playbook using YAML
3. Creating an Ansible Role
4. Using Roles in Playbook

Module 10 - Continuous Orchestration using Kubernetes

10.1 Introduction to Kubernetes
10.2 Docker Swarm vs Kubernetes
10.3 Kubernetes Architecture
10.4 Deploying Kubernetes using Kubeadms
10.5 Alternate ways of deploying Kubernetes
10.6 YAML Files
10.7 Creating a Deployment in Kubernetes using YAML
10.8 Services in Kubernetes
10.9 Ingress in Kubernetes
10.10 Case Study – Kubernetes Architecture

Hands-on Exercise – 

1. Setting up Kubernetes using kubeadm
2. Installing Kubernetes using kops and GCK
3. Creating a Deployment
4. Creating Services
5. Creating an Ingress
6. Demonstrating the use of Ingress, services and deployments together

Module 11 - Continuous Monitoring using Nagios

11.1 What is Continuous Monitoring
11.2 Introduction to Nagios
11.3 Nagios Architecture
11.4 Monitoring Services in Nagios
11.5 What are NRPE Plugins
11.6 Monitoring System Info using NRPE plugins

Hands-on Exercise – 

1. Installing Nagios
2. Monitoring of different servers using Nagios

Module 12 - Terraform Modules & Workspaces

12.1 What is Infrastructure as a code
12.2 Iac vs Configuration Management
12.3 Introduction to Terraform
12.4 Installing Terraform on AWS
12.5 Basic Operations in terraform

• init
• plan
• apply
• destroy

12.6 Terraform Code Basics
12.7 Deploying and end-to-end architecture on AWS using Terraform

Hands-on Exercise – 

1. Installing Terraform
2. Initializing AWS Terraform Provider
3. Creating an EC2 instance using Terraform
4. Updating changes to EC2 using Terraform
5. Destroying EC2 using Terraform
6. Deploying EC2 inside a custom VPC using Terraform

DevOps Projects Covered

Creating CI/CD Pipeline to build and test a Website

Creating a CI/CD Pipeline to integrate devops tools like git, docker, Jenkins, puppet and selenium. In this project, we will be containerizing a website which will be pushed to git, and then will be deployed automatically on the testing server, and if everything goes well, will be pushed to production servers.

Deploying an app on Kubernetes using CI/CD Pipelines

In this project, you will be creating a CI/CD pipeline which is integrated with Kubernetes. This project will make use of tools like Git, Docker, Jenkins, selenium and Kubernetes. First we will containerize the code pushed in git, save the docker image and then push the image to Dockerhub. Finally it will be deployed on Kubernetes

Merging Git Branches

In this project, we will understand the importance of merging branches in git. We will be using a production use case where merging is required, based on the use case we will have to decide whether we will be using git merge or rebase. Since this is a production problem, we will also have to make use of Git Workflows.

Implementing Git Workflow

Analyzing and using a specific Git Workflow scenario. In this case study, you will work with industry-standard architectures, merging branches, and simulating a working architecture in Git. You will have to be familiar with topics such as Git branches, Git workflows, merging, and rebasing to work on this case study.

Creating Custom Containers in Docker

Creating a custom container from the base Ubuntu container. In this case study, you will be required to create a Dockerfile, push the container to Dockerhub, and create custom Docker images. Through this case study, you will cover the working knowledge and implementation of Dockerfile and Dockerhub in DevOps.

Using Blind Mounts, Docker Compose, and Docker Swarm

In this case study, you will be deploying an application using Docker compose, Bind Mounts, and Docker Swarm. You will create and use Blind Mounts in Docker, deploy multiple docker applications with Docker Compose, and create a Docker Swarm cluster and deploy applications over it. You will also use Docker storage and Docker Networks.

Using Puppet for Configuration Management

In this case study, you will be learning how to work with Docker, puppet manifests, conditional statements, modules, and classes to create Modular scripts and also to manage a large fleet of servers with Puppet.

Using Selenium to Create Automated Test Cases

In this case study, you will be required to create automated test cases using Selenium. You will also have to create runnable jar files and run headless tests in Chrome using Non-GUI Linux. Through this case study, you will have a thorough understanding of how Selenium, runnable jar files, ChromeDriver, and headless tests work.

Introduction to Cloud Computing & AWS

What is Cloud Computing, 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, getting a detailed understanding of the AWS architecture and the AWS Management Console, introduction to AWS EC2, comparing Public IP and Elastic IP, demonstrating how to launch an AWS EC2 instance, what is auto scaling, AWS EC2 best practices and cost involved, understanding various concepts of backup services in AWS.

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

Database services

Elastic Block Storage (EBS) for block level persistent storage volumes with S3 buckets, understanding Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora which are relational databases, Amazon DynamoDB which is a NoSQL database, understanding Amazon Redshift which is a data warehousing product, Amazon ElasticCache which is an in-memory data store, deploying AWS database migration service.

Hands-on Exercise – How to create an Amazon RDS instance, creating a Read Replica instance of RDS, creating Table in master RDS, how to add data to master RDS, adding data to replica RDS, using Aurora to create a PostgreSQL and MySQL instance, within DynamoDB creating a NoSQL table and running queries.

Object Storage

Introduction to AWS storage, AWS S3 (Simple Storage Service), creating an AWS S3 bucket, AWS Storage Gateway, understanding the Command Line Interface (CLI), hosting a static website using Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier storage for long-term data backup and archiving and Amazon Snowball for data import/export.
Hands-on Exercise – How to run an AWS CLI command, deploying the AWS Storage Gateway for connecting cloud-based storage with the on-premise software.

Autoscaling and load balancing

Understanding Fault Tolerance in AWS, in-depth study of Elastic Load Balancing, the types of Load Balancers viz. Classic and Application, AWS Auto Scaling mechanism, understanding AWS Management Console, how to access the Elastic Load Balancing, studying AWS SDK, AWS CLI and Https Query API.

Hands-on Exercise – How to create an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), configuration of auto scaling group and familiarizing with the Management Console.

Virtual Private Cloud

What is Amazon VPC, VPC as a networking layer for EC2, getting started with VPC, examples, VPC and Subnets, default and non-default VPCs, components of VPC networking, IP addressing, security, VPN connections, accessing the internet, using AWS PrivateLink to access the services and VPC supported platforms.

Hands-on Exercise – Create a Virtual Private Network for an AWS EC2 instance and access it over the internet and via a private network using AWS PrivateLink.

Application services, AWS Lambda and CLI

Introduction to various AWS application services, Elastic Beanstalk, Simple Email Services (SES), Simple Notification Service (SNS), AWS Lambda, Elastic OpsWorks and CLI.

Hands-on Exercise – How to run an app using AWS Elastics Beanstalk, deploying SES to send email, enabling and generating notification service, using AWS Lambda to copy object, modeling and provisioning your app with AWS OpsWorks.

IAM and monitoring

Authentication (who can use) and Authorization (level of access), IAM Policies – JSON structure, users, groups and their Roles, IAM HTTPS API, logging IAM events with AWS CloudTrail, monitoring and managing AWS resources using CloudWatch, deploying configuration alerts and notifications with CloudWatch, billing for CloudWatch.

Hands-on Exercise – How to create a JSON document using which the access policy for groups and users in defined, logging IAM events using AWS CloudTrail.

Configuration management and automation

Configuration management and automation of server configuration using OpsWorks, determining how servers are configured, managed and deployed across EC2 instances, creating a virtual machine using Amazon Machine Image (AMI), introduction to the Domain Name Registration service AWS Route 53, how to route internet traffic to resources, checking health of resources automatically, provisioning of infrastructure resources using AWS CloudFormation.

Hands-on Exercise – How to register a domain using Route 53, routing internet traffic to the resources and automatically checking health of resources.

Architecting AWS – whitepaper

Important guidelines for creating a well architected AWS framework that is resilient and performant, designing of fault-tolerant and high-availability architecture, resilient storage, decoupling mechanism, multi-tier architecture solution, disaster recovery solution, scalable and elastic solutions.

AWS Architect Questions

guidance for clearing the exam, most probable interview questions and other helpful tips for clearing the exam and interview.

AWS Migration

Migrating to the AWS cloud, business drivers for migration, various stages of cloud adoption, the actual migration process, migration tools and services in AWS, migrating customers to AWS cloud, track the progress of application migration, types of migration including data migration, application migration and databases migration.

AWS Security

AWS cloud security essentials, penetration testing, security compliance, infrastructure security, mitigating DDOS, Identity and Access Control (IAM), logging and monitoring, automatic audits and compliance, limitations and challenges of native AWS security.

Infrastructure Setup

• Installation of Devops Tools on AWS
  • Git
  • Docker
  • Selenium
  • Maven
  • Jenkins
  • Puppet
  • Ansible
  • Kubernetes
  • Nagios

Introduction to Devops

• What is Software Development
• Software Development Life Cycle
• Traditional Models for SDLC
• Why Devops?
• What is Devops?
• Devops Lifecycle
• Devops Tools

Software Version Control

• 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

Containerization using Docker - Part I

• 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

Containerization using Docker - Part II

• What are Docker Volumes
• Deploying a Multi-Tier Application using Docker Network
• Using Docker Compose to deploy containers
• What is Container Orchestration
• Container Orchestration Tools
• Introduction to Docker Swarm
• Deploying a 2-Node Cluster using Docker Swarm

Hands-on Exercise – 

• Creating Docker Volumes
• Using Docker Compose to deploy multiple containers
• Deploying a Multi Node Cluster using Docker Swarm
• Deploying a multi-service app on Docker Swarm

Configuration Management using Puppet

• 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

Configuration Management using Ansible

• 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

Continuous Testing

• What is Continuous Testing?
• What is Maven?
• Running Test Cases on Chromium Web Driver
• What is Headless Mode?

Hands-on Exercise – 

• Using Maven to import dependencies in Eclipse
• Implementing a headless test using Chrome WebDriver

Continuous Integration using Jenkins

• 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

Continuous Orchestration using Kubernetes

• Introduction to Kubernetes
• Docker Swarm vs Kubernetes
• Kubernetes Architecture
• Deploying Kubernetes using Kubeadms
• Alternate ways of deploying Kubernetes
• YAML Files
• Creating a Deployment in Kubernetes using YAML
• Services in Kubernetes
• Ingress in Kubernetes
• Case Study – Kubernetes Architecture

Hands-on Exercise – 

• Setting up Kubernetes using kubeadm
• Installing Kubernetes using kops and GCK
• Creating a Deployment
• Creating Services
• Creating an Ingress
• Demonstrating the use of Ingress, services and deployments together

Continuous Monitoring using Nagios

• 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

DevOps on AWS

• How to deploy DevOps principles and methodology on the AWS platform
• DevOps lifecycle and the important stages in the DevOps methodology
• What is AWS CodeBuild
• AWS CodeCommit
• AWS CodePipeline
• AWS CodeDeploy.

Deploying Infrastructure with Terraform

• Installing Terraform – Windows Users
• Installing Terraform – Linux Users
• Choosing Right IDE for Terraform IAC development
• Creating first EC2 instance with Terraform
• Terraform Code – First EC2 Instance
• Understanding Resources & Providers
• Destroying Infrastructure with Terraform
• Destroying Specific Resource
• Understanding Terraform State files
• Understanding Desired & Current States
• Challenges with the current state on computed values
• Terraform Commands – State Files
• Terraform Provider Versioning
• Types of Terraform Providers
• Understanding Attributes and Output Values in Terraform
• Attribute Resource (Document)
• Referencing Cross-Account Resource Attributes
• Terraform Variables
• Data Types for Variables
• Fetching Data from Maps and List in Variable
• Terraform Format
• Validating Terraform Configuration Files

hands on

• Implementing remote-exec provisioners
• Implementing local-exec provisioners
• Integrating Ansible with Terraform

Terraform Modules & Workspaces

• What is Infrastructure as a code
• Iac vs Configuration Management
• Introduction to Terraform
• Installing Terraform on AWS
• Basic Operations in terraform
  • init
  • plan
  • apply
  • destroy
• Terraform Code Basics
• Deploying and end-to-end architecture on AWS using Terraform

Hands-on Exercise – 

• Installing Terraform
• Initializing AWS Terraform Provider
• Creating an EC2 instance using Terraform
• Updating changes to EC2 using Terraform
• Destroying EC2 using Terraform
• Deploying EC2 inside a custom VPC using Terraform

AWS DevOps Projects Covered

Project 1

Creating CI/CD Pipeline to build and test a Website

Creating a CI/CD Pipeline to integrate devops tools like git, docker, Jenkins, puppet and selenium. In this project, we will be containerizing a website which will be pushed to git, and then will be deployed automatically on the testing server, and if everything goes well, will be pushed to production servers.

Project 2

Creating Architecture for an Application.

Creating a complete architecture for a python application and launching it over the internet. For creating the infrastructure for application we have used services like VPC, EC2, Load Balancing, RDS, S3, SNS,IAM,Route53. In this project, we will be hosting the application in a secured architecture so that the code present in the github will be hosted over AWS. Once the user enters data then the data will be stored in Databases and once the objects are pushed to S3 then automatically it will trigger a notification over mail.

Project 3

Implementing Devops Life Cycle Using AWS.

Create a complete lifecycle of Devops over AWS, Using the services provided by AWS Devops. We will use the below tools/services. Git. Code Commit, Code Deploy, Code Pipeline. Once the code is built then it will be sent to the QA stage, Once it is passed then the code will be pushed to the Elastic Beanstalk.

Deploying a website for High Availability and High Resilience

In this project, we will design an architecture which can automatically scale up and down based on traffic and is decoupled for components like Database, webapp etc.

Sending Notifications to patients using push notifications.

In this project, we will design an architecture on AWS, which can send notifications to customers once the patient feedback is pushed in the system. We will be using services like SNS, AWS Lambda, EC2 and more.

Deploying an app on Kubernetes using CI/CD Pipelines

In this project, you will be creating a CI/CD pipeline which is integrated with Kubernetes. This project will make use of tools like Git, Docker, Jenkins, selenium and Kubernetes. First we will containerize the code pushed in git, save the docker image and then push the image to Dockerhub. Finally it will be deployed on Kubernetes

Merging Git Branches

In this project, we will understand the importance of merging branches in git. We will be using a production use case where merging is required, based on the use case we will have to decide whether we will be using git merge or rebase. Since this is a production problem, we will also have to make use of Git Workflows.

Deploying a Multi-Tier Website Using AWS EC2

For this project, you will have to scale a website fast using AWS without the upfront cost of hardware. You will learn to launch an EC2 instance, enable auto-scaling of EC2, configure security and networking, manage storage, create an RDS instance, and allow traffic from EC2 to RDS instance.

Website Orchestration

You will orchestrate a website with lesser time and higher availability along with autoscaling. In this AWS project, you will deploy a high-availability PHP application with an external Amazon RDS database to Elastic Beanstalk, launch a DB instance in Amazon RDS, create an Elastic Beanstalk Environment and configure security groups and scaling.

Containerizing Various Frameworks and NGINX Application using Docker

This project is about integrating the software projects deployed in diverse environments such as NGINX, Node.Js, MongoDB, and ASP.NET using Docker. The highlights of this project are setting up Node.js on Docker container, puling NGINX image from Docker hub, and deploying Windows Powershell and Hyper-V.

Case Study 1

Using Different Operations on EC2 and EWS

The case study is to replicate or copy EC2 instances to varied regions depending upon the High Availability. Furthermore, the main strategy is to extend the size of EBS volumes without losing the data. The major highlights of this case study are to scale and mount the EBS volumes to different EC2 instances one at a time.

Case Study 2

Autoscaling Compute Capacity in AWS

The major aim of this case study is to Autoscale (scaling up and down automatically) and Load Balance among multiple EC2 instances within AWS based on varied/defined metrics for Autoscaling instances. Also, the case study deals with and routing custom domains to AWS resources.

Case Study 3

Creating custom VPCs in AWS

In this case study, the candidate will create a custom VPC in AWS with the help of multiple subnets having both private as well as public access. The route tables are also configured to subnets using the Internet Gateway and NAT Gateway.

Case Study 4

Using AWS S3 for Lifecycle Access Management

The case study deals with moving artifacts from on-premise to S3 in the most cost-efficient manner. Furthermore, it deals with the creation of Lifecycle rules for events in S3 objects, hosting a static website, and experimenting with the usage of route 53.

Case Study 5

Highly available Relational Database in AWS

This case study is all about creating a highly available and scalable AWS Database Service in AWS using RDS. The process involves creating Database Architecture, collecting data for real-time analysis, and relocating the latency issues.

Case Study 6

CloudFormation for Infrastructure as a Cloud

The case study involves provisioning and deploying AWS Resources using AWS CloudFormation. Within the process, the candidate has to define rules for deletion using IaC and also minimize the deployment time.

Case Study 7

Administering user access using AWS IAM

In this case study, the candidate will create users in IAM for defining granular access that differs with each user. Alongside he/she will also define custom policies that add users to groups.

Case Study 8

Application Services in AWS and Configuration Management

The main aim of this case study is to use application services in AWS Lambda for deploying code and also conduct configuration management using OpsWork. Alongside, WebApp is also deployed to Elastic Beanstalk.

DevOps Case Study 1

Implementing Git Workflow

Analyzing and using a specific Git Workflow scenario. In this case study, you will work with industry-standard architectures, merging branches, and simulating a working architecture in Git. You will have to be familiar with topics such as Git branches, Git workflows, merging, and rebasing to work on this case study.

Resolving Merge Conflicts

Understanding how to resolve merge conflicts in various scenarios. The case study is about understanding the difference between merging and rebasing. Through this case study, you will have an in-depth and up-close working knowledge of DevOps topics such as Git branches, merging, and rebasing.

Creating Custom Containers in Docker

Creating a custom container from the base Ubuntu container. In this case study, you will be required to create a Dockerfile, push the container to Dockerhub, and create custom Docker images. Through this case study, you will cover the working knowledge and implementation of Dockerfile and Dockerhub in DevOps.

Using Bind mounts, Docker Compose, and Docker Swarm

In this case study, you will be deploying an application using Docker compose, Bind Mounts, and Docker Swarm. You will create and use Bind mounts in Docker, deploy multiple docker applications with Docker Compose, and create a Docker Swarm cluster and deploy applications over it. You will also use Docker storage and Docker Networks.

Using Puppet for Configuration Management

In this case study, you will be learning how to work with Docker, puppet manifests, conditional statements, modules, and classes to create Modular scripts and also to manage a large fleet of servers with Puppet.

Using Selenium to Create Automated Test Cases

In this case study, you will be required to create automated test cases using Selenium. You will also have to create runnable jar files and run headless tests in Chrome using Non-GUI Linux. Through this case study, you will have a thorough understanding of how Selenium, runnable jar files, ChromeDriver, and headless tests work.

Cloud Concepts

• What is Cloud Computing?
• Cloud Computing benefits
• Terminologies and key concepts
• Economies of scale
• OpEx vs CapEx
• Cloud models: Public, private, and hybrid cloud
• Characteristics of cloud models
• IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS
• Use cases of IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS
• Shared responsibility model of cloud models

Core Azure Services

• Azure regions
• Region pairs
• Region-wise feature availability
• Availability zones and sets
• Resource groups
• Azure Resource Manager
• Azure products and core services
• Azure Compute
• Azure virtual machines (VMs)
• Containers and virtual networks (VNets)
• VPN Gateway and Azure Load Balancer
• Azure Application Gateway
• Content delivery networks (CDNs) of Azure
• Working of CDNs
• Storage services of Azure
• Structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data
• Types of Azure Storage accounts
• Azure Storage account: Blob
• Database services of Azure
• Azure Marketplace and Azure SQL
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• IoT Hub
• Azure Big Data and SQL Data Warehouse
• Azure Analytics and Data Lake Analytics
• Azure HDInsights
• Machine Learning
• Services and Studio of Azure Machine Learning
• Server-less computing
• DevOps concepts
• Management tools of Azure
• Developing resources: Using Powershell, Azure CLI, and Cloud Shell
• Deployment using JSON
• Azure Advisor

Privacy, Compliance, Security, and Test

• Azure Firewall
• Azure DDOS
• Groups of network security
• Groups of application security
• AuthN and AuthZ
• Active Directory of Azure
• Multi-factor authentication
• Security center and key vault of Azure
• Azure Information and Advanced Threat Protection
• Azure Policy
• Role-based Access Control (RBAC) of Azure
• Azure locks and blueprints
• Governance of subscription
• Azure tags and monitoring
• Azure Service Health
• Terms and requirements of compliance
• Privacy statement and trust center of Microsoft
• Service Trust Portal

Azure Support and Pricing

• Azure subscriptions
• Management groups
• Available options for purchasing Azure product and services
• Usage of metrics
• Costing factors
• Zones for billing concepts
• Pricing calculator of Azure
• Azure’s total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Cost minimization techniques in Azure
• Azure support plans and cost management
• Service level agreements (SLAs)
• Composite SLAs
• Making improvements in Application SLAs
• Offering feedback and general availability
• Announcements, updates, and roadmaps of Azure

What are the projects I will be working on during this Azure 900 certification training?

Project 1: Firewall Implementation
Domain: Security
Problem Statement: As a Cloud Engineer of a company, implement firewalls of Azure and secure the data of your organization
Topics: Cloud models, usage metrics, and Azure firewalls
Highlights:
● Adapting cloud models
● Understanding the usage of metrics
● Implementing Azure firewalls

Project 2: Updating Cloud Services
Domain: Cloud
Problem Statement: Update the cloud services to store the data of your company
Topics: Availability zones, Azure TCO, and multi-factor authentication
Highlights:
● Using availability zones
● Implementing Azure TCO
● Performing multi-factor authentication

Introduction to Linux

Introduction to Linux, Basics of Shell, Basics of Kernel, CentOS 8 installation and VBox additions, Basic Linux Commands, ECHO and EXPR command, Set and unset a variable, Header of a shell script (#!).

Hands-on Exercise – Executing basic Linux commands, Installing CentOS 8 on VirtualBox and adding guest additions to the installed OS.

File Management

Text editors and file creation; Users, Groups and Processes; Root and Linux file hierarchy, Understanding file hierarchy, Understanding file permissions, chmod and chown commands, the LS command, Metacharacters, Editing a file using VIM, Displaying contents of a file, Copy, Move and Remove files.

Hands-on Exercise – Using VIM, Creating users and groups, Creating files and directories, Assigning file permissions and ownership using chmod and chown, Editing files in VIM.

Files and Processes

Everything is a file in UNIX/Linux (files, directories, executables, processes), Process control commands (ps and kill), other process control tools (top, nice, renice).

Hands-on Exercise – Executing ps and kill commands on running services, Monitoring the OS using top.

Introduction to Shell Scripting

What is shell scripting, Types of shell, Creating and writing a shell script, Changing the permission of the shell script, Executing the script, Environment variables, Defining a local and a global variable, User input in a shell script.

Hands-on Exercise – Creating a shell script, Writing and executing the shell script, creating a local and a global variable, taking input from the user in a shell script.

Conditional, Looping statements and Functions

What are Conditional statements, Using IF, IF-ELSE, Nested IF statements, What are Looping statements, Using WHILE, UNTIL and FOR statements, Using the case…esac statement, What is a Function, Creating a function in Linux, Calling functions.

Hands-on Exercise – Executing IF, IF-ELSE, Nested IF statements, Executing WHILE, UNTIL and FOR statements, Executing the case…..esac statement, creating a function in multiple ways, calling a function in a file, calling a function from another file.

Text Processing

Using GREP command, Using SED command, Using AWK command, Mounting a file to the virtual box, Creating a shared folder (mounting a folder), Using SORT command and Using pipes to combine multiple Commands.

Hands-on Exercise – Executing commands using GREP, Executing commands using SED, Executing commands using AWK, Mounting a folder in the Windows OS to the Linux OS, Installing VirtualBox guest additions on CentOS 8, Extracting zipped files.

Scheduling Tasks

What are Daemons, Introduction to Task scheduling in Linux, Scheduling a job in Linux, What is Cron and Crontab, How to use cron, Using the AT command.

Hands-on Exercise – Starting, Stopping and Restarting Daemon processes, Scheduling jobs using cron and crontab, Scheduling a one time task using AT, Managing scheduled tasks using ATQ and ATRM.

Advanced Shell Scripting

Why monitoring, Introduction to process monitoring, Top vs HTop, What does PGREP do, Introduction to file and folder monitoring, Monitoring tool inotifywait, inotifywait options for folder monitoring, Events of a folder in inotify, the FREE command.

Hands-on Exercise – Using Top to moniter the OS, Installing Htop, Using Htop to monitor the OS, Filtering and sorting using Htop, Installing inotify tools, monitoring a folder using inotifywait, monitoring a folder only for certaing events, using the FREE command.

Database Connectivity

Installing and configuring MySQL, Securing MySQL, Running Queries from terminal, Running Queries from a shell script.

Hands-on Exercise – Downloading and installing MySQL, Connecting to MySQL from terminal, Querying directly from the terminal, Pushing the query result inside a file, CRUD operations from a shell script.

Linux Networking

What is networking in Linux, Why do we need networking, Using networking commands – IFCONFIG, PING, Wget and cURL, SSH, SCP and FTP, Learning Firewall tools – iptables and firewalld, DNS and Resolving IP address, /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname, nslookup and dig.

Hands-on Exercise – Executing all the networking commands, Using iptables and firewalld, Adding and removing ports, Resolving IP address in /etc/hosts, looking into a websites IP and nameservers using nslookup and dig.

What projects I will be working on this Linux Admin training?

Project: Installing WordPress on Centos7

Industry: Internet related

Problem Statement: How to install LAMP stack on Centos7 and creating a database for WordPress

Topics: In this project you will be working on creating your account on WordPress (with Database), then flush it using Flush Privileges and Install a PHP Module. We can get that package directly from CentOS’s default repositories using yumand also we will install and update the WordPress for the latest Template & Formats.

Highlight

• Centos server installation
• Creating a MySQL database
• WordPress installation & configuration

Introduction to SQL

Various types of databases, introduction to Structured Query Language, distinction between client server and file server databases, understanding SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Table basics, data types and functions, Transaction-SQL, authentication for Windows, data control language, and the identification of the keywords in T-SQL, such as Drop Table.

Database Normalization and Entity Relationship Model

Data Anomalies, Update Anomalies, Insertion Anomalies, Deletion Anomalies, Types of Dependencies, Functional Dependency, Fully functional dependency, Partial functional dependency, Transitive functional dependency, Multi-valued functional dependency, Decomposition of tables, Lossy decomposition, Lossless decomposition, What is Normalization?, First Normal Form, Second Normal Form, Third Normal Form, Boyce-Codd Normal Form(BCNF), Fourth Normal Form, Entity-Relationship Model, Entity and Entity Set, Attributes and types of Attributes, Entity Sets, Relationship Sets, Degree of Relationship, Mapping Cardinalities, One-to-One, One-to-Many, Many-to-one, Many-to-many, Symbols used in E-R Notation.

SQL Operators

Introduction to relational databases, fundamental concepts of relational rows, tables, and columns; several operators (such as logical and relational), constraints, domains, indexes, stored procedures, primary and foreign keys, understanding group functions, the unique key, etc.

Working with SQL: Join, Tables, and Variables

Advanced concepts of SQL tables, SQL functions, operators & queries, table creation, data retrieval from tables, combining rows from tables using inner, outer, cross, and self joins, deploying operators such as ‘intersect,’ ‘except,’ ‘union,’ temporary table creation, set operator rules, table variables, etc.

Deep Dive into SQL Functions

Understanding SQL functions – what do they do?, scalar functions, aggregate functions, functions that can be used on different datasets, such as numbers, characters, strings, and dates, inline SQL functions, general functions, and duplicate functions.

Working with Subqueries

Understanding SQL subqueries, their rules; statements and operators with which subqueries can be used, using the set clause to modify subqueries, understanding different types of subqueries, such as where, select, insert, update, delete, etc., and methods to create and view subqueries.

SQL Views, Functions, and Stored Procedures

Learning SQL views, methods of creating, using, altering, renaming, dropping, and modifying views; understanding stored procedures and their key benefits, working with stored procedures, studying user-defined functions, and error handling.

Deep Dive into User-defined Functions

User-defined functions; types of UDFs, such as scalar, inline table value, multi-statement table, stored procedures and when to deploy them, what is rank function?, triggers, and when to execute triggers?

SQL Optimization and Performance

SQL Server Management Studio, using pivot in MS Excel and MS SQL Server, differentiating between Char, Varchar, and NVarchar, XL path, indexes and their creation, records grouping, advantages, searching, sorting, modifying data; clustered indexes creation, use of indexes to cover queries, common table expressions, and index guidelines.

Managing Data with Transact-SQL

Creating Transact-SQL queries, querying multiple tables using joins, implementing functions and aggregating data, modifying data, determining the results of DDL statements on supplied tables and data, and constructing DML statements using the output statement.

Querying Data with Advanced Transact-SQL Components

Querying data using subqueries and APPLY, querying data using table expressions, grouping and pivoting data using queries, querying temporal data and non-relational data, constructing recursive table expressions to meet business requirements, and using windowing functions to group and rank the results of a query.

Programming Databases Using Transact-SQL

Creating database programmability objects by using T-SQL, implementing error handling and transactions, implementing transaction control in conjunction with error handling in stored procedures, and implementing data types and NULL.

Designing and Implementing Database Objects

Designing and implementing relational database schema; designing and implementing indexes, learning to compare between indexed and included columns, implementing clustered index, and designing and deploying views and column store views.

Implementing Programmability Objects

Explaining foreign key constraints, using T-SQL statements, usage of Data Manipulation Language (DML), designing the components of stored procedures, implementing input and output parameters, applying error handling, executing control logic in stored procedures, and designing trigger logic, DDL triggers, etc.

Managing Database Concurrency

Applying transactions, using the transaction behavior to identify DML statements, learning about implicit and explicit transactions, isolation levels management, understanding concurrency and locking behavior, and using memory-optimized tables.

Optimizing Database Objects

Accuracy of statistics, formulating statistics maintenance tasks, dynamic management objects management, identifying missing indexes, examining and troubleshooting query plans, consolidating the overlapping indexes, the performance management of database instances, and SQL server performance monitoring.

Advanced Topics

Corelated Subquery, Grouping Sets, Rollup, Cube

Hands-on Exercise

Implementing Corelated Subqueries, Using EXISTS with a Correlated subquery, Using Union Query, Using Grouping Set Query, Using Rollup, Using CUBE to generate four grouping sets, Perform a partial CUBE.

Microsoft Courses: Study Material

• Performance Tuning and Optimizing SQL Databases
• Querying Data with Transact-SQL

Writing Complex Subqueries

In this project, you will be working with SQL subqueries and utilizing them in various scenarios. You will learn to use IN or NOT IN, ANY or ALL, EXISTS or NOT EXISTS, and other major queries. You will be required to access and manipulate datasets, operate and control statements in SQL, execute queries in SQL against databases.

Querying a Large Relational Database

This project is about how to get details about customers by querying the database. You will be working with Table basics and data types, various SQL operators, and SQL functions. The project will require you to download a database and restore it on the server, query the database for customer details and sales information.

Relational Database Design

In this project, you will learn to convert a relational design that has enlisted within its various users, user roles, user accounts, and their statuses into a table in SQL Server. You will have to define relations/attributes, primary keys, and create respective foreign keys with at least two rows in each of the tables.