Activities

This course includes presentations, group exercises, and hands-on labs.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

·        Use DevOps best practices to develop, deliver, and maintain applications and services at high velocity on AWS

·        List the advantages, roles and responsibilities of small autonomous DevOps teams

·        Design and implement an infrastructure on AWS that supports DevOps development projects

·        Leverage AWS Cloud9 to write, run and debug your code

·        Deploy various environments with AWS CloudFormation

·        Host secure, highly scalable, and private Git repositories with AWS CodeCommit

·        Integrate Git repositories into CI/CD pipelines

·        Automate build, test, and packaging code with AWS CodeBuild

·        Securely store and leverage Docker images and integrate them into your CI/CD pipelines

·        Build CI/CD pipelines to deploy applications on Amazon EC2, serverless applications, and container-based applications

·        Implement common deployment strategies such as “all at once,” “rolling,” and “blue/green”

·        Integrate testing and security into CI/CD pipelines

·        Monitor applications and environments using AWS tools and technologies

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

• DevOps Engineer
• DevOps architects
• Operations engineers
• System administrators
• Developers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

·        Previous attendance at the Systems Operations on AWS or Developing on AWS courses

·        Working knowledge of one or more high-level programing languages, such as C#, Java, PHP, Ruby, Python

·        Intermediate knowledge of administering Linux or Windows systems at the command-line level

·        Two or more years of experience provisioning, operating, and managing AWS environments

Course outline

Day 1

Module 0: Course overview

·        Course objective

·        Suggested prerequisites

·        Course overview breakdown

Module 1: Introduction to DevOps

·        What is DevOps?

·        The Amazon journey to DevOps

·        Foundations for DevOps

Module 2: Infrastructure Automation

·        Introduction to Infrastructure Automation

·        Diving into the AWS CloudFormation template

·        Modifying an AWS CloudFormation template

·        Demonstration: AWS CloudFormation template structure, parameters, stacks, updates, importing resources, and drift detection

Module 3: AWS Toolkits

·        Configuring the AWS CLI

·        AWS Software Development Kits (AWS SDKs)

·        AWS SAM CLI

·        AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)

·        AWS Cloud9

·        Demonstration: AWS CLI and AWS CDK

·        Hands-on lab: Using AWS CloudFormation to provision and manage a basic infrastructure

Module 4: Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) with development tools

·        CI/CD Pipeline and Dev Tools

·        Demonstration: CI/CD pipeline displaying some actions from AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy and AWS CodePipeline

·        Hands-on lab: Deploying an application to an EC2 fleet using AWS CodeDeploy

Day 2

Module 4: Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) with development tools

·        AWS CodePipeline

·        Demonstration: AWS integration with Jenkins

·        Hands-on lab: Automating code deployments using AWS CodePipeline

Module 5: Introduction to Microservices

·        Introduction to Microservices

Module 6: DevOps and containers

·        Deploying applications with Docker

·        Amazon Elastic Container Service and AWS Fargate

·        Amazon Elastic Container Registry and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes service

·        Demonstration: CI/CD pipeline deployment in a containerized application

Module 7: DevOps and serverless computing

·        AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate

·        AWS Serverless Application Repository and AWS SAM

·        AWS Step Functions

·        Demonstration: AWS Lambda and characteristics

·        Demonstration: AWS SAM quick start in AWS Cloud9

·        Hands-on lab: Deploying a serverless application using AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) and a CI/CD Pipeline

Module 8: Deployment strategies

·        Continuous Deployment

·        Deployments with AWS Services

Module 9: Automated testing

·        Introduction to testing

·        Tests: Unit, integration, fault tolerance, load, and synthetic

·        Product and service integrations

Day 3

Module 10: Security automation

·        Introduction to DevSecOps

·        Security of the Pipeline

·        Security in the Pipeline

·        Threat Detection Tools

·        Demonstration: AWS Security Hub, Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Config, and Amazon Inspector

Module 11: Configuration management

·        Introduction to the configuration management process

·        AWS services and tooling for configuration management

·        Hands-on lab: Performing blue/green deployments with CI/CD pipelines and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

Module 12: Observability

·        Introduction to observability

·        AWS tools to assist with observability

·        Hands-on lab: Using AWS DevOps tools for CI/CD pipeline automations

Module 13: Reference architecture (Optional module)

·        Reference architectures

Module 14: Course summary

·        Components of DevOps practice

·        CI/CD pipeline review

·        AWS Certification