This course teaches Architects how to use DevOps for continuous integration, application development, and maintenance. Attendees master configuration, automation, monitoring, measuring, and governance. They also learn to construct a stable, scalable, and reliable build and implement an effective configuration management process.
Skills Gained
Confidently design a DevOps framework for their organization.
Understand the various key components.
Implement DevOps in their organization.
Create automation through scripting
Compare the different tools available for applicability to their environment
Apply the knowledge to improve reliability of build & release processes
Utilize the various tools covered in the course in the real world
AUDIENCE
This course is applicable for Architects and Development leads that need to design and implement DevOps in their organization.
There are currently no public events available for this course. However, you can submit a request for a new date and we will try our best to get you into a DevOps for Architects class.
Introduction to DevOps
Why and How
Modern DevOps Practices
Key Components of Successful DevOps (CALMS Framework: Culture, Automation, Lean, Measurement, Sharing)
Driving Business Outcomes with DevOps
DevOps at the Core: Aligning DevOps with Business Goals
Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), and Continuous Deployment
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
Continuous Integration & Delivery
What is Continuous Delivery (CD)?
Deployment Pipelines with Modern CI/CD Tools (GitLab, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins)
Best Practices for CI/CD Pipeline Design
Measuring Organizational DevOps Maturity (DORA Metrics)
Automated Testing and Feedback Loops
Build & Release Management
Version Control with Git: Branching Strategies (GitFlow, Trunk-Based Development)
Repository Management: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
Feature Flags for Controlled Releases
Release Monitoring and Rollbacks
Cloud Computing and Containerization
Evolution from Virtualization to Containers
Cloud-Native Applications and Microservices Architecture
Kubernetes Orchestration and Management: Deploying and Scaling Applications
Kubernetes Best Practices (High Availability, Security, Networking)
Service Mesh (Istio, Linkerd) for Advanced Networking and Observability
Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and their DevOps Toolchains
Serverless Architectures: AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions
Monitoring & Observability
Modern Monitoring Strategies: Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Tools: Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace
Observability: Tracing, Logging, Metrics with OpenTelemetry
Monitoring Kubernetes Clusters: Prometheus, Thanos, Loki
Cloud Monitoring: AWS CloudWatch, Google Cloud Monitoring, Azure Monitor
Alerting and Incident Management
Measurement and Metrics
Key DevOps Metrics: Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, MTTR (Mean Time to Recovery)
DORA Metrics: Four Key Metrics for Measuring DevOps Success
Continuous Improvement through Data-Driven Insights
Tools for Measuring DevOps Performance: Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog
Automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Why Automate Infrastructure?
Introduction to Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, OpenTofu, AWS CloudFormation, Azure ARM
Automated Configuration Management with Ansible, Chef, Puppet
Continuous Testing and Automated Rollbacks
Automating Security in CI/CD (DevSecOps): Tools like Snyk, ZAP
Servers and Serverless Architectures
Application Servers vs. Serverless Architectures: Key Differences
Kubernetes-based Server Management
Introduction to Serverless Technologies (AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, Azure Functions)
Managing Microservices in Serverless Architectures
Agile & Lean Practices
Modern Agile in DevOps: Continuous Feedback and Iteration
Scrum and Kanban: Integrating Agile with DevOps
Value Stream Mapping in DevOps
Managing Backlogs and Sprints in a DevOps Environment
Tools for Agile and DevOps: Jira, Azure DevOps, GitLab Issues
Continuous Code Quality and Security
Code Quality Tools: SonarQube, Linting Tools
Static and Dynamic Code Analysis
Continuous Security Testing: OWASP, Snyk
Shifting Security Left in the Development Process (DevSecOps)
Best Practices for Security Automation in CI/CD Pipelines
Configuration Management & Containerization
Configuration Management with Ansible, Puppet, Chef
Managing Docker and Kubernetes Configurations
Helm for Kubernetes Package Management
Docker and Kubernetes Security: Best Practices
There are currently no public events available for this course. However, you can submit a request for a new date and we will try our best to get you into a DevOps for Architects class.
An understanding of the basic concepts in version control, release management, automation, governance, and infrastructure.
There are currently no public events available for this course. However, you can submit a request for a new date and we will try our best to get you into a DevOps for Architects class.
