Professional Training

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:
Attended Developing on AWS course
Attended Systems Operations on AWS course
Working knowledge of one or more high-level programming languages (C#, Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, etc.)
Intermediate knowledge of administering Linux or Windows systems at the command-line level
Working experience with AWS using both the AWS Management Console and the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

Objectives

This course is designed to teach you how to:
Use the principal concepts and practices behind the DevOps methodology
Design and implement an infrastructure on AWS that supports one or more DevOps development projects
Use AWS CloudFormation and AWS OpsWorks to deploy the infrastructure necessary to create development, test, and production environments for a software development project
Set up Git on AWS and understand the array of options for enabling a Continuous Integration environment on AWS
Use the core principles of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
Implement several common Continuous Deployment use cases using AWS technologies, including blue/green deployment and A/B testing
Distinguish between the array of application deployment technologies available on AWS (including AWS CodeDeploy, AWS OpsWorks, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and Amazon EC2 Container Service), and decide which technology best fits a given scenario
Fine tune the applications you deliver on AWS for high performance and use AWS tools and technologies to monitor your application and environment for potential issues

Day 1

What is DevOps?
Infrastructure as Code, Part 1: Design and Security
Infrastructure as Code, Part 2: CloudFormation and Configuration Management

Day 2

Continuous Integration in the Cloud
Continuous Delivery on AWS
Deploying Applications on AWS, Part 1

Day 3

Deploying Applications on AWS, Part
Putting It All Together
Performance-Tuning Your Deployments
Administering and Automating Your Infrastructure