DevOps Semester Plan

About the course

About the course

About the exam

Exam Project Requirements

Exam Report Requirements

Exam Presentation Requirements

Mandatories

Mandatory I

Mandatory II

Semester Plan

Taught on: Thursday

#	Date	Topics	Before Class	After Class	Learning Goals
1	Jan. 29th	Course Introduction The Legacy Project Conclusion	Install these Refresh Basic Terminal Commands Refresh YAML syntax Refresh git	GitHub started Create a PR to repositories.py Create your first release on GitHub Upgrade the application Create a dependency graph Problems with the codebase	Can use basic git commands to clone, add, commit, push, and pull. Can ssh into a server and use basic Linux commands. Can do network / process / server troubleshooting. Can identify problems with an inherited codebase.
2	Feb. 5th	Introduction Conventions OpenAPI Monolith / Monorepo / Multirepo Environment variables	Learn branching Terminal files Git advanced Go and Ruby SQLite setup Decide on a framework	Commence the rewrite Generate OpenAPI specification Kanban GitHub project Generate OpenAPI Postman	Knows which type of files not to push into version control and why. Will ensure that this is followed-through in the group repositories. Can and will create proper commit messages. Knows proper casing and naming conventions. Understands the OpenAPI specification, why it exists and knows different ways to work it. Can generate an OpenAPI specification from the group’s application. Can create a .env file and import/use the environment variables in the group’s chosen programming language.
3	Feb. 12th	Introduction GitHub Actions GitHub Issues Workflow GitHub Secrets Azure More Cloud SSH Deployment Considerations	Read about GitHub Actions GitHub PR template	EK Azure Resources Keep rewriting Deploy	Understands the terminology surrounding Github Actions such as workflows, runners, jobs, steps, and actions. Can create a basic Github Action workflow that is triggered by a push and pull request. Understands basic cloud concepts. Can create a virtual machine in Azure and SSH into it. Can open ports and set the IP address to static. Understands the difference between public and private ssh keys. Can suggest various deployment strategies and knows the pros and cons of each. Understands the difference between pull-based and push-based deployment.
4	Feb. 19th	Introduction Software quality CI/CD Linting Branching strategies Cron	Research git branching strategies GitHub Issue template Create a merge conflict Define GitHub secrets	Consumer Report! Choose git branching strategy Branch protection rules Software Quality Linting Whoknows_variations - Continuous Integration README badges	Understands the importance of software quality and tools to measure it. Understands why technical debt occurs and why it’s important to avoid. Can argue for the importance of linting. Knows the difference between linting in a Git Hook vs. a CI/CD pipeline. Can argue for the pros and cons of each. Is familiar with different branching strategies.
5	Feb. 26	Introduction Build tools Packaging Virtualization / Containerization Docker Dockerfile	Refresh Docker knowledge The Simulation	Setup Postman Monitoring Docker from scratch Begin Dockerization	Understands different levels of build tools from OS to language-specific ones. Understands the difference between packaging and virtualization / containerization. Understands how Docker differs from its predecessors and modern alternatives. Can understand simple Dockerfiles for different languages.
6	March 5th	Introduction Docker compose Live reload in Docker Debug docker compose Agile DevOps Continuous Delivery	100+ docker concepts you need to know Generate CR_PAT Read DevOps Literature I Refresh docker-compose	whoknows_variations Continuous Delivery Workflow strategies Docker Compose + Continuous Delivery	Can argue for the benefit of Docker compose over only using Dockerfiles. Understands various basic docker-compose.yml files. Understands the need to setup a volume in order to achieve live reload in Docker and knowing that this requires a separate development build. Understands Continuous Delivery as we define it in this course and has a general idea of how it works. Can explain what agile is, why it was created. Understands the history of DevOps and different ways to understand it.
7	March 12th	Guest Lecture by Jan from Eficode​	Read DevOps Literature II Detecting Agile BS	Create an Issue Template How are you DevOps?	Knows the historical angle of DevOps and how it has evolved. Understands the problems that DevOps aims to solve in modern organizations. Understands the concept of psychological safety and why it matters. Understands how crucial it is for business competitiveness to bring down pipeline execution time. Can implement simultanously running pipelines to cut time whenever it is possible. Has read all the course literature and can talk about the content.
8	March 19th	Introduction DevOps DevOps is People Incident Response and Postmortem Continuous Deployment Reverse Proxies	Deploy to GitHub Pages Read about GitOps	Continuous Deployment FTS5 Postmortem Smoke Testing User Feedback Survey! Hadolint	Has a clear view of different definitions of DevOps and is able to conjure their personal definition. Understands the concepts of the principles of Flow, Feedback, and Continuous Learning and Experimentation. Can argue for the importance of carrying out a postmortem and knows how to approach conducting one. Can recall various ways to achieve continuous deployment.
9	March 26th	Introduction DevSecOps Docker / Firewalls Docker / Firewalls Security in GitHub Continuous Testing	Registering Domain: one.com Security Hardening: Github Actions Whoknows Variations: Security Testing	fail2ban Harden Yourself Security Breach Setup HTTPS Implement Tests	Can explain the DevSecOps mentality of shifting left and different ways to ensure security in various steps of the DevOps 8. Can bring up different types of security testing. Can explain SAST vs. DAST. Knows how to security scan a Docker image. Knows how to set the least privileges for the user. Understands the IP tables problem of Docker and can suggest a solution. Understands the mentality of continuous testing. Can mention different types of testing and where they fit in the DevOps 8. Can explain shift-left vs. shift-right testing. Can bring up examples of tests in each category and the benefit that they provide.
10	April 9th	Introduction Databases ORM Migrations Backup / Documentation Web scraping / Web crawling Cheerio Beautifulsoup4 Scrapy	Whoknows Variations - Database	Indexing Upgrade the database Let them search	Understand choosing a database setup based on the application’s needs. Knows when not to use an ORM. Can argue why MySQL is a problematic choice for a database and can list additional features that other databases offer. Can give examples to illustrate the difference between migrations and seeding and recall how we did it in Knex.js. Knows about the difference between web scraping and web crawling. Has an overall idea of different ways to implement it with different tools / libraries / frameworks. Follows good web scraping / web crawling practices such as legality and politeness.
11	April 16th	Introduction Logging Monitoring Searching Crawling Serverless Functions	KPI Server Telemtry Whoknows variations - Monitoring	Monitoring Monitoring PR Monitoring realization Try ELK logging	Knows how search indexing differs from linear search. Can bring up different things to consider when constructing a ranking algorithm. Understands the difference between logging and monitoring. Can argue for the importance of both and give exact use cases for why one would do it. Can argue the importance of logging and monitoring in a DevOps setup and give examples in relation to the DevOps 8. Can implement logging in a programming language. Is familiar with a monitoring setup. Knows the difference between push and pull-based monitoring. Can argue why a monitoring setup should not run on the same server as the application.
12	April 23rd	Introduction Why Infrastructure as Code IaC / Configuration Management Tools Imperative vs Declarative Terraform - Hands-on Terraform: Limitations / Problems Terraform - GitHub Provider	Improve Accessibility	KEA Learn Terraform Your Infrastructure as Code Software Maintenance	Understands the problems that Infrastructure as Code solves. Knows about how we define Infrastructure as Code and knows how they differ from Configuration Management. Can run basic commands in Terraform to provision infrastructure.
13	April. 30th	Introduction Deploying Infrastructure / Configuration Managment Deployment Strategies Orchestration Kubernetes Kubernetes - Hands-on Resilience Maintenance Course Conclusion	Create .github for your Organisation Docker Swarm Tutorial	Service Level Agreement Take Down Your System Consider a deployment strategy The simulation is taken down	Knows different deployment strategies and how they work. Understands the concept of orchestration and can argue for the importance of it. Knows the very basic concepts of Kubernetes. Understands the importance of resilience in systems and the idea of applying chaos engineering to improve it.
14	May 7th	Wrap up the project. Write the report.	No lecture.	No lecture.
15	May 14th	National holiday on the day but you still have the other hours of the week subtracted for course work. Finish the report.	No lecture.	No lecture.
16	May 21st	Prepare the exam presentation.	No lecture.	No lecture.