Intro to DevOps

Embark on your DevOps journey with our “Intro to DevOps” course, designed to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of DevOps principles and their integration within your organization. Throughout the course, you’ll explore key topics such as DevOps history, CI/CD, quality management, monitoring and feedback, and the relationship between DevOps and Scrum.

Course Outline:

Intro to DevOps: Explore the definition, history, and significance of DevOps.
Getting Started with DevOps: Begin your DevOps journey, create teams, and establish a DevOps culture.
CI/CD: Master the fundamentals of continuous integration and continuous delivery.
Quality Management: Learn about test automation, various testing methods, and incident management.
Monitoring & Feedback: Understand monitoring objectives, telemetry architecture, and using feedback effectively.
DevOps and Scrum: Discover the connection between DevOps and Scrum, and how they complement each other.

Delivery Format:

On-Demand Duration: 12 Hours Outcomes: Gain an understanding of DevOps concepts and their application in a Scrum context.

Course Outline

Our Intro to DevOps course offers a comprehensive introduction to the world of DevOps, covering key concepts, principles, and practices. Designed to provide participants with a solid foundation in DevOps, the course delves into topics such as CI/CD, security, quality assurance, monitoring and feedback, and the integration of DevOps with Agile frameworks. This course will equip you with the skills and knowledge needed to foster a culture of collaboration, efficiency, and security within your organization while effectively managing the evolving demands of today’s fast-paced digital landscape.

Introduction to DevOps
- Explore the fundamentals, evolution, and significance of DevOps.
DevOps Culture and Team Building
- Learn to create cross-functional teams and foster a collaborative environment.
CI/CD in DevOps
- Understand the essentials of source control, deployment pipelines, and automation.
Security in DevOps
- Examine secure development practices, automated security testing, and risk management.
Quality Assurance and Testing
- Delve into test automation strategies, performance testing, and compliance.
Monitoring and Feedback
- Discover the importance of metrics, incident response, and continuous improvement.
Integrating DevOps with Agile Frameworks
- Investigate the alignment of DevOps with Scrum, Kanban, and scaling across the organization.

Course Structure

Content Duration

12 hours of on-demand, interactive activities

Introduction

Introduction to DevOps
- Defining DevOps
- Re-defining DevOps
- Culture
- Process
- Tools
History of DevOps
- History of DevOps
- What was missing?
- Party of Two
- Cooperation at Flickr
- DevOpsDays
Platforms and Capabilities
- Platforms
- Capabilities
Why DevOps?
- Agility
- Focus
- Security
- Quality

Getting Started with DevOps

Your DevOps Journey
- DevOps Journey
- Measure Maturity
- Phase 1: Initial
- Phase 2: Repeatable
- Phase 3: Defined
- Phase 4: Managed
- Phase 5: Optimized
Creating a DevOps Team
- Cross-functional teams
- Team size
- Picking right tools
- Team autonomy
Creating DevOps Culture
- DevOps Culture
- Common organizational blockers
- Where do you fit?
Value Stream Mapping
- Value Stream Mapping
- What is it?
- Creating a Value Stream Map
- Using Value Stream Map
- Key VSM Metrics

Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment

CI/CD
- What is CI/CD?
- Continuous Integration (CI)
- Continuous Delivery (CD)
- Continuous Deployment (CD)
Source Control
- Source Control/Version Management
- Benefits of Version Control
- Best Practices
- Branching
- Feature Branching
- Trunk Based Development
- Merging
Deployment Pipelines
- Builds and Releases
- Releases in Azure DevOps
- Release Definition
- Manual Release
- Deployment in Azure DevOps
- Releases and Environmental Configuration
- Continuous Deployment
- Optional Deployment Triggers
- Preconditions and Postconditions
- A Simple Pipeline
Infrastructure Management
- The Problem
- Infrastructure as Code
- Pipeline as Code
Build Automation
- What does a typical automated build process look like?
- Build triggers
- Benefits of Build Automation
Deployment Patterns
- Types of Deployment Patterns
- Blue/Green Releases
- Canary Releases
- Rolling Updates
- Choosing a Deployment Pattern
Feature Flagging
- Benefits of Feature Flags
- Types of Feature Flags
- Implementations
- Pitfalls

Quality Management

Unit Testing
- Properties of Unti Tests
- Stubs/Mocks/Fakes
- Stub
- Mock
- Fake
- Benefits of Unit Testing
- Test Driven Development
Service Tests
- Service tests
- Properties of Service Tests
- Integration Tests
- Contracts
- Contract Tests
End-to-End Tests
- Properties of End-To-End Tests
- UI Tests
- Acceptance Testing
- Performance Testing
- Other Performance Tests
Security Testing
- Secure Code
- Automated Security Testing
- Why It’s Important
- Analyzing Findings and Prioritizing Resolutions
Incident Management
- Small batches
- Rapid releases
- Learning from Escaped Defects

Monitoring and Feedback

Monitoring & Feedback
- DevOps Monitoring
- Why monitor?
- Telemetry
- Issue Detection & Diagnosis
- Business Metric Tracking
Telemetry Architectures
- Telemetry Architectures
- Three Layers of Telemetry
- Application Telemetry
- Network Telemetry
- Logging
Alert Principles
- Alert principles
- What are alerts?
- Low severity
- Moderate severity
- High severity
Using monitoring feedback
- Reacting to issues
- Forensic analysis
- Acting Proactively

Scrum & DevOps

DevOps & Scrum
- Mapping DevOps to Scrum
- Where do they Overlap?
- What’s the difference?
- Meshing ideas
- Fitting DevOps into the Sprint
Scrum Events
- Planning
- Daily Scrum
- Refinement
- Review
- Retrospective
Defining Done
- Done with DevOps
Release Planning
- Release Planning
- Release Strategy
- Sprintly Releases
- Backlog Item Releases
- True Continuous Development

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Intro to DevOps