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DevOps Practitioner
- Categories:
- Software and DevOps
- Level:
- Intermediate
- Code:
- QADEVOPRAC3
- Exam:
- Not Applicable
Overview
DevOps is an emerging practice supporting fast, sustainable software delivery and infrastructure changes through automation while encouraging collaboration of development and operations teams.
This five-day DevOps Practitioner course is designed to give learners from both Dev and Ops teams experience in deploying modern, large scale complex systems in the cloud using a DevOps tools chain to create an end-to-end pipeline supporting continuous integration, configuration management, system provisioning, containerisation, continuous deployment, continuous delivery and continuous monitoring of software delivery and infrastructure changes.
Prerequisites
Essential:
- Some experience as either a developer, operations, or DevOps
- Comfortable with basic terminal commands in Linux - delegates must have knowledge to the level of QA's Linux Fundamentals course
- Understand the concepts of source control
Useful:
- Experience using git
- Experience of using the windows command line
- Programming experience
What's included
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What is Virtual?
Live, instructor-led training delivered online
Interactive online sessions led by subject matter experts. Learners join live classes, take part in discussions, and complete practical exercises from any location, making it easy to fit collaborative learning into busy schedules.
If you prefer to connect to a course that is taking place in a physical classroom, you can choose our Remote Access option. .
Best for: Teams and individuals who want expert guidance, real-time collaboration, and flexible access.
What's included?
5 Days instructor led course
6 month free access to QA learning platform
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Learning outcomes
- Gain a foundational understanding of the pillars of DevOps.
- Learn the basics of Cloud Computing with AWS.
- Understand the roles and responsibilities in SRE and DevSecOps.
- Explore the components and workflows of DevOps pipelines.
- Understand the role of build managers and use npm for JavaScript projects.
- Learn the concepts and benefits of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.
- Integrate Jenkins with source control management tools like GitLab and GitHub.
- Create and manage build scripts in Jenkins.
- Understand the basics and benefits of containerisation.
- Learn about Docker and its components.
- Write Dockerfiles to create Docker images.
- Integrate Jenkins with DockerHub for automated builds.
- Use Docker Compose for container orchestration.
- Understand Infrastructure as Code and configuration management.
- Use Terraform for infrastructure provisioning.
- Learn about Kubernetes and its role in container orchestration.
- Manage Kubernetes configurations using Helm.
- Understand the importance of observability in DevOps.
- Learn about the ELK stack for log management and analysis.
- Explore the Kubernetes dashboard for cluster management.
- Learn about Prometheus for monitoring and alerting.
Course outline
Day 1:
- pillars of DevOps
- intro to Cloud Computing (AWS)
- intro to SRE/DevSecOps
- DevOps Pipelines
Day 2:
- introduction to build managers (JS and NPM)
- introduction to CI/CD
- integrating Jenkins with SCM
- Jenkins build scripts
Day 3:
- what is containerisation
- intro to docker
- Dockerfiles
- integrating Jenkins and DockerHub
- orchestration with docker compose
Day 4:
- Introduction to IaC and config management
- IaC with Terraform
- orchestration with Kubernetes
- Kubernetes configuration using Helm
Day 5:
- Introduction to observability
- the ELK stack
- Kubernetes dashboard
- Prometheus
Certification
Please note that this course is designed to provide you with a highly practical exploration of many of the key DevOps technologies. There is no specific certification associated with this course.
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