We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• Attended System Operations on AWS course
• Attended Developing 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)

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