To be successful in this course, you should have an understanding of your organization’s application development lifecycle.

Audience/Job Roles

This course is designed for System Administrators, Application Developers, Software Release Managers and other personnel responsible for the implementation of CODAR.

• Explain CODAR software, its components and its functions
• Configure access control, user roles, permissions, and lifecycle stages
• Manage resource providers and environments
• Work with designs and subscriptions
• Manage application release pipelines
• Deploy packages using CODAR
• Use the Application Programming Interface (API) and the Command-Line Interface (CLI)
• Manage continuous integration, deployment, and delivery
• Integrate Docker with CODAR

Module 1: Course Overview

• Introductions
• Class schedule and class logistics
• Related courses
• Documentation
• Lab environment details

Module 2: Introducing CODAR

• Explain the DevOps concept
• Explain HPE’s approach to DevOps
• Describe the CODAR functionality

Module 3: Configuring Access Control

• Manage CODAR licenses as Administrator
• Configure organizations
• Configure Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server and required attributes
• Configure access controls for different organization roles
• Explore access controls on designs

Module 4: Working with Resource Providers and Environment

• Summarize the difference between Sequential and Topology design
• Import topology components
• Configure component properties
• Create component tags
• Create a new version for a design
• Configure a design
• Manage a design as an application
• Create design tags

Module 5: Working with User Roles, Permissions,and Lifecycle Stages

• Create roles and configure user access
• Associate roles with an LDAP group
• Create and customize lifecycle stages
• Associate roles with lifecycle stages

Module 6: Application Release Pipeline Management

• Explain release automation
• Associate Lifecycles with an application release pipeline
• Associate environments with an application lifecycle
• Create gate actions
• View pending approvals

Module 7: Deploying Application Packages

• Create new application packages
• Deploy application packages
• Redeploy application packages to existing instances
• Promote an application package to the next stage

Module 8: Using API and CLI for CODAR Operations

• Explain how to use APIs to perform CODAR operations
• Name the CLI operations for CODAR
• Execute different CODAR operations using CLI

Module 9: Continuous Integration and Deployment with Jenkins

• Use Jenkins and the CI workflow
• Configure a Jenkins project and CODAR Plugin to support continuous deployment
• Explore a continuous testing scenario using Jenkins, CODAR, and the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) plugin
• Explore Infrastructure as a Code (IAAC) feature

Module 10: Integrating Docker with CODAR

• Import a Docker topology design
• Modify a Docker topology design
• Deploy the PetClinic application using the design

Module 11: Working with Subscriptions

• Publish a topology application design
• Create an offering
• Set pricing and other parameters for the offering
• Publish the offering to a catalog
• Subscribe to the offering as a consumer

Module 12: Continuous Delivery with CODAR

• Summarize continuous integration
• Summarize continuous deployment
• Summarize how CODAR can help to achieve continuous delivery