DevOps is a growing movement that encourages closer collaboration of developers and system operations to help business goals to be achieved efficiently and on time. Software development and infrastructure scaling are very fast paced nowadays.

That brings a necessity of larger automation, measurement and information sharing for all involved processes.

This full-day training focuses on solving challenges that organisations face when implementing DevOps initiatives. It introduces principles of DevOps and tools that help reach full automation of infrastructure provisioning and software delivery. Theoretical background as well as practical hands-on examples of tools like Vagrant, Docker and others are given during this workshop.

Audience: Developers, software architects, technical project managers, system administrators.

Prior knowledge: this course is directed at participants with at least one year real life experience working with Agile methods and insights in the basics of DevOps

Courseware: All students will receive course slides as well as demo and exercise code examples.

Topics covered in this package include:
• Introduction to DevOps
- The story
- Problems
- Main principles

• Automation is the key
- Why to automate?
- What to automate?
- How to automate?
- When to not automate?
- Automation arguments
- Mathematical models
- Process automation

• Continuous X
- Continuous Integration
- Continuous Deployment
- Continuous Delivery

• Configuration management
- Metadata management
- Maturity model

• Infrastructure automation
- Managing environments
- Developer’s machine
- From development to production
- Infrastructure scaling

• Tooling
- Local development
- Infrastructure connectivity
- Infrastructure provisioning
- Infrastructure testing
- Infrastructure monitoring

• Lab work
- Vagrant
- Packer
- Docker
- Bash/Sshoogr/Fabric
- Puppet/Chef