DevOps Training Overview
Accelebrate's DevOps training teaches operations staff how to use the various tools under the DevOps umbrella. By the end of the class, students will have a code-base that they can refer to when solving real business problems.
Location and Pricing
Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.
In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.
Objectives
- Develop an understanding of what DevOps is and is not
- Understand the objectives, terminology, and benefits of DevOps
- Learn to create and manage the cultural change and mindset required for successful DevOps implementation
- Gain insight into common DevOps concepts and practices, including its relationship to Agile, Lean and IT Service Management (ITSM)
- Discover methods to improve workflows, break down communications stovepipes and improve the efficiency of the delivery process
- Explore how critical success factors, feedback loops, and key performance indicators will help drive continuous improvement
- Discover techniques for teams and individuals to realistically follow these principles and practices in a disciplined way
Prerequisites
Having some development, QA, or operations experience is recommended.
Outline
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Introduction
What is DevOps…Really?
- Establishing expectations for the next three days
- Understanding the anatomy of DevOps
- What DevOps is not
- Beginning to define what DevOps is
- Context from DevOps history
- Organizations leading the way
- The goals of a DevOps practice
- What to expect from a DevOps practice
- Business outcomes of DevOps maturity
The Cultural Components of DevOps
- State check: an Agile review
- Examining typical misalignments
- Siloes of job function vs. alignment of mission
- The change management challenge
- Adjusting institutional incentive
- Agile team alignment
- Cross-functional teams
- Culture and continuous delivery
- The deployment pipeline concept
- A new way of testing
- The role of automation
- Shifting towards CD culture
Implementing the DevOps Way of Work
- The anatomy of a DevOps mentality
- The DevOps mindset
- The first way: System Thinking
- The second way: Amplify feedback loops
- The third way: continuous improvement
- Lean Startup Teams and incentives
- Configuration Management
- Snowflake Servers
- Server Sprawl
- Configuration Drift
- Principles of configuration management
- Applying configuration management
- Tools for configuration management
DevOps Tooling
- Contemporary DVCS version control
- GitHub
- Mercurial
- Automation
- What to expect from automation
- The disruptions of automation
Charting your course
- Revisiting continuous delivery & operation
- Clarifying expectations
- DevOps in the enterprise
- Scaling DevOps
- DevOps resources: the Techtown tools glossary
- 12 steps to better code
Conclusion
Training Materials
All DevOps training attendees receive comprehensive courseware
Software Requirements
Accelebrate can provide a remote lab environment for this class. All attendees should have computers with Internet access and a modern web browser (ideally Chrome).
