Introduction to DevOps Training Overview
DevOps (Development and Operations) is an approach to automation and platform design that integrates all areas of product delivery as a shared responsibility throughout the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). This Fundamentals of DevOps training course introduces attendees to the building blocks of DevOps and teaches them how to successfully automate the SDLC.
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
- Implement a process where development, deployment, and service management all work together
- Provide delivered value with a predictable cycle time
- Architect DevOps strategies and automation
Prerequisites
Familiarity with operational command line commands on Windows or Linux is helpful but not required.
Outline
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Introduction
DevOps Origin and Evolution
- DevOps history
- What DevOps is and is not
- DevOps goals and outcomes
- Why business and IT are driving DevOps
DevOps Components, Principles, and Practices
- The Golden Circle
- Breaking the IT silo culture
- The Three Ways
- The Theory of Constraints
- Common constraints
- Overcoming constraints
- Developing a learning culture
- Continuous testing
- Continuous integration (CI)
- Continuous delivery (CD)
- CI/CD tools and skills
- Continuous deployment
- Site reliability engineering (SRE) overview
- Resilience engineering
- DevSecOps (overview)
- ChatOps (overview)
- Kanban
Business and Technology Frameworks
- Adoption and integration of multiple frameworks
- Agile, Scrum, SCCS, SAFe, ITSM, Lean
- Value stream mapping
- Improvement Kata
Organizational Culture
- Cultural and technical debt
- Characteristics of a DevOps culture
- High and low trust
- Flow of information
- Adoption and stages of change
- Stages of change acceptance
- Conflict modes
DevOps Toolchains
- Overview and listing of DevOps tools
- Cloud computing, containers, and microservices
- Steps to improving automation
- Communication and collaboration
- Integrating complementary tools
- Testing and monitoring
- Infrastructure as code (IaC)
- The deployment pipeline
Measurement and Metrics
- Measuring IT performance
- Measuring success
- DevOps metrics pyramid
Conclusion
- Factors that lead to critical success
- Challenges to the adoption of DevOps practices
Training Materials
All DevOps training attendees receive comprehensive courseware.
Software Requirements
Attendees will not need to install any software on their computer for this class. The class will be conducted in a remote environment that Accelebrate will provide; students will only need a local computer with a web browser and a stable Internet connection. Any recent version of Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome will work well.
