DevOps Fundamentals (D101520) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Introduction to DevOps

• What is DevOps?
• About DevOps goals and terminology
• Explaining DevOps life cycle
• Describing DevOps Framework
• Listing commonly used DevOps tools
• About DevOps Toolchain and Culture

Automation and Orchestration

• What and Why of Automation?
• What is Orchestration?
• Why Orchestration?
• Automation Vs. Orchestration

Agile Development and Project Management

• Overview of Agile manifesto and Agile goals
• About Scrum and Scrum Roles
• Agile support in Oracle Developer Cloud Service
• Creating and managing issues
• Creating and viewing agile board
• Creating a sprint
• Adding and updating issues in an active sprint

Test-Driven Development (TDD)

• Unit testing versus other types of testing
• About Test-Driven Development process
• How to use TDD for daily development?
• Introduction to Python
• Test-Driven Development in Python

Developing Apps Using IDE

• What is an IDE?
• Features and advantages of IDEs
• About Oracle Developer Cloud Service
• Creating a task in Mylyn
• Using Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse
• Connecting to Oracle Developer Cloud from Eclipse

Managing the Build Process Using Maven

• Describing Maven and its key concepts
• Creating a simple Maven project
• Compiling, testing, packaging, and executing Maven project

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery

• Describing Continuous Integration (CI)
• Explaining the need for CI
• What are the advantages of using CI?
• Creating and maintaining a CI solution in Oracle Developer Cloud Service
• Describing Continuous Delivery (CD) and how it differs from CI

Role of QA in DevOps

• Defining Quality Assurance (QA)
• Explaining why QA is important
• Describing the role of QA in DevOps
• About QA best practices in a DevOps scenario
• Describing API testing and explain how it is done
• Identifying the tools that can be used to automate testing

Testing Low-Level APIs

• Defining REST APIs
• What is API testing?
• Explaining HTTP and REST concepts
• Describing cURL
• Testing REST APIs

Software Delivery and Release

• Explaining the role of Release Manager in software delivery
• Describing the software delivery process
• Explaining maturity testing levels
• What it takes to deliver software from a development environment to various production environments?

Configuration Management to Extend Continuous Delivery

• Defining Configuration Management and Infrastructure Automation
• Overview of leading Configuration Management platforms and tools
• Learning Terraform features and configurations

Infrastructure to Set Up Configuration Management

• Describing how to use Oracle Compute Cloud Service to set up the infrastructure
• Explaining the structure of an orchestration
• Creating an orchestration file by using JSON
• Creating compute, networking, and storage objects by using orchestrations
• Using a master orchestration to manage multiple orchestrations

Continuous Monitoring

• Why is monitoring important?
• About Application Performance Monitoring
• Explaining need for Continuous Monitoring in production

Managing the Modern Cloud and Empowering DevOps

• Defining the modern cloud
• Explaining how to empower DevOps with powerful monitoring, management, and analytics tools
• Defining Application Performance Monitoring
• Describing how to search and analyze logs
• Explaining how to analyze the performance of your business
• Explaining how to plan and use resources across your IT estate