Learn to implement the DevOps culture across all your teams and all of your IT value chains.
A DevOps practice is built on a foundation of culture, tools, and structured collaboration. Cross-functionality of teams is critical, as is ongoing support from leaders and managers. Automation and high-efficiency tools support everything. Above all, the essential ingredient is the transformation in mentality of your IT teams from a focus on individual job roles to one of unified team mission. That transformation requires trust, new tools, and a tangible plan. It requires speed, high visibility, and an Agile mentality for everyone involved in developing, deploying, and maintaining applications.
This three-day DevOps course is loaded with practical real-world tools and techniques. From the nation’s largest Agile development trainer comes a comprehensive program to get you started on the road to DevOps success.
You will leave this course fully literate in the entire array of available DevOps tools and lessons, ready to select what’s right for you and chart a path to fully realized IT success in your own organization.
Course Objectives:
Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:
- Leverage infrastructure automation using configuration tools
- Chart a path to continuous IT operations
- Spot feedback loops in IT work and capitalize on them
- Implement agile concepts into infrastructure management
- Continuously monitor capacity and operations
- Map and visualize IT workflow to eliminate bottlenecks and streamline capacity
- Effectively communicate the progress and results of your DevOps efforts to management
- Implement a plan for leadership participation and transformation of the IT mentality
- Transform IT from an unpredictable cost center to a strategic source of business value and competitive advantage
Part 1: Introduction
- DevOps Defined
- DevOps (Then and Now)
- CI/CD
- Infrastructure as Code
- BizDevOps
- DevSecOps
- AIOps
- DataOps
- High-Performance IT Organizations
- Elite Performers
- Use of the Cloud
- Work-Life Balance
- Optimized Change Review
- Origins and History of DevOps
- The Quality Movement and W Edwards Deming
- The Lean Movement and the Toyota Production System
- The Agile Movement – Mindset, Value, Principles and Practices
- The Continuous Delivery Movement
- Argument for DevOps
- Business Value of DevOps
- Net Effect of DevOps
Part 2: Maturing a DevOps Practice in the Enterprise
- CALMS – The 5 DevOps Principles
- The 5 Cultural Challenges
- 5 Cultural Dimensions
- Value Stream Mapping
- Value Stream Definition and Examples
- Analyze: Value Stream Lead Time, Quality, Involvement
Part 3: Your DevOps Journey – Optimize Flow
- Principles of Flow
- 6 Principles of Flow from the DevOps Handbook
- 8 Principles of Continuous Delivery from the Continuous Delivery book
- Infrastructure as Code
- Infrastructure and Application Configuration Management
- Configuration Management Tools
- Deployment Pipeline
- Deployment Pipeline Stages and Tools
- Deployment Orchestration Tools
- Deployment Pipeline: Everything in Version Control
- DevOps Quality Management
- Quality Foundations
- Quality Principles
- Quality Practices
- Test Automation Architecture
- Test Automation Pyramid
- Strategies for Managing Test Data
- Code Analysis Tools
- Automated Testing Tools
- CI/CD
- Continuous Integration
- Continuous Delivery
- Database Continuous Integration (DBCI)
- Application Management Strategies
- Application Architecture – SOA, Microservices, Strangler Pattern
- Infrastructure Architecture – Virtualization and the Cloud
- Containerization
Part 4: Your DevOps Journey – Amplify Feedback
- Objective and Principles of Feedback
- Telemetry Definitions and Concepts
- Telemetry Principles
- Integrating Security into Production Telemetry
- Telemetry Layers and Levels
- Ensuring Effective Alerts
- System Monitoring, Log Aggregation, and Alerting Tools
- DevOps Metrics
- Advanced Uses of Telemetry
- Using Telemetry to Anticipate Problems
- Feedback for Safe Deployment of Code
- Developers Follow Their Apps Downstream
- Hypothesis-Driven Development and A/B Testing
- Change Review and Coordination
Part 5: Your DevOps Journey – Continual Learning and Experimentation
- Learning Culture
- Blameless Postmortems
- Responses to Failure
- Blameless Postmortems
- Knowledge Sharing
- Innovation Culture
- Institutionalize the Improvement of Daily Work
- Encouraging Experimentation
- Holding Learning and Improvement Events (Hackathons, Kaizen Blitzes, Rehearsing Large-Scale Failures, Fault Injection)
- Role of Leadership
Part 6: Planning Your DevOps Journey
- Cultural Challenges
- Organizational Challenges
- Transformation Patterns You Can Follow
- Lean Startup Teams
- Collaboration Tools
- Automate Everything You Can
- Reserve Time for Improvement
- Planning DevOps Transformation
Exercise Outline:
Exercises are designed to assure learners a whole practical experience, through the following practical activities:
- Exercise: Argue for the value of DevOps in your organization
- Exercise: Choose and Map a Case Study Value Stream
- Exercise: Analyze a Value Stream
- Exercise: Apply Principles to your Case Study Value Stream
- Exercise: Configuration Management in your Case Study Value Stream
- Exercise: Deployment Pipeline in your Case Study Value Stream
- Exercise: DevOps Quality Management in your Case Study Value Stream
- Exercise: CI/CD in your Case Study Value Stream
- Exercise: DBCI in your Case Study Value Stream
- Exercise: Optimize Flow in Your Case Study Value Stream
- Exercise: Telemetry Principles in Your Case Study Value Stream
- Exercise: Telemetry in your Case Study Value Stream
- Exercise: Amplify Feedback in Your Case Study Value Stream
- Exercise: Learning and Innovation Culture in Your Organization
- Exercise: Your DevOps Action Plan
The primary audience for this course is as follows:
- Anyone in an IT Leadership role
- CIOs / CTOs
- System Administrators
- IT Operations Staff
- Release Engineers
- Configuration Managers
- Anyone involved with IT infrastructure
- Developers and Application Team leads
- ScrumMasters
- Software Managers and Team Leads
- IT Project and Program Managers
- Product Owners and Managers