DevOps for Managers and Leaders Training (DVO106)

Course Length: 2 days

Delivery Methods: Available as private class only

Course Overview

This two-day DevOps for Managers and Leaders workshop is loaded with practical real-world information. You will leave this course loaded with knowledge on the available people, processes, culture, and tools for DevOps, ready to select what's right for your company and to roadmap the journey for your organization. The class provides two DevOps implementation case studies, a 30-60-90 roadmap to implementing DevOps in your organization, DevOps organizational maturity assessment, as well as patterns and best practices to enable you to confidently lead a DevOps implementation. This class demystifies the fundamental shift from focusing only on the tools or scripting to using DevOps for measurably higher performance from organizations of all sizes for solving business problems in a timely manner.

Course Benefits

Confidently design a DevOps roadmap for your organization.
Understand the various key components.
Communication and evangelization of your DevOps progress.
How automation is key to success
Understand the key components;tools, processes, and people required
Apply the knowledge to improve reliability of build & release processes
Become literate in the vernacular of DevOps
Learn the metrics and analytics that provide understanding of your organizational maturity
Monitor your team and application lifecycle management effectiveness
Understand how to create a culture that supports technology-enabled business
Apply technology, people and process to shift left
Map out the workforce strategy required for organizational success
Compare other organizational journeys in DevOps to understand options and approaches

Course Outline

Devops Journey
1. Why DevOps?
2. What is DevOps?
3. History behind DevOps
4. Cross functional teams
5. Key components of successful DevOps
6. DevOps vocabulary
7. DevOps goals
8. Driving business outcomes with DevOps
9. Summary
Cultural Alignment & Workforce Strategy
1. Leading the charge to DevOps
2. Core values and mission
3. Communication
4. Collaboration
5. Value stream mapping
6. Behavioral patterns
7. Culture assessment
8. Summary
Continuous Integration & Delivery
1. What does continuous delivery mean?
2. What is continuous integration?
3. Project methodologies
4. Measuring your organization maturity
5. Tool selection
6. IT organization structure
7. Business continuity
8. Supportability and sustainability
9. Summary
10. Case Study 1: Global Financial Services
CI Tools
1. Challenges solved by CI tools
2. Introduction to Jenkins
3. Introduction to Hudson
4. Introduction to Cruise
5. Introduction to SaltStack
6. Comparison
7. Summary
Monitoring
1. What to monitor?
2. How to monitor?
3. Why to monitor?
4. Application Performance Monitoring
5. Infrastructure monitoring
6. Monitoring across the stack
7. Summary
Measurement
1. What to measure?
2. How to measure?
3. Why to measure?
4. Choosing the right metrics
5. What are your key performance indicators?
6. Actionable insight
7. Software quality
8. Top 5 metrics
9. Summary
Automation scripting
1. Why automate?
2. Goals for scripting
3. Error handling
4. Logging
5. Automating versioned builds
6. Automating continuous integration tests
7. Automated cleanup
8. Introduction to Shell scripting
9. Introduction to Python
10. Introduction to Ruby
11. Introduction to Perl
12. Summary
13. Case study 2. Enterprise Telecommunications
Agile
1. History of Agile
2. Managing sprints
3. Maintaining the backlog
4. Working with story points
5. Distributed agile
6. Kaizen
7. Kanban
8. Summary
Building Tools
1. Build tool history
2. Repeatability
3. Notification
4. Continuous build
5. Build tool basics
6. Summary
Configuration Management
1. Why is configuration management key to DevOps success?
2. What is configuration management
3. Terminology
4. Automation tool comparison
5. Configuration management tools
6. Setting up the environment
7. Deployment
8. Cloud integration
Continuous Code Quality
1. What is continuous code quality?
2. Continuous Testing
3. Seven Axes of Quality
4. Potential Bugs
5. Test-Driven Development
6. Behavior-Driven Development
7. What is Sonar Qube
8. SonarQube- Benefits
9. Summary
10. Case study 3. Federated Global Products
DevOps DBA
1. DBA role in DevOps
2. Why are DBAs often left out of the conversation?
3. Database management with DevOps
4. Push button CI for database
5. Managing databases with configuration management
6. Database self-service
7. Database configuration as code
8. Pay to Play or Open Source
9. Data as an asset
10. Big Data
11. NOSQL
12. Summary
Best Practices
1. Who are the folks using the various solutions?
2. DevOps implementation checklist
3. Gap assessment survey
4. Best practices
5. Patterns
6. Anti-patterns
7. Summary
DevOps Action Plan
1. What defines a cloud?
2. Elasticity
3. History of cloud
4. Benefits of cloud
5. Public, Private, or Hybrid?
6. Governance in cloud
7. Cloud deployment
8. Introduction to AWS
9. Introduction to Azure
10. Introduction to SoftLayer
11. Why virtualization?
12. Virtual machines
13. Virtualization with Citrix
14. Summary

Class Materials

Each student will receive a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.

Class Prerequisites

Experience in the following is required for this DevOps class:

A desire to learn how to successfully implement DevOps in your organization.

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