DevOps Course

Office Hours

• Schedule a Conversation

Links

• [A] LinkedIn Profile
• [B] DevOps Telegram Channel
• [C] Qwiklabs Sign Up
• [D] Google Cloud Console
• [E] Google Cloud Shell
• [F] Google Cloud Shell with Editor
• [G] MongoDB Cloud

Exercises

• [1] Google Qwiklabs
• [2] Google Cloud Essentials:
  • [3] Enroll in the 'Quest'
  • [4] - Create Virtual Machine
  • [5] - Deploy on Kubernetes
• [6] MongoDB Getting Started
• [7] Docker Hello
• [8] NodeJS API in Docker
• [9] GitHub Actions Example
• [10] ARM Templates
• [11] Ansible Exercise
• [12] GCP Deployment Manager
• [13] Try Azure App Service
• [14] Netlify CMS
• [15] k3s Exercise
• [16] Docker Hello – Auto Build
• [17] Kubernetes in Google Cloud Shell
• [18] scrumblr | Containerized Version

Course Outline & Suggested Material for Preparation

Day 1 (half day)

• Modern Application Design – The Big Picture
• Why DevOps?
• Cloud Computing
• Git

Videos

• What is DevOps? (2 min)
• Cloud Computing Defined (2 min)
• What is Git? (2 min)

Material

• Cloud Computing Explained (ZDNet)
• What is Git & How to Use It
• GitHub First Steps | Git Guide

Day 2 (Full Day)

• Recap: The Need for DevOps, Cloud Computing, Git
• CI/CD, Pipelines
• Kanban, Agile & Scrum
• Containers & Kubernetes
• Automation & Infrastructure-as-Code

Videos

• CI/CD Explained in 100 Seconds (2 min)
• Scrum 7 min explainer video
• Docker in 100 Seconds
• Kubernetes in 100 Seconds
• Infrastructure-as-Code (3 min)

Material

• DevOps Basics
• What is CI/CD?
• What's Agile & Scrum?
• Docker Introduction
• What's GitHub Actions?
• Learn Git Branching

Day 3 (Show & Tell)

The stage is yours!

• Projects – choose one of the following

  • (1) BCM Pte Ltd. --> your deliverable is a slide deck
  • (2) CI/CD --> your deliverable is a GitHub repository with code & descriptions. No slides!

• One project per student, no group work

  • The descriptions are vague on purpose and meant to inspire your creativity & give you freedom to build a project based on your ideas, interest, and level of technical debt.
  • Try your best not to think of the project as 'homework submission', but your chance to apply what you learned
  • For the BCM project: assume you're speaking to an executive panel (the customer) in that session
  • For the technical project: much more important than actual coding miracles is clearly showing & illustrating what you are trying to achieve, which steps you take, and what the desired outcome is (README.md). If you can make automated (parts!) of the CI/CD workflow happen, even better! Clone and adapt some of the examples from the course to get you started!

• Submit into the 'Show and Tell' folder in LumiNUS by 8pm the night before the session:

  • a slide deck (PDF) – if you chose project (1)
  • a text file that contains your name + a link to a public GitHub repo – if you chose project (2)

• Get ready to present at the Show & Tell! In the interest of time we will use ONE laptop where we run all slides & projects from

• Attendance is compulsory. If you have a valid reason why you are not able to join the Show & Tell session, you are expected to record a short video (max 5 minutes) where you:

  • assume you're speaking to an executive panel (the customer) – if you chose project (1)
  • show what you built & talk about your approach – if you chose project (2)
  • how to record such a video? Get on a Zoom call with yourself, press record, share the screen and you're in business. After that, upload the file to LumiNUS.

Tools & References

• Scrumblr – simple Kanban board
• Flyin Donut – free scrumban tool
• Markdown Cheat Sheet
• MongoDB 5 min explainer video

Other Material & Links

• What is Ethereum? A Beginner's Explanation in Plain English (11 min)
• Blockchain 101 Visual Demo
• Free Subdomains for your GitHub Pages etc
• Using Git with VS Code
• AI research – GPT-3