Part 1: Infrastructure as Code

In this section, we will introduce the benefits that Infrastructure as Code (IaC) can bring to organizations and how IaC fits within modern DevOps best practices.

1. DevOps and GitOps
2. Principles of Infrastructure as Code
3. Applying Infrastructure as Code in DevOps
4. Infrastructure as Code best practices
5. Benefits of Infrastructure as Code
6. The case for Terraform

Part 2: Terraform Overview

This section provides an overview of Terraform concepts and vocabulary and instructs how Terraform manages infrastructure configuration in cloud environments.

1. Terraform configuration language overview
2. Terraform CLI
3. The lifecycle of a configuration
4. State storage – local versus remote
5. Connecting to Azure

Hands-on Labs:

• Setting up a Terraform project

Part 3: Azure Resources

In this section participants will be getting hands-on practice using Terraform to create a simple application environment in Azure, learning the essential constructs in Terraform for defining resources.

1. Resource metadata and naming best practices
2. Subscription and resource group
3. Networking resources (VNet, subnet, network security group)
4. Compute resources (virtual machine)
5. Storage resources (storage account, file share, blob storage)
6. Database resources (SQL database)
7. Variables
8. Outputs

Hands-on Labs:

• Deploying a VNet
• Adding a virtual machine into your VNet
• Adding storage and a database
• Including variables in your code
• Using Terraform commands to validate and inspect your configuration

Part 4: Terraform Programming

This section introduces programming constructs within Terraform that enable you to add more control and flexibility in defining resources.

1. Control operations (count, loops, conditional, depends_on, etc.)
2. Data structures (maps, lists, random_string, etc.)
3. Data sources
4. Functions (e.g., lookup, coalesce, join, merge, etc.)
5. Variable validation
6. Debugging Terraform

Hands-on Labs:

• Managing multiple resources through count and loops
• Using maps and lists in your code
• Using functions in your code
• Using Terraform CLI and state manipulation to debug your configuration

Part 5: Modules

This section shows how modules can be used to create reusable components in Terraform and teaches best practices in organizing Terraform code.

1. Purpose of modules
2. Modules code file organization structure
3. Module structure
4. Module sources and versioning
5. Nested modules
6. Publishing modules

Hands-on Labs:

• Refactoring your earlier lab code to a module
• Using Azure modules (subscription, metadata, resource group, virtual network)

Part 6: Wrapping Up

This section wraps up the course with reviews to reinforce what you have learned.

1. Reference material to learn more
2. Course review
3. Next steps

Part 1: Fundamentals of Cloud Computing

1. Tenets of Cloud Computing
   • What makes something “cloud”?
   • The five tenets
   • Why the five tenets are so difficult in practice
   • The cloud mindset
2. Cloud Deployment Models
   • Types of providers
     • Public
     • Private
     • Hybrid
   • Combining providers
     • Single
     • Multi-cloud
   • Choosing among provider types
   • Using cloud providers securely
3. Cloud Service Models
   • Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
   • Platform as a service (PaaS)
   • Software as a service (SaaS)
   • Serverless
4. Communicating Your Cloud Journey
   • Share your cloud strategy
   • Don’t ignore the people side of strategy success
   • Stay connected regularly and be available
   • Expect challenges and doubters
   • Celebrate your successes and share lessons learned
   • Exercise: Develop a communications plan

Part 2: Cloud Strategy Overview

1. What Is Cloud Strategy?
   • What it is (and isn’t)
   • Relation to other strategies and plans
   • Once you have one, now what?
2. From Business Vision to Cloud Strategy
   • Desired business outcomes
   • Potential benefits
   • Potential risks
   • The rise of bimodal IT
   • Business-specific factors
   • Exercise: Align benefits and risks with desired outcomes
3. Cloud Strategy Council
   • What is it?
   • Why do you need one?
   • Who’s on it?
4. Services Model
   • Consume
   • Build
   • Broker
   • Hybrid Management
   • Exercise: Develop sample services model
5. Financial Models
   • How pricing works for cloud services
   • Is cloud cheaper?
   • CapEx vs. OpEx
6. Principles
   • Why principles matter
   • Common cloud principles
   • How to choose yours
   • Exercise: Select cloud principles for sample case
7. Workload Inventory
   • The hard work of preparation
   • Exercise: Complete a sample workload inventory
8. Establish Governance Model
   • Importance of cloud governance
   • Layers of governance
     • Enterprise architecture
     • Technical architecture
     • Application architecture
     • Data architecture
   • Risk and compliance
     • Legal compliance
     • Industry compliance
     • Internal policies
   • Cloud center of excellence
9. Staffing, Resource, and Training Impacts
   • Assessment of roles needed and impacted
   • Evaluate corporate staffing and resource policies
   • Exercise: Complete a sample training plan
10. Exit Strategy
    • Why it’s critical to have one
    • Contracts
    • Data ownership and retention
    • Potential risks and issues

Part 3: Beginning Cloud Adoption

1. Cloud Adoption Framework
   • Assess
   • Perform
   • Extend
   • Improve
2. Assess Your Cloud Readiness
   • Initiating your adoption planning
   • Conducting cloud readiness assessments inventorying
   • Interpreting readiness results
   • Moving from assessment to action plan
   • Exercise: Complete a sample readiness assessment
3. Cloud Migration Decision Framework: The 6Rs
   • Replace
   • Refactor
   • Rehost
   • Retain
   • Retire
   • Replatform
   • Exercise:Apply cloud migration decision framework to a sample case
4. Select Your First Cloud Service
   • Prioritize candidate services
     • Select candidates for your first cloud service
     • Assess service criticality of each candidate
     • Assess risk and benefit of each candidate
     • Decide on the first cloud service
   • Architect selected cloud service
     • Cloud native
     • 12 factor app methodology
     • LIFESPAR
     • Exercise: Rearchitect sample architecture for cloud migration
   • Evaluate cost and return
     • Maximize your cloud value
       • Avoid surprise bills
       • Use demand forecasting effectively
       • Trade off space and time to save money
       • Hit your uptime targets without breaking the bank
     • Assess benefits of cloud service
       • Operational efficiencies or agility
       • Changes in staffing and skill sets
         • Operations
         • Development
         • Security
       • Expected cost savings from infrastructure
       • Determine costs of cloud services
       • Assessing impact on staff resources
     • Compute cloud service costs
       • Throughput
       • Compute time
       • Scalability
       • Resiliency
     • Exercise: Estimate cost for sample architecture for public cloud providers

Part 4: Extending and Improving Adoption

1. Assess Hybrid Operating Challenges
   • Development and testing
     • Development toolchain
     • Debugging in the cloud
     • Testing
   • Operations
     • The rise of SRE
     • Moving administration up the stack
     • Aligning cloud service monitoring and on-premises monitoring
     • Survey of SRE vendors and tools
   • Security
     • Incident and event management
     • Auditing
     • Policy enforcement
     • Penetration testing
     • Threat assessment and modeling
     • Vulnerability management
   • Identity and access controls
     • The continuum of identity from on-premises to IDaaS
     • Understand the benefits and trade-offs of IAM protocols
     • Identity as the new edge
     • The hidden costs of identity in SaaS
     • Survey of cloud IAM vendors
   • Environment management
     • Moving from on-premises environments to cloud environments
     • Hybrid environment challenges
   • Configuration management
     • Impact of cloud service models on configuration
     • Storing secrets securely
     • Managing secrets over time
     • Monitoring for drift
     • Survey of configuration management vendors and tools
   • Deployment and release management
     • A new philosophy of release management
     • Separating deployment from release
     • Monitor and recover from failed deployments
     • Data management
       • Implement proper security controls
       • Plan a successful data migration effort
       • Establish audit and traceability
       • Analysis and reporting from the cloud
         • Business continuity and disaster recovery
           • Evaluate business continuity procedures
           • Evaluate disaster recovery procedures

2. Improve Cloud Adoption Practices
   • Conduct regular retrospectives
   • Improve automation
   • Manage workloads
   • Refine governance, security, and risk processes
   • Train and develop staff
   • Monitor cloud consumption
   • Perform ongoing security and risk assessments

 Part 5: Wrap Up

1. Our Cloud Strategy Journey
2. What To Do Now
3. Final Thoughts

Students should bring laptops to class. This 3-day Docker training workshop is conducted as a continuous hands-on lab. From the initial install to the multi-container application stack, you will learn Docker through real-world practice.

Part 1: Introduction

1. What can you use Docker for?
2. A logical segregation of duties
3. The relationship between Docker and SOA
4. How Docker fits into the development lifecycle
5. How Docker ensures consistency from development through UAT and staging, and on to production
6. Example use cases of Docker in the real world

Part 2: The components of Docker

1. Underlying technology
2. Docker client and server
3. Filesystem images
4. Registries
5. Containers
6. Networking

Part 3: Getting set up to start using Docker

1. Getting set up on Windows
2. Getting set up on the Mac
3. Trying out our first container
4. Getting set up for production on Linux
5. Tweaking your production environment for best performance
6. User interfaces for Docker management

Part 4: Container management

1. Container naming
2. Starting and stopping containers
3. Attaching to a container
4. Seeing what is happening in a container
5. Running a process inside a container
6. Daemonizing a container
7. Automatic container restarts
8. Deleting containers when we are finished with them

Part 5: Docker images and repositories

1. Docker images explained
2. How Docker images work
3. Getting a list of images
4. Searching for images on a repository
5. Pulling an image
6. Creating our own image
7. Specify an image in a Dockerfile
8. Building Dockerfile images
9. Using the build cache for templating
10. Viewing the image we have created
11. Launching a container using our new image

Part 6: Registries

1. What is the Docker hub?
2. Pushing images to the Docker hub
3. Running your own internal Docker registry
4. Testing the internal registry

Part 7: A simple use case

1. A single container static website
2. Setting up a container running Nginx
3. Launching our static site
4. Updating our static site from git or bitbucket

Part 8: Continuous integration with Docker

1. How Docker enables and supports CI
2. Getting set up for Jenkins and Docker
3. A basic Jenkins job
4. Multi-configuration jobs
5. Drone
6. Shippable

Part 9: A more complex use case: Multi container application stacks

1. A container for our NodeJS application
2. A base image for our Redis containers
3. Creating our Redis back-end cluster
4. Capturing logs
5. Managing containers

Part 10: Docker orchestration and service discovery

1. Getting set up with Fig
2. Configuring the fig.yml file
3. How to use Fig
4. Console
5. Running a Console cluster

Part 11: Integrating with configuration management

1. Managing your Docker hosts with Chef / Puppet / Ansible
2. Building containers using configuration management tools
3. Managing running containers with configuration management

Part 12: Docker and DevOps

1. Enabling collaboration with Docker
2. Using Docker to streamline workflow
3. Using Docker's version control capabilities to enable experimentation and learning
4. Docker's role in the overall IT value chain
5. Creating value and quality with Docker
6. Enabling smoother flow of work

Part 13: Course conclusion, open discussion, and Q&A

1. Going back to work with a plan
2. What was not covered in this class
3. Q&A with the instructor
4. Goodbyes

Part 1: Using Chef resources – the building blocks

Part 2 : Building Chef recipes and cookbooks

Part 3: Introduction to testing cookbooks with Test Kitchen

Part 4: Collecting details about the system via Ohai

Part 5: Attributes – writing dynamic code

Part 6: Managing data with templates

Part 7: Advanced templating – passing in variables

Part 8: Storing your code in a repo – an introduction to Git

Part 9: Workstation setup

Part 10: Centralizing management with Chef Server

Part 11: Using Community Cookbooks

Part 12: Automating chef-client runs

Part 13: Managing a multi-node infrastructure

Part 14: Simplification and scalability through Roles

Part 15: Power automation – invoking Chef Search

Part 16: Staging versus Production – Environments

Part 17: Using Databags to create user accounts on servers