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About the content
The goal of this course is to take existing IT professionals, whether they come from software development or operations, and help them appreciate the challenges facing companies who are looking to embrace scalable software deployment as well as the architectures and thought processes they can use to address these challenges.
Students will start with a presentation of the problem as it stands today, then dive into the DevOps workflow and a survey of the system architectures currently being used to address this problem.
Syllabus
LESSON 1
- Introduction to DevOps
- What is DevOps.
- Why DevOps is needed.
- CAMS (Culture, Automation, Measurement, Sharing) principles.
LESSON 2
- Dev and Ops
- The different perspectives of Dev and Ops
- Different perspectives can cause conflict.
- How to solve the problems with different approach and some tools.
LESSON 3
- Continuous Integration and Delivery
- Tools that enable Continuous Integration and Delivery workflows
- Measurement and the ways it helps IT and business
- Tools that help with measurement
Prerequisites and Requirements
- Ability to install software
- Ability to use git
- Some experience with programming (even just scripting in shell)
- Some experience as SysAdmin; some experience with Linux is beneficial
Instructors
Karl Krueger
Karl is a Course Developer at Udacity. Before joining Udacity, Karl was a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Google for eight years, building automation and monitoring to keep the world's busiest web services online. Outside of work, his interests include gardening, cooking, board games, and messing around with new programming languages. No whiteboard is safe from his doodles.
Dwayne Lessner
Dwayne Lessner is a technical marketing engineer on the product marketing team at Nutanix. In this role, Dwayne helps design, test, and build solutions on top of the Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform. Dwayne has worked in healthcare and oil & gas for over ten years in various roles from Junior tech to Operations Manager. A strong background in server and desktop virtualization has given Dwayne the opportunity to work with many different application frameworks and architecture. Dwayne has been a speaker at BriForum, VMware, and various industry events and conferences.
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Platform
Udacity is a for-profit educational organization founded by Sebastian Thrun, David Stavens, and Mike Sokolsky offering massive open online courses (MOOCs). According to Thrun, the origin of the name Udacity comes from the company's desire to be "audacious for you, the student". While it originally focused on offering university-style courses, it now focuses more on vocational courses for professionals.
Udacity is a good platform and this course give some introduction to vagrant, packer and jenkins. This is a fast introduction to devops tools. Some difficulties may raise when trying to do exercises on cloud platform like AWS.
Udacity is a good platform and this course give some introduction to vagrant, packer and jenkins. This is a fast introduction to devops tools. Some difficulties may raise when trying to do exercises on cloud platform like AWS.
