Lesson 1 – Walkthrough of Pipeline Components

Learning Objectives

By the end of this lesson you will be able to:

• Check in changes to application code.
• Make simple configuration changes.
• Change an existing automated test.
• Make scripted changes to the database.
• Make a change to a simple build script.
• Make a change to a deployment script.
• Make a change to the infrastructure scripts.
• Run Jenkins Continuous Integration server jobs.
• View and run jobs within a deployment pipeline.
• View static analysis reports.
• View feedback from a dashboard.

Lesson 2 – Definitions, Practices, patterns and tools for implementing Continuous Delivery in the Cloud

Learning Objectives

By the end of this lesson you will be able to:

• Define Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Continuous Deployment and the Cloud.
• Identify Practices, patterns and tools for implementing Continuous Delivery in the Cloud.
• Create a ‘spaghetti diagram’ and a ‘value-stream map’.

Lesson 3 – Primer/Inrotduction to Amazon Web Services

Learning Objectives

By the end of this lesson you will be able to:

• Create an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account and access services.
• Use basic features of the AWS Management Console.
• Define security groups.
• Use basic features of the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
• Use basic features of Elastic Load Balancing (ELB).
• Employ Auto Scaling.
• Use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor resources.
• Use Amazon Route 53 to manage a domain.
• Use Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) to store objects.
• Identify the basic features of AWS CloudFormation for automating infrastructures.
• Identify the basic features of AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
• Identify the purpose other available AWS services.

Lesson 4 – Implemnting Continuous Integration pipeline in AWS

Learning Objectives

By the end of this lesson you will be able to:

• Set up your development environment.
• Install and configure Jenkins plug-ins.
• Configure a scripted environment job.
• Configure a scripted build job.
• Configure a scripted deployment job.
• Configure and run on-demand jobs.
• Configure and run scheduled jobs.
• Configure and run continuous jobs.
• Create continuous feedback mechanisms.

Lesson 5 – Implementing Infrastructure Automation in AWS

Learning Objectives

By the end of this lesson you will be able to:

• Create a CloudFormation template.
• Integrate Puppet with CloudFormation.
• Create a transient environment.
• Lock down environments.
• Create a ‘Chaos Monkey’.

Lesson 6 – Building and Deploying Software

Learning Objectives

By the end of this lesson you will be able to:

• Script a build.
• Script a deployment.
• Set up and utilize a dependency-management repository.
• Deploy to target environments.
• Perform a self-service deployment.

Lesson 7 – Configuration Management

Learning Objectives

By the end of this lesson you will be able to:

• Work from the canonical version.
• Version system configurations and other artifacts.
• Setup a dynamic configuration management database.

Lesson 8 – Database

Learning Objectives

By the end of this lesson you will be able to:

• Script a database.
• Script the upgrade and downgrade of a database.
• Use a database sandbox.

Lesson 9 – Testing

Learning Objectives

By the end of this lesson you will be able to:

• View and run unit tests.

Lesson 10 – Delivery Pipeline

Learning Objectives

By the end of this lesson you will be able to:

• Create a delivery pipeline with dependent jobs.