Configuration Management, Monitoring, & Security in DevOps

DevOps tools and technology frameworks to implement configuration management, monitoring, and security
What you'll learn
Understand how the Agile Delivery Methodology helps you ensure accuracy and quality.
Analyze branching strategies such as branch creation, merging, and synchronization.
Learn to automate builds to deploy and deliver code faster and more often.
Master the fundamentals of Docker, so that you can use containerization to accelerate development and deployment.
Design an effective development environment using Docker and Docker Compose.
Discover the Three Ways of DevOps: what they are, and why they are important.
Configure management tools using Chef, puppet, and Ansible.
Requirements
Basic understanding or working experience with Linux, and an understanding of the software delivery lifecycle will be helpful. However, no prior knowledge of DevOps & Docker is needed.
Description
During the implementation stage, it's necessary to put into use activities related to building, testing, and deployment. DevOps is the most widely used software engineering culture and practice that aims at software development and operation. DevOps is becoming a reality in the IT workplace. It helps an organization deploy software more frequently while maintaining service stability and gaining the speed necessary for more innovation. Being able to master and manage the basic tools for DevOps, is the first step towards success.
This comprehensive 3-in-1 course follows a step-by-step practical approach to implementing Configuration Management, Monitoring, & Security in DevOps. Initially, you'll dive into DevOps in order to be effective, and the use of cloud data centers in combination with the most advanced DevOps tools. Use Kubernetes to run your applications in Google Cloud Platform, minimizing the friction and hassle of maintaining a cluster but ensuring its high availability. Master the fundamentals of Docker, so that you can use containerization to accelerate development and deployment. Finally, you'll implement security solutions in the DevOps cycle & configure management tools using Chef, puppet, and Ansible.
Towards the end of this course, you'll make your development better with cutting-edge technology. Implement configuration management, monitoring, and security in DevOps.
Contents and Overview
This training program includes 3 complete courses, carefully chosen to give you the most comprehensive training possible.
The first course, DevOps Fundamentals, covers enabling IT organizations to deliver faster and smarter. This video course starts by explaining the organizational alignment that has to happen in every company that wants to implement DevOps in order to be effective, and the use of cloud data centers in combination with the most advanced DevOps tools to get the best out of a small team of skilled engineers. It also delves into how to use Kubernetes to run your applications in Google Cloud Platform, minimizing the friction and hassle of maintaining a cluster but ensuring its high availability. In this course, you are going to learn how to use Ansible to manipulate remote servers in a structured and organized manner and set up the required level of continuous integration tools to automate the full pipeline.
The second course, Effective DevOps and Development with Docker, covers adopting best practices, accelerating development, and improving the quality of life for your whole software team. In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of Docker, how to utilize it in your development environment, and know how Docker can help your organization adopt DevOps principles. Additionally, you will learn about the fundamental principles of DevOps and how to transform your team into one that follows the three DevOps ways. By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable using Docker on the command line, writing Docker Compose files, and using these tools to boost your development. You will follow along and practice the fundamentals, learning from someone who has been in your shoes. Also, you will adopt best practices, scale up development, and accelerate your team into the forefront of the ever-changing development landscape.
The third course, Professional DevOps, covers implementing configuration management, monitoring, and security in DevOps. This course helps you implement a complete DevOps cycle in your existing IT environment. Each section of this course will help you implement the DevOps culture in your professional environment. With the help of source control, continuous build, continuous integration, automated test with quality controls, and container technologies, this course will be your perfect guide to learn and apply DevOps in your organization. By the end of this course, you'll be able to identify and choose the appropriate tools and technology framework to implement DevOps in your organization.
Towards the end of this course, you'll make your development better with cutting-edge technology. Implement configuration management, monitoring, and security in DevOps.
About the Authors
David Gonzalez is an enthusiastic engineer and author of a book called Developing Microservices with Node.js (microservices don't work without platform automation). He is a Google Developer Expert (a nomination from Google to certain experts in several areas) in Kubernetes (GKE), who enjoys being pushed out of his comfort zone in order to sharpen his skills. Java, Node.js, Python, and DevOps as well as a holistic approach to security are part of the skill set that has helped him deliver value across different start-ups and corporations. Nowadays, he is a consultant at nearForm, enabling companies to deliver the best possible solution to their IT problems or proposals, as well as an avid speaker at conferences such as Rebel Con and Google I/O Extended, among others.
James Quigley is the Director of IT at Axosoft, the creators of GitKraken, the legendary Git GUI. He is passionate about creating cloud applications at scale and loves helping others start their journey into the world of containerization and cloud computing. Always amazed at the amount of incredible technology out there, James spends as much time as he can learn new things, and always finds a better way to develop, build, and deploy software.
Umar Murtaza has more than 25 years' experience of System Administration in implementing, commissioning development, testing, and production environments. He has designed and implemented a number of DevOps environments, conducted 4- day hands-on DevOps training sessions at a number of private and government telecommunications and software companies/institutions.
Who this course is for:
System administrators, solution architects, developers, and IT professionals who would like to employ DevOps techniques and best practices to manage IT infrastructures or would like to acquire the necessary skills needed to work in DevOps teams.