Training > DevOps & Site Reliability > DevOps and SRE Fundamentals: Implementing Continuous Delivery (LFS261)

Training Course

This course will teach you the skills to deploy software with confidence, agility and high reliability using modern practices such as Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD).

Who Is It For

This DevOps fundamentals course is for developers who would like to learn how to deliver software safer, faster and reliably; for quality analysts who would like to set up automated testing, leverage disposable environments, and integrate it with CI tools; for operations engineers, system administrators, DevOps/SRE practitioners responsible for deploying software and managing production environments; and build and release engineers who would like to learn how to deploy software safely and continuously.

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What You’ll Learn

This course introduces the fundamentals of Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) within an open container ecosystem and takes a project-based approach to help you understand and implement key practices. Key learnings include the role played by Docker and Kubernetes, using Git for revision control, how to install and configure Jenkins as a Continuous Integration platform, enforcing development workflows as code reviews, application packaging and distribution with Docker and Docker Registry using Argo CD to set up a deployment pipeline and much more.

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What It Prepares You For

This course will help you to be agile and deliver features rapidly, while at the same time being able to achieve non-functional requirements such as availability, reliability, scalability, security, and more.

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Course Outline

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Exploring CI/CD Concepts and Tools

Chapter 3. Before You Begin: Lab Environment Configuration

Chapter 4. Container Operations with Docker

Chapter 5. Version Control with Git

Chapter 6. Setting Up Continuous Integration with Jenkins

Chapter 7. GitHub Branch Policies & Pipeline as Code with Jenkinsfile

Chapter 8. Using Docker with Jenkins Pipelines

Chapter 9. Docker Images

Chapter 10. Launching a Multi-Service Application with Docker Compose

Chapter 11. Automated Code Analysis

Chapter 12. SRE and Deploying a Scalable Application to Kubernetes

Chapter 13. SRE. GitOps and CD with Argo CD

Prerequisites

To make the most out of this course, you will need to have:

Basic Linux and system administration knowledge
Understanding of software delivery process

Lab Info

To successfully complete the lab exercises in this course, access to a Linux server or Linux desktop/laptop is required. Access to a public cloud provider, or VirtualBox on your machine is also needed. Detailed instructions to set up your lab environment are provided in the course.

If using a cloud provider like GCP or AWS, you should be able to complete the lab exercises using the free tier or credits provided to you. However, you may incur charges if you exceed the credits initially allocated by the cloud provider, or if the cloud provider’s terms and conditions change.

Reviews

Aug 2024

It has shown most of the DevOps cycle, with good explanations and practical examples.

Mar 2024

It was very informative, and the labs covered the content well.

Feb 2024

Very valuable information about trending technologies.

Sep 2023

This course provided great information, and good examples. Also, the recommendations of the open source apps were great.

Aug 2023

The labs are great towards becoming familiar with the tools very quickly.

Jul 2023