DevOps is a combination of software development and IT operations methodologies and technologies. DevOps introduces many functional and technical changes in how companies design, develop, and deploy technologies, infrastructures, and applications. DevOps combines Agile software development practices and IT automation techniques to achieve rapid rates of high quality deployment.

This course will focus on the technologies and tools used by DevOps engineers. Upon completion of this course students will understand the core technologies and tools used within DevOps environments.

Learning Outcomes
At the conclusion of the course, you should be able to

• Understand the core concepts used in virtual and containerized environments
• Understand Microservices and SoC (separation of concerns)
• Write scripts to automate the deployment and configuration of Virtual Environments
• Write scripts to automate the deployment and configuration of Container-Based Environments

Topics Include

• Why DevOps? What do DevOps engineers/teams do?
• Automating Deployments
* Using BASH
* Programmatic ssh

• Virtual Environments
* Virtual Machine Concepts
* Tools: Vagrant
* Automating N-Tier VM Deployments

• Microservices
* Why Microservices
* Hybrid Microservice Architectures

• Containers and Docker
* Concepts
* Deploying Microservices in Containers
* N-Tier Container Deployments

• Deploying Containers in Virtual Machines
* Docker + Vagrant

• Infrastructure as Code
* Git
* GitHub

Skills Needed: Students must have basic programming experience using a high level programming language like Java, Python, C#, or a scripting environment like Bash.