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Duration 4 Days 24 CPD hours This course is intended for Students in this course are interested in designing and implementing DevOps processes or in passing the Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam. This course provides the knowledge and skills to design and implement DevOps processes and practices. Students will learn how to plan for DevOps, use source control, scale Git for an enterprise, consolidate artifacts, design a dependency management strategy, manage secrets, implement continuous integration, implement a container build strategy, design a release strategy, set up a release management workflow, implement a deployment pattern, and optimize feedback mechanisms Prerequisites Successful learners will have prior knowledge and understanding of: * Cloud computing concepts, including an understanding of PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS implementations. * Both Azure administration and Azure development with proven expertise in at least one of these areas. * Version control, Agile software development, and core software development principles. It would be helpful to have experience in an organization that delivers software. * AZ-104T00 - Microsoft Azure Administrator * AZ-204T00: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure 1 - INTRODUCTION TO DEVOPS * What is DevOps? * Explore the DevOps journey * Identify transformation teams * Explore shared goals and define timelines 2 - CHOOSE THE RIGHT PROJECT * Explore greenfield and brownfield projects * Decide when to use greenfield and brownfield projects * Decide when to use systems of record versus systems of engagement * Identify groups to minimize initial resistance * Identify project metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) 3 - DESCRIBE TEAM STRUCTURES * Explore agile development practices * Explore principles of agile development * Define organization structure for agile practices * Explore ideal DevOps team members * Enable in-team and cross-team collaboration * Select tools and processes for agile practices 4 - CHOOSE THE DEVOPS TOOLS * What is Azure DevOps? * What is GitHub? * Explore an authorization and access strategy * Migrate or integrate existing work management tools * Migrate or integrate existing test management tools * Design a license management strategy 5 - PLAN AGILE WITH GITHUB PROJECTS AND AZURE BOARDS * Link GitHub to Azure Boards * Configure GitHub Projects * Manage work with GitHub Project boards * Customize Project views * Collaborate using team discussions * Agile Plan and Portfolio Management with Azure Boards 6 - INTRODUCTION TO SOURCE CONTROL * Explore DevOps foundational practices * What is source control? * Explore benefits of source control * Explore best practices for source control 7 - DESCRIBE TYPES OF SOURCE CONTROL SYSTEMS * Understand centralized source control * Understand distributed source control * Explore Git and Team Foundation Version Control * Examine and choose Git * Understand objections to using Git * Describe working with Git locally 8 - WORK WITH AZURE REPOS AND GITHUB * Migrate from TFVC to Git * Use GIT-TFS * Develop online with GitHub Codespaces 9 - STRUCTURE YOUR GIT REPO * Explore monorepo versus multiple repos * Implement a change log 10 - MANAGE GIT BRANCHES AND WORKFLOWS * Explore branch workflow types * Explore feature branch workflow * Explore Git branch model for continuous delivery * Explore GitHub flow * Explore fork workflow * Version Control with Git in Azure Repos 11 - COLLABORATE WITH PULL REQUESTS IN AZURE REPOS * Collaborate with pull requests * Examine GitHub mobile for pull request approvals 12 - IDENTIFY TECHNICAL DEBT * Examine code quality * Examine complexity and quality metrics * Measure and manage technical debt * Integrate other code quality tools * Plan effective code reviews 13 - EXPLORE GIT HOOKS * Implement Git hooks 14 - PLAN FOSTER INNER SOURCE * Explore foster inner source * Implement the fork workflow * Describe inner source with forks 15 - MANAGE GIT REPOSITORIES * Work with large repositories * Purge repository data * Manage releases with GitHub Repos * Automate release notes with GitHub 16 - EXPLORE AZURE PIPELINES * Explore the concept of pipelines in DevOps * Describe Azure Pipelines * Understand Azure Pipelines key terms 17 - MANAGE AZURE PIPELINE AGENTS AND POOLS * Choose between Microsoft-hosted versus self-hosted agents * Explore job types * Explore predefined agent pool * Understand typical situations for agent pools * Communicate with Azure Pipelines * Communicate to deploy to target servers * Examine other considerations * Describe security of agent pools * Configure agent pools and understanding pipeline styles 18 - DESCRIBE PIPELINES AND CONCURRENCY * Understand parallel jobs * Estimate parallel jobs * Describe Azure Pipelines and open-source projects * Explore Azure Pipelines and Visual Designer * Describe Azure Pipelines and YAML 19 - EXPLORE CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION * Learn the four pillars of continuous integration * Explore benefits of continuous integration * Describe build properties * Enable Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines 20 - IMPLEMENT A PIPELINE STRATEGY * Configure agent demands * Implement multi-agent builds * Explore source control types supported by Azure Pipelines 21 - INTEGRATE WITH AZURE PIPELINES * Describe the anatomy of a pipeline * Understand the pipeline structure * Detail templates * Explore YAML resources * Use multiple repositories in your pipeline 22 - INTRODUCTION TO GITHUB ACTIONS * What are Actions? * Explore Actions flow * Understand workflows * Describe standard workflow syntax elements * Explore events * Explore jobs * Explore runners * Examine release and test an action 23 - LEARN CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION WITH GITHUB ACTIONS * Describe continuous integration with actions * Examine environment variables * Share artifacts between jobs * Examine Workflow badges * Describe best practices for creating actions * Mark releases with Git tags * Create encrypted secrets * Use secrets in a workflow * Implement GitHub Actions for CI/CD 24 - DESIGN A CONTAINER BUILD STRATEGY * Examine structure of containers * Work with Docker containers * Understand Dockerfile core concepts * Examine multi-stage dockerfiles * Examine considerations for multiple stage builds * Explore Azure container-related services * Deploy Docker containers to Azure App Service web apps 25 - INTRODUCTION TO CONTINUOUS DELIVERY * Explore traditional IT development cycle * What is continuous delivery? * Move to continuous delivery * Understand releases and deployments * Understand release process versus release 26 - CREATE A RELEASE PIPELINE * Describe Azure DevOps release pipeline capabilities * Explore release pipelines * Explore artifact sources * Choose the appropriate artifact source * Examine considerations for deployment to stages * Explore build and release tasks * Explore custom build and release tasks * Explore release jobs * Configure Pipelines as Code with YAML 27 - EXPLORE RELEASE RECOMMENDATIONS * Understand the delivery cadence and three types of triggers * Explore release approvals * Explore release gates * Use release gates to protect quality * Control Deployments using Release Gates 28 - PROVISION AND TEST ENVIRONMENTS * Provision and configure target environments * Configure automated integration and functional test automation * Understand Shift-left * Set up and run availability tests * Explore Azure Load Testing * Set up and run functional tests 29 - MANAGE AND MODULARIZE TASKS AND TEMPLATES * Examine task groups * Explore variables in release pipelines * Understand variable groups 30 - AUTOMATE INSPECTION OF HEALTH * Automate inspection of health * Explore events and notifications * Explore service hooks * Configure Azure DevOps notifications * Configure GitHub notifications * Explore how to measure quality of your release process * Examine release notes and documentation * Examine considerations for choosing release management tools * Explore common release management tools 31 - INTRODUCTION TO DEPLOYMENT PATTERNS * Explore microservices architecture * Examine classical deployment patterns * Understand modern deployment patterns 32 - IMPLEMENT BLUE-GREEN DEPLOYMENT AND FEATURE TOGGLES * What is blue-green deployment? * Explore deployment slots * Describe feature toggle maintenance 33 - IMPLEMENT CANARY RELEASES AND DARK LAUNCHING * Explore canary releases * Examine Traffic Manager * Understand dark launching 34 - IMPLEMENT A/B TESTING AND PROGRESSIVE EXPOSURE DEPLOYMENT * What is A/B testing? * Explore CI-CD with deployment rings 35 - INTEGRATE WITH IDENTITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS * Integrate GitHub with single sign-on (SSO) * Explore service principals * Explore Managed Identity 36 - MANAGE APPLICATION CONFIGURATION DATA * Rethink application configuration data * Explore separation of concerns * Understand external configuration store patterns * Examine Key-value pairs * Examine App configuration feature management * Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Pipelines * Manage secrets, tokens and certificates * Examine DevOps inner and outer loop * Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps * Enable Dynamic Configuration and Feature Flags 37 - EXPLORE INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE AND CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT * Explore environment deployment * Examine environment configuration * Understand imperative versus declarative configuration * Understand idempotent configuration 38 - CREATE AZURE RESOURCES USING AZURE RESOURCE MANAGER TEMPLATES * Why use Azure Resource Manager templates? * Explore template components * Manage dependencies * Modularize templates * Manage secrets in templates * Deployments using Azure Bicep templates 39 - CREATE AZURE RESOURCES BY USING AZURE CLI * What is Azure CLI? * Work with Azure CLI 40 - EXPLORE AZURE AUTOMATION WITH DEVOPS * Create automation accounts * What is a runbook? * Understand automation shared resources * Explore runbook gallery * Examine webhooks * Explore source control integration * Explore PowerShell workflows * Create a workflow * Examine checkpoint and parallel processing 41 - IMPLEMENT DESIRED STATE CONFIGURATION (DSC) * Understand configuration drift * Explore Desired State Configuration (DSC) * Explore Azure Automation State configuration (DSC) * Examine DSC configuration file * Explore hybrid management * Implement DSC and Linux Automation on Azure 42 - IMPLEMENT BICEP * What is Bicep? * Install Bicep * Understand Bicep file structure and syntax 43 - INTRODUCTION TO SECURE DEVOPS * Describe SQL injection attack * Understand DevSecOps * Explore Secure DevOps Pipeline * Explore key validation points * Explore continuous security validation * Understand threat modeling 44 - IMPLEMENT OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE * Explore how software is built * What is open-source software * Explore corporate concerns with open-source software components * Explore common open-source licenses * Examine license implications and ratings 45 - SOFTWARE COMPOSITION ANALYSIS * Inspect and validate code bases for compliance * Explore software composition analysis (SCA) * Integrate Mend with Azure Pipelines * Implement GitHub Dependabot alerts and security updates * Integrate software composition analysis checks into pipelines * Examine tools for assess package security and license rate * Interpret alerts from scanner tools * Implement security and compliance in an Azure Pipeline 46 - STATIC ANALYZERS * Explore SonarCloud * Explore CodeQL in GitHub * Manage technical debt with SonarCloud and Azure DevOps 47 - OWASP AND DYNAMIC ANALYZERS * Plan Implement OWASP Secure Coding Practices * Explore OWASP ZAP penetration test * Explore OWASP ZAP results and bugs 48 - SECURITY MONITORING AND GOVERNANCE * Implement pipeline security * Explore Microsoft Defender for Cloud * Examine Microsoft Defender for Cloud usage scenarios * Explore Azure Policy * Understand policies * Explore initiatives * Explore resource locks * Explore Azure Blueprints * Understand Microsoft Defender for Identity 49 - EXPLORE PACKAGE DEPENDENCIES * What is dependency management? * Describe elements of a dependency management strategy * Identify dependencies * Understand source and package componentization * Decompose your system * Scan your codebase for dependencies 50 - UNDERSTAND PACKAGE MANAGEMENT * Explore packages * Understand package feeds * Explore package feed managers * Explore common public package sources * Explore self-hosted and SaaS based package sources * Consume packages * Publish packages * Package management with Azure Artifacts 51 - MIGRATE CONSOLIDATING AND SECURE ARTIFACTS * Identify existing artifact repositories * Migrate and integrating artifact repositories * Secure access to package feeds * Examine roles * Examine permissions * Examine authentication 52 - IMPLEMENT A VERSIONING STRATEGY * Understand versioning of artifacts * Explore semantic versioning * Examine release views * Promote packages * Explore best practices for versioning 53 - INTRODUCTION TO GITHUB PACKAGES * Publish packages * Install a package * Delete and restore a package * Explore package access control and visibility 54 - IMPLEMENT TOOLS TO TRACK USAGE AND FLOW * Understand the inner loop * Explore Azure Monitor and Log Analytics * Examine Kusto Query Language (KQL) * Explore Application Insights * Implement Application Insights * Monitor application performance with Application Insights 55 - DEVELOP MONITOR AND STATUS DASHBOARDS * Explore Azure Dashboards * Examine view designer in Azure Monitor * Explore Azure Monitor workbooks * Explore Power BI * Build your own custom application 56 - SHARE KNOWLEDGE WITHIN TEAMS * Share acquired knowledge within development teams * Integrate with Azure Boards * Share team knowledge using Azure Project Wiki 57 - DESIGN PROCESSES TO AUTOMATE APPLICATION ANALYTICS * Explore rapid responses and augmented search * Integrate telemetry * Examine monitoring tools and technologies 58 - MANAGE ALERTS, BLAMELESS RETROSPECTIVES AND A JUST CULTURE * Examine when get a notification * Explore how to fix it * Explore smart detection notifications * Improve performance * Understand server response time degradation * Reduce meaningless and non-actionable alerts * Examine blameless retrospective * Develop a just culture

Duration 3 Days 18 CPD hours This course is intended for This course is designed for anyone who needs an understanding of IT Service Management to help deliver better value to customers. It is appropriate for all IT staff and management, as well as customers who work closely with IT to support business requirements. This course is also designed for students who are seeking the ITIL© 4 Foundation certification and who want to prepare for ITIL© 4 Foundation exam. Overview By the completion of this course, you will have a deep understanding of the 7 Guiding Principles, 4 Dimensions of Service Management, 34 ITIL© Practices, and the new Service Value Chain that incorporate the core of ITIL© version 4. ITIL© is the world?s leading best practice framework for implementing IT Service Management. ITIL version 4 introduces IT Service Management through the lens of a Service Value System (SVS), which provides a holistic end-to-end view of how to successfully contribute to business value, and also how to leverage concepts from models such as Lean IT, Agile, DevOps and Organizational Change Management. This foundational course immerses you in the guiding principles, dimensions, and practices of ITIL© 4. This course will earn you 21 PDUs. This class includes an exam voucher. 1 - ITIL 4 OVERVIEW * Introduction to ITIL * Key Concepts of ITIL 2 - THE ITIL FRAMEWORK * The Four Dimensions of Service Management * The ITIL Service Value System 3 - THE ITIL GUIDING PRINCIPLES * Focus on Value * Start Where You Are * Progress Iteratively with Feedback * Collaborate and Promote Visibility * Think and Work Holistically * Keep It Simple and Practical * Optimize and Automate 4 - THE ITIL SERVICE VALUE SYSTEM (SVS) * Governance * The Service Value Chain * Continual Improvement 5 - KEY ITIL PRACTICES * Continual Improvement * Service Level Management * Change Control * Incident Management * Service Request Management * Service Desk * Problem Management 6 - OTHER ITIL PRACTICES * General Management Practices * Service Management Practices * Technical Management Practices

Duration 2 Days 12 CPD hours This course is intended for The target audience for the DevOps Foundation course includes Management, Operations, Developers, QA and Testing professionals such as: Individuals involved in IT development IT operations or IT service management. Individuals who require an understanding of DevOps principles. IT professionals working within, or about to enter, an Agile Service Design Environment The following IT roles: Automation Architects, Application Developers, Business Analysts, Business Managers, Business Stakeholders, Change Agents, Consultants, DevOps Consultants, DevOps Engineers, Infrastructure Architect, Integration Specialists, IT Directors, IT Managers, IT Operations, IT Team Leaders, Lean Coaches, Network Administrators, Operations Managers, Project Managers, Release Engineers, Software Developers, Software Tester/QA, System Administrators, Systems Engineers, System Integrators, Tool Providers. Overview The learning objectives for DevOps Foundation include an understanding of: DevOps objectives and vocabulary Benefits to the business and IT Principles and practices including Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, testing, security and the Three Ways DevOps relationship to Agile, Lean and ITSM Improved workflows, communication and feedback loops Automation practices including deployment pipelines and DevOps toolchains Scaling DevOps for the enterprise Critical success factors and key performance indicators Real-life examples and results The DevOps Foundation course provides a baseline understanding of key DevOps terminology to ensure everyone is talking the same language and highlights the benefits of DevOps to support organizational success. Learners will gain an understanding of DevOps, the cultural and professional movement that stresses communication, collaboration, integration, and automation to improve the flow of work between software developers and IT operations professionals. This course prepares you for the DevOps Foundation (DOFD) certification. EXPLORING DEVOPS * Defining DevOps * Why Does DevOps Matter? * CORE DEVOPS PRINCIPLES * The Three Ways * The First Way * The Theory of Constraints * The Second Way * The Third Way * Chaos Engineering * Learning Organizations KEY DEVOPS PRACTICES * Continuous Testing, Integration, Delivery, Deployment * Site Reliability & Resilience Engineering * DevSecOps * ChatOps * Kanban BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY FRAMEWORKS * Agile * ITSM * Lean * Safety Culture * Learning Organizations * Continuous Funding CULTURE, BEHAVIORS & OPERATING MODELS * Defining Culture * Cultural Debt * Behavioral Models * Organizational maturity models AUTOMATION & ARCHITECTING DEVOPS TOOLCHAINS * CI/CD * Cloud, Containers, and Microservices * AI and Machine Learning * Automation * DevOps Toolchains MEASUREMENT, METRICS, AND REPORTING * The Importance of Measurement * DevOps Metrics - Speed, Quality, Stability, Culture * Change lead/cycle time * Value Driven Metrics SHARING, SHADOWING AND EVOLVING * DevOps in the Enterprise * Roles * DevOps Leadership * Organizational Considerations * Getting Started * Challenges, Risks, and Critical Success Factors ADDITIONAL COURSE DETAILS: Nexus Humans DevOps Foundation (DevOps Institute) training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the DevOps Foundation (DevOps Institute) course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.

Duration 2 Days 12 CPD hours This course is intended for The target audience for the CASM course is Anyone interested in learning about Agile and Scrum from a products and process perspective Process owners and process designers Developers who are interested in helping make processes more agile Managers who are looking to bridge multiple practices into a DevOps environment Employees and managers responsible for designing, re-engineering or improving process Consultants guiding their clients through process improvement and DevOps initiatives Internal and external suppliers Process stakeholders Overview The learning objectives for Certified Agile Service Manager (CASM) include an understanding of: What does it mean to 'be agile?' The Agile Manifesto, its core values, and principles Agile concepts and practices including ITSM, Kanban, Lean and DevOps Learn about SCRUM from a product and process perspective Agile thinking and values into service management Scrum roles, artifacts, and events as it applies to both products and processes The two aspects of Agile Service Management: Agile Process Improvement-ensuring processes are lean and deliver 'just enough' control Agile Process Design-applying Agile practices to process design projects This course provides an introduction to Agile Service Management, the application, and integration of agile thinking into service management processes and process design projects. Agile thinking improves IT?s effectiveness and efficiency and enables IT to continue to deliver value in the face of changing requirements. This course prepares you for the Certified Agile Service Manager (CASM) certification. WHY AGILE SERVICE MANAGEMENT? * Challenges Today * What is IT Service Management? * What is Agile? * Agile Manifesto and Principles * What Does It Take To Be Agile? AGILE SERVICE MANAGEMENT * What is Agile Service Management? * Agile Service Management Goals, Objectives and Benefits * Two Aspects: Agile Process Engineering & Agile Process Improvement LEVERAGING RELATED GUIDANCE * DevOps * ITIL * Site Reliability Engineering * Lean * Scrum AGILE SERVICE MANAGEMENT ROLES * Relationship to Scrum roles * Agile Practice Owner * Agile Service Management Team * Agile Service Manager AGILE PROCESS ENGINEERING * Agile Processes * How Processes Deliver Value * Waterfall vs Agile Process Engineering * Relationship to Scrum Events & Artifacts * Minimum Viable Process * Microprocess Architectures * Service Management Architecture AGILE SERVICE MANAGEMENT ARTIFACTS * Practice Backlog * Spring Backlog * Increment AGILE SERVICE MANAGEMENT EVENTS * Planning * The Sprint * Sprint Planning * Process Standups * Sprint Review * Sprint Retrospective AGILE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT * Why Process Improvement is Important * Process Improvement Goals * Process Improvement Reviews * Sustaining Improvements * Automation

Duration 2 Days 12 CPD hours This course is intended for The target audience for the DevOps Leader course are professionals including: Anyone starting or leading a DevOps cultural transformation program, Anyone interested in modern IT leadership and organizational change approaches, Business Managers, Business Stakeholders, Change Agents, Consultants, DevOps Consultants, DevOps Engineers, IT Directors, IT Managers, IT Team, Leaders, Lean Coaches, Practitioners, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, System Integrators, Tool Providers Overview The learning objectives for DOL include a practical understanding of: - DevOps and time to market - The business and IT perspectives - Key differences between DevOps IT and traditional IT - Planning and organizing - Understanding performance and culture - Measurement differences - Designing a DevOps organization - Focusing on what matters - Ideas for organizing workflows - Sharing information - Defining meaningful metrics - Value stream mapping - The Spotify Squad model - Managing culture change - Popular tools and key practices - Putting it all together The DevOps Leader course is a unique and practical experience for participants who want to take a transformational leadership approach and make an impact within their organization by implementing DevOps. Leading people through a cultural transformation requires new skills, innovative thinking, and transformational leadership. Leaders up, down and across the IT organization must align and collaborate to break down silos and evolve the organization. The course highlights the human dynamics of cultural change and equips participants with practices, methods, and tools to engage people across the DevOps spectrum through the use of real-life scenarios and case studies. Upon completion of the course, participants will have tangible takeaways to leverage when back in the office such as understanding Value Stream Mapping. Prerequisites * DevOps Foundation 1 - DEVOPS AND TIME * What Is DevOps? * Why Do DevOps * Companies Doing DevOps * The Magic Equation 2 - KEY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN DEVOPS IT AND TRADITIONAL IT * What Sets DevOps IT apart from Traditional IT * How DevOps IT is Organized Differently * How to Perform to a Different Standard * How to Use Different Measurements 3 - BECOMING A DEVOPS ORGANIZATION * Transformational Leadership * Redesigning An Organization for DevOps * Design Principles * Focus * Work * Information * Metrics 4 - VALUE STREAM MAPPING * What is Value Stream Mapping? * Why Do We Need to Use this Framework? * Types of Maps * How to Create a Value Stream Map? * Types of Data to Collect * How to Handle Exceptions 5 - VALUE STREAM MAPPING EXERCISE 6 - SQUAD ORGANIZATIONAL MODEL * Conway's Law * The Problem with Silos * Spotify?s Squad Organization Model (Structure, Roles) * Squads * Tribes * Chapters * Guilds * How to Reorganize in Order to Move to this Model 7 - MANAGING CULTURE CHANGE * What is Culture and How Does it Impact Performance? * Types of IT Culture * Cultural Traits of a DevOps Organization * How to Manage Change 8 - CULTURE AND ITS IMPACT ON PERFORMANCE * Types of IT Culture * What is a DevOps Culture * How To Manage Change * The Three Phases Of Change * Types of Changes That Need to be Implemented 9 - POPULAR DEVOPS TOOLS AND PRACTICES * DevOps Tools Periodic Table * Top DevOps Tool Categories * Common and Popular Practices 10 - BUILDING A BUSINESS CASE 11 - BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER 12 - ADDITIONAL SOURCES OF INFORMATION 13 - EXAM PREPARATIONS * Exam Requirements, Question Weighting, and Terminology List * Sample Exam Review ADDITIONAL COURSE DETAILS: Nexus Humans DevOps Leader (DevOps Institute) training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the DevOps Leader (DevOps Institute) course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.

Duration 3 Days 18 CPD hours This course is intended for This course is intended for security engineers, security architects, and information security professionals. Overview Identify security benefits and responsibilities of using the AWS Cloud Build secure application infrastructures Protect applications and data from common security threats Perform and automate security checks Configure authentication and permissions for applications and resources Monitor AWS resources and respond to incidents Capture and process logs Create and configure automated and repeatable deployments with tools such as AMIs and AWS CloudFormation This course demonstrates how to efficiently use AWS security services to stay secure in the AWS Cloud. The course focuses on the security practices that AWS recommends for enhancing the security of your data and systems in the cloud. The course highlights the security features of AWS key services including compute, storage, networking, and database services. You will also learn how to leverage AWS services and tools for automation, continuous monitoring and logging, and responding to security incidents. Prerequisites We recommend that attendees of this course have: * Working knowledge of IT security practices and infrastructure concepts * Familiarity with cloud computing concepts * Completed AWS Security Essentials and Architecting on AWS courses 1 - SECURITY ON AWS * Security in the AWS cloud * AWS Shared Responsibility Model * Incident response overview * DevOps with Security Engineering 2 - IDENTIFYING ENTRY POINTS ON AWS * Identify the different ways to access the AWS platform * Understanding IAM policies * IAM Permissions Boundary * IAM Access Analyzer * Multi-factor authentication * AWS CloudTrail 3 - SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS: WEB APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTS * Threats in a three-tier architecture * Common threats: user access * Common threats: data access * AWS Trusted Advisor 4 - APPLICATION SECURITY * Amazon Machine Images * Amazon Inspector * AWS Systems Manager 5 - DATA SECURITY * Data protection strategies * Encryption on AWS * Protecting data at rest with Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB * Protecting archived data with Amazon S3 Glacier * Amazon S3 Access Analyzer * Amazon S3 Access Points 6 - SECURING NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS * Amazon VPC security considerations * Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring * Responding to compromised instances * Elastic Load Balancing * AWS Certificate Manager 7 - MONITORING AND COLLECTING LOGS ON AWS * Amazon CloudWatch and CloudWatch Logs * AWS Config * Amazon Macie * Amazon VPC Flow Logs * Amazon S3 Server Access Logs * ELB Access Logs 8 - PROCESSING LOGS ON AWS * Amazon Kinesis * Amazon Athena 9 - SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS: HYBRID ENVIRONMENTS * AWS Site-to-Site and Client VPN connections * AWS Direct Connect * AWS Transit Gateway 10 - OUT-OF-REGION PROTECTION * Amazon Route 53 * AWS WAF * Amazon CloudFront * AWS Shield * AWS Firewall Manager * DDoS mitigation on AWS 11 - SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS: SERVERLESS ENVIRONMENTS * Amazon Cognito * Amazon API Gateway * AWS Lambda 12 - THREAT DETECTION AND INVESTIGATION * Amazon GuardDuty * AWS Security Hub * Amazon Detective 13 - SECRETS MANAGEMENT ON AWS * AWS KMS * AWS CloudHSM * AWS Secrets Manager 14 - AUTOMATION AND SECURITY BY DESIGN * AWS CloudFormation * AWS Service Catalog 15 - ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT AND PROVISIONING ON AWS * AWS Organizations * AWS Control Tower * AWS SSO * AWS Directory Service

DEVOPS DEMYSTIFIED TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is an introduction to DevOps. The course emphasizes communication, collaboration , integration, and automation to improve the workflow between developers and IT operations professionals. Improved workflows lead to more opportunities to design software and services in a more agile fashion. This course is a basis for discovering the most important DevOps concepts and to understand the principles and methods behind this. The course will leave you with the inspiration to be the advocate of change. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Explain DevOps principles. * Describe the relationship between Agile , Lean and IT Service Management ( ITSM). * Describe methods for automation and technology factors. * Describe considerations when changing. * Describe challenges, risks and critical success factors. DEVOPS DEMYSTIFIEDS TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Non-technical staff involved with DevOps. * Prerequisites: None. * Duration 1 day DEVOPS DEMYSTIFIED TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Why DevOps? From a business perspective From an IT perspective Stereotypes of Dev and Ops: perception and reality * What is DevOps? Introduction DevOps Goals DevOps Added value of DevOps Proven Results DevOps for businesses DevOps principles (The Three Ways) * DevOps and other frameworks DevOps and Agile DevOps and Lean DevOps and IT Service Management * DevOps culture Characteristics of a DevOps culture Organizational Considerations DevOps DevOps stakeholders DevOps roles DevOps teams DevOps organizational structures * DevOps methods Continuous Integration Continuous delivery Continuous deployment Value stream mapping Kanban Theory of Constraints Improvement Kata Deming's quality circle ITSM processes DevOps and Automation * Methods for DevOps automation Longevity and tools categories DevOps applications Transitioning to a DevOps culture * Implementation Challenges, risks and critical success factors Measuring DevOps successes

Duration 2 Days 12 CPD hours This course is intended for The target audience for the DevOps Engineering Foundation course are individuals involved in engineering and technical practices such as: DevOps Practice owners and process designers Developers, QA engineers and Managers who are interested in understanding how DevOps works. Employees and managers responsible for engineering or improving processes. Consultants guiding their clients through process improvement and DevOps initiatives. Anyone responsible for: Managing process-related requirements Ensuring the efficiency and effectiveness of processes Maximizing the value of processes Overview The learning objectives for DevOps Engineering Foundation include an understanding of: How to engineer DevOps solutions DevOps Technologies Applications Architectures Continuous Integration Continuous Testing Ephemeral Elastic Infrastructures Continuous Delivery and Deployment Metrics, Monitoring, Observability and Governance DevOps Humans Future Trends This course explains the many aspects of DevOps engineering that leaders and practitioners can execute upon. While DevOps Foundation provides an overview of DevOps, this course will provide a closer look at the implementation process from an engineering perspective. It is an in depth view of the major aspects of engineering DevOps. An engineering approach is critical to DevOps journeys. This course provides the foundations of knowledge, principles and practices from a technical perspective needed to engineer a successful DevOps solution. DEVOPS ENGINEERING INTRODUCTION * DevOps Foundations * Principles and Practices * Related Frameworks * Performance and Benefits DEVOPS TECHNOLOGY * Source and Artifacts Control * CI/CD pipelines * Tools and Toolchains * Application Release Automation * Value Stream Management APPLICATIONS ARCHITECTURES AND CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION * Application Architectures * Containers * Continuous integration CONTINUOUS TESTING * CT Tenets * Test creation & TDD * Test acceleration * Test results * Test management * Test environment management EPHEMERAL ELASTIC INFRASTRUCTURES * Virtual and Cloud * Configuration management * Infra-as-code * Containers Orchestration * GitOps CONTINUOUS DELIVERY AND DEPLOYMENT * Continuous Delivery and Deployment * Release Automation * Deployment Strategies METRICS, MONITORING, OBSERVABILITY, GOVERNANCE * DevOps Metrics * Monitoring * Observability * Governance DEVOPS ENGINEERING HUMANS * Culture * Team Topologies * Continuous Learning * Future DevOps Trends ADDITIONAL COURSE DETAILS: Nexus Humans DevOps Engineering Foundation (DevOps Institute) training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the DevOps Engineering Foundation (DevOps Institute) course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.

DEVOPS TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is an introduction to DevOps. The course emphasizes communication, collaboration , integration, and automation to improve the workflow between developers and IT operations professionals. Improved workflows lead to more opportunities to design software and services in a more agile fashion. This course is a basis for discovering the most important DevOps concepts and to understand the principles and methods behind this. The course will leave you with the inspiration to be the advocate of change. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Explain DevOps principles. * Describe the relationship between Agile , Lean and IT Service Management ( ITSM). * Describe methods for automation and technology factors. * Describe considerations when changing. * Describe challenges, risks and critical success factors. DEVOPS TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: IT development, IT operations and IT service management. * Prerequisites: Introduction to data communications & networking. * Duration 2 days DEVOPS TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Why DevOps? Introduction DevOps Goals DevOps Added value of DevOps Proven Results DevOps for businesses DevOps principles (The Three Ways) * DevOps and other frameworks DevOps and Agile DevOps and Lean DevOps and IT Service Management * DevOps culture Characteristics of a DevOps culture Organizational Considerations DevOps DevOps stakeholders DevOps roles DevOps teams DevOps organizational structures * DevOps methods Continuous Integration Continuous delivery Continuous deployment Value stream mapping Kanban Theory of Constraints Improvement Kata Deming's quality circle ITSM processes DevOps and Automation * Methods for DevOps automation Longevity and tools categories DevOps applications Transitioning to a DevOps culture. * Implementation Challenges, risks and critical success factors Measuring DevOps successes

NETWORK DEVOPS COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is not a soft skills course covering the concepts of DevOps but instead concentrates on the technical side of tools and languages for network DevOps. Particular technologies focussed on are ansible, git and Python enabling delegates to leave the course ready to starting automating their network. Hands on sessions follow all major sections. More detailed courses on individual aspects of this course are available. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Evaluate network automation tools. * Automate tasks with ansible. * Use git for version control. * Use Python to manage network devices. * Use Python libraries for network devices. NETWORK DEVOPS COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Administrators automating tasks. * Prerequisites: TCP/IP Foundation * Duration 5 days NETWORK DEVOPS COURSE CONTENTS * What is DevOps Programming and automating networks, networks and clouds, AWS, OpenStack, SDN, DevOps for network operations. * Initial configuration Configuring SSH, ZTP, POAP. Hands on Initial lab configuration. * Getting started with ansible The language, the engine, the framework. Uses of ansible, orchestration. The architecture, Controlling machines, nodes, Agentless, SSH, modules. Configuration management, inventories, playbooks, modules, roles. Hands on Installing ansible, running ad hoc commands. * Ansible playbooks ansible-playbook, YAML, plays, tasks, handlers, modules. Playbook variables. Register module, debug module. Hands on Running playbooks. * Ansible Inventories /etc/ansible/hosts, hosts, groups, static inventories, dynamic inventories. Inventory variables, external variables. Limiting hosts. Hands on Static inventories, variables in inventory files. * Ansible modules for networking Built in modules, custom modules, return values. Core modules for network operations. Cisco and/or Juniper modules. ansible_connection. Ansible 2.6 CLI. Hands on Using modules. * Ansible templating and roles aConfiguration management, full configurations, partial configurations. The template module, the assemble module, connection: local, Jinja2 templates, variables, if, for, roles. Hands on Generating multiple configurations from a template. * Network programming and modules Why use Python? Why use ansible? alternatives, ansible tower, Linux network devices. * Programming with Python Python programming Functions. Classes, objects and instances, modules, libraries, packages. Python strings, Python file handling, pip list, pip instal. Hands on Python programming with pyping. * More Python programming Functions. Classes, objects and instances, modules, libraries, packages. Python strings, Python file handling, pip list, pip install. Hands on Python programming with pyping. * Git Distributed version control, repositories, Git and GitHub, Alternatives to GitHub, Installing git, git workflows, creating repositories, adding and editing files, branching and merging, merge conflicts. Hands on working with Git. * Python and networking APIs, Sockets, Telnetlib, pysnmp, ncclient, ciscoconfparse. * Paramiko SSH and Netmiko Integrating Python and network devices using SSH. Netmiko, Netmiko methods. Hands on Netmiko. * NAPALM What is NAPALM, NAPALM operations, getters, Replace, merge, compare, commit, discard. Hands on Configuration with NAPALM. Integrating ansible and NAPALM. * Python and REST REST APIs, enabling the REST API. Accessing the REST API with a browser, cURL, Python and REST, the request library. Hands on Using a REST API with network devices.