DevOps Implementation and Management in Cloud Environment

With the widespread adoption of cloud platforms by organisations, there is a growing demand for IT managers and leaders who possess a thorough understanding of DevOps principles, fundamentals, and operational mechanics.

When DevOps frameworks are not properly implemented, managed, and operated, organisations fail to reap the full benefits of cloud technologies. This can lead to increased operational costs, manpower wastage, inefficiency in resource optimisation.

Tailored for IT leadership teams, project directors, and project managers, this course covers essential topics such as cloud computing, Agile project management processes, Continuous Deployment (CD) and Continuous Integration (CI) methodologies, DevOps principles and lifecycle, implementation strategies and roadmap, as well as challenges and solutions.

The course will also explore the tools essential for successful DevOps execution and provide insights into the future trends of DevOps.

Who Should Attend

• Infocomm Technology (ICT) project managers

• System architects

• Senior IT management leaders

Prerequisites

• Basic understanding of IT application development lifecycle and cloud computing model

What You Will Learn

DevOps Basics

• General sensing of DevOps

• DevOps building blocks covering people, process, and technology

• DevOps CAMS principles

• Value of DevOps and challenges when applying DevOps

• Case study on DevOps used in Google and Amazon

• Overview of Agile and SCRUM, collocation of Agile and DevOps, and mixing methodologies within organisations

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)

• General principle of CI/CD

• General workflow of a CI/CD pipeline

• Class exercise on designing a CI/CD pipeline for web application

Developing and Building a Successful DevOps Culture

• Building a DevOps culture and breaking down silos in areas of culture overview, roles and responsibilities, rules of engagement, and retrospectives

• Increasing transparency, better communication, and collaboration across teams

• Maintaining a strong culture with starters and leavers: balancing success pressures, fostering innovation, addressing cultural differences, and ensuring buy-in

• Breaking down silos through unified vision, collaboration tools, joint training, frequent communication, and evaluating compensation

Implementing and Deploying DevOps Tools

• Understanding the technical stack for DevOps

• The families of collaborating DevOps tools (Testing, Building, Running) and their role in DevOps adoption

• Choosing tools that facilitate collaboration, and using them to enhance communication

• DevOps tooling:

  • Increasing code and deployment quickly

  • Reducing the time to market for new products and features

  • Decreasing the failure rate of new releases

  • Improving the mean time to resolution

  • Improving the in reliability metrics

  • Eliminating high levels of work in progress and technical debt

• Understanding the obstacles of DevOps tooling:

  • Lack of definition of DevOps outcomes

  • Inadequate knowledge of tooling

  • Evaluation and volume of tools available on the market

  • Lack of tool integration

Practical Implementation of DevOps

• Perform a case study to develop and implement DevOps methodology

• Presentation and discussion of the case study solutions

• MCQ examination to test and validate the understanding of participants