DevOps Engineering

Learning Outcomes  

This course has six learning outcomes:

• CLO 1: Recognize DevOps principles, methods, and practices
• CLO 2: Appraise DevOps principles and practices including integration, delivery, and testing
• CLO 3: Illustrate how to apply DevOps tools used for monitoring, alerting, and reporting
• CLO 4: Apply DevOps concepts in an enterprise environment by automating processes using tools
• CLO 5: Select the best strategy to deploy software applications utilizing CI/CD pipelines
• CLO 6: Apply the principles of DevOps to a software development project

Assessment  

This course involves occasional assignments, labs and a semester-long project. The assignments and labs offers a chance for students to reinforce understanding of material from class. The project has small student groups building a DevOps pipeline for an open-source project by applying techniques and tools learned in class.

Final course grades will be based on the following.

Activity	Grade	Details
Assignments and Labs	20%	There will be 3 assignments and 9 Labs. All assignments and labs are indvidual.
Presentations	5%	Each Student will present a 15 min. presentation. Evaluation criteria: Content Quality: 40% Delivery: 20% Time Management: 10% Presentation Design: 10% Q and A: 20%
Midterm	15%	There will be 1 Midterm. The Midterm will be on Week 8. The Midterm will cover the materials finished by Week 7.
Course Project	20%	Students will work in groups to complete the course project. We will discuss group sizes and possible projects in class early in the semester. The project is going to done on phases. Project phases reports must be submitted by the due date. The final submission should be a comprehsnice report that includes all phases. Project grade will be based on the work done and on the quality of the submitted reports: Phase One - Week 9 Phase Two - Week 12 Phase Three - Week 14 Project Presentation - Week 15
Final Exam	40%	The Final Exam is a comprehensive exam covering the first 5 CLOs.

 

Tentative Schedule  

Chapter	Topic	Notes	Assignments/Activities/Templates
1	DevOps Overview	Cloud Computing DevOps Overview	DevOps In 5 Minutes What is DevOps? DevOps Principles: The Three Ways 5 Essential DevOps Pipeline Stages Assignment 1
2	Version Control Systems	Version Control Systems	Types of Version Control Systems Version Control System - Learn Git, GitHub Assignment 2 Lab 1 Version Control Systems Lab 2 More Git Operations Lab 3 GitHub
3	Continuous Integration	Continuous Integration	Continuous Integration and Delivery              Jenkins - PHP CI/CD Pipeline with GitHub, Apache Jenkins - Node JS and React Pipeline How to start a CI pipeline with Actions CI/CD deployment pipeline using Jenkins (Demo) CI/CD Pipeline Using Jenkins For .NET Application Build a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions Assignment 3 Lab 4 Jenkins Lab 5 Integration of Jenkins with Git
4	Containerization	Containerization	DevOps with Docker (Containers for Beginners) Getting Started with Docker Cloud Computing and Containerization Basics of Virtualization and Containerization Docker Containers As Build Agents for Jenkins Dockerfile Lab 6 Docker Lab 7 Docker Commands
5	Containers Orchestration	Containers Orchestration	What is Container Orchestration? What is Kubernetes ? Lab 8 Installation of Kubernetes Lab 9 Exploring KubeCTL
6	Configuration Management	Configuration Management 1 Configuration Management 2	What is Configuration Management? What is Ansible? What is Puppet?
7	Continuous Monitoring	Continuous Monitoring	Setup Application Monitoring for Your AWS Workloads
8	DevOps Metrics	DevOps Metrics DevOps Certifications Guide	DevOps DORA Metrics
9	DevSecOps	DevSecOps Scaling DevSecOps at Comcast	DevSecOps explained in 8 Mins What is DevSecOps?
10	Case Study	DevOps at Netflix

 

Course Resources  

Course Administration

• Announcements will be posted on this web page and LMS. Check the news section regularly for updates.
• We are using both this website and Moodle (LMS).

Textbook

There is no required textbook for this course. However, students who wish to read more about the topics that we discuss in class may consult the folowing books:

• The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations .
• The DevOps Adoption Playbook: A Guide to Adopting DevOps in a Multi-Speed IT Enterprise by Sanjeev Sharma .
• Engineering DevOps: From Chaos to Continuous Improvement... and Beyond by Marc Hornbeek .
• DevOps Automation Cookbook by Michael Duffy .
• Effective DevOps: Building a Culture of Collaboration, Affinity, and Tooling at Scale by Jennifer Davis and Ryn Daniels .
• Learning Devops by Mikael Krief .
• A State Of DevOps Tools A Primer .

More Sources

• What is DevOps?
• DevOps principles
• An Introduction to Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment
• The Top 10 Adages in Continuous Deployment
• Containers for the Future
• SaaS Vs PaaS Vs IaaS
• Building DevOps pipelines with open source tools

Project

Simple DevOps Project
DevOps: CI/CD using git, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes
This word file has all the details about the course project.
 

General Resources  

Academic Integrity

Students are expected to know and abide by PSU's policies on academic integrity. Academic integrity violations will be prosecuted aggressively. If you are not sure what constitutes an academic integrity violation, please ask.