System Operations on AWS: Level 1 Course Outline

Course Overview
Learning AWS OpsWorks will get you involved in a DevOps role, where you will learn key concepts and information about building scalable infrastructures to support high traffic applications. You will also learn about other important facets such as security, monitoring, and command-line reporting.

This course is a guide to Amazon’s DevOps cloud management service and will provide you with the foundation of knowledge and the skills required for building and scaling multistage environments and applications in the AWS cloud. You will become acquainted with the DevOps role and how it relates to OpsWorks. Technologies such as EC2, ELB, EBS, CloudWatch, IAM, Route 53, Git, and GitHub will be discussed in relation to the core concepts of OpsWorks, which include stack and layer development, instances, apps, monitoring, and access control.

Audience
This class is for individuals interested in Systems Operations in the AWS environment. Specifically this class is for individuals interested in tasks such as Master account creation for Amazon Web Services; load balancing for redundancy and layer development to automate the configuration and deployment of instances; configuring and deploying stacks including layers and instances; and configuring OpsWorks to deploy the apps.

Prerequisites
Learners should have taken the AWS Essentials class (or have had acquired similar knowledge) before attending this course. Students should also have an understanding of system administration concepts, enterprise servers, networking and general database management familiarity

Certification Options
This class when combined with the AWS Essentials class, will provide a strong foundation in preparation for either the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator—Associate certification exam.

Course Outline

1: A NEW WAY TO SCALE
High-level OpsWorks
The origin of OpsWorks
The importance of OpsWorks
The role of DevOps
OpsWorks for the startup

2: WELCOME TO AWS OPSWORKS
Creating an AWS account
The dashboard

3: STACK IT UP!
Multistage environments
Adding a stack
Inside the stack

4: LAYERS – THE BLUEPRINT FOR SUCCESS
Configuring layers
Elastic Load Balancer
OS Packages
Security groups
IAM instance profile
Auto healing
MySQL layer

5: IN AN INSTANCE
Instance types
Instance scaling types
Adding instances

6: BRING THE APPS!
Continuous integration
Adding an app
Deploy, edit, and delete
Capistrano

7: BIG BROTHER
Amazon CloudWatch
OpsWorks monitoring

8: ACCESS CONTROL
Identity and Access Management
OpsWorks and IAM

9: INSTANCE AGENT COMMAND LINE INTERFACE
Connecting via SSH
Instance Agent CLI

10: MULTI-REGION ARCHITECTURE
Production stack
Multi-region
Amazon Route 53
OpsWorks and Route 53
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