DevOps Implementation Boot Camp (ICP-FDO) Classroom Live Cary, NC October 13, 2021

Course Overview

Section 1: Introduction

1.      DevOps Defined

• DevOps (Then and Now)
• CI/CD
• Infrastructure as Code
• BizDevOps
• DevSecOps
• AIOps
• DataOps

2.     High-Performance IT Organizations

• Elite Performers
• Use of the Cloud
• Work-Life Balance
• Optimized Change Review

3.     Origins and History of DevOps

• The Quality Movement and W Edwards Deming
• The Lean Movement and the Toyota Production System
• The Agile Movement – Mindset, Value, Principles & Practices
• The Continuous Delivery Movement

4.     Argument for DevOps

• Business Value of DevOps
• Net Effect of DevOps
• Exercise: Argue for the value of DevOps in your organization

Section 2: Maturing a DevOps Practice in the Enterprise

1.      CALMS – The 5 DevOps Principles

2.     The 5 Cultural Challenges

3.     5 Cultural Dimensions

4.     Value Stream Mapping

• Value Stream Definition and Examples
• Exercise: Choose and Map a Case Study Value Stream
• Analyze: Value Stream Lead Time, Quality, Involvement
• Exercise: Analyze a Value Stream

Section 3: Your DevOps Journey: Optimize Flow

1.      Principles of Flow

• 6 Principles of Flow from the DevOps Handbook
• 8 Principles of Continuous Delivery from the Continuous Delivery book
• Exercise: Apply Principles to your Case Study Value Stream

2.     Infrastructure as Code

3.     Infrastructure & Application Configuration Management

• Configuration Management Tools
• Exercise: Configuration Management in your Case Study Value Stream

4.     Deployment Pipeline

• Deployment Pipeline Stages and Tools
• Deployment Orchestration Tools
• Deployment Pipeline: Everything in Version Control
• Exercise: Deployment Pipeline in your Case Study Value Stream

5.     DevOps Quality Management

• Quality Foundations
• Quality Principles
• Quality Practices
• Test Automation Architecture
• Test Automation Pyramid
• Strategies for Managing Test Data
• Code Analysis Tools
• Automated Testing Tools
• Exercise: DevOps Quality Management in your Case Study Value Stream

6.     CI/CD

• Continuous Integration
• Continuous Delivery
• Exercise: CI/CD in your Case Study Value Stream

7.     Database Continuous Integration (DBCI)

• Exercise: DBCI in your Case Study Value Stream

8.     Application Management Strategies

9.     Application Architecture – SOA, Microservices, Strangler Pattern

10.  Infrastructure Architecture – Virtualization & The Cloud

11.    Containerization

12.  Exercise: Optimize Flow in Your Case Study Value Stream

Section 4: Your DevOps Journey: Amplify Feedback

1.      Objective & Principles of Feedback

2.     Telemetry Definitions & Concepts

• Telemetry Principles
• Exercise: Telemetry Principles in your Case Study Value Stream
• Integrating Security into Production Telemetry
• Telemetry Layers & Levels
• Ensuring Effective Alerts
• System Monitoring, Log Agregation, and Alerting Tools
• DevOps Metrics

3.     Advanced uses of Telemetry

• Using Telemetry to Anticipate Problems
• Feedback for Safe Deployment of Code
• Developers Follow Their Apps Downstream
• Hypothesis-Driven Development and A/B Testing
• Exercise: Telemetry in your Case Study Value Stream

4.     Change Review and Coordination

5.     Exercise: Amplify Feedback in Your Case Study Value Stream

Section 5: Your DevOps Journey: Continual Learning & Experimentation

1.      Learning Culture

• Blameless Postmortems
• Responses to Failure
• Blameless Postmortems

2.     Knowledge Sharing

3.     Innovation Culture

• Institutionalize the Improvement of Daily Work
• Encouraging Experimentation
• Holding Learning and Improvement Events (Hackathons, Kaizen Blitzes, Rehearsing Large-Scale Failures, Fault Injection)

4.     Role of Leadership

5.     Exercise: Learning & Innovation Culture in your organization

Section 6: Planning Your DevOps Journey

1.      Cultural challenges

2.     Organizational challenges

3.     Transformation Patterns You Can Follow

• Lean Startup Teams
• Collaboration Tools
• Automate Everything You Can
• Reserve Time for Improvement

4.     Planning DevOps Transformation

5. Exercise: Your DevOps Action Plan