Udacity Cloud DevOps Engineer Nanodegree

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Learn to design and deploy infrastructure as code, build and monitor CI/CD pipelines for different deployment strategies, and deploy scaleable microservices using Kubernetes. At the end of the program, you’ll combine your new skills by completing a capstone project. - Source

Core Curriculum

1. Welcome to the Nanodegree Program

Lesson-1: Get Help with Your Account

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1	FAQ	Udacity support, General question	------/------
2	Support	Udacity help center for the course	------/------

Lesson-2: Welcome to Cloud DevOps Engineer Nanodegree Program

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1	Nanodegree Introduction	Importance of cloud service and the nanodegree	------/------
2	What you will build	Project portfolio, Project details	------/------
3	Pre-requisites	Pre-requisites elements - programming, scripting & version controlling	------/------
4	AWS Setup Instructions	AWS account setup & credits	------/------

Lesson-3: Introduction to Cloud DevOps

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1	Meet Your Instructors	Kesha Williams, Carlos Rivas, Noah Gift	------/------
2	Introduction	Lesson objective	------/------
3	Support for DevOps Adoption	Answer about adoption the cloud servic	------/------
4	All In vs Baby Steps	Interview - Question & Answer	------/------
5	Change Model (ELSA)	Event, Language, Structure and Agency	------/------
6	Success Predictors	Interview - Question & Answer	------/------
7	Coming from Grassroots _1	Interview - Question & Answer, Suggestion	------/------
8	From Management_1	Interview - Question & Answer	------/------
9	The Start	Interview - Question & Answer	------/------
10	Working with Strong Hierarchy_1	Interview - Question & Answer	------/------
11	Dealing with Silos	Dealing with other team members	------/------
12	Best Practices	Postive thinking, Checklist	------/------
13	Metrics_1	Goal, Effective work, Mesearing the result	------/------
14	Antipattern Hiring a DevOps Team	How can i help	------/------

2. Cloud Fundamentals

Lesson-1: Cloud Computing

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1	Course Introduction	Cloud benefits, Course content	------/------
2	Instructor Introduction	Kesha Williams	------/------
3	Lesson Introduction	Cloud provider - AWS	------/------
4	What is Cloud Computing?	Cloud computing defination & characteristics	[32]
5	Types of Cloud Computing	IaaS, PaaS, SaaS	[33]
6	Cloud Computing Deployment Model	Public, Private & Hybrid cloud	------/------
7	Common Benefits	Benefits of cloud service	------/------
8	Options	Popular cloud providers	------/------
9	Services	Cloud based products	[34]
10	Global Infrastructure	Region, Availability zone, Edge location	[35 - 36]
11	Shared Responsibility Model	AWS is responsible for security OF the cloud, we are responsible for security IN the cloud	[37]
12	Lab: Setup free-tier account	AWS free-tier account setup	------/------
13	Lesson Recap	Lesson Summary	------/------

Lesson-2: Foundational & Compute Service

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1	Lesson Introduction	Why cloud use?	------/------
2	Why do we need servers in the cloud?	Local data center transfer to cloud, Cloud features	------/------
3	Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)	Elastic server, EC2 benefits	[38]
4	Demo - Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)	EC2 demo on AWS console, Types of EC2	------/------
5	Elastic Block Store (EBS)	EBS defination, Tips of EBS	[39]
6	Demo - Elastic Block Store (EBS)	EBS location on EC2	------/------
7	Why do we need security in the cloud for our servers?	To create secure access in the network	------/------
8	Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)	VPC details and tips	[40 - 42]
9	Demo - Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)	VPC demo on AWS console	------/------
10	Lab - Launch an EC2 instance	Access VPC service, Launch an EC2 instance, Attach an EBS volume	------/------
11	Why do we need compute power in the cloud?	Run code, No provisioning, Automatically scales, High availability	------/------
12	Lambda	AWS serverless service, Language support in Lambda	[43]
13	Demo - Lambda	Lambda demo on AWS console with Node.js	------/------
14	Lab - Create and execute a Lambda	Excercise on Lambda	------/------
15	Elastic Beanstalk	Orchestration service, Tips of Elastic Beanstalk	[44 - 45]
16	Lab - Deploy App to Beanstalk	Excercise Beanstalk on AWS console	------/------
17	Lesson Recap	EC2, VPC, Lambda, Beanstalk	------/------

Lesson-3: Storage & Content Delivery

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1	Lesson Introduction	Storage, Database, CDN	------/------
2	Why do we need storage in the cloud?	Availability, Durability, Scalability (Horizontal, Vertical, Diagonal)	------/------
3	S3 & Glacier	S3 services, S3 classes, Archiving	[46 - 49]
4	Demo - S3 & Glacier	S3 bucket create, Versioning, Policy, Web hosting	------/------
5	DynamoDB	NoSQL, JSON format, Key-value, Used in mission critical system	[50 - 51]
6	Demo - DynamoDB	DynamoDB demo on AWS console	------/------
7	Lab - DynamoDB	Table Name, Primary Key	------/------
8	Relational Database Service (RDS)	Supported engine, RDS features	[52 - 54]
9	Demo - Relational Database Service (RDS)	RDS demo on AWS console	------/------
10	RedShift	Big data, ETL, BI, Fast query analysis	[55 - 56]
11	Lab - RDS	Run code, No provisioning, Automatically scales, High availability	------/------
12	Why do we need content delivery in the cloud?	Speeds up delivery, Web pages, Cached, Reduces latency	------/------
13	Cloud Front	Cached, Edge location	[57 - 58]
14	Demo - Cloud Front	Cloudfront demo on AWS console	------/------
15	Lab - S3 & Cloud Front	S3 bucket create and Using CDN service	------/------
16	Lesson Recap	S3, DynamoDB, RDS, RedShift, CDN	------/------

Lesson-4: Security

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1	Lesson Introduction	Security services, Protect data on the cloud	------/------
2	Why do we need security for applications?	Reduce hacking, Protect personal information & applications	------/------
3	AWS Shield	DDos protection, Detect malicious traffic	[59]
4	AWS Web Application Firewall	Web protection, Incoming & Outcoming, SQL injection	[60]
5	Identity and Access Management (IAM)	Global service, MFA, User, IAM role & group, Policy	[61 - 62]
6	Demo - Identity and Access Management (IAM)	IAM demo on AWS console	------/------
7	Lab - IAM	Excercise on IAM	------/------
8	Lesson Recap	Security in the cloud, Sheild, WAF, IAM	------/------

Lesson-5: Networking & Elasticity

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1	Lesson Introduction	Network connectivity, Route internet traffic, Inbound & Outbound	------/------
2	Why do we need networking in the cloud?	Delivery of content and applications, Foundation of infrastructure	------/------
3	Route 53	AWS DNS service	[63]
4	Why do we need elasticity in the cloud?	Stop guessing about capacity, Scale up & down	------/------
5	EC2 Auto Scaling	Automatically control, Monitoring	[64 - 65]
6	Demo - EC2 Auto Scaling	Auto scalling demo on AWS console	------/------
7	Elastic Load Balancing	Blancing the loads, Redundancy and performance	[66]
8	Demo - Elastic Load Balancing	Security in the cloud, Sheild, WAF, IAM	------/------
9	Lab - EC2 Auto Scaling	Excercise on EC2 Auto scalling	------/------
10	Lesson Recap	AWS network services	------/------

Lesson-6: Messaging & Containers

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1	Lesson Introduction	Notification or alert services on AWS	------/------
2	Why do we need messaging in the cloud?	To notify the clients	------/------
3	Simple Notification Service (SNS)	Used for large number of subscribers, Publish/subscribe model	[67 - 68]
4	Demo - Simple Notification Service (SNS)	SNS service demo on AWS console	------/------
5	Why do we need queuing technology?	FIFO, Asynchronous processing	------/------
6	Simple Queue Service (SQS)	Send messages, Store messages, Receive messages	[69 - 70]
7	Demo - Simple Queue Service	SQS service demo on AWS console	------/------
8	Lab - SNS	Excercise on SNS service	------/------
9	Why do we need containers?	All bundled into one package, Independent component	[71 - 72]
10	Elastic Container Service (ECS)	Orchestration service, Only supported Docker in AWS	[73 - 74]
11	Demo - Elastic Container Service	ECS service demon on AWS console	------/------
12	Lesson Recap	Notification services as - SNS & SQS, Container service	------/------

Lesson-7: AWS Management

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1	Introduction	Efficently uses the AWS management services	------/------
2	Why do we need logging and auditing in the cloud?	Server performance, Load on the server, Root cause	------/------
3	Cloud Trail	Audit the AWS account, Provide log file	[75]
4	Demo - Cloud Trail	Cloud trail demo on AWS console	------/------
5	Cloud Watch	Monitors resources and applications	[76 - 77]
6	Demo - Cloud Watch	Cloud watch demo on AWS console	------/------
7	Lab - Cloud Watch	Cloud watch excercise	------/------
8	What is Infrastructure as Code and why do we need it?	Used script programe, Time-saving	[78]
9	Cloud Formation	AWS IaaS, JSON or YAML, CloudForamtion stack	[79 - 80]
10	Demo - Cloud Formation	Cloud formation demo on AWS console	------/------
11	Lab - Cloud Formation	Cloud formation excercise	------/------
12	AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)	Access and control services, Command Line	[81]
13	Demo - AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)	CLI for EC2, SNS, SQS, S3	------/------
14	Lesson Recap	Cloud watch, Cloud trail	------/------
15	Course Recap	Storage, Database, Security, Networking, Elasticity, Messages, Queue, Container	------/------

3. Deploy Infrastructure as Code

Lesson-1: Getting Started with CloudFormation

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1	Introduction	IaaS description	------/------
2	Course Overview	Setup, Diagrams, Code - Network, Secruity, Storage	------/------
3	What is DevOps	Development and Operations	------/------
4	Why you need DevOps	Software and hardware mismatch, Configuration drift	------/------
5	What are the benefits of Cloud DevOps?	Predictable deployments using automated scripts, CI/CD, IaaC	[82 - 84]
6	Set up Tools	CloudFormation, VCS, Visual studio code, JSON, YAML	------/------
7	Creating Access Key ID for IAM User	Programmatic Access, Administrator Access	------/------
8	Configuring AWS CLI	AWS CLI install, CLI basic command, CLI configure	[85]
9	Adding Additional Keys	Access key - active / inactive, Add access key	------/------
10	Understanding CloudFormation	Declarative languages, Handles resource dependencies	[86 - 87]
11	Getting Started With CloudFormation Script	CloudFormation script - Name, Type, Properties, Stack	[88]
12	Testing CloudFormation	Create stack, update stack, Shell script for update-create	------/------
13	Creating a VPC: Manually vs Automated	Limitation of cloudformation code	------/------
14	Configuring AWS API User	API user, Programmatic access, Roles, CLI	------/------
15	Automating with CloudFormation	Create stack, Stack ID	------/------
16	Verifying in console	Status check in CloudForamtion console	------/------
17	Conclusion	CLI tool, Scripts, IaaC, Automation, IAM user	[89]

Lesson-2: Infrastructure Diagrams

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1	Introduction	Diagrams, Visual representation, Luchidchart	[90 - 91]
2	Generalizing to other cloud providers	AWS, Azure, GCP, Reference architect, Common Name	------/------
3	Setting up Lucidcharts	Luchidchar, Visio, Cloudcraft	------/------
4	Exercise: Setting Up Lucid Charts	Setting up luchidcart account	------/------
5	Diagramming AWS Accounts and Regions	Cloud Containe, Region, Cloud users	[92]
6	Exercise: Diagramming AWS accounts & regions	AWS cloud container, AWS general users, Rename users shapes	------/------
7	Diagramming Availability Zones	Single point of failure, Multiple availability zones	------/------
8	Exercise: Diagramming Availability Zones	Availability zones shape into container	------/------
9	Virtual Private Cloud	Private IP address, CIDR block range	[93 - 94]
10	Exercise: Virtual Private Cloud	VPC container shape, VPC subnet shapes	------/------
11	Public vs Private Subnets	Routing table, Security, Useness of Public or Private subnets	------/------
12	Exercise: Public vs Private Subnets	Private VPC subnet, Add shapes and rename of private VPC subnets	------/------
13	IGW Internet Gateway	Software Defined Networking, VPN, DirectConnect	[95]
14	Exercise: IGW Internet Gateway	VPC internet gatway shape	------/------
15	Network Address Translation	Translate public traffic into private traffic	[96]
16	Exercise: NAT's	VPC NAT gateway shapes	------/------
17	Autoscaling groups	Automatically start or stop the servers	[97]
18	Exercise: Autoscaling Groups	AWS EC2 instance shape, Autoscaling shape	------/------
19	Load Balancers	Distribute the requests, Single URL	[98 - 100]
20	Exercise: Load Balancers	Application load balancer shape	------/------
21	Security Groups	Manage traffic at the server level	[101]
22	Exercise: Security Groups	AWS security group shape	------/------
23	Routing Table	Route table configure	[102]
24	Exercise: Routing Table	Add route table shape	------/------
25	S3	Place the S3 service outside of your VPC	------/------
26	Exercise: S3	AWS S3 bucket shape	------/------
27	Reviewing Our Diagram	VPC, ELB, Scaling, NAT, EC2, Bucket, IGW, Subnet	------/------
28	Conclusion	AWS & Wordpress architecture	[103]

Lesson-3: Networking Infrastructure

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1	Introduction	Objective of the lesson, Network diagrams	------/------
2	Workflow and Helpers	Create and update script for the stack	------/------
3	VPC and Internet Gateway	Parameters & Resources for VPC, IGW, IGW attachement	[104 - 107]
4	NAT Gateway And Subnets	Public & Private subnet, NAT gateway	[108 - 111]
5	Routing	RouteTable, Route, SubnetRouteTableAssociation	[112 - 115]
6	Outputs	Outputs - VPC, VPCPublicRouteTable, VPCPrivateRouteTable, PublicSubnets, PrivateSubnets	[116 - 118]
7	Conclusion	Virtual Private Cloud, Subnets, Internet gateway, NAT gateway, Route table	------/------

Lesson-4: Servers and Security Groups

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1	Introduction	Firewall rules, Autoscaling groups, Launch configuration, TG, Debug	------/------
2	Setting Up Our Environment	Script file and Parameter file created	------/------
3	Understanding Security Groups	SecurityGroupEgress -> Outbound traffic, SecurityGroupIngress -> Inbound traffic	[119]
4	Security Groups	Inbound & Outbound traffic security, Private server access	[120]
5	Creating Autoscaling Group	Scaling Policy, Launch Configuration, Load Balancer	------/------
6	Launch Configuration	LaunchConfiguration -> ImageId, Instance Type	[121 - 122]
7	Debugging Launch Configuration	Debug the code in Autoscaling group configuration	------/------
8	Adding Target Groups and Listeners	LoadBalancer, Listener, ListenerRule, TargetGroup	[123 - 124]
9	Updating the Stack with the Load Balancer	Load balancer and Target group	------/------
10	Debugging Our Security Group	Debugging the auto scaling and target group	------/------
11	Final Review	Used docker container in pipeline	------/------
12	Conclusion	Firewall rules, Autoscaling groups, Launch configuration, TG, Debug	------/------

Lesson-5: Storage and Databases

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1	Introduction	Relation Database Storage, Simple Storage Service	------/------
2	RDS Databases (Part One)	Persisting Data, Choosing a database, Mult-AZ deployment, A single RDS Server can host multiple databases	------/------
3	RDS Databases (Part Two)	Network and Security, Database Accessibility, Availability Zone (AZ), Security Groups, Encryption	------/------
4	RDS Database (Part Three)	Endpoint, Performance matrix, Snapshots, Option groups	------/------
5	RDS Database (Part Four)	RDS Cloudformation procedure	[125]
6	S3 (Part One)	Configuration files and sensitive encrypted data	------/------
7	S3 (Part Two)	File copy from local to S3, Versioning, Web hosting	------/------
8	Key Points	Store - config files, media or log files	------/------
9	Conclusion	Keep S3 as private as possible	------/------

4. Build CI/CD Pipelines, Monitoring & Logging

Lesson-1: Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

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1	Introduction	Instructor background & experience	------/------
2	Course Overview	Course objectives, GitHub repo, Project overview, Lesson objectives	------/------
3	Interview: Career Skills	Instructor Olin Wread's career experiences	------/------
4	Jenkins Intro	Jenkins, Jenkins Pipeline, Jenkinsfile (Declarative and Scripted)	[126 - 129]
5	AWS Setup	Creat customize policy, group, user	------/------
6	IAM and EC2 Setup	Policy, Group, User, Console login, EC2 lanuch with 8080 port, EC2 stop/image	[130 - 131]
7	AWS Setup Quiz	IAM, AWS Billing for free tier	------/------
8	Installing Jenkins	Install Jenkins on Ubuntu, Logging into Jenkins using GUI	[132]
9	Install Blue Ocean Plugin into Jenkins	Jenkins Plugins, Blue Ocean Plugin, Configure Jenkins for Enterprise Authentication with LDAP	[133 - 134]
10	Jenkins Quiz	Language of Jenkins written - Java, Jenkinsfile	------/------
11	What is CI/CD and a Pipeline?	Background - DevOps, CI/CD, CI/CD pipeline	------/------
12	Pipelines	Is a set of tools and processes to automate the CI/CD	------/------
13	Review and Practice Exercises	Key Skills and Concepts from CI / CD Lesson	------/------

Lesson-2: Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Strategies

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1	Install AWS Plugin into Jenkins	"Pipeline: AWS Steps" pluging install in jenkins	------/------
2	Intro to Blue Ocean	Basic description of Blue ocean	[135]
3	Adding a Repo to a Pipeline	Create a blue ocean pipeline using GitHub	[136]
4	Multiple Pipelines	Multiple Pipelines in Blue Ocean, Multi-Pipeline Summary	[137 - 138]
5	Pipeline Triggers	Setting up a trigger, Pipeline Triggers Walkthrough	------/------
6	Pipeline Testing	tid install, index.html bug fix, Remove security scan in Jenkinfile and change region & bucket name	------/------
7	Security Testing with Aqua	Aqua MicroScanner token setup, Aqua MicroScanner plugin install, Docker install	[139 - 144]
8	Deployment Strategies	Deployment Strategies, Blue Green Deployment & Strategy, Blue/Green Deployment IAM Policy	------/------
9	Deployment Big Picture	Never used manual changes	------/------
10	Deployment Practice	Summary of the lesson, Practice exercise	------/------

Lesson-3: Ansible and Configuration Management

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1	Ansible Intro	Configuration management language, Leverages YAML & JSON, Agent-less language, Written in Python, Ruby and Powershell	[145 - 146]
2	Templates	Ansible Templates, Apply Template	------/------
3	Services	Systemd, Service start-stop-enable-disable	------/------
4	Conditionals	Conditionals Register, Built-in Ansible Variables, Built-in fact os_family	------/------
5	Roles	A collection task bundled together	------/------
6	Running Ansible	Playbooks, Running Ansible Playbook with Inventory, Creating an ansible inventory file	------/------
7	Ansible Review & Quiz	Ansible Review	[148 - 152]
8	Ansible Practice	Practice Exercise on Ansible	------/------

Lesson-4: Monitoring

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1	Monitoring Intro	Monitoring necessity, Lesson objective	------/------
2	Monitoring Using Prometheus	Install Ansible & tox, Clone Ansible-prometheus, Setup role, Create main.yaml & inventory file, Run playbook, Install node exporter and configure	[153]
3	Prometheus Quiz	HTTP protocol is used for Prometheus monitoring	------/------
4	Grafana	Install and Configure Grafana for Prometheus, Allow 3000 port, Create data sources	------/------
5	Monitoring and ELK	Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana	------/------
6	Installing ELK Services	ELK Stack Quickstart, Elasticsearch Installation, Install and Configure Kibana, Install and Configure Logstash	------/------
7	Monitoring Review & Practice	Pro Tips on Using the ELK Stack, Practice Exercise	[154]

5. Microservices at Scale using AWS & Kubernetes

Lesson-1: Deploy an Event-Driven Microservice

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1	Functions as a Service (FaaS)	AWS Lambda, SQS Queue, MXNet and Lambda	[155 - 157]
2	A Model for Serverless	Used frameworks, platforms, tools, Events & actions	[158]
3	Lesson Outline	Request-Response method, HTTP request	[159]
4	Benefits of FaaS	Benefits of FaaS, Reason of using FaaS	------/------
5	Cloud-Native	Advantages of cloud native, Moore's Law	[160 - 161]
6	Characteristics of Cloud-Native Systems	Microservice oriented, Elastic, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Agility, Composable, Pros, Cons, Fault Tolerance	------/------
7	AWS Account & Resources	Setup AWS account and Cloud9	[162 - 164]
8	Cloud9 Environment	Create environment in AWS Cloud9	------/------
9	Lambda Functions	Hello world (Python) lambda function	------/------
10	Deploying and Testing	Deploying & testing the lambda function, Ways of trigger a Lambda function	------/------
11	Tutorial: Making Change	Testing an AWS Lambda Function in Cloud9	[165]
12	Event-Handling	API Gateway trigger with Cloud9 and Lambda function	[166]
13	Events & Response	Events & Response, Trigger content, Web request status	------/------
14	Create a Test	Check the lambda function with test case	------/------
15	Deploy & Use API Gateway	API Gateway trigger, Deployment created an HTTP URL, Python requests library	------/------
16	Creating a Virtual Environment	Creating a Virtual Environment, Setting Up and Using Virtualenv, Using a Repeatable Convention to Create Virtual Environments	[167]
17	Exercise: Wikipedia	Wikipedia excercise	------/------
18	Exercise Code	Complete the code wikipedia excercise	------/------
19	Wikipedia Example	Wikipedia excercise solution	------/------
20	Test & Response	Test & deploy in lambda function	------/------
21	Summary	Microservice, FaaS, AWS Lambda, Cloud-Native Applications, SQS, Serverless, Moore's Law, AWS Cloud9, Python Env	------/------

Lesson-2: Using Docker Format Containers

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1	Docker Containers	Docker Desktop, Docker Hub, Shares Local Project, Docker Containers vs Virtual Machines (Size, Speed, Composability)	[168 - 169]
2	Exercise: Setting Up a Local Environment	Setting Up a Local Environment (pylint, black, pytest, ipython)	------/------
3	Makefiles	Makefile description and process	[170 - 172]
4	Exercise: Create A Basic Makefile	Create a basic Makefile	[173]
5	Install Docker	Create docker account, Install docker desktop	[174 - 176]
6	Linting and CircleCI	Linting and CircleCI, Docker, Makefile	------/------
7	Running Dockerfiles	Docker Base image workflow, Dockerfile, Cheat sheet	------/------
8	Exercise: Deploying to Amazon ECR	Deploying to Amazon ECR	[177]
9	Summary	Container, Virtual Machine, Docker Format Container, Makefile, CircleCI, Docker, Amazon ECR, Python Library	------/------

Lesson-3: Containerization of an Existing Application

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1	Exercise: Docker Based Apps	Docker-based Apps, Containerization	------/------
2	Install Packages	Install Packages, Setting Up Cloud9 (Makefile, requirements), CircleCI setup & build	------/------
3	Copying an Application	Copying an Application and Dockerfile	------/------
4	App Setup	Exposing the port for the application	[178]
5	App Start	Common Issues Running a Container	[179 - 182]
6	Exercise: Build and Deploy	Build the container and check out the deployed app	[183]
7	Exercise: Containerize an App	Exercise on Containerize an App	------/------
8	Summary	Swagger, Data Engineering, Ports, JSON	------/------

Lesson-4: Container Orchestration with Kubernetes

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1	Install Kubernetes	Install Kubernetes setup on desktop, Mac, Docker, GCP	[184 - 187]
2	Overview of Kubernetes	Overview of Kubernetes, Benefits of using Kubernetes, Kubernetes (Cluster) Architecture, Set Up a Kubernetes Cluster	[185 - 197]
3	Monitoring, Logging and Debugging with Kubernetes	Monitoring, Logging and Debugging with Kubernetes, Prometheus	[198 - 199]
4	Exercise: Prometheus Monitoring	Getting Started with Prometheus, Alerting Theory	[200]
5	Exercise: Logging	Getting the logs from a running pod	------/------
6	Exercise: Debugging	Debugging with an example app to build with Kubernetes	------/------
7	Auto Scaling with CPU or Memory	Autoscaling with CPU or Memory, HPA (Horizontal Pod Autoscaler)	[201 - 204]
8	[Placeholder] Exercise: Autoscaling	Horizontal Pod Autoscaler Exercise	------/------
9	Summary	Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Google GKE, Azure Kubernetes Service AKS, Kubernetes - Pods, Containers, Clusters, Prometheus	------/------

Lesson-5: Operationalizing Microservices

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1	Alerts and Incidents Response	Operationalizing a Microservice Overview, Creating Effective Alerts	[205 - 208]
2	Disaster Recovery	Disaster Recovery, Five Pillars of a Well Architected Serverless System	[209 - 210]
3	CI/CD Pipeline Integration	CI/CD Pipeline Integration	[211]
4	Exercise: CircleCI	Excercise on CircleCI	[212]
5	Load Testing	Load test a sample app with Locust	------/------
6	Exercise: Locust Load Testing	Exercise on Locust Load Testing	[213 - 214]
7	Summary	Alerts, Operationalization, Metrics, Disaster recovery, Migrate, Continuous Integration-Delivery, Load Testing	------/------
8	Course Wrap Up	Cloud native, Cloud9, Docker, CircleCI, AWS ECR, Kubernetes, Locust, GitOps	------/------

Extracurricular

1. Prerequisite: Networking

Lesson-1: Networking

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1	Interview	Security, Goal, Categories of security	------/------
2	Lesson Map & Learning Objectives	Lesson path and objecive	------/------
3	Network Communication Model	Components of Networking - Medium, Addressing & Content	------/------
4	Addressing	IPv4 - 32 bits, limitation	[1 - 3]
5	Addressing and Networks	Network prefix, Host address, 253 unique host address for /24, CIDR	[4 - 10]
6	OSI Model	Layer of OSI model	[11 - 14]
7	Switching	Local area network trafic	[15 - 16]
8	Frame Structure	Ethernet packet & frame	[17 - 18]
9	Switching At Scale	Trunk link, switch port, router	------/------
10	Virtual LANs	Virtual LANs useness	------/------
11	Routing	Router, Routing tables, Private IP address, NAT, IPv6	[19 - 22]
12	Wireshark	Network packet analyzer - wireshark	[23 - 25]
13	Domain Name System	FQDN, TLD, Hostname, Domain, DNS	[26 - 27]
14	Types of DNS Records	Local cache, DNS record types	[28]
15	DNS Hierarchy	Root servers, TLD, Sub-domain, hostname, IP address	[29 - 30]
16	Load Balancing	Load Balancing necessity	------/------
17	Load Balancing Approaches	Round robic, BGP anycast, Policy-based, Dedicated	[31]
18	Outro	Summary of the lesson	------/------

Resources

• [1] RFC 6890 - Special-Purpose IP Address Registries, April 2013
• [2] RFC 1918 - Address Allocation for Private Internets, February 1996
• [3] Wikipedia - IPv4 Address Exhaustion
• [4] IP Address to Binary
• [5] Binary to IP Address
• [6] Subnetworks
• [7] CIDR
• [8] RFC IPv4
• [9] RFC IPv6
• [10] RFC CIDR
• [11] OSI model
• [12] The OSI Model Demystified
• [13] The 7 Layers of the OSI Model
• [14] Packet Switching
• [15] Network Switches
• [16] Spanning Tree Protocol
• [17] Wikipedia article on Ethernet frames
• [18] A Networking Frame
• [19] What is my ip
• [20] IPv6 test site
• [21] TCP/IP and Subnet Masking
• [22] Wikipedia article on NAT
• [23] Wireshark User Guide
• [24] Wireshark Wiki
• [25] Wireshark link for download
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• [27] Domain Name System IANA Considerations 2011
• [28] Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones (2010)
• [29] Wikipedia article on the Domain Name System
• [30] Wikipedia article on DNS record types
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• [35] Global Infrastructure
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• [37] Shared Responsibility Model
• [38] Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute
• [39] Amazon Elastic Block Store
• [40] Virtual Private Cloud
• [41] Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
• [42] Amazon VPC Documentation
• [43] AWS Lambda
• [44] AWS Elastic Beanstalk Overview
• [45] What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• [46] Amazon S3 Storage Classes
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• [50] Amazon DynamoDB Overview
• [51] What is Amazon DynamoDB
• [52] What Is A Relational Database
• [53] Amazon Relational Database Service
• [54] AWS Product Databases using Relational Databases
• [55] What Is Amazon Redshift
• [56] Amazon Redshift Overview
• [57] Amazon CloudFront Overview
• [58] What is Amazon CloudFront
• [59] AWS Shield Overview
• [60] AWS Web Application Firewall
• [61] AWS IAM Overview
• [62] What is IAM
• [63] Amazon Route 53 Overview
• [64] Amazon EC2 Autoscaling Overview
• [65] What is Amazon EC2 Autoscaling
• [66] Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Overview
• [67] Amazon SNS Overview
• [68] What is Amazon SNS
• [69] Amazon SQS Overview
• [70] What is Amazon SQS
• [71] General overview about Docker containers
• [72] Documentation on Docker Containers
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• [74] What is Amazon ECS
• [75] AWS CloudTrail Overview
• [76] AWS CloudWatch Overview
• [77] What is Amazon CloudWatch
• [78] Infrastructure as Code
• [79] AWS CloudFormation Overview
• [80] What is AWS CloudFormation
• [81] AWS Command Line Interface
• [82] Difference between DevOps and Software Configuration Management
• [83] Continuous integration vs. continuous delivery vs. continuous deployment
• [84] Infrastructure as code
• [85] AWS CLI tool
• [86] Imperative programming
• [87] Difference between functional and imperative programming
• [88] AWS Documentation
• [89] Infrastructure-as-Code GitHub repository
• [90] Luchidchart
• [91] Learn about architecting at scale
• [92] How do I connect multiple VPCs in different AWS Regions
• [93] Classless Inter Domain Routing
• [94] VPCs and Subnets in AWS
• [95] Internet Gateways
• [96] Network Address Translation (NAT) Gateway
• [97] Autoscaling group
• [98] Classic load balancer
• [99] Application load balancer
• [100] Network load balancer
• [101] Security Groups
• [102] Route tables
• [103] WordPress Architecture
• [104] Parameters
• [105] VPC
• [106] VPCCidrBlock
• [107] Internet Gateway
• [108] AWS::EC2::Subnet
• [109] DependsOn Attribute
• [110] Creating NAT Gateways
• [111] AWS::EC2::NatGateway
• [112] Route Tables Overview
• [113] Route Table Documentation
• [114] Route Documentation
• [115] Subnet Route Table Association Documentation
• [116] Outputs Documentation
• [117] Join Function
• [118] Substitutes
• [119] Security Groups Resource
• [120] Documentation for security groups in CloudFormation
• [121] AWS Available Instance Types
• [122] Launch Configuration Reference
• [123] TargetGroups Documentation
• [124] Health Checks for Your TargetGroups
• [125] Retention Policy
• [126] Jenkins User Documentation
• [127] Comparison of continuous integration software
• [128] ND9991 - C3 - Build CI/CD Pipelines, Monitoring, and Logging
• [129] Set Up a CI/CD Pipeline on AWS
• [130] AWS Free Tier Limits
• [131] How to launch an EC2 instance
• [132] Jenkins Debian packages
• [133] Blue Ocean
• [134] Create a Pipeline in Blue Ocean
• [135] Documentation for setting up a Pipeline using Blue Ocean
• [136] Create your Pipeline project in Blue Ocean
• [137] Tutorial to Create a Multibranch Pipeline Project in Blue Ocean
• [138] Pipeline example
• [139] Aqua MicroScanner Signup
• [140] Security testing plugins available for Jenkins
• [141] Tutorial to run JMeter with Jenkins
• [142] Performance plugin
• [143] JUnit plugin
• [144] JUnit Document
• [145] Idempotence
• [146] Ansible Documentation
• [147] Working With Playbooks
• [148] Ansible systemd
• [149] Ansible conditionals
• [150] Ansible package installs
• [151] Ansible inventory
• [152] Ansible roles
• [153] Prometheus
• [154] How to set up alerts and notifications with ELK stack
• [155] AWS Lambda
• [156] Amazon Simple Queue Service
• [157] Seamlessly Scale Predictions with AWS Lambda and MXNet
• [158] Chalice
• [159] Request–response
• [160] Moore's Law
• [161] A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture
• [162] AWS Cloud9
• [163] Beginner's Guide to Writing AWS Lambda Functions in Python
• [164] DevOps_Microservices - GitHub
• [165] Build your own text translation AWS Lambda
• [166] Travelling salesman problem
• [167] Installing packages using pip and virtual environments
• [168] Docker Desktop
• [169] Docker Hub
• [170] Increase reliability in data science and machine learning projects with CircleCI
• [171] Linux operating system in Azure
• [172] Makefile Tutorial
• [173] Makefile Tutorial with Example
• [174] Docker Homepage
• [175] Play with Docker Classroom
• [176] Docker Orientation and Setup
• [177] ECR Registry Upload
• [178] Docker ports
• [179] Write to the Host Filesystem in Docker
• [180] Docker logging guide
• [181] Docker port
• [182] Docker Runtime options with Memory, CPUs, and GPUs
• [183] Swagger
• [184] Install and Set Up kubectl
• [185] Kubernetes Homepage
• [186] Install Kubernetes with Docker
• [187] Minikube
• [188] Kubernetes official documentation
• [189] Interactive Tutorial - Creating a Cluster
• [190] Deploy An App
• [191] Explore Your App
• [192] Expose Your App Publicly
• [193] Scale Your App
• [194] Update Your App
• [195] Pod Overview
• [196] Kubernetes Containers
• [197] Kubernetes Clusters
• [198] Prometheus
• [199] Application Introspection and Debugging
• [200] Download, install and run Prometheus
• [201] Running Multiple Instances of Your App
• [202] Horizontal Pod Autoscaler
• [203] Kubernetes autoscaling in UCP
• [204] Horizontal Pod Autoscaler Walkthrough
• [205] GitOps style workflow
• [206] Locust
• [207] Monitoring apps running on multiple GKE clusters using Prometheus and Stackdriver
• [208] Monitor Node Health
• [209] Loader
• [210] Backup and Migrate Kubernetes
• [211] Kubernetes deployments with Cloudflare
• [212] Hadolint Install
• [213] Locust Installation
• [214] Locust Load Testing Excercise Repo
• [215] Project Tutorial in Python - CircleCI
• [216] Running Minikube in AWS EC2 (Ubuntu)
• [217] Getting Started with Kubernetes