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System Operations on AWS: Level 1 Course

 

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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Attend hands-on, instructor-led System Operations on AWS: Level 1 training classes at ONLC's nationwide locations. Not near one of our locations? Attend these same live classes from your home/office PC via our Remote Classroom Instruction (RCI) technology.

For additional training options, check out our list of AWS Courses and select the one that's right for you.

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