Course Description


Learn to use the tools of modern developers! 

This course provides a comprehensive survey of open source tools and fundamental software development principles that are useful for anyone interested in a DevOps, SRE, or "FullStack" developer career. 

During this course, you will understand how modern DevOps tools simplify the automated deployment of infrastructure, testing of code in the development process, and final deployment of that code as a running application.

Starting with a baseline consideration of the challenges that manual deployments pose to DevOps development processes, we'll quickly move to look at automating the process of infrastructure deployment. Terraform will be used to demonstrate automating a private OpenStack IaaS cloud system deployment. Then, we'll use the Ansible compliance tool to automate the deployment of an application on the system we've just created. 

Next, we'll look at how automation improves development efficiency by leveraging a Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) process to automate your application testing and deployment on the infrastructure you've created, using the open source Travis CI tool.

Finally, we'll look at how the use of Docker containers is changing these processes (and how they stay the same) in a world where virtual machines (VMs) and bare metal servers still have relevance...but are seeing different roles in application and infrastructure deployment.


Kumulus Technologies, Founder and CTO Robert Starmer

Robert has 25 years of experience in automating IT data systems and a focus on automating both application deployments and the underlying infrastructure those deployments rely on. Robert brings a wealth of knowledge to the full application enablement stack from underlying Infrastructure automation and compliance to application deployment automation. Robert's technology background stems from efforts in such diverse fields as high-performance computing and high-frequency trading environments, scale-out workload management, and enabling ops automation and continuous integration and deployment services. Robert also holds patents in network, data center, and application performance and scale enhancements. Robert is currently a founding partner at Kumulus Technologies, a San Francisco Bay area infrastructure-focused Dev/Ops and Cloud Systems consultancy, where he writes, presents, develops, and educates the industry on cloud and dev/ops topics.

Course curriculum

    1. Introduction

    1. Module 1 Introduction

    2. Module 1 - IT Supported Application Deployment

    3. Screencast preface

    4. Module 1 - Screencast

    1. Introduction

    2. Module 2 - IaaS Supported Application Installation

    3. Module 2 - Terraform Preface

    4. Module 2 - Screencast 1 Terraform

    5. Module 2 -Terraform Supplementary Material

    6. Module 2 - Ansible Preface

    7. Module 2 - Screencast 2 Ansible

    8. Module 2 - Ansible Supplementary Material

    1. Module 3 Introduction

    2. Module 3 - Understanding Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery

    3. Module 3 - Screencast 1 CI with Travis-CI

    4. Module 3 - Travis CI ScreenCast - Supplementary Material

    1. Module 4 Introduction

    2. Module 4 - Application Shift for Cloud and Containerization

    3. Transition

    4. Module 4 ScreenCast - Containerizing our Application

    5. Module 4 ScreenCast - Supplemental Material

    1. Course Summary

    2. Next Steps

About this course

  • $27.00
  • 24 lessons
  • 2 hours of video content