Course Outline
Foundations of Cloud Operations on AWS
- Operational roles and responsibilities in the cloud environment.
- AWS account structure, AWS Organizations, and multi-account strategies.
- Core operational services: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Config.
Infrastructure as Code and Provisioning
- Principles of IaC and immutable infrastructure.
- Provisioning resources with Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
- Managing state files, modules, and environment promotion.
CI/CD and Deployment Strategies
- Designing CI/CD pipelines for cloud-native applications.
- Implementing blue/green, canary, and rolling deployment strategies.
- Automating rollback processes, health checks, and release validation.
Monitoring, Observability, and Alerting
- Handling metrics, logs, and traces: shipping, storing, and analyzing data.
- Utilizing CloudWatch, X-Ray, and third-party observability tools.
- Defining Service Level Objectives (SLOs)/Service Level Indicators (SLIs), alerting policies, and on-call practices.
Security Operations and Identity Management
- IAM best practices, least privilege principles, and cross-account access.
- Secrets management, AWS Key Management Service (KMS), and secure parameter stores.
- Operational security: patching strategies, vulnerability scanning, and audit trails.
Resilience, Backup, and Disaster Recovery
- Designing for fault tolerance and high availability.
- Backup strategies, snapshot automation, and restore procedures.
- Disaster recovery planning and creating runbooks.
Cost Optimization and Governance
- Cost visibility: billing, tagging, and cost allocation strategies.
- Rightsizing, reserved instances/savings plans, and budgeting controls.
- Governance: policies, guardrails, and automation for compliance.
Containers, Serverless, and Runtime Operations
- Operational considerations for ECS, EKS, and Lambda.
- Service discovery, autoscaling, and resource limits.
- Logging, tracing, and debugging containerized workloads.
Incident Response, Playbooks, and Chaos Engineering
- Runbook-driven incident response and postmortem practices.
- Automating remediation and self-healing patterns.
- Introduction to chaos experiments for validating resilience.
Hands-on Workshop: Operating a Sample Workload
- Deploying a sample application using IaC and a CI/CD pipeline.
- Implementing monitoring, alerts, and an automated remediation script.
- Simulating incidents and practicing runbook-based response.
Summary and Next Steps
Requirements
- A fundamental understanding of cloud concepts and networking principles.
- Familiarity with the Linux command line and scripting.
- Experience with source control systems (Git) and basic CI/CD concepts.
Target Audience
- Cloud operations engineers.
- Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and platform engineers.
- DevOps engineers and technical team leads.
Custom Corporate Training
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- Customized Content: We adapt the syllabus and practical exercises to the real goals and needs of your project.
- Flexible Schedule: Dates and times adapted to your team's agenda.
- Format: Online (live), In-company (at your offices), or Hybrid.
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