Getting Started with DevOps on AWS

In this curriculum, you will acquire the knowledge and skills to begin your journey toward implementing DevOps on AWS. You will learn about DevOps culture, principles, and tools. You will be able to explain how to create and control a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline by using AWS DevOps tools. For a guided, hands-on experience building a CI/CD pipeline, try the Getting Started with DevOps on AWS lab. This curriculum includes one optional, self-paced lab hosted at amazon.qwiklabs.com. Labs must be paid for with credits, which cost USD$1 per credit. This lab costs 10 credits. The cost is not included with free Getting Started with DevOps on AWS Training. To purchase credits and complete a lab, you must create a Qwiklabs account.      • Curriculum level: Fundamental      • Duration: 3 hours

Activities

This curriculum uses videos, interactive learning objects, knowledge checks, and an optional self-paced lab.

Curriculum objectives

In this curriculum, you will learn to:      • Describe the DevOps methodologies of culture, practices, and tools      • Explain why adopting a mindset that supports a DevOps culture is essential to implementing DevOps      • Describe Amazon's transformation to DevOps      • Categorize and describe key AWS DevOps services that support the application lifecycle      • Identify the AWS services used to automate the CI/CD process      • Describe how to create, configure, and control a CI/CD pipeline

Intended audience

This curriculum is intended for:      • Developers      • IT operations engineers      • IT professionals      • IT leaders      • Cloud practitioners      • Solutions architects      • DevOps engineers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this curriculum have:      • General knowledge of the software development cycle      • General IT knowledge      • General cloud computing knowledge  

Curriculum outline

Course: Getting Started with DevOps on AWS      • Module 1: Introduction to DevOps      • Module 2: DevOps Methodology      • Module 3: Amazon’s DevOps Transformation      • Module 4: AWS DevOps Tools      • Module 5: AWS and DevOps Demo

(Optional) Lab: Getting Started with DevOps on AWS      • Task 1: Create the infrastructure code for the environments      • Task 2: Deploy the application to a staging region using CodePipeline      • Task 3: Extend continuous delivery to the production region      • Task 4: Modify the application and test the entire CI/DC process