Configuration / Provisioning

CHEF:

Introduction to Chef

• What is Chef
• Common Chef Terminology
• Chef Serverand Workstation
• Chef-Client
• Server and Nodes
• Chef Configuration Concepts
• Run_list

Setting up the Environment

• Intro to ChefDK
• Chef Workstation Setup

Chef Server

• Installing Chef Server
• Chef-Repo, Setting Up the Work Station, and Bootstrapping A Node
• Configuring Git
• Chef Client, Nodes and Run Lists
• Building A Quick Apache Cookbook
• Managing Node Run_Lists
• Chef-Client Configuration

Resources

• Understanding Chef and Chef Convergence
• Common Chef Resources
• Default Resource Actions
• Working with not_if and only_if Guards

Recipes and Cookbooks

• Understanding Chef Recipes and Run Lists
• Understanding Chef Cookbooks
• Generating a Cookbook
• Cookbook Pro-Tips

Local Cookbook Development Basics

• Test Kitchen Configuration
• Using Test Kitchen
• Static Code Analysis
• Troubleshooting

Building Web & application server Cookbook

• Getting Setup
• Starting the Apache Recipe
• Adding Platform Support to the Cookbook
• Adding Local Chef-Repo to Github
• Install and configure Chef Reporting
• Node Object and Search
• What is Node Object
• Writing cookbook &recipes for webserver
• Writing cookbook & recipes  for tomcat application server

Attributes:

• Node Attributes
• Type of Attributes
• Attributes presidency

Environments

• Chef Environments
• What are Environments and why do they matter
• Creating and Configuring Environments
• Deploying to Different Environments
• Viewing and Environments with Knife

Roles

• What are Roles
• Creating A web server Role
• Creating Db Server Role
• Creating a Base Role

Chef Supermarket

• Chef Supermarket

Vagrant:

Introduction

• What is Vagrant
• Virtualization Overview

Setting Up Vagrant

• Virtual Box Installation
• Vagrant Installation

Using Vagrant

• Vagrant Machine
• Vagrant Files
• Boxes
• Running Vagrant Machines
• SSH to Vagrant Machine
• Synced Folders
• Environment Management

Automated Provisioning

• Provisioning
• Installing Apache /Shell Script
• Installing Apache /Chef

Networking

• Private Networking
• Public Networking

Configuration / Provisioning:

ANSIBLE

Introduction

• What is Ansible
• Change Management
• Provisioning
• Automation
• Orchestration
• Why use Ansible
• YAML
• Built in Security
• Extendable
• Conclusion

Architecture and Process Flow

• Architecture Introduction
• System Requirement
• Components Overview
• Process of Execution
• Conclusion

Setup and Configuration

• Test Environment Setup
• Download and Installation
• Ansible Configuration File
• The HOSTS File
• Overriding the Default HOSTS File
• Overriding the Default System Ansible.Cfg File
• Overriding the Default Roles Path
• Understanding the core components of Ansible
• Ad-hoc commands in Ansible

Ansible Inventory and Configuration

• Introduction to Inventory &Configuration
• Inventory Fundamentals
• Scaling out with Multiple Files
• Ansible Configuration Basics

Ansible Playbooks

• Ansible Command Line
• Our First Playbook
• Variables: Inclusion Types
• Target Section
• Variable Section
• Task Section
• Handler Section
• Outlining Playbook
• Create a Playbook from Outline
• Optimizing Playbook
• Taking Playbook for a Dry Run
• Simple Variable Substitution
• Loops
• Conditionals
• Vault
• Basic Include Statements
• Tags
• Basic Error Handling
• Includes – Breaking Your Playbook Into Discrete Plays
• Starting At Task or Stepping Through All Tasks
• Passing Variables Into Playbooks at the Command Line
• Using Jinja2 Templates
• Use a playbook to copy a program and customize it for the target host.
• Wiring Play books for java, webservers and applications server

Ansible Modules

• Introduction
• Ansible Modules Fundamentals
• Module Docs
• Yum Module
• Setup Module
• Other modules

Create and use templates to create customized configuration files

• Introduction
• Templates

Working with Ansible facts and variables.

• Let see how we get ansible facts and how we use facts
• Using Ansible facts
• Using variables to gather server info

Roles

• Introduction to Roles
• Role Basics
• Creating Role
• Ansible Galaxy
• Roles – The Directory Structure
• Role Based Tasks
• Task Order – Pre and Post Tasks
• Roles – Conditional Execution
• Roles – Variable Substitution
• Roles – Handlers
• Roles – Configuring Alternate Roles Paths
• Roles – Conditional Include Statements
• Roles – Waiting For Events
• Roles – Executing a Task Until
• Roles – Using Tags
• Roles – Breaking a Playbook Into a Role
• Roles – Passing Variables from Command Line
• Roles – Using Jinja2 Templates
• Roles – LocalAction
• Roles – Lets create a role to install apache.
• Lets use the previous role and add a new one.
• Lets build on the previous role
• Create Role for installing tomcat on  multiple nodes
• Create Role for  deploy application on multiple nodes

Containerization

Docker:

Introduction

What is docker

Docker life cycle

How docker containers working

Installing Docker

• Installing Docker on Linux

Working with Containers

• How to create the containers
• Docker commands
• Theory of pulling and Running Containers
• Working with images
• Container Life cycle
• Dockerfile
• Build Docker images
• Docker push
• Docker compose
• Docker volumes
• Docker cpu
• Docker memory
• Docker Networking

Kubernetes

• What is kubernets
• Purpose of Kubernets
• How kubernets works
• Master components, how works
• Node Compenents, how works
• How pods works
• Installations and configuration kubernets cluster
• Pod lifecycle
• Work with pods
• Work with Services
• Work with Replica controller
• Work with Deployment
• How to Releases  java application by using RC and Deploy
• KOPS

Terraform

Infrastructure Automation

• What is Infrastructure as Code and why is it needed?
• Declarative vs Procedural tools for Infrastructure as Code
• Infrastructure as Code in the Cloud
• Requirements for infrastructure provisioner
• Deploying First Server
• Preparing work environment
• Terraform providers
• Configuring AWS provider e. Creating EC2 instance with Terraform
• Working with state
• Handling resource updates

Resource Dependencies and modules

• Creating AWS Virtual Private Cloud
• Controlling dependencies with depends_on and ignore_changes
• Making sense of our template
• Removing duplication with modules
• Configuring modules
• Retrieving module data with outputs
• Using root module outputs

Storing and Supplying Configuration

• Understanding variables
• Configuring data sources
• Exploring Terraform configuration resources

Taking a quick look at Consul

Monitoring

System Monitoring : Nagios

• Installation of Nagios
• Configuring Nagios
• Monitoring with Nagios

Application  Monitoring: ELK

• Installation of Elasticsearch, logstash, Kiban stack
• Configuring the ELK Stack
• Monitoring logs with ELK