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DevOps: CSC 519

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In this course, you will gain practical exposure to the skills, tools, and knowledge needed in automating software engineering processes and infrastructure necessary for continuous deployment of software. Students will have the chance to build new or extend existing software engineering tools and design an automated deployment pipeline.

Course Overview

In the course, a mixture of traditional lectures with activities and in-class workshops will be used. During lectures, we will cover core concepts related to a topic. During the in-class workshops, we will perform sample exercises with relevant tools that reinforce lecture material. Evaluation will be based on tech talks, homework assignments, workshop attendance, and final project.

After the course, students are able to:

• Programmatically provision images.
• Automatically apply configuration management to production environments.
• Automatically create and maintain build environments.
• Maintain test suites and measure testing quality and coverage.
• Automatically generate new tests, using feedback-directed random testing, fuzzing, and data-flow analysis.
• Programmatically measure code quality via static and dynamic code analysis.
• Understand components of infrastructure.
• Remotely regulate behavior of deployed software via feature flags and configuration servers.
• Apply advanced strategies for deployment of software.
• Monitor and analyze telemetry data.
• Implement resilience testing on production environments (e.g., Chaos Monkey).

Schedule and Topics—Spring 2022

📹 Live stream and recorded videos

The following schedule is subject to change.

Class	Topics	Activities	Assignments
➡️	Setup
Jan 10	Intro
	Course overview	Passing opunit checks
Jan 12	Basics	Basics workshop	HW-Basics
	Terminals, making windows awesome, package managers, shells	Customize your prompt, install the things
	markdown, git, virtualization, kanban
Jan 17	No class
Jan 19	Basics continued; What's DevOps?
🧱   Computing Environments    ☢️
Jan 24	Computing Environments
	Headless infrastructure, virtualization concepts	Practice: Node Essentials: Promises
Jan 26	VM workshop		HW-V
	Virtual Box and Virtualization Framework Internals	Build vagrant from scratch and bash provisioning script
Jan 31	Debugging Virtualization Problems
Feb 2	OS Virtualization
	Containers, overlayfs, cgroup	Build docker from scratch
Feb 7	Images
	Building disk images, initrd, rootfs, kernel	Build packer from scratch
Feb 9	Cloud provisioning	Build doctl from scratch	HW-P
🚰🚀    Pipelines, CI/CD    🧪✅
Feb 14	Pipelines
Feb 16	Pipelines Workshop	Build a deployment pipeline from scratch
	git hooks, pre-commit, post-receive, bare repositories, process managers
Feb 21	Configuration Management		M1
Feb 23	CM, Ansible
Feb 28	Testing+Analysis
Mar 2	Fuzzing
Mar 7	Static Analysis/Code Complexity
Mar 9	Code coverage
Mar 14	Spring break
Mar 16	Spring break
🚧   Infrastructure + Operations    🏗️
Mar 21	Infrastructure concepts		M2
Mar 23	Redis
Mar 28	Deployment strategies
Mar 30	Deployment workshop
Apr 4	Monitoring
Apr 6	Monitoring workshop
Apr 11	Incidents
Apr 18	Chao engineering/feature experimentation		M3
Apr 20	Chao experiment
Apr 25	No class
May 4	Final Exam