F21AO - Applied Development and Operations (DevOps)

Course leader(s):

To be announced (Edinburgh, January)
Abrar Ullah (Dubai, January)

Aims

In this course, students will primarily develop understanding of both theoretical and practical knowledge and skills in applied development and oprations. The course aims are:

To instill understanding of the concepts and benefits of applied software engineering methods
To provide knowledge of change and configuration management
To develop understanding of software deployment architecture
To give practical experience of continuous integration methods
To consolidate proficiency in version control and code management
To give practical experience of deployment and delivery techniques
To give further practical experience of staging, testing and continuous testing

Syllabus

1. Introduction to DevOps (1.1 Introduction to Development and Operation DevOps process)

2. Agile methodology (2.1 Agile Methodology, 2.2 Understanding Scrum Framework, 2.3 Scrum Implementation using JIRA)

3. Software Architecture (3.1 Software Architecture, 3.2 Monolithic vs Microservices, 3.3 Implementation using NodeJs, MongoDB or other Document Database)

4. REST APIs (4.1 Concepts of Application Programming Interface, 4.2 Creating REST APIs, 4.3 Code Management and Git version control)

5. Virtualization and Containers (5.1 Virtualization and Containerization, 5.2 Cloud Computing Concepts, 5.3 Implementation of Containerization using Dockers, 5.4 Virtual Box)

6. Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) (6.1 Creating DevOps Pipelines, 6.2 Continuous Integration CI, 6.3 Continuous Delivery CD, 6.4 Implementation of CI/CD using Jenkins)

7. Continuous Testing (7.1 Continuous Testing, 7.2 Test Driven Development, 7.3 Mocha and Chai Framework for Testing)

8. Security Design, Implementation and Testing (8.1 Security development lifecycle, 8.2 Using the concepts of DevSecOps, 8.3 Security Design in the DevOps pipeline, 8.4 Security Implementation and Testing, 8.5 Security Testing and integration in DevOps using OWASP ZAP, OpenVAS)

9. Continuous Delivery/Deployment and IaS (9.1 Continuous Delivery and Deployment, 9.2 Infrastructure as Code IaS, 9.3 Continuous Deployment to Cloud Infrastructure, 9.4 Implementation and deployment to Kubernetes Cluster)

10. Continuous Monitoring (10.1 Continuous Monitoring, 10.2 Disaster Recovery, 10.3 Implementation of ConMon using Nagios, Grafana etc.)

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, students should be able to do the following:

apply a suitable software development environment and development methodology for specific problems and tasks and justify the choice.
implement applications using continuous development, continuous integration, continuous testing, continuous deployment and continuous monitoring approaches.
apply the use of virtualization and containerization in development, deployment and testing practices.
apply change and configuration management, software architecture in cloud and virtual environments and ability to evaluate their appropriateness in different situations.
make an informed judgement and interpret key security concepts for application during software development and operations.
demonstrate implementation of DevOps concepts including professional standards in code management, staging, testing and deployment
demonstrate creativity and team working skills in a collaborative software development environment.

Further details

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SCQF Level: 11

Credits: 15