Birmingham School of Code - Cohort 4 AWS day 2020-12-03
Give SOC students a feel for AWS and then be able to deploy an application to EC2 and a static site to S3 + Cloudfront. Give as much hands on as possible.
| item | time |
|---|---|
| Start | 9:15am |
| Break | 1:30pm - 2:20pm |
| Finish | ~4:00pm |
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Admin - create slack channel, split up into 6 groups, give each pair a (/zoom breakout room), and aws account creds from log in spreadsheet
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Intro - the team, who we are and our journeys into software engineering (go through your LinkedIn profile)
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Intro to AWS Cloud ~ 10 mins https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/AmazonWebServices/module-1-introduction-to-the-aws-cloud-awsome-day-online-conference-2019
- By end of 2018, AWS annual revenue = $25.65 billion
- AWS has over 60% of cloud market
- Explore AWS a bit and go over services
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EC2 - deeper dive, create instance
- Break up into your groups:
- Spin up and configure an ec2 instance in dev VPC of choice
- Get nodejs 14+ installed
- Get a rudimentary NodeJS web app running. Sample one in
/app - Poke holes in the security group to the world
- Access your API from the world
- observe your "access logs"
- Break up into your groups:
Break for guest lecturer
- S3 + Cloudfront - deeper dive, create instance
- what is a CDN ?
- Break up into your groups:
- create an s3 bucket
- configure it for web access
- test access to bucket
- create a cloudfront distribution
- wire up s3 bucket to cloudfront
- test cloudfront distribution
Lecture
- A career in DevOps
- DevSecOps principles
- Cloud Vs DevOps
- What is it that we do, what does our day to day look like?
- DevSecOps Learning path:
- Open Q&A around Cloud, Dev[Sec]Ops, SRE or anything else!
- Quick Retro
- Clean up AWS accounts down instances, code9, users and groups