DevOps: CSC 519
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 2021
The following schedule is subject to change.
| Class | Topics | Resources | Assignments |
|---|---|---|---|
| ➡️ | Setup | ||
| Jan 19 | Intro | HW0 | |
| Jan 21 | Basics workshop 🥾 | ||
| Jan 26 | What's DevOps?—History | Summit I, Summit II-III | |
| Jan 28 | Cloud Provisioning Workshop 📓 | Cloud Providers | |
| 🧱 Computing Environments ☢️ | |||
| Feb 2 | Virtualization concepts | HW1 | |
| Feb 4 | Virtualization Workshop | ||
| Feb 9 | 😴 | ||
| Feb 11 | Containers/Docker Workshop | ||
| Feb 16 | Configuration Management | HW2 | |
| Feb 18 | Building Configuration Server | ||
| Ansible Playbooks | |||
| 🚰 Pipelines 🚀 | |||
| Feb 23 | Pipelines, CI/CD | Verifying Pipelines | 💎 Build Milestone, HW3 |
| Feb 25 | Building Basic Pipelines | ||
| Mar 2 | Jenkins | ||
| Mar 4 | TBA | ||
| 🧪 Testing+Analysis ✅ | |||
| Mar 9 | Testing + Analysis concepts | HW4 | |
| Mar 11 | Fuzzing workshop | ||
| Mar 16 | Test suites analysis and coverage workshop | 💎Test Milestone | |
| Mar 18 | Static analysis workshop | ||
| 🚧 Infrastructure 🏗️ | |||
| Mar 23 | Infrastructure concepts | HW5 | |
| Mar 25 | Building Caches and Queues with Redis | ||
| Mar 30 | TBA | ||
| Apr 1 | TBA | ||
| 📦 Deploy 🛎️ | |||
| Apr 6 | Deploy Strategies and Feature flags | 💎Deploy Milestone, HW6 | |
| Apr 8 | Deployment Workshop | ||
| Apr 13 | Monitoring | ||
| Apr 15 | Monitoring Workshop | ||
| 📈 Ops 🧯 | |||
| Apr 20 | Incidents | Slides | |
| Apr 22 | Incident call | ||
| Apr 27 | Feature experiments and chaos engineering | ||
| Apr 29 | Chaos engineering workshop | ||
| 🎬 Closing 💯 | |||
| May 6 | Final Exam (6am--23:59pm) | ||
Project
The primary objective of the course will be to allow students to gain experience in incrementally building a continous delivery pipeline from scratch. Throughout the semester, students are expected to complete a component of the pipeline by each milestone deadline.
Milestones
Details on requirements for milestones will be released throughout the course. A student's pipeline should demonstrate the following components by the milestone deadline:
[ CM ] -> [ BUILD+TEST+ANALYSIS ] -> [ DEPLOY ] -> [ SPECIAL ]
Communication channels
Papers
Books
- Effective DevOps
- Ansible: Up and Running
- Continous Delivery
- Continous Integration
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications
- Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud
- The Practice of Cloud System Administration
- DevOps: A Software Architect's Perspective, SEI