Cloud Foundry for DevOps Course

This four-day training is an in-depth primer on building and operating Cloud Foundry clusters with BOSH, as well as a deep dive into deployment, configuration, and management of Cloud Foundry installations. The course covers advanced usage of the Cloud Foundry CLI including HA deployments, buildpacks, CF CLI plug-ins, as well as an interaction between BOSH Director and BOSH Agent.

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Why enroll

Learn to describe the architecture and main concepts of Cloud Foundry
Learn to prepare the infrastructure for BOSH and Cloud Foundry
Learn to deploy, configure, and manage the BOSH Director
Learn to connect to BOSH and use it to manage cloud services
Learn to deploy, configure, and manage Cloud Foundry
Learn to configure and use the Cloud Foundry CLI (advanced CLI usage will also be covered)
Learn to manage resources and users inside a Cloud Foundry cluster
Learn to ensure that the system is secure
Learn to make the system resilient to a component failure

Who should attend

DevOps engineers responsible for building and operating the Cloud Foundry platform and seeking a deep understanding and a better knowledge of:

The Cloud Foundry platform
Cloud Foundry components
How to use Cloud Foundry in operations

Training program

DAY 1

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Main concepts of Cloud Foundry

What is Cloud Foundry?

Theory
Why is Cloud Foundry a major player in the PaaS world?

Theory
Cloud Foundry architecture

Theory
Getting help

Theory

Deploy BOSH

BOSH architecture

Theory
Installing the BOSH

Practice
CLI Initializing an environment (for BOSH and Cloud Foundry)

Practice
Deploying BOSH

Practice

Deploy Cloud Foundry

Deploying Cloud Foundry using BOSH v2.0

Practice
Running deployment jobs

Practice
Verifying results using CATs

Practice

DAY 2

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Cloud Foundry Quick Start

Connecting to the Cloud Foundry API

Practice
Creating a user

Practice
Creating an organization

Practice
Creating a space

Practice
Setting permissions to a space

Practice
Targeting an org and a space

Practice
Deploying an application

Practice
Viewing logs

Practice
Scaling applications

Practice

Cloud Foundry Org and Space Management

Managing organizations

Practice
Getting info about an organization

Practice
Targeting organizations

Practice
Getting info about spaces

Practice
Modifying and deleting spaces

Practice

Quota management in Cloud Foundry

Quota structure

Theory
Listing quotas

Practice
Getting quota info

Practice
Creating and managing quotas

Practice
Modifying quotas

Practice
Deleting quotas

Practice
Assigning quotas

Practice
Space quotas

Practice

Using Cloud Foundry security groups

Structure

Theory
Security groups scopes

Theory
Creating security groups

Practice
Binding security groups

Practice
Viewing security groups

Practice
Managing security groups

Practice

DAY 3

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Learn how the BOSH Director and the Agent work

SSH into running VMs created by BOSH

Theory
Investigating logs and BOSH

Practice
Agent settings

Practice
Seeing how the BOSH Director talks to a BOSH

Practice
Agent in real time

Practice

Buildpacks

What is a buildpack?

Theory
The structure of a buildpack

Theory
Creating a custom buildpack

Practice

High Availability (HA)

An HA deployment

Theory
Rolling updates

Practice
Scaling Cloud Foundry

Practice

Security

Web app SSO

Theory
Configuring TLS and HTTPS

Theory
Security key management (PKI)

Theory
Security inside a CF cluster

Theory
Secure network configuration

Theory

DAY 4

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Advanced Cloud Foundry CLI usage

What are CF CLI plug-ins?

Theory
How can I install a CF CLI plug-in?

Theory
Several useful plug-ins for listing available resources, simplifying blue-green deployments and other tasks

Theory
How to delete unnecessary plug-ins?

Theory
Tracing API calls

Practice
CLI plug-ins

Practice
Raw API requests

Practice

Troubleshooting

Debugging techniques: cf apps, cf events, and cf logs recent

Theory
Remote debugging in CF

Theory
Troubleshooting containerized services

Theory

Concourse automation

Concourse basics

Theory
Running a simple

Practice
Concourse Pipelines to deploy a service

Practice

Prerequisites

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Altoros recommends that all students have:

A basic knowledge of Linux (ssh, scp, vim, grep)
Basic Docker Experience
First-hand experience with an IaaS provider—AWS (EC2, VPC, S3, Route53, RDS)
Basic back-office function
A workstation with the following capabilities:
- A SSH/SCP terminal client (like ssh or Putty)
- A web browser (Chrome/Firefox)
- Internet connection w/o firewall rules blocking outgoing traffic

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"The instructors were friendly; the class was very wide-ranged. We covered 12 factors in details, learned about service registration and discovery, log tracing. That was as much as you can pack in a few hours"

"It was a great training. I’ve tried to look at this stuff and understand it on my own, but coming to this class allowed me get a much deeper understanding of Bosh and Cloud Foundry. What I’ve learned is how to deploy it, the value it has, how much more sophisticated than some of the other PaaS systems it is"

"I think the training is really good. There are a lot of questions, and it’s great because I have the same ones. It shows that I am in the right place. This is a great class if you want to learn more about what the undercover of Cloud Foundry does at its best"

"This workshop is great for people with a zero of ground knowledge of Cloud Foundry and Bosh. It would apply even more to people who are reliant on knowing how to bring this [Cloud Foundry] up, it is going to be a "bread and butter” for developers"

"I really like the training. I think it was thorough and informative. The hands-on nature was essential for learning Bosh, which is very complicated. It’s not something you can learn by watching just two slides. Getting your hands on the keyboard was the best part of the day. I would totally recommend this course to any of our partners or any potential customers"