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.
Course deliverables
By the end of the training, participants will be able to:
- Describe the architecture and main concepts of Cloud FoundryCourse deliverables
- Prepare the infrastructure for BOSH and Cloud Foundry
- Deploy, configure, and manage the BOSH Director
- Connect to BOSH and use it to manage cloud services
- Deploy, configure, and manage Cloud Foundry
- Configure and use the Cloud Foundry CLI (advanced CLI usage will also be covered)
- Manage resources and users inside a Cloud Foundry cluster
- Ensure that the system is secure
- 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
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What is Cloud Foundry?Theory
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Why is Cloud Foundry a major player in the PaaS world?Theory
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Cloud Foundry architectureTheory
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Getting helpTheory
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BOSH architectureTheory
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Installing the BOSHPractice
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CLI Initializing an environment (for BOSH and Cloud Foundry)Practice
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Deploying BOSHPractice
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Deploying Cloud Foundry using BOSH v2.0Practice
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Running deployment jobsPractice
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Verifying results using CATsPractice
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Connecting to the Cloud Foundry APIPractice
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Creating a userPractice
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Creating an organizationPractice
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Creating a spacePractice
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Setting permissions to a spacePractice
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Targeting an org and a spacePractice
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Deploying an applicationPractice
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Viewing logsPractice
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Scaling applicationsPractice
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Managing organizationsPractice
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Getting info about an organizationPractice
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Targeting organizationsPractice
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Getting info about spacesPractice
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Modifying and deleting spacesPractice
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Quota structureTheory
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Listing quotasPractice
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Getting quota infoPractice
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Creating and managing quotasPractice
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Modifying quotasPractice
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Deleting quotasPractice
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Assigning quotasPractice
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Space quotasPractice
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StructureTheory
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Security groups scopesTheory
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Creating security groupsPractice
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Binding security groupsPractice
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Viewing security groupsPractice
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Managing security groupsPractice
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SSH into running VMs created by BOSHTheory
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Investigating logs and BOSHPractice
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Agent settingsPractice
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Seeing how the BOSH Director talks to a BOSHPractice
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Agent in real timePractice
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What is a buildpack?Theory
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The structure of a buildpackTheory
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Creating a custom buildpackPractice
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An HA deploymentTheory
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Rolling updatesPractice
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Scaling Cloud FoundryPractice
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Web app SSOTheory
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Configuring TLS and HTTPSTheory
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Security key management (PKI)Theory
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Security inside a CF clusterTheory
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Secure network configurationTheory
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What are CF CLI plug-ins?Theory
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How can I install a CF CLI plug-in?Theory
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Several useful plug-ins for listing available resources, simplifying blue-green deployments and other tasksTheory
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How to delete unnecessary plug-ins?Theory
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Tracing API callsPractice
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CLI plug-insPractice
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Raw API requestsPractice
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Debugging techniques: cf apps, cf events, and cf logs recentTheory
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Remote debugging in CFTheory
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Troubleshooting containerized servicesTheory
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Concourse basicsTheory
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Running a simplePractice
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Concourse Pipelines to deploy a servicePractice
Prerequisites
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
Michael has over 20 years in IT in various roles such as systems and network administration and engineering, consulting, and management. Most recently, Mike managed Cloud Foundry deployments for Adobe Systems before joining Altoros.
Ryan Meharg is a Google-certified Cloud Architect with over 10 years of experience in IT consultancy and a profound knowledge of cloud platforms and cloud-native transformation. He is currently focused on site reliability engineering and solution architecture design of production Kubernetes clusters for multiple clients using multiple infrastructures including AWS, Azure, GCP, and vSphere. Ryan also specializes in Infrastructure-as-Code automation with Terraform, BASH scripting, CI/CD system integration and has a solid development background in Java, Go and Ruby.
Our customers
Here is what our customers say about us
Adam Singh, Web Development Leader at Cummis Inc. says:
"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".
Bill Harper, Senior Solutions Architect at Metacloud says:
"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".
Brad Schaefbauer, Cloud Foundry Platform Owner at Boeing says:
"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".
Eric Price, Software Engineer at Platform D says:
"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".
Wes Gruver, Consulting instructor at Pivotal says:
"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".
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