Cloud Foundry for DevOps

Day 1

• Main concepts of Cloud Foundry

  Theory

  • What is Cloud Foundry?
  • Why is Cloud Foundry a major player in the PaaS world?
  • Cloud Foundry architecture
  • Getting help

• Deploy BOSH

  Theory

  • BOSH architecture

  Practice

  • Installing the BOSH
  • CLI Initializing an environment (for BOSH and Cloud Foundry)
  • Deploying BOSH

• Deploy Cloud Foundry

  Practice

  • Deploying Cloud Foundry using BOSH v2.0
  • Running deployment jobs
  • Verifying results using CATs

Day 2

• Cloud Foundry Quick Start

  Practice

  • Connecting to the Cloud Foundry API
  • Creating a user
  • Creating an organization
  • Creating a space
  • Setting permissions to a space
  • Targeting an org and a space
  • Deploying an application
  • Viewing logs
  • Scaling applications

• Cloud Foundry Org and Space Management

  Practice

  • Managing organizations
  • Getting info about an organization
  • Targeting organizations
  • Getting info about spaces
  • Modifying and deleting spaces

• Quota management in Cloud Foundry

  Theory

  • Quota structure

  Practice

  • Listing quotas
  • Getting quota info
  • Creating and managing quotas
  • Modifying quotas
  • Deleting quotas
  • Assigning quotas
  • Space quotas

• Using Cloud Foundry security groups

  Theory

  • Structure
  • Security groups scopes

  Practice

  • Creating security groups
  • Binding security groups
  • Viewing security groups
  • Managing security groups

Day 3

• Learn how the BOSH Director and the Agent work

  Theory

  • SSH into running VMs created by BOSH

  Practice

  • Investigating logs and BOSH
  • Agent settings
  • Seeing how the BOSH Director talks to a BOSH
  • Agent in real time

• Buildpacks

  Theory

  • What is a buildpack?
  • The structure of a buildpack

  Practice

  • Creating a custom buildpack

• High Availability (HA)

  Theory

  • An HA deployment

  Practice

  • Rolling updates
  • Scaling Cloud Foundry

• Security

  Theory

  • Web app SSO
  • Configuring TLS and HTTPS
  • Security key management (PKI)
  • Security inside a CF cluster
  • Secure network configuration

Day 4

• Advanced Cloud Foundry CLI usage

  Theory

  • What are CF CLI plug-ins?
  • How can I install a CF CLI plug-in?
  • Several useful plug-ins for listing available resources, simplifying blue-green deployments and other tasks
  • How to delete unnecessary plug-ins?

  Practice

  • Tracing API calls
  • CLI plug-ins
  • Raw API requests

• Troubleshooting

  Theory

  • Debugging techniques: cf apps, cf events, and cf logs recent
  • Remote debugging in CF
  • Troubleshooting containerized services

• Concourse automation

  Theory

  • Concourse basics

  Practice

  • Running a simple
  • Concourse Pipelines to deploy a service