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Our workshop programs

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Cloudification 101

Cloudification 101 Workshop can be offered with the focus on one of the following Cloud providers of your choice:

  • Amazon Web Services – AWS
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – OCI
  • Openstack (OVH, Telekom Cloud, StackIT and other)

    • Duration:
  • 1 or 2 days training depending on agenda and desired content intensity

    • Agenda:
  • Introduction (History, Evolution, Concepts and Basics)
  • Compute (Right-sizing, Autoscaling, provisioning)
  • Storage services (Types and use-cases)
  • Cloud Networking (VPC/Gateways/Load Balancing/Firewalls/Peering/VPN)
  • Security (Practices, 2FA, Bastion, DevSecOps)
  • Managed services, PaaS and FaaS (Kubernetes, DBs, Serverless)
  • Plan for failure (DR/SLA/SLO/MTTR)
  • Reliable != Expensive (Practices with $ in mind)
  • DO’s and Don’ts
  • Wrap up (Q&A session and discussion)

    • Delivery:
  • Online (Video recording will be provided after the workshop)
  • Onsite (No video recording)

    • Format:
  • Theory with practical examples and Demo-s
  • No hands-on labs
  • No limit on participants, recommended up to 10-15

    • Containers & Kubernetes

    Containers & Kubernetes training can be offered as a 3 or 4 days workshop and optionally includes 1 day Docker deep-dive

    Duration:

  • 3 or 4 days depending on agenda and optional Docker module

    • Agenda:
  • Introduction, Kubernetes components
  • Accessing Kubernetes API
  • Service Accounts, Role based access control (RBAC)
  • Containers, Pods, Init containers and lifecycle probes
  • Deployments, ReplicaSets, StatefulSets. Rolling updates and rollbacks
  • ConfigMaps, Secrets and when to use them
  • Resource requests & limits and how they affect Pod scheduling
  • Connectivity between Pods, CNI, CoreDNS
  • Kubernetes database, etcd
  • Services, Endpoints and Ingress
  • Storage classes and CSI
  • Persistent volumes and Persistent volume claims (PV, PVC)
  • Monitoring and logging for applications
  • Wrap up (Q&A session and discussion)

    • Delivery:
  • Online (Video recording will be provided after the workshop)
  • Onsite (No video recording)

    • Format:
  • Theory with practical examples and Demo-s
  • Hands-on labs with assignments (to be completed during the training)
  • Virtual lab environments will be provided
  • Limited to max 10 participants, recommended 3-5

    • Helm & Istio for Kubernetes

    Helm & Istio for Kubernetes is a 2 days training that requires at least few month of prior practical experience with Kubernetes. The workshop can also be split into two 1-day individual workshops (Helm + Istio)

    Duration:

  • 2 days

    • Agenda:
  • Introduction to Helm
  • Helm charts, repositories and requirements
  • Helm deployment strategies
  • Advanced features, release testing
  • Helm in practice, DO’s and DONT’s
  • Introduction to service mesh
  • Installation and architecture of Istio
  • Traffic Management with service mesh
  • Zero trust networks, security with service mesh
  • Istio policies and telemetry
  • Service mesh in the real world
  • Wrap up (Q&A session and discussion)

    • Delivery:
  • Online (Video recording will be provided after the workshop)
  • Onsite (No video recording)

    • Format:
  • Theory with practical examples and Demo-s
  • Hands-on labs with assignments (to be completed during the training)
  • Virtual lab environments will be provided
  • Limited to max 10 participants, recommended 3-5

    • Advanced Openstack Administration

    Advanced Openstack Administration training can be offered as an intense 3 or 4 days workshop that includes practical assignments.
    Participants will gain in-depth knowledge about Openstack Architecture, all major components and Openstack troubleshooting.

    Duration:

  • 3 or 4 days depending on agenda and services covered

    • Agenda:
  • Introduction (History, Evolution and main Concepts)
  • Architecture (Components, APIs, and use-cases)
  • Identity (Keystone)
  • Compute (Nova, Libvirt&KVM)
  • Storage (Glance, Cinder, Manila, Swift)
  • Networking (Neutron, Openvswitch)
  • Further services (Barbican, Designate, Heat, Ceilometer)
  • Debugging Openstack
  • Release Upgrades
  • Openstack community
  • Wrap up (Q&A session and discussion)

    • Delivery:
  • Online (Video recording will be provided after the workshop)
  • Onsite (No video recording)

    • Format:
  • Theory with practical examples and Demo-s
  • Hands-on labs with assignments (to be completed during the training)
  • Virtual lab environments will be provided
  • Limited to max 10 participants, recommended 3-5

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    Hands-on training 🙌

    For tech stacks we know our best

    Hands-on, practical workshops can be delivered for any of the technologies we are using in real, production environments

    Our team has AWS, Kubernetes, CNCF, Openstack, Linux, Cisco, DevOps and FinOps certified members

    Ansible is an open source, agentless Infrastructure as Code suite that combines configuration management, application deployment and infrastructure provisioning capabilities. Ansible is minimal by design and relies on temporary remote connections via SSH to perform configuration and remote administration tasks

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    Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration engine for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications originating in Google. Kubernetes was officially released in 2015 and today it is one of the hottest projects managed by Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

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    ArgoCD is an open source, declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. GitOps is an evolution of CI/CD that focuses on infrastructure and Cloud Native application deployment. It uses Git repositories as the single source of truth of the deployment state and any manual changes are automatically overwritten

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    Golang (or simply Go) was designed at Google in 2007 to improve programming productivity in an era of multicore, networked machines and large codebases. Go features: static typing and run-time efficiency (like C); high readability and usability (like Python) and high-performance networking and multiprocessing

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    Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit that supports multi-dimensional data model and own query language. Time series collection enables prediction functionality and flexible visualization of data. Project originated at SoundCloud and currently curated by Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

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    Helm is an open source package manager for Kubernetes that helps managing K8s workloads and applications. With the concept of charts Helm allows to define, install, upgrade and rollback even the most complex Kubernetes applications. Helm is a graduated project of Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

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    Python is an open-source, high-level programming language that appeared almost 30 years ago and today it is ranked as #1 most popular. Python runs everywhere, is easy to learn and suitable for a wide range of applications from Web and ML to Infrastructure & Network

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    Linux has been around for 3 decades now and laid a solid foundation for modern infrastructure. Numbers speak for themselves – 100% of 500 world supercomputers run Linux; 96% of servers run Linux; 90% of Cloud based workloads run on Linux. Some popular distributions include: Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, RedHat

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    Openstack is an open source Cloud computing platform that uses pooled virtual resources to build and manage private and public Clouds (IaaS & PaaS). It began in 2010 as a joint project of Rackspace and NASA and as of today supported and used by over 500 companies worldwide including eBay, SAP, Workday, Verizon and more

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    Transparent workshop pricing

    3000 € per workshop/day with unlimited participants;
    3500 € per workshop/day with virtual lab environments
    for hands-on training for up to 10 participants;

    Onsite delivery subject to desired location and can introduce extra costs

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