DevOps Culture and Practice Enablement («TL500»)

• Deploying a small multi-tiered application to an OpenShift cluster
• Working as an effective member of an agile team
• Discovering, prioritizing, and documenting desired software features and functionality
• Developing software using pair and mob programming styles

To help make the shift to DevOps, this collection of practices and exercises take you through a five-day, simulated-organization residency. You can expect to be exposed to practices such as event storming, social contract, and impact mapping, among many more exercises that can be found in the Open Practice Library. You will also be exposed to labs that demonstrate how we use Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Red Hat Ansible in conjunction with Jenkins to automate the build and deployment of a sample to-do-list application and its required infrastructure.

Outline: 

What is DevOps?

• Brainstorm and explore what principles, practices, and cultural elements make up a DevOps model for software design and development.

Pairing and mobbing

• Discuss and experience two foundational practices: pair programming and mob programming.

Retrospectives, information radiators, and team sentiment

• Examine the value of conducting retrospectives, visualizing work, and assessing team sentiment.

Impact mapping

• Discuss the impact mapping discovery practice.

Agile practices

• Cover agile practices, including sprint planning, daily standup, showcase, retrospective, and backlog refinement.

Value stream and process mapping

• Delve into the practices of value stream mapping and metric-based process mapping.

Continuous integration, deployment, and delivery

• Explore the foundational practices of continuous integration, continuous deployment, and continuous delivery.

Event storming

• Learn how to use the event storming discovery practice.

User story mapping and value slicing

• Examine the user story mapping, value slicing, and empathy mapping practices.

Automated testing, part 1

• Develop an understanding of the test-driven development and business-driven development foundational practices, often referred to as automated testing.

Automated testing, part 2

• Complete the automated testing lab begun in part 1.

Pipelines as code

• Explore continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines using Jenkins.

Non-functional testing

• Discover the merits of non-functional testing.

Build monitoring

• Understand how to monitor builds and graphically represent their status as an information radiator.

Demo day

• Experiment with the optimal methods of producing a showcase and bring the class to a close.

Note: Course outline is subject to change with technology advances and as the nature of the underlying job evolves.

Many companies are finding that their current organizational structure and software development practices will not yield the promises of digital transformation, which include shorter time to market, quick feedback loops, and A/B testing. These companies need to adopt DevOps culture and practices to be successful in their digital transformation.

This course introduces you to real-world DevOps culture principles and modern software development practices. You will develop a modern software application using Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat Ansible Automation, and other industry-standard DevOps software, tools, and techniques. You’ll be prepared to use DevOps principles and open source solutions to start and lead the digital transformation journey at your organization.

• Have full access to your laptop
• Be able to install various software features that will be used in the hands-on labs