All you need to know about DevOps Engineering on AWS

What is DevOps?

Strong DevOps engineers as part of a DevOps team facilitate better functioning of development and IT in conjunction, rapid releases of product updates, and efficient automation of internal processes. The term DevOps is an amalgamation of ‘development and operations’. DevOps refers to a development strategy that bridges the gap between IT operations and software development. It strives to develop an efficient relationship between the two departments, resulting in quicker development and releasing of regular product updates. So, DevOps is a step before deployment, making sure everything is ready for a smooth, error-free release.

Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI/CD) are fundamental concepts in DevOps. Traditional waterfall methodologies are more linear and rigid in the timeframe while  DevOps run a concurrent feedback loop. With this approach, multiple deployment is possible per day using a DevOps approach, and users do not have to perform any action on their end. 

What is a DevOps engineer?

A DevOps engineer works with software developers, admins and system operators, IT operations staff, and others to supervise and facilitate code releases/deployments on a CI/CD basis.

Responsibilities of DevOps engineers?

  • Designing and improving IT infrastructure: A DevOps engineer can identify improvements to get releases to market quicker.
  • Project management: DevOps engineers are leaders, making sure everyone’s clear on goals and objectives, conscious of major deadlines, and in regular communication.
  • Performance testing and benchmarking: DevOps engineers evaluate how well and reliably systems run.
  • Optimizing release cycles: DevOps engineers look for ways to optimize release cycles, remove hidden time drains, and introduce new methods of moving the process along 
  • Automation: DevOps engineers reduce hours by automating tasks and building useful software plugins that lighten a software team’s load.
  • Monitoring and reporting: DevOps engineers provide feedback from production to reduce ‘time to detect’ (TTD) errors and ‘time to minimize’ (TTM) them.
  • Security: security-focused DevOps refer to best practices aimed at keeping security central to all DevOps processes, including automation of key processes, infrastructure design, and release schedules.

What skills does do DevOps engineers have?

Soft skills: DevOps engineers run meetings, set the schedules for releases, and lead the review process. They also get hands-on with automation, complex software tools, and infrastructure design. Soft skills include organization, snd strong interpersonal skills. Former software engineers and IT operations staff can make successful DevOps engineers.

Code: They create solutions that save time for development and operations teams. This might include writing code to automate key tasks or building plugins. A decent knowledge of mid-level coding or scripting is often very helpful.

Others: An understanding of agile methodology, familiarity with common DevOps tools, and software testing. 

What tools do DevOps engineers use?

DevOps engineers rely on a set of software packages and tools. 

  • Automation tools: Customize and automate delivery pipeline.
  • Source code management: Track progress of any development work, view version histories, and create version ‘branches’.
  • Repository Hosting: To integrate source code management software with DevOps processes, you need a code repository liek Github and Bitbucket.
  • Containerization software: Containerization is putting an application and all of its related configuration files and libraries into a container within its own operating environment so that it can run across different physical machines regardless of dependencies. 
  • Configuration management: Configure and manage infrastructure and automate deployment.
  • Monitoring software: Monitor infrastructure for any issues, for a speedy and satisfactory resolution.

Now, let me introduce you to the course that will step up your career as a DevOps engineer!

DevOps Engineering on AWS – This course is for you!

Would you like to learn how to use common DevOps patterns to develop, deploy, and maintain applications on AWS? In this course, you learn the core principles of the DevOps methodology and examine a number of use cases applicable to startup, small and medium-sized business, and enterprise development scenarios.

DevOps Engineering on AWS

P2L has partnered up with Amazon Web Services to create an outstanding 3-day AWS DevOps Engineering on AWS course just for you!

The course focuses on the following skills:

  • Use the principal concepts and practices behind the DevOps methodology
  • Design and implement an infrastructure on AWS that supports one or more DevOps development projects
  • Use AWS CloudFormation and AWS OpsWorks to deploy the infrastructure necessary to create development, test, and
  • production environments for a software development project
  • Use AWS CodeCommit and understand the array of options for enabling a Continuous Integration environment on AWS
  • Use AWS CodePipeline to design and implement a Continuous Integration and Delivery pipeline on AWS
  • Implement several common Continuous Deployment use cases using AWS technologies, including blue/green deployment
  • and A/B testing
  • Distinguish between the array of application deployment technologies available on AWS (including AWS CodeDeploy, AWS
  • Opsworks, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon EC2 Container Service, and Amazon EC2 Container Registry), and decide which
  • technology best fits a given scenario
  • Fine-tune the applications you deliver on AWS for high performance and use AWS tools and technologies to monitor your application and environment for potential issues

What’s more, is that you have various options in learning formats like instructor-led training and virtual classrooms, so you can pick what fits your learning preferences. Continue on your AWS learning roadmap with these certifications:

Start working towards the following certification today.

Developer

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

Follow on Courses

DevOps – Running Container-Enabled Microservices on AWS application and environment for potential issues

Cloud Native – CN100: Docker Containerization Essentials

Cloud Native – CN120: Kubernetes Application Essentials

Business Analysis – DevOps Foundations

Who Can Benefit from this course?

System Administrators, Software Developers, and anyone looking to become a DevOps practitioner can benefit from the course.

Prerequisite course before you enroll for DevOps Engineering on AWS:

Developer – Developing on AWS

Operations – Systems Operations on AWS

Begin your journey today.

The surging popularity of AWS cloud solutions is creating lots of job opportunities for technical and non-technical professionals. AWS is a great pathway to further your IT career by choosing to acquire comprehensive training right at the foundational level. So, carve out your career plan and begin your journey towards cloud expertise. 

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