Why this training?

This four-day course 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.

Students will gain experience in deploying BOSH and Cloud Foundry. From here, the course expands on working with orgs and spaces, quotas, and security groups within Cloud Foundry and covers advanced usage of the Cloud Foundry CLI.

Day three and four are dedicated to exploring topics related to HA deployments, buildpacks, CF CLI plugins, and interaction between the BOSH Director and a BOSH Agent.

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

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Course objectives

By the end of the training, participants will be able to:

• Describe the architecture and main concepts of Cloud Foundry

• 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 component failure

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Prerequisites

Altoros recommends that all students have:

• Completion of the Cloud Foundry for devops - Essentials course

• A basic knowledge of Linux:

• SSH to a remote host

• Copying files between a local machine and a remote Linux host

• Editing files in Linux using vim, nano or Emacs

• Basic command line operations

• Filtering command results using grep

• Experience with Docker:

• Running applications inside Docker containers

• What is a Docker container?

• How are containers different from virtual machines?

• What is a Docker image?

• A good understanding of the general principles behind distributed systems:

• Distributed consensus: how is it different from master-slave replication, how many nodes are required to achieve distributed consensus, what are the algorithms available for it?

• Data partitioning and replication techniques

• How is horizontal scalability different from vertical scalability?

• Cloud service models: SaaS, PaaS, IaaS

• Cloud deployment models: private, public, hybrid

• First-hand experience with an IaaS provider: AWS:

• Creating EC2 instances

• Creating VPCs, networks, security groups, load balancers

• Managing the DNS using Amazons Route53 service

• Creating an S3 object bucket

• Understanding of availability zones

• Creating a SQL database using AWS RDS

• Experience with managing system configuration using Puppet, Chef or Ansible will be helpful

• A workstation with the following capabilities:

• A SSH terminal client (like ssh or Putty)

• A tool to transfer files over SSH (like scp)

• A web browser (Chrome/Firefox)

• Internet connection

• A firewall allowing outgoing connections on TCP ports 22, 80, 8080 and 443

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Payment info:

If you would like to get an invoice for your company to pay for this training, please email to training@altoros.com and provide us with the following info:

• Name of your Company/Division which you would like to be invoiced;
• Name of the person the invoice should be addressed to;
• Mailing address;
• Purchase order # to put on the invoice (if required by your company).

The tickets are limited, so hurry up to reserve your spot NOW!

This training is provided by Altoros, Cloud Foundry Summit approved training provider. Altoros has delivered training to VMware, SAP, EMC, Hospira, Siemens, Fidelity, and many others.