Site Reliability Engineering Certified Professional

Ubuntu / CentOS

• Installing CentOS7 and Ubuntu
• Accessing Servers with SSH
• Working at the Command Line
• Reading Files
• Using the vi Text Editor
• Piping and Redirection
• Archiving Files
• Accessing Command Line Help
• Understanding File Permissions
• Accessing the Root Account
• Using Screen and Script
• Overview of Hypervisor
• Introduction of VirtualBox
• Install VirtualBox and Creating CentOS7 and Ubuntu VMs

Vagrant

• Understanding Vagrant
• Basic Vagrant Workflow
• Advance Vagrant Workflow
• Working with Vagrant VMs
• The Vagrantfile
• Installing Nginx
• Provisioning
• Networking
• Sharing and Versioning Web Site Files
• Vagrant Share
• Vagrant Status
• Sharing and Versioning Nginx Config Files
• Configuring Synced Folders

• Introduction of AWS
• Understanding AWS infrastructure
• Understanding AWS Free Tier
• IAM: Understanding IAM Concepts, A Walkthrough IAM, Demo & Lab
• Computing EC2: Understanding EC2 Concepts, A Walkthrough EC2, Demo & Lab
• Storage EBS: Understanding EBS Concepts, A Walkthrough EBS, Demo & Lab
• Storage S3: Understanding S3 Concepts, A Walkthrough S3, Demo & Lab

• Storage EFS: Understanding EFS Concepts, A Walkthrough EFS, Demo & Lab
• Database RDS: Understanding RDS MySql Concepts, A Walkthrough RDS MySql, Demo & Lab
• ELB: Elastic Load Balancer Concepts, Implementation, Demo & Lab
• Networking VPC: Understanding VPC Concepts, Understanding VPC components, Demo & Lab

• What is Containerization?
• Why Containerization?
• How Docker is good fit for Containerization?
• How Docker works?
• Docker Architecture
• Docker Installations & Configurations
• Docker Components
• Docker Engine, Image, Containers, Registry
• Docker Basic Workflow
• Managing Docker Containers
• Creating our First Image
• Understanding Docker Images
• Creating Images using Dockerfile
• Managing Docker Images
• Using Docker Hub registry
• Docker Networking
• Docker Volumes

• Deepdive into Docker Images, Dockerfile, Containers, Networks, Volumes, CPU and RAM allocations, Config
• Docker Compose Overview
• Install & Configure Compose
• Understanding Docker Compose Workflow and Services
• Writing Docker Compose YAML file
• Using Docker Compose Commands
• Docker Compose with Java Stack
• Docker Compose with Rails Stack
• Docker Compose with PHP Stack
• Docker Compose with Node.js Stack

Jira

• Overview of Jira
• Use cases of Jira
• Architecture of Jira
• Installation and Configuration of Jira in Linux / Windows
• Jira Terminologies
• Understanding Types of Jira Projects
• Working with Projects, Issues, Components and Versions
• Use Subtasks to Better Manage and Structure Your Issues
• Link Issues to Other Resources
• Working in an Agile project
• Working with Issue Types, Custom Fields, Screens, Workflows
• Searching and Filtering Issues
• Introduction of Jira Plugins and Addons
• Jira Integration with Github

Confluence

• Exploring Confluence benefits and resources
• Configuring Confluence
• Navigating the dashboard, spaces, and pages
• Creating users and groups
• Creating pages from templates and blueprints
• Importing, updating, and removing content
• Giving content feedback
• Watching pages, spaces, and blogs
• Managing tasks and notifications
• Backing up and restoring a site
• Admin tasks

• Planning — Discuss some Small Project Requirements including Login/Registration with Student records CRUD operations
• Design a Method → Classes → Interface using Core Python
• Fundamentals of Core Python with Hello-world Program with Method → Classes
• Coding in Flask using HTML - CSS - JS - MySQL
• Fundamental of Flask Tutorial of Hello-World App
• UT - 2 Sample unit Testing using Pythontest
• Package a Python App
• AT - 2 Sample unit Testing using Selenium

Technology Demonstration

• Software Planning and Designing using Java
• Core Python
• Flask
• MySQL
• pytest
• Selenium
• HTML, CSS, JS

• Introduction of Git
• Installing Git
• Configuring Git
• Git Concepts and Architecture
• How Git works?
• The Git workflow
• Working with Files in Git: Adding, Editing, Viewing changes with diff, Viewing only staged changes, Deleting, Moving and renaming files

• Undoing Changes: Reset, Revert
• Amending commits
• Ignoring Files
• Branching and Merging using Git
• Working with Conflict Resolution
• Comparing commits, branches and workspace
• Working with Remote Git repo using GitHub
• Push - Pull - Fetch using GitHub
• Tagging with Git

• What is SonarQube?
• Benefits of SonarQube?
• Alternative of SonarQube
• Understanding Various License of SonarQube
• Architecture of SonarQube
• How SonarQube works?
• Components of SonarQube
• SonarQube runtime requirements
• Installing and configuring SonarQube in Linux
• Basic Workflow in SonarQube using Command line
• Working with Issues in SonarQube

• Working with Rules in SonarQube
• Working with Quality Profiles in SonarQube
• Working with Quality Gates in SonarQube
• Deep Dive into SonarQube Dashboard
• Understanding Seven Axis of SonarQube Quality
• Workflow in SonarQube with Maven Project
• Workflow in SonarQube with Gradle Project
• OWASP Top 10 with SonarQube

Maven

• Introduction to Apache Maven
• Advantage of Apache Maven over other build tools
• Understanding the Maven Lifecycle, Phase, Goals, Plugins, Repository, Release and Version
• Prerequisite and Installing Apache Maven
• Understanding and using Maven Archetypes
• Understanding Pom.xml and Setting.xml
• Playing with multiple Maven Goals
• Introducing Maven Dependencies, Properties, Modules, Profile, Plugins
• How to setup Maven, create a first Maven project, compile, run tests, create a JAR, use plugins, add resources, filter resources, use external dependencies, deploy jar, create documentation, build other project types, build multiple projects

Gradle

• What is Gradle?
• Why Gradle?
• Installing and Configuring Gradle
• Build Java Project with Gradle
• Build C++ Project with Gradle
• Build Python Project with Gradle
• Dependency Management in Gradle
• Project Structure in Gradle
• Gradle Tasks
• Gradle Profile and Cloud
• Gradle Properties
• Gradle Plugins

Artifactory

• Artifactory Overview
• Understanding a role of Artifactory in DevOps
• System Requirements
• Installing Artifactory in Linux
• Using Artifactory — Getting Started, General Information, Terminology, Repository Types, Authentication
• Deploying and Downloading Artifacts using Maven
• Browsing Artifactory, Viewing Packages, Searching for Artifacts, Manipulating Artifacts

Packer

• What is Packer? Installing Packer. The Packer workflow and components. The Packer CLI.
• Baking a Website Image for EC2: Select an AWS AMI base, Automate AWS AMI base build, Using build variables, Provision Hello World, Provision a basic site
• Customization with a Config Management Tool: Simplify provisioning with a config tool, Use Ansible to install the webserver, Debugging
• Building Hardened Images: Use Ansible modules to harden our image, Baking a Jenkins image
• Building a Pipeline for Packer Image: Validate Packer templates, Create a manifest profile, Testing, CI pipeline

JUnit

• What is Unit Testing? Tools for Unit Testing
• What is JUnit?
• How to configure JUnit?
• Writing Basic JUnit Test cases
• Running Basic JUnit Test cases
• JUnit Test Results

Selenium

• Introduction to Selenium
• Components of Selenium: Selenium IDE, Selenium WebDriver, Selenium Grid
• Installing and Configuring Selenium
• Working with Selenium IDE
• Working With Selenium WebDriver with Java Test Case
• Setup and Working with Selenium Grid

Jacoco

• Overview of Code coverage process
• Introduction of Jacoco
• How Jacoco works!
• How to install Jacoco?
• Setup testing Environment with Jacoco
• Create test data files using Jacoco and Maven
• Create a Report using Jacoco
• Demo — Complete workflow of Jacoco with Maven and Java Project

• Overview of Configuration Management
• Introduction of Ansible
• Ansible Architecture
• Let's get started with Ansible
• Ansible Authentication & Authorization
• Let's start with Ansible Ad-hoc commands
• Let's write Ansible Inventory

• Let's write Ansible Playbook
• Working with Popular Modules in Ansible
• Deep Dive into Ansible Playbooks
• Working with Ansible Variables
• Working with Ansible Template
• Working with Ansible Handlers
• Roles in Ansible
• Ansible Galaxy

• Understanding the Need of Kubernetes
• Understanding Kubernetes Architecture and Concepts
• Kubernetes and Microservices
• Understanding Kubernetes Masters: kube-apiserver, etcd, kube-scheduler, kube-controller-manager
• Understanding Kubernetes Nodes: kubelet, kube-proxy, Container Runtime
• Understanding Kubernetes Addons: DNS, Web UI (Dashboard), Container Resource Monitoring, Cluster-level Logging

• Understand Kubernetes Terminology
• Kubernetes Pod, Replication Controller, Deployment, Service Overview
• Understanding Kubernetes running environment options
• Working with first Pods, Replication Controllers, Deployments, Services
• Introducing Helm
• Basic working with Helm

Deploying Your First Terraform Configuration

• Introduction
• What's the Scenario?
• Terraform Components

Updating Your Configuration with More Resources

• Introduction
• Terraform State and Update
• What's the Scenario?
• Data Type and Security Groups

Configuring Resources After Creation

• Introduction
• What's the Scenario?
• Terraform Provisioners
• Terraform Syntax

Adding a New Provider to Your Configuration

• Introduction
• What's the Scenario?
• Terraform Providers and Functions
• Intro and Variable
• Resource Creation
• Deployment and Terraform Console
• Updated Deployment and Terraform Commands

• Understanding Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment
• Continuous Integration Tools
• What is Jenkins? History. Jenkins Architecture. Jenkins vs Jenkins Enterprise.
• Jenkins Installation and Configurations
• Jenkins Dashboard Tour
• Understand Freestyle Project: General, SCM, Build Triggers, Build Environment, Build, Post-build Actions Tabs
• Manage Jenkins, My Views, Credentials, People, Build History
• Creating a Simple Job: Java/Maven, Java/Gradle, DOTNET/MSBuild
• Jobs Scheduling: Manually, Fixed schedule, By script, On push to git
• Useful Jobs Configuration: Parameterised, Concurrent builds, Executors, Build Other Projects, Throttle Builds
• Jenkins Plugins: Installing, Configuring, Updating. Top 20 Useful Jenkins Plugins.

• Jenkins Node Management: Adding Linux/Windows Nodes, High Availability
• Jenkins Integration: Jira, Git, SonarQube, Maven, JUnit, Ansible, Docker, AWS, Jacoco, Coverity, Selenium, Gradle
• Reports in Jenkins: JUnit, SonarQube, Jacoco, Coverity, Selenium, Test Results, Cucumber Reports
• Notification & Feedback: CI Build Pipeline & Dashboard, Email Notification, Advanced Email, Slack Notification
• Jenkins Advance — Administrator: Security, Authorization, Authentication, Managing folder/subfolder, Upgrade, Backup, Restore, Command Line

• Real-time monitoring: Datadog provides real-time monitoring of your infrastructure and applications, allowing you to quickly identify and resolve issues before they impact your users.
• Customizable dashboards: Create customizable dashboards that give you a real-time view of your entire infrastructure, tailored to your specific needs with metrics and alerts.
• Integrations: Datadog integrates with a wide range of third-party tools and services, allowing you to monitor and manage your entire IT stack from a single platform.
• Collaboration: Collaboration tools that enable your IT team to work together to resolve issues quickly and efficiently.

• Automatic alerting: Configure automatic alerts when certain metrics or events occur — server downtime, high CPU usage, or application errors.
• Comprehensive metrics: Datadog collects and analyzes a wide range of metrics from your infrastructure and applications, including server performance, network traffic, and application logs.
• Machine learning: Datadog's machine learning capabilities can help you identify anomalies and patterns in your data, allowing you to proactively address issues before they become critical.

• What Is Splunk? Overview. Machine Data. Splunk Architecture. Careers in Splunk.
• Setting up the Splunk Environment: Splunk Licensing, Getting Splunk, Installing Splunk, Adding Data to Splunk
• Basic Searching Techniques: Adding More Data, Search in Splunk, Splunk Search Commands, Splunk Processing Language, Splunk Reports, Splunk Alerts
• Enterprise Splunk Architecture: Overview, Forwarders, Installing Forwarders, Troubleshooting Forwarder Installation

• Splunking for DevOps and Security: Splunk in DevOps, DevOps Demo, Splunk in Security, Enterprise Use Cases
• Application Development in Splunkbase: What Is Splunkbase?, Navigating the Splunkbase, Creating Apps for Splunk, Benefits of Building in Splunkbase
• Splunking on Hadoop with Hunk: What Is Hadoop?, Running HDFS Commands, What Is Hunk?, Installing Hunk, Moving Data from HDFS to Hunk
• Composing Advanced Searches: Splunk Searching, Introduction to Advanced Searching, Eval and Fillnull Commands, Filter Those Results!, The Search Job Inspector
• Creating Search Macros: What Are Search Macros?, Using Search Macros, Macro Command Options and Arguments, Other Advanced Searching

• Introduction and Overview of NewRelic
• What is Application Performance Management? Understanding a need of APM. Understanding transaction traces. APM Benefits and Selection Criteria.
• Why NewRelic is best for APM? What is NewRelic APM? How does NewRelic APM work? NewRelic Architecture. NewRelic Terminology.
• Installing and Configuring NewRelic APM Agents: JAVA Agent, PHP Agent, .NET Framework Agent, Docker-based Agent
• Understanding of NewRelic Configuration settings of newrelic.yml and Agent Configuration settings
• Working with NewRelic Dashboard: Transactions, Apdex, Circuit break, Throughput, default graphs, Service Maps, JVM, Error Analytics, Violations, Deployments, Thread Profiler, Transaction Traces, Profiling

• Creating and managing Alerts. Working with Incidents. Sending NewRelic Alerts to Slack. Assessing the quality of application deployments.
• Monitoring using Newrelic: Applications index, APM Overview page, New Relic APM data in Infrastructure, Transactions page, Databases and slow queries, External services page, Agent-specific UI, Viewing the transaction map
• Deep Dive into Newrelic Advance: Transaction alerts, Cross Application Traces, Service Level Agreements, Troubleshooting, X-Ray Sessions, Agent Configuration, Custom Data, Plugins, Finding and Fixing Performance Issues, Database monitoring, Configuring Alerts
• Working with NewRelic Performance Reports: Availability, Background jobs analysis, Capacity analysis, Database analysis, Host usage, Scalability analysis, Web transactions analysis, Weekly performance report

Apache HTTP

• Introduction to web server
• Install Apache on CentOS 7.4
• Enable Apache to automatically start when system boot
• Configure the firewall service
• Directory structure: Apache directory structure, Configuration file, Create your first page
• Virtual hosts: name based, port based
• Using aliases and redirecting
• Logging: error log, access log, custom log, log rotation
• Security: Basic Security, TLS/SSL, Basic authentication, Digest authentication, Access Control, .htaccess (Admin/User Side), Install antivirus, Mitigate DoS attacks - mod_evasive
• Apache Performance and Troubleshooting: MPMs, Adjusting httpd.conf, Troubleshoot Apache (Analyze Access Log), Apachetop

Nginx

• Overview: Introduction, About NGINX, NGINX vs Apache
• Installation: Server Overview, Installing with a Package Manager, Building from Source, Adding Modules, Adding an NGINX Service, Nginx for Windows
• Configuration: Configuration Terms, Virtual Host, Location blocks, Variables, Rewrites & Redirects, Try Files & Named Locations, Logging, Inheritance & Directive types, PHP Processing, Worker Processes, Buffers & Timeouts, Adding Dynamic Modules
• Performance: Headers & Expires, Compressed Responses with gzip, FastCGI Cache, HTTP2, Server Push
• Security: HTTPS (SSL), Rate Limiting, Basic Auth, Hardening Nginx, Let's Encrypt - SSL Certificates

• Multi-cluster management: Rancher provides a unified interface for managing multiple Kubernetes clusters across different environments, including on-premises, cloud, and hybrid.
• Centralized administration: Manage user access, security policies, and cluster settings from a central location for a consistent and secure deployment.
• Automated deployment: Streamline the application deployment process with built-in automation tools that allow you to deploy applications to multiple clusters with just a few clicks.
• Monitoring and logging: Built-in monitoring and logging system for real-time health and performance of your applications and clusters.

• Application catalog: Curated catalog of pre-configured application templates to deploy and manage popular applications such as databases, web servers, and messaging queues.
• Scalability and resilience: Highly scalable and resilient, enabling you to easily add new clusters or nodes to your deployment as your needs grow.
• Extensibility: Open API and a rich ecosystem of plugins and extensions to customize and extend the platform to meet your specific needs.

Envoy — Data Plane

• Envoy is a high-performance proxy deployed as a sidecar to each microservice in the infrastructure.
• Envoy manages all inbound and outbound traffic for the microservice and provides features like load balancing, circuit breaking, and health checks.
• Envoy can also be used as a standalone proxy outside of a service mesh architecture.

Envoy — Control Plane

• Envoy does not have a built-in control plane.
• It can be integrated with other service mesh management solutions like Istio, Consul, or Linkerd, which provide a central point of management for the Envoy proxies.
• These control planes enable features like traffic management, security, and observability.

Istio — Data Plane

• Istio uses Envoy as its data plane — each microservice has an Envoy sidecar proxy that manages inbound and outbound traffic.
• Envoy is configured and managed by Istio's control plane components.

Istio — Control Plane

• Pilot: responsible for managing the configuration of the Envoy proxies and enabling features like traffic routing and load balancing.
• Mixer: provides policy enforcement, telemetry collection, and access control for the microservices in the service mesh.
• Citadel: responsible for managing the security of the service mesh, including mutual TLS encryption and identity-based access control.

Network Configurations

• Consul provides a central service registry that keeps track of all the services in the infrastructure.
• Each microservice registers itself with Consul, providing information like its IP address, port, and health status.
• Consul supports multiple datacenters, allowing for the deployment of services across different regions or availability zones.
• Consul provides a DNS interface that can be used to discover services in the infrastructure.

Service Discovery

• Consul provides a service discovery mechanism that enables microservices to discover and communicate with each other.
• Consul supports different service discovery methods, including DNS, HTTP, and gRPC.
• Consul can perform health checks on services to ensure that they are functioning properly.
• Consul supports service segmentation, allowing services to be grouped into logical subsets based on tags or other attributes.

Secret Storage

• Vault provides a secure storage mechanism for sensitive data, including credentials, API keys, and other secrets.
• Vault uses encryption and access control policies to ensure that secrets are protected both at rest and in transit.
• Vault supports different storage backends, including disk, cloud storage, and key management systems.

Authentication

• Vault provides several authentication methods: LDAP, Active Directory, Kubernetes, and token-based authentication.
• Vault also supports multi-factor authentication (MFA) for an additional layer of security.

Access Control

• Vault provides fine-grained access control policies to restrict access to specific secrets or resources.
• Vault supports role-based access control (RBAC) and attribute-based access control (ABAC) policies.

Encryption

• Vault provides end-to-end encryption for all secrets stored in its storage backend.
• Vault uses encryption keys that are stored separately from the secrets themselves.
• Vault supports different encryption algorithms and key management systems.

Auditing and Logging

• Vault provides detailed auditing and logging capabilities to track access to secrets and detect potential security threats.
• Vault logs all user and system activity, including authentication events, secret access, and configuration changes.
• Vault also supports integration with popular logging and monitoring tools.

Prometheus

• Introduction to Prometheus
• Prometheus installation
• Grafana with Prometheus Installation
• Introduction to Monitoring: Client Libraries, Pushing Metrics, Querying, Service Discovery, Exporters
• Alerting: Introduction to Alerting, Setting up Alerts
• Internals: Prometheus Storage, Prometheus Security, TLS & Authentication on Prometheus Server, Mutual TLS for Prometheus Targets
• Use Cases: Monitoring a web application, Calculating Apdex score, Cloudwatch Exporter, Grafana Provisioning, Consul Integration with Prometheus, EC2 Auto Discovery

Grafana

• Installation: Ubuntu/Debian, CentOS/Redhat, Windows, Mac, Docker, Building from source, Upgrading
• Administration: Configuration, Authentication, Permissions, Grafana CLI, Internal metrics, Provisioning, Troubleshooting

• Introduction to Elasticsearch
• Overview of the Elastic Stack (ELK+)
• Architecture of Elasticsearch: Nodes & Clusters, Indices & Documents, Sharding, Replication, Searching for data, Distributing documents across shards
• Installing Elasticsearch & Kibana: Elastic Cloud, Mac/Linux, Windows, Configuring Elasticsearch, Installing Kibana, Configuring Kibana
• Introduction to Kibana and dev tools
• Managing Documents: Creating an index, Adding documents, Retrieving by ID, Replacing, Updating, Scripted updates, Upserts, Deleting documents, Batch processing, Importing test data with cURL
• Mapping: Introduction, Dynamic mapping, Meta fields, Field data types, Adding mappings, Changing existing mappings, Mapping parameters, Multi-fields mappings, Custom date formats, Picking up new fields

• Analysis & Analyzers: Introduction to analysis process, Analyzers, Character filters, Tokenizers, Token filters, Built-in analyzers, Configuring analyzers, Creating custom analyzers, Using analyzers in mappings
• Introduction to Searching: Search methods, Request URI, Query DSL, Understanding query results, Relevance scores, Debugging, Query contexts, Full text queries vs term level queries
• Term Level Queries: Introduction, Searching for a term, Searching for multiple terms, Retrieving by IDs, Range values, Relative dates, Non-null values, Matching based on prefixes, Wildcards, Regular expressions
• Full Text Queries: Introduction, Flexible matching with match query, Matching phrases, Searching multiple fields
• Adding Boolean Logic to Queries: Introduction to compound queries, Querying with boolean logic, Debugging bool queries with named queries, How the match query works

Alert Management

• Both PagerDuty and Opsgenie provide powerful alert management capabilities — configure alerts based on event severity, priority, and more.
• Alerts can be sent to multiple channels: email, SMS, voice, and mobile push notifications.
• Both tools also provide support for escalation policies, allowing teams to ensure that critical alerts are addressed promptly.

Incident Management

• Both tools provide incident management — track incidents and collaborate on resolving them.
• Features include creating incidents, adding notes, assigning owners, tracking status changes, and incident timelines.

Integration

• Extensive integration capabilities with monitoring tools (Nagios, New Relic, AWS CloudWatch) and ITSM tools (JIRA, ServiceNow). Both provide REST APIs for custom integrations.

Analytics and Reporting

• Analytics and reporting capabilities — track performance metrics and identify areas for improvement.
• Features include incident duration, resolution times, and other KPIs. Custom dashboards and reports.

Automation

• Automation capabilities — automate repetitive tasks and streamline incident response processes.
• Features include auto-acknowledgment of alerts, auto-escalation of incidents, and auto-remediation of issues.
• Support for scripting and custom automation workflows.

Job Scheduling

• RunDeck provides powerful job scheduling capabilities — schedule jobs based on time, date, and recurrence.
• Jobs can be executed on multiple platforms including Windows, Linux, and macOS.
• RunDeck also provides support for job dependencies.

Run Book Automation

• Automate repetitive tasks and streamline operations — execute commands, scripts, and workflows on multiple systems.
• Orchestrate complex processes across multiple systems.
• RunDeck also provides support for auditing and logging.

Integration

• Integrations include Ansible, Puppet, Nagios, and Zabbix. RunDeck also provides REST APIs for custom integrations.

Access Control

• RunDeck provides access control capabilities — role-based access control (RBAC), LDAP integration, and multi-factor authentication (MFA).
• RunDeck also provides support for audit logging.

Notifications and Reporting

• Notifications and reporting capabilities — track performance metrics.
• Features include job execution status, error notifications, and custom reports.
• RunDeck also provides support for custom dashboards and reports.

Application Performance Monitoring

• AppDynamics provides powerful APM capabilities — monitor the performance of your applications in real-time.
• APM features: application topology maps, transaction tracing, code-level diagnostics, and performance baselines.
• AppDynamics also helps identify and troubleshoot slow database queries, inefficient code, and memory leaks.

End-User Monitoring

• End-user monitoring capabilities: real-user monitoring, synthetic monitoring, and business transaction monitoring.
• Support for identifying and troubleshooting end-user issues such as slow page load times and errors.

Infrastructure Monitoring

• Infrastructure monitoring: server monitoring, container monitoring, and cloud monitoring.
• Support for identifying high CPU usage, low memory, and network latency.

Integration

• Integrations with popular monitoring tools (Splunk, Elasticsearch) and ITSM tools (ServiceNow, Remedy).
• AppDynamics also provides REST APIs for custom integrations.

Analytics and Reporting

• Analytics and reporting capabilities — track performance metrics and identify areas for improvement.
• Analytics features: transaction analysis, error analysis, and custom dashboards.
• AppDynamics also provides machine learning and predictive analytics to proactively identify and address performance issues.

Session 1: Introduction to ArgoCD

• Overview of ArgoCD and its features
• Understanding the role of ArgoCD in GitOps workflows
• Key concepts and components of ArgoCD

Session 2: Installing and Configuring ArgoCD

• Preparing the environment for ArgoCD installation
• Step-by-step installation guide for ArgoCD
• Configuring ArgoCD server and connecting it to the Git repository

Session 3: ArgoCD Architecture and Components

• Understanding the architecture of ArgoCD
• Exploring the various components: API server, controller, and repository server

Session 4: Deploying Applications with ArgoCD

• Creating applications in ArgoCD
• Configuring application specifications using GitOps manifests
• Deploying applications and managing their lifecycle with ArgoCD

Session 5: Continuous Delivery with ArgoCD

• Implementing continuous delivery pipelines using ArgoCD
• Automating application updates and rollbacks with ArgoCD
• Monitoring and managing application deployments with ArgoCD

Session 6: Advanced ArgoCD Features

• Exploring advanced features of ArgoCD, such as RBAC and secrets management
• Integrating ArgoCD with other tools and services like Kubernetes, Helm, and Prometheus

Session 7: Troubleshooting and Best Practices

• Common issues and troubleshooting techniques in ArgoCD
• Best practices for managing and maintaining ArgoCD deployments
• Tips for optimizing performance and scalability in ArgoCD