DevOps, Software Evolution and Software Maintenance

Content

This page contains information on the schedule, material, exam, etc. for the elective "DevOps, Software Evolution and Software Maintenance Content" at IT University of Copenhagen, spring 2022 (BSc course description on LearnIT and MSc course description on LearnIT).

Schedule

Sessions (lectures combined with exercises) are on Tuesdays from 10:00 to 14:00 first in Auditorium 2 (0A35) and then in rooms 4A14/4A16.

OBS: We expect you to be present during the entire time, not only the first two hours.

Table 1. Course schedule Note: While times are locked, the topics are subject to change.

#	Date	Time	Lecturer	Preparation	Topic	Exercises	Project Work
1	1/2	10:00 - 14:00	Helge	Prep. material	Project start, forming groups, SSH, SCP, and Bash		Refactor ITU-MiniTwit to work on modern system
2	8/2	10:00 - 14:00	Helge	Prep. material	Version control systems (Git), branching strategies, and collaborative development workflows		Refactor ITU-MiniTwit in another programming language and tech. stack
3	15/2	10:00 - 14:00	Helge	Prep. material	Virtualization via containers and virtual machines	Using Vagrant and Docker	Continue refactoring, introduction of DB abstraction layer, and deployment of your ITU-MiniTwit to a remote server.
4	22/2	10:00 - 14:00	Helge	Prep. material	Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), and Continuous Deployment	Using Travis CI	Setup CI & CD for reproducible builds, tests, delivery, and deployment (Simulator starts)
5	1/3	10:00 - 14:00	Helge	Prep. material	Guest lecture & What is DevOps		Cleaning and polishing of your ITU-MiniTwit and entering maintenance
6	8/3	10:00 - 14:00	Helge	Prep. material	Monitoring	Using Prometheus and Grafana	Add monitoring to your ITU-MiniTwit
7	15/3	10:00 - 14:00	Helge	Prep. material	Software Quality, Maintainability & Technical Debt	Add and understand SonarQube Quality Model	Enhancing CI/CD setup with static code analysis
8	22/3	10:00 - 14:00	Mircea	Prep. material	Logging, and Log Analysis. Service-level agreements. Guest lecture on Software Licensing)	A Basic EFK Stack	Add logging to your ITU-MiniTwit and create a set of SLAs for it
9	29/3	10:00 - 14:00	Mircea	Prep. material	Deployment strategies, scalability, load balancing.	A Basic Swarm	Isolate components into services/containers/VMs
10	5/4	10:00 - 14:00	Mircea		Workshop		Continue isolation of components into services/containers/VMs and Fix reported problems
–	12/4	-	-	-	Easter Break	-	Operations & maintenance still reacting on issue reports and fixing of errors :)
11	19/4	10:00 - 14:00	Mircea		Security of web-facing applications	A Basic Pen-Test with Metasploit	Security Assessment & Pen Testing
12	26/4	10:00 - 14:00	Mircea		Infrastructure as Code	MiniTwit Infrastructure as Code	Encode your infrastructure setup
13	3/5	10:00 - 14:00	Mircea & Helge		Documentation of Systems and Projects		Simulator stops. Write report.
14	10/5	10:00 - 14:00					Write report.

• Exam submission: Latest 19/5/2021 14:00

• Exam dates: 21/6/2021 to 24/6/2021

TA Supervision

Currently, we do not have any TAs for this course. Mircea and Helge will provide some supervision during the exercise sessoins. In case you know of some "older" students that are experienced in the courses topic and that might be interested in TAing, please let us know.

Recordings

This is not a distance course. This term, we will not record the lectures. You will have access to all written lecture material through this repository though.

Recommendation

All examples in class target Pop!_OS 21.10. Essentially, this is a Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri) Linux distribution. There are many more such Ubuntu derivates, choose one of your liking: Linux Mint, Elementary OS, KDE Neon, etc.

Since all sessions contain hands-on exercises, we recommend that you have such a Linux version installed on a computer. (In case you decide to run another operating system, we cannot provide too much support for these during class.) The recommended setup is to have such a Linux installed natively on your machine.

Find installation instructions session_00/README.adoc.

Note, we do not have any experiences with the new M1-based Macs. Neither do we have access to one of these. Consequently, likely many of the technologies that we demonstrate will have issues on these computers and we won’t be able to support you much.

Team

• Teachers: Helge, Mircea

Communication

Outside teaching sessions you can communicate with each other, and with the teachers via the the course’s Teams channel.

Groups

TBD

Exam Schedule

Attributions

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