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Container Essentials – ECS

Written by Gemma Corrado on . Posted in Container Training, Container Training, tecRacer Trainings, Training.

Container Essentials – ECS Training

current course dates can be found at the bottom of this page … company training available on request!

COURSE DESCRIPTION

In the “Elastic Container Service (ECS)” module of our “Container Essentials” course series, you will learn about the Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), a cloud service that enables you to efficiently and seamlessly orchestrate your container workloads. During the course of one training day, you will be offered a comprehensive overview of the service, from basic concepts, scaling and data storage to networking and monitoring. Thanks to numerous live demos and practical labs, you can gain real hand-on experience in the cloud.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

In this course, you will learn to:

  • Understand the basics of the Elastic Container Services (ECS)
  • Understand and apply ECS concepts & components
  • Control the scheduling and deployment of container workloads
  • Understand and apply automatic scaling of workloads
  • Know how workloads communicate inside and outside the cluster
  • Know possible solutions for storing container data
  • Be able to monitor ECS clusters and the workloads within them
  • Know the limitations of ECS and be able to compare it with other orchestration tools

INTENDED AUDIENCE

This course is intended for:

  • Individuals looking for a cloud-based container orchestration tool
  • Those who plan to migrate their container workloads to AWS
  • DevOps engineers
  • System/operations administrators

ACTIVITIES

This course includes:

  • Instructor-lead training
  • Live demos
  • Practical labs

COURSE DURATION / PRICE

  • 1 day / € 750.00 (excl. tax) per person (DE)

COURSE OUTLINE

  • Introduction
  • Terminologies, concepts and components
  • Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
  • Authorization (coupling with IAM identities)
  • Task placement and scheduling
  • Automatic scaling
  • Load balancing
  • ECS Capacity Provider
  • Networking
  • Secrets management
  • Storage
  • Logging, monitoring and tracing

 

Can optionally be combined with the “Container Essentials” modules “Containerization” and “Kubernetes“.

IMPORTANT: Please bring your notebook (Windows, Linux or Mac) to our training. If this is not possible, please contact us beforehand.

The course materials are available in English.
The course language is German, but can also be held in English on request.

Container Essentials – Docker

Written by Gemma Corrado on . Posted in tecRacer Trainings, Training.

Container Essentials – Docker Training

current course dates can be found at the bottom of this page … company training available on request!

COURSE DESCRIPTION

After completing the course, you will have the following knowledge and skills:

  • Understanding the basics of Docker
  • Using basic commands correctly
  • Building your own container images
  • Manage containers or multiple containers
  • Understand the advantages and disadvantages of Docker

COURSE DURATION / PRICE

  • 1 day / € 750.00 (excl. tax) per person (DE)

 

Can be combined with Container Essentials – ECS and – Kubernetes as desired.

 

IMPORTANT: Please bring your notebook (Windows, Linux or Mac) to our training. If this is not possible, please contact us beforehand.

Course materials are in English, on request also in German (if available).
Course language is German, on request also in English.

AWS and DevOps Essentials

Written by Gemma Corrado on . Posted in tecRacer Trainings, Training.

AWS and DevOps Essentials Training

current course dates can be found at the bottom of this page … company training available on request!

COURSE DESCRIPTION

After completing the course, you will have the following knowledge and skills:

  • Differentiate between on-premises, hybrid cloud, and all-in cloud

  • Explain the benefits of Cloud infrastructures

  • Explain the benefits of Infrastructure as Code

Requirements

You should have the following knowledge, skills and experience:

  • Basic understanding of IT services

COURSE DURATION / PRICE

  • 2 days / € 1500.00 (excl. tax) per person (DE)

Course outline

Day 01: Cloud and DevOps Concepts

  • Understand cloud computing concepts

  • Understand design principles of secure cloud computing

  • Get started on a cloud transformation journey

  • Introduction to Amazon Web Services

  • Get started on a DevOps transformation journey

  • Explain the benefits of continuous delivery

Day 02: Infrastructure as Code

  • Explain the benefits of Infrastructure as Code in a cloud environment.

  • Compare and contrast various Infrastructures as Code technologies.

  • Given a scenario, deploy infrastructure with Terraform.

  • Given a scenario, deploy infrastructure with Pulumi.

 

IMPORTANT: Please bring your notebook (Windows, Linux or Mac) to our training. If this is not possible, please contact us beforehand.

Course materials are in English, on request also in German (if available).
Course language is German, on request also in English.

FinOps Essentials

Written by Gemma Corrado on . Posted in tecRacer Trainings, Training.

FinOps Essentials

current course dates can be found at the bottom of this page … company training available on request!

Course Description

“FinOps Essentials” explains the benefits of a FinOps concept in an AWS environment and provides participants with practical examples in the field of cost optimization and monitoring. In this course, we teach the advantages of AWS billing models and optimizing the utilization of running systems. Through exercises, practical experience is quickly gained, and participants learn how to implement effective cost management in AWS.

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn:

  • What FinOps mean

  • Pros of a FinOps concept for cost-management in AWS

  • Vorteile eines FinOps Konzeptes für das Kostenmanagement in AWS

  • Identify cost driver

  • Reducing cost through optimizing your billing models and system right-sizing

  • Options for cost reporting in AWS

  • Cost control through AWS Budgets

Course Duration / Price

  • 1 Day / € 750.00 (excl. tax) per person (DE)

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course should have:

  • Basic understanding of general billing models in AWS.

Target Audience Description

  • Product Owner CCoE

  • Financial Cloud Operator

  • Cloud Engineers

Course Outline

  • Introductions and Overview

  • Introduction FinOps

  • Billing / Controlling (INFORM)

    • Know your AWS invoice

    • Identify cost driver

  • Cost Optimization (OPTIMIZE)

    • Methods to optimize; impact vs. complexity

    • Different billing models

    • Where to start?

  • FinOps in Operation (OPERATE)

    • Importance of automation

    • Link to Business

 

IMPORTANT: Please bring your notebook (Windows, Linux or Mac) to our training. If this is not possible, please contact us beforehand.

The course materials are in English, on request also in German (if available).
The course language is German, on request also in English.

CloudFormation Essentials

Written by Gemma Corrado on . Posted in tecRacer Trainings, Training.

CloudFormation Essentials

current course dates can be found at the bottom of this page … company training available on request!

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn:

  • Fundamentals of Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

  • Advantages of CloudFormation for creating cloud resources

  • CloudFormation basic commands and functionality

  • Hands-on experience working with CloudFormation

Course Duration / Price

  • 1 Day / € 750.00 (excl. tax) per person (DE)

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course should have:

  • Basic understanding of general networking concepts and multi-layer architectures.

  • Understanding of cloud computing concepts

  • Basic knowledge of basic AWS services (VPC, EC2, S3)

  • Basic knowledge of software development and system administration (git, Bash, advanced editor)

Course Outline

  • Introduction

  • Automation – Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

  • AWS CloudFormation Basics

    • Template Structure

    • Elements of template anatomy

    • Hands-on Labs

  • AWS CloudFormation Advanced

    • Working with Templates

    • Overview on

      • SAM (Serverless Application Model)

      • CDK (Cloud Development Kit)

      • cfn-tools for testing

 

IMPORTANT: Please bring your notebook (Windows, Linux or Mac) to our training. If this is not possible, please contact us beforehand.

The course materials are in English, on request also in German (if available).
The course language is German, on request also in English.