Cloud Computing for Architects using OpenStack Training Syllabus

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The Rise of the Cloud

  • Where did Cloud Computing originate?
  • Cloud Computing
  • Wikipedia Entry
  • Gartner on Cloud
  • The NIST Perspective
  • Five Characteristics
  • The Cloud Computing Spectrum / Service Models
  • Cloud Deployment Models
  • Understanding by Phone Service Analogy
  • Understanding by Electrical Power Grid Service Analogy
  • What is so special about Cloud?
  • Synergy is Powerful
  • Moving to the cloud
  • Capacity Planning
  • Challenge – Measuring Capacity
  • Capacity Planning Concepts and Challenges
  • Capacity Planning – Utilization Risk
  • Utilization Risk – Mitigation
  • Capacity Planning – Different Workloads
  • Multi-Tenancy Model
  • Common Characteristics of Multi-tenant Applications (1/2)
  • Common Characteristics of Multi-tenant Applications (2/2)
  • Data Management in the Cloud
  • Data Physics
  • By the Numbers

Cloud Computing Value Proposition

  • Why does Cloud matter?
  • Cloud Value Proposition
  • Cloud Value Business Case #1
  • Cloud Value Business Case #2
  • Cloud Value Business Case #3
  • Cloud Value Business Case #4
  • Cloud Business Cases
  • Cloud economics
  • Do Clouds Compute?
  • Select Expected Benefits
  • Identify applicable cost scenario
  • Calculate initial, simple return
  • Calculate returns for on-going usage

Cloud Computing Myths

  • Myth #1: Cloud == Virtualization
  • Myth #2: Cloud == Grid
  • Myth #3: Cloud == SAAS
  • Myth #4: Cloud == SOA
  • Myth #5: Cloud == Security Risk

Cloud Computing Components

  • The Cloud Computing Stack
  • Cloud Computing Components
  • Tightly Coupled Enterprise
  • Breaking the Silos
  • Understanding SOA
  • Applying SOA to the Cloud
  • Cloud Computing without SOA
  • Cloud Component - Virtualization
  • Hypervisors
  • Hypervisor Types
  • Type 1 hypervisors
  • Type 2 hypervisors
  • Applying Virtualization to the Cloud
  • Cloud Component - SaaS
  • Applying SaaS to the Cloud
  • Web 2.0 – Should I upgrade?
  • Web 1.0 vs Web 2.0
  • Applying Web 2.0 to the Cloud

Categorizing Clouds

  • Consider the kind of cloud
  • Cloud Scope – Public clouds
  • Cloud Scope – Private clouds
  • Cloud Scope – Hybrid clouds
  • Discussing Cloud Scope
  • Cloud Type - User Interface
  • Cloud Type – Application Service
  • Cloud Type – Data Services
  • Discussing Cloud Types
  • Intersection of Scope & Type
  • Cloud Role
  • Discussing Cloud Categories
  • Cloud Integration
  • Cloud Integration

Real World Case Study Analysis

  • Case Study – Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Amazon EC2 Value
  • Discussing Amazon
  • Case Study – TuneCore
  • TuneCore’s Value
  • Discussing TuneCore
  • Case Study – Salesforce.com
  • Salesforce.com Value
  • Discussing SalesForce
  • Case Study – Google Apps
  • Google Apps Value
  • Discussing Google
  • Case Study – Pitney Bowes
  • Pitney Bowes Value
  • Discussing Pitney Bowes
  • Case Study – X.Commerce/OpenStack
  • OpenStack Value
  • Discussing X.Commerce/OpenStack

Cloud Risks and Risk Mitigation

  • Failure-As-A-Service in 2009
  • Failure-As-A-Service in 2010
  • Notable Breaches in 2011
  • Notable Breach # 2
  • Notable Breach # 3
  • Notable Breach # 4 & # 5
  • Notable Breach # 6
  • The Cost of Failed Clouds
  • Risks When Consuming Clouds: Service Reliability
  • Service Quality
  • Problem Resolution
  • Data Back-up
  • Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
  • Risks When Supporting Clouds: Provisioning
  • The Scale of Scale
  • Financial Management
  • How to Practically Estimate Your Cloud Bill?
  • Managing Service Levels
  • Redundancy / Failover
  • Vendor Lock-In
  • Liability
  • Security
  • Cloud Security
  • Access Control
  • Application Security
  • Application Multi-Layer Security Design
  • Information and Data Security
  • Network Security
  • Operational Security
  • Mitigating Cloud Computing Risks: Identifying Cloud-ready Solutions
  • Governing Cloud Services
  • Business alignment
  • Asset Ownership
  • Contract-driven Services
  • Financial Management and Tracking
  • Governance and Risk Mitigation
  • Some Best Practice

Cloud Standards

  • What Exactly Are We Standardizing?
  • Standardizing on a Definition
  • Why Standardize?
  • Simple Concept, Difficult Implementation
  • Perspective #1 – Turf Wars
  • Turf Wars
  • Turf Wars
  • Other Groups Defining Standards
  • Recent Progress
  • Perspective #2 – Let the Market Decide
  • Standardization is Restrictive not Creative
  • Fostering Creativity
  • Survival of the Fittest
  • OpenStack Foundation Model
  • Perspective #3 – The Simple View
  • Standards to Date
  • OCCI Details
  • OCCI Client Handshake
  • OCCI Server Response…
  • OCCI Cloud Infrastructure Categories
  • Best Practices for Working with Cloud Standards: Building Cloud Solutions Today
  • Advice #1 – Build on Proven Standards
  • Advice #2 – Focus on Solid Design
  • Advice #3 – Good Standards Take Time

Cloud Computing Infrastructure

  • Does It Really Matter?
  • Cloud Infrastructure Categories
  • Understanding Virtualization
  • Cloud Management
  • Controllers and Agents
  • More Cloud Management Strategies
  • Abstracted Networking
  • Abstracted Computing
  • Abstracted Storage
  • Pulling it all together
  • Eucalyptus
  • OpenStack
  • What is OpenStack?
  • OpenStack main components
  • OpenStack Conceptual Architecture

Looking Under the Cloud Hood

  • Amazon Cloud Overview
  • Working with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Building an Amazon Cloud Service
  • Google Cloud Overview
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • Working with the Google App Engine
  • Building a Google App
  • Microsoft Azure Overview
  • Working with Windows Azure
  • Building an Azure Cloud Service
  • OpenStack Overview
  • Working with OpenStack
  • Building OpenStack Environment
  • Building OpenStack environment by hand
  • Using automated configurators
  • Creating OpenStack VM Instances
  • Managing OpenStack Clouds

Cloud Services

  • Defining Cloud Services
  • The Typical Cloud Services
  • Application Services
  • Messaging Application Service
  • Email Application Service
  • Cache Application Service
  • Specialized Application Service
  • Storage Services
  • Object Storage
  • Archive Storage
  • Relational Storage
  • NoSQL Storage
  • Monitoring Services

Cloud Computing Sanity Check

  • The Cloud Shift
  • Adapting to a Broader Market
  • Before You Leap to the Cloud
  • Cloud Sanity Check #1
  • Cloud Sanity Check #2
  • Cloud Sanity Check #3
  • Cloud Sanity Check #4

Adopting Your Very Own Cloud

  • How can my organization explore Cloud?
  • Cloud Adoption Best Practices
  • Cloud Adoption – Phase 1
    • Identify your business drivers
    • Get Educated
    • Articulate a Value Proposition
    • Define one or more scenarios
  • Cloud Adoption – Phase 1
  • Cloud Adoption – Phase 2
    • Produce a Road Map
    • Gain Stakeholder Buy-in
  • Cloud Adoption – Phase 2
  • Cloud Adoption – Phase 3
    • Establish Governance
    • Invest in Infrastructure
    • Cloud Pilot
  • Scoping the Pilot Project
  • Pilot Project Scope (cont’d)
    • Enterprise Roll-out
  • Start small and grow incrementally

Cloud Reference Model

  • Parsing the Cloud Service Model
  • Cloud Reference Model
  • Cloud Infrastructure
  • Cloud Infrastructure – Vendor Comparison
  • Cloud Infrastructure - Cloud Storage
  • Cloud Platform
  • Cloud Software
  • SaaS - Cloud Services
  • SaaS - Cloud Applications
  • OpenStack Solution Stack
  • OpenStack main components/services
  • Compute (Nova)
  • Main Compute (Nova) modules/services
  • Image (Glance)
  • Object Store (Swift)
  • Components of Swift
  • Block Storage (Cinder)
  • Identity (Keystone)
  • Network (Quantum)
  • Dashboard (Horizon)
  • Pulling It All Together

Cloud Layering

  • Cloud Layering
  • Cloud Layering Overview
  • Content Services
  • Logic Services
  • Orchestration in the Cloud
  • Utility - Security Services
  • Security Service Example
  • Utility - Data Services
  • Layering Example – 1/5
  • Layering Example – 2/5
  • Layering Example – 3/5
  • Layering Example – 4/5
  • Layering Example – 5/5

SDLC in the Cloud

  • Software Development Lifecycle Phases
  • Software Development Lifecycle Phases (Cont.)
  • SDLC Models
  • Waterfall
  • RAD SDLC Practices
  • The Criticisms of RAD
  • Enterprise Technology Delivery Frameworks
  • ETDF Phases
  • Project Initiation
  • Project Classification
  • Requirements Discovery
  • Analysis and Design
  • Development
  • Testing
  • Production Implementation
  • Post-implementation Monitoring of Cloud Solutions
  • Retirement

Requirements Discovery

  • Discovering Cloud Requirements
  • Discovery Workshops
  • Running a Discovery Workshop
  • Cloud Requirements
  • Scoping Cloud Requirements
  • Documenting Expected, Average and Peak Usage
  • Defining Cloud Service Levels
  • Discovery Best Practices
  • What is Six Sigma?
  • Discovery Gotchas

Analysis and Design

  • Analysis and Design in the Cloud
  • Analyzing Cloud Requirements
  • Requirements Management
  • Analysis Workflow
  • Mapping Cloud Requirements to Usage Scenarios
  • "Good/Not so Good" Use Cases for the Cloud
  • Introduction to Cloud Design
  • Designing Cloud Service Solutions
  • Design the Cloud Service Interface
  • Designing for Cloud Non-Functional Requirements
  • Analysis and Design Best Practices
  • A&D Best Practices - Prototyping
  • A&D Best Practices – System Partitioning
  • A&D Best Practices -Leveraging Cloud Platform Services
  • A&D Best Practices -
  • Using Asynchronous Communication Patterns
  • A&D Best Practices -
  • Design for Failure
  • A&D Best Practices -
  • Caching
  • A&D Best Practices - Staying Hands-On
  • Analysis and Design Gotchas
  • More Design Gotchas

Cloud Design Strategies

  • Cloud Design Strategies
  • Designing for Cloud Availability
  • Designing for Cloud Security
  • Designing for Cloud Security - OWASP 10
  • Designing for Cloud Security – Multi-Factor Security
  • Designing for Cloud Storage
  • Stepping Across Site Silos
  • Stepping Across Site Silos – SAML and OpenID
  • Stepping Across Site Silos – OAuth
  • Selecting the Right Storage
  • Cloud Storage Model
  • Designing for Cloud Management
  • Designing for Cloud Maintainability
  • Designing for Cloud Service Reuse
  • Designing for Cloud Agility
  • Designing for Cloud Usability
  • Additional Usability Considerations

Cloud Development

  • Implementing Cloud Services
  • Common Pitfalls for Cloud Developers
  • Building Composite Solutions
  • Cloud Development Stacks
  • Creating Services for Amazon WS
  • AWS Toolkit for Eclipse
  • AWS Explorer
  • AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio
  • Testing in the Amazon Cloud
  • Deploying Amazon Web Services
  • Consuming Amazon Web Services
  • Creating Services for OpenStack
  • Creating Applications for OpenStack
  • Testing OpenStack Solutions
  • Consuming OpenStack Solutions
  • Creating Services for Google
  • Testing Google Cloud Services
  • Deploying Google Services
  • Consuming Google Services

Cloud Governance

  • IT Governance
  • Agile IT in the Cloud
  • SOA Governance Overview
  • SOA Governance in Practice
  • Cloud Governance
  • Top Cloud Computing Consumer Risks
  • Top Cloud Computing Provider Risks
  • Risk Mitigation
  • Defining Cloud Governance
  • Cloud Governance Model
  • Key Artifacts
  • Governance Life Cycle
  • Policies and Procedures
  • Roles and Responsibilities
  • Governance Best Practices
  • Governance Gotchas

Cloud SLAs

  • The Importance of Cloud SLAs
  • What Belongs in a Cloud SLA?
  • Minimal Cloud SLA
  • Robust Cloud SLA
  • More SLA Items...
  • Governing Cloud Service Quality
  • Supporting Clouds

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