Automating Application Lifecycles with GitOps Workflow

Overview

Part of	-
Duration	4 days
Course Time	9:00am to 5:00pm
Enquiry	Please email ask-iss@nus.edu.sg for more details.

This 4-day hands-on oriented course is designed to provide participants with the theory and know-how to automate application delivery using GitOps principles. Through real-world scenarios workshops, attendees will master deploying robust CI/CD workflows based on Gitflow practices with containers, Kubernetes, targeted environment, rollouts and continuous deployment operators. By the end of the course, participants will be able to confidently build, deploy, and operate GitOps-driven application pipelines in cloud-native environment.

Key Takeaways

Learn how GitOps enable operational consistency and predictability. Learn how to use Git as the single source of truth to manage infrastructure and application configurations for predictable, auditable, and automated deployment workflows.
Create robust CI/CD pipelines for Gitflow workflows. Gain hands-on experience implementing Gitflow-oriented CI/CD pipeline to trigger different pipeline stages based on branch type to build, test and deploy to specific environments.
Implement progressive application delivery strategies to reduce risk, increase flexibility and provide faster feedback. Learn to use deployment strategies like blue/green and canary to minimise risk and to ensure controlled deployments of new features.
Eliminate application and configuration drifts with GitOps practices. Master the use of GitOps continuous delivery tool like Argo CD to deploy and reconcile applications declaratively.

Who Should Attend

Software developers
DevOps engineers
Site Reliability engineers
Solution architects
Technical leads

Pre-requisites

Working knowledge of Git. Must understand git fundamentals, including branching, merging and using the Git CLI
Basic Linux shell skills. Comfortable with using the terminal to navigate directories and use basic tools like grep, cat, ls, cd, etc.
Container fundamentals. Experience with building and running containers.
Kubernetes fundamentals. Familiarity with key concepts such as Namespace, Pods, Deployment and Services.

What to Bring

No printed copies of course materials are issued.
Participants must bring their laptops with power charger to access and download course materials.

Please see below for the tech specs:

	Minimum	Recommended
Computer and processor	1.6 GHz or faster, 4-core Intel Core i7 or equivalent	1.8 GHz, 4-core Intel Core i7 or equivalent
Memory	16 GB RAM	32 GB RAM
Hard Disk	256 GB disk size, with 50GB of available disk space
Display	1280 x 1040 screen resolution (64-bit requires hardware acceleration for 4K and higher)
Graphics	Graphics hardware acceleration requires DirectX 9 or later, with WDDM 2.0 or higher for Windows 10 (or WDDM 1.3 or higher for Windows 10 Fall Creators Update).	DirectX 10 graphics card for graphics hardware acceleration
Others	An internet connection – broadband wired or wireless Speakers and a microphone – built-in or USB plug-in or wireless Bluetooth A webcam or HD webcam - built-in or USB plug-in
Software	Windows 10 or later	Latest macOS

What Will Be Covered

GitOps and Gitflow fundamentals. Learn core GitOps principles, including how to integrate these principles with Gitflow to structure Git repositories and build CI/CD workflows.
CI/CD pipeline design and implementation. Build CI/CD pipelines with stages, jobs, deployment environments, conditional execution and secrets management.
Kubernetes traffic management with Gateway API. Configure Gateway controllers to manage traffic into Kubernetes. Learn to use traffic splitting strategies and request/response processing filters to control and regulate traffic flow.
Advance rollout strategies. Evaluate application rollouts and select the most appropriate strategy, blue/green or canary, to safely update applications. Learn to integrate automated or manual promotions/rollbacks with metrics to evaluate their fitness.
Declarative deployments. Use GitOps tools to deliver and reconcile application deployments continuously.
End-to-end GitOps workflow. Implement a real-world end-to-end GitOps workflow using concepts and tools taught in the course.

Fees & Subsidies

Fees for 2024

	Full Fee	Singaporeans & PRs (self-sponsored)
Full course fee	S$3600	S$3600
ISS Subsidy	-	(S$360)
Nett course fee	S$3600	S$3240
9% GST on nett course fee	S$324	S$291.60
Total nett course fee payable, including GST	S$3924	S$3531.60

Note:

All fees and subsidies are valid from January 2024, unless otherwise advised.
All self-sponsored Singaporeans aged 25 and above can use their SkillsFuture Credit to pay for course fees. For more information about SkillsFuture Credit, click here.
From 1st January 2024, the GST will be increased to 9%.

Certificate

The ISS Certificate of Completion will be issued to participants who have attended at least 75% of the course and pass the required assessments.

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WIFI Access

WIFI access will be made available to participants.

Venue

NUS-ISS
25 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Singapore 119615

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In the event of a change of venue, participants are advised to refer to the acceptance email sent one week prior to the commencement date.

Course Confirmation

All classes are subject to confirmation and NUS-ISS will send an acceptance email to participants one week prior to the commencement date. Confirmed registrants are to attend and complete all lectures, class exercises, workshops and assessments (where applicable). Additionally, all responses to feedbacks and surveys conducted by NUS-ISS and its partners must be submitted. All training and assessments will be delivered as described in the course webpage.

General Enquiry

Please feel free to write to ask-iss@nus.edu.sg if you have any enquiry or feedback.

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