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Duration 3 Days 18 CPD hours This course is intended for The target audience for the DevSecOps Practitioner course are professionals including: Anyone focused on implementing or improving DevSecOps practices in their organization Anyone interested in modern IT leadership and organizational change approaches Business Managers Business Stakeholders Change Agents Consultants DevOps Practitioners IT Directors IT Managers IT Team Leaders Product Owners Scrum Masters Software Engineers Site Reliability Engineers System Integrators Tool Providers Overview After completing this course, students will be able to: Comprehend the underlying principles of DevSecOps Distinguish between the technical elements used across DevSecOps practices Demonstrate how practical maturity concepts can be extended across multiple areas. Implement metric-based assessments tied to your organization. Recognize modern architectural concepts including microservice to monolith transitions. Recognize the various languages and tools used to communicate architectural concepts. Contrast the options used to build a DevSecOps infrastructure through Platform as a Service, Server-less construction, and event-driven mediums Prepare hiring practices to recognize and understand the individual knowledge, skills, and abilities required for mature Dev Identify the various technical requirements tied to the DevSecOps pipelines and how those impact people and process choices. Review various approaches to securing data repositories and pipelines. Analyze how monitoring and observability practices contribute to valuable outcomes. Comprehend how to implement monitoring at key points to contribute to actionable analysis. Evaluate how different experimental structures contribute to the 3rd Way. Identify future trends that may affect DevSecOps The DevSecOps Practitioner course is intended as a follow-on to the DevSecOps Foundation course. The course builds on previous understanding to dive into the technical implementation. The course aims to equip participants with the practices, methods, and tools to engage people across the organization involved in reliability through the use of real-life scenarios and case stories. Upon completion of the course, participants will have tangible takeaways to leverage when back in the office such as implementing DevSecOps practices to their organizational structure, building better pipelines in distributed systems, and having a common technological language. This course positions learners to successfully complete the DevSecOps Practitioner certification exam. DevSecOps Advanced Basics Why Advance Practices? General Awareness People-Finding Them Core Process Technology Overview Understanding Applied Metrics Metric Terms Accelerating People-Reporting and Recording Integrating Process Technology Automation Architecting and Planning for DevSecOps Architecture Basics Finding an Architect Reporting and Recording Environments Process Accelerating Decisions Creating a DevSecOps Infrastructure What is Infrastructure? Equipping the Team Design Challenges Monitoring Infrastructure Establishing a Pipeline Pipelines and Workflows Engineers and Capabilities Continuous Engagement Automate and Identify Observing DevSecOps Outcomes Observability vs. Monitoring Who gets which Report? Setting Observation Points Implementing Observability Practical 3rd Way Applications Revisiting 3rd Way Building Experiments Getting the Most from the Experiment The Future of DevOps Looking Towards the Future Staying Trained Innovation What, and from Who? Post-Class Assignments/Exercises Extended advanced reading associated with Case Stories from the course Additional course details: Nexus Humans DevSecOps Practitioner (DevOps Institute) training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the DevSecOps Practitioner (DevOps Institute) course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.
Duration 5 Days 30 CPD hours Overview SDWAN Review Advanced Template Design and Troubleshooting Advanced Security Policies on vEdge and IOS-XE Platforms Advanced Local Policies on vEdge and IOS-XE Platforms Advanced Central Policies on vEdge and IOS-XE Platforms Advanced Troubleshooting of Policies on vEdge and IOS-XE Platforms In this Advanced Lab focused SDWAN Course, Students willExplore and Troubleshoot the initials environmentLearn Advanced Techniques to Deploy Templates with the theme of reusabilityDeploy and Troubleshoot Transport BridgingDeploy and Troubleshoot Routing including OSPF, BGP, EIGRPDeploy and Troubleshoot Multicast RoutingDesign, Configure, and Troubleshoot Advanced Security PoliciesDesign, Configure, and Troubleshoot Local PoliciesDesign, Configure, and Troubleshoot Application Aware RoutingDesign, Configure, and Troubleshoot Quality of ServiceDesign, Configure, and Troubleshoot Central Policies Including Hub Spoke, Full Mesh and Custom TopologiesDesign, Configure, and Troubleshoot Central Policies Including Service ChainingDesign, Configure, and Troubleshoot Central Policies Including Traffic Rules & CFLOW Cisco SD-WAN Overview Dashboard SD-WAN Architecture SD-WAN WAN Edges SD-WAN Controllers SD-WAN Fabric SD-WAN Advanced Settings Advanced Controller Settings Overlay and vEdge Recommended Settings Forward Error Correction (FEC) Packet Duplication System IP Design LTE Operation SD-WAN High Availability Controller High Availability Controller Scalability Active vManage, Backup Inactive vManage Clustering vManages Disaster Recovery SD-WAN Templates Template Overview Future Templates Device template using Future Templates Device template using CLI Templates Designing templates for Reusability Attaching Devices to Templates Bridging Transparent Bridging Bridging Template Configuration cEdge Bridging Template Configuration vEdge Bridging Template Configuration Monitoring Bridging Routing Protocols Static Routes Dynamic Routing Protocols Multicast Multicast Terms Requirements vEdge Multicast Support cEdge Multicast Support Multicast RPs Multicast Replicators PIM IGMP Network Optimization Optimization Overview TCP Optimization vEdge Optimization Requirements vEdge Optimization Implementation cEdge (IOS-XE) Optimization Requirements cEdge (IOS-XE) Optimization Implementation AppNAV Per Tunnel QoS Direct Internet Access (DIA) Overview SD-WAN Direct Internet Access (DIA) SD-WAN DIA Requirements SD-WAN Direct Internet Access Use Cases SD-WAN Direct Internet Access Design Components SD-WAN Direct Internet Access Design Considerations SD-WAN Direct Internet Access Failover Scenarios Cisco SD-WAN Direct Internet Access Monitoring Unified Communications Voice Integration in SD-WAN Voice Feature Templates Voice Policies IOS-XE UC Device Template SD-WAN Security Policy Authentication/Encryption/Integrity Firewall IPS (Snort) URL Filtering Web Layer Security Pairwise IPsec Keys SD-WAN Local Policy Policy Configuration Overview Policy Framework-Localized Policies Local Control Policy Local Control (Route) Policy Localized Control Policy Configuration Local Data Policy Configure Localized Data Policy for IPv4 SD-WAN Central Policy Policy Creation and Management Guidelines Centralized Data Policies Application Aware Routing Service Chaining Traffic Flow Monitoring with Cflowd Policy Construction Platform Support and Scalability SDWAN Migration Sequence of Migration Migration Planning DC/Hub Site Migration Branch/Spoke Site Migration Additional course details: Nexus Humans ADV-SDWAN-CT - Advanced Cisco SD-WAN Routing, Templates, Policy Configure, and Tshoot training program is a workshop that presents an invigorating mix of sessions, lessons, and masterclasses meticulously crafted to propel your learning expedition forward. This immersive bootcamp-style experience boasts interactive lectures, hands-on labs, and collaborative hackathons, all strategically designed to fortify fundamental concepts. Guided by seasoned coaches, each session offers priceless insights and practical skills crucial for honing your expertise. Whether you're stepping into the realm of professional skills or a seasoned professional, this comprehensive course ensures you're equipped with the knowledge and prowess necessary for success. While we feel this is the best course for the ADV-SDWAN-CT - Advanced Cisco SD-WAN Routing, Templates, Policy Configure, and Tshoot course and one of our Top 10 we encourage you to read the course outline to make sure it is the right content for you. Additionally, private sessions, closed classes or dedicated events are available both live online and at our training centres in Dublin and London, as well as at your offices anywhere in the UK, Ireland or across EMEA.
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