Course manual 2023/2024

Objectives

Students are familiar with the concept of DevOps and related technologies, their benefits for organisational IT infrastructure and services management; understand organisational aspects of DevOps, describe relation of DevOps to other technologies
Students will understand how to build cloud-based applications and use cloud automation tools in the DevOps process applied to various applications and software development scenarios/processes.
Students can analyze practical cloud application problems, apply agile and DevOps practices in teamwork, and develop solutions using cloud computing and automation techniques.

Teaching methods

Lecture
Seminar
Computer lab session/practical training
Presentation/symposium
Self-study

Learning activities

Activity	Hours
Hoorcollege	28
Laptopcollege	56
Self study	84
Total	168	(6 EC x 28 uur)

Attendance

Requirements concerning attendance (TER-B).

Participation in practical exercises, tutorials and study group sessions is obligatory. Detailed rules are laid out in the study guide and/or the course catalogue for each unit of study.

Assessment

Item and weight	Details
Final grade
2 (20%) Basic Cloud and DevOps skills	Mandatory
5 (50%) Group assignment: Project report	Mandatory
1 (10%) Group assignment: Project presentations	Mandatory
1.5 (15%) Group assignment: SOTA report	Mandatory
0.5 (5%) Group assignment: State Of The Art (SOTA) study presentation	Mandatory

Fraud and plagiarism

The 'Regulations governing fraud and plagiarism for UvA students' applies to this course. This will be monitored carefully. Upon suspicion of fraud or plagiarism the Examinations Board of the programme will be informed. For the 'Regulations governing fraud and plagiarism for UvA students' see: www.student.uva.nl

Course structure

Weeks	Topics	Lab
Week 1 08/02/2024 09/02/2024	- Course introduction - Lecture 1: DevOps / SE -1 (Service, Agile)	- Set up lab environment - Set up a project group - Set up SOTA team - Assignment 1: REST, Docker, Kubernetes
	- Lecture 2: DevOps / SE -2 (Version, CI/CD, pipeline)
Week 2 15/02/2024 16/02/2024	- Cloud and cloud services introduction	● Assignment 2. Cloud Computing Foundation (AWS Academy class)
	- Cloud monitoring - Cloud-powered software design
Week 3 22/02/2024 23/02/2024	- Cloud application development	● Assignment 3. Cloud monitoring and CloudFormation.
	- Cloud Automation tools, CloudFormation, Ansible
Week 4 01/03/2024 02/03/2024	- Cloud Security and Compliance, DevSecOps	● Assignment 4. Ansible
	- DevOps/Agile in practice
Week 5 08/03/2024 09/03/2024	- Milestone presentation-1
	- Milestone presentation-2
Week 6 15/03/2024 16/03/2024	- SOTA presentation -1	Course projects, SOTA, and reporting
	- SOTA presentation -2
Week 7 22/03/2024 23/04/2024	- Project presentation-1	Course projects, SOTA, and reporting
	- Project presentation -2

Owner	Master Software Engineering
Coordinator	dr. Zhiming Zhao
Part of	Master Software Engineering, year 1

DevOps and Cloud-based Software