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OPS curriculum topics for discussion
'''Key Topics to be included/discussed/introduced'''
= Lower Semesters =
* Lower Semesters OPS stream focus on the network layers

==ULI101 - First Semester==
* Introduction to the Linux system (PC with Live Linux OS or Raspberry Pi)
* Single Host or VM (with root access ?)
* Suggestion - Focus on the physical layer and data-link layer administrative tasks
**For example - ARP, ICMP, tcpdump
* SSH Client configuration
* TCP/IP network accounting using iptables

==OPS235 - 2nd Semester==
* OS Installation and configuration (bare metal and/or VM)
* Disk partition and LVM
* 2 hosts or VMs (client and server)
* Suggestion - Focus on the Network and Transport layers administrative tasks
**For example - routing and RIP, UDP, TCP, tcpdump, wireshark
*SSH server configuration, ssh tunnelling, X forwarding etc.
* TCP/IP network filtering using iptables
* SELinux Security

==OPS335 - 3rd Semester==
* Application Server software installation, configuration and maintenance (VM only?)
* 3+ hosts or VMs (with application servers: email, DNS, SAMBA, NFS)
* Suggestion - Focus on the Application layers administrative tasks
** For example - DNS, HTTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, SAMBA etc.
**tools - tcpdump, wireshark,
* TCP/IP network logging using iptables
* SELinux security policy for confined network applications

= Upper Semesters =
* Upper semesters OPS stream - Cloud based topics/services?
* Contents based on SOA - there are many, let's consider the three major ones:
** Saas
** PaaS
** IaaS
== OPS435 ==
* Introduction to cloud computing - NIST definition
* service oriented architecture
** Identity services
** Messaging services
* Automation using scripting language
** automate local services/tasks using bash shell
** network/infrastructure automation using python/CMS
*** virtual networks
*** virtual machines
* source code version control using git

== OPS535 ==
* Infrastructure services
** DHCP
** DNS/DDNS/DNSSEC
** DataBase Service
** LDAP using OpenLDAP
** File sharing service
** PAM
** DAC/MAC
** Firewall service
* The REST API
* Platform as a service (PaaS)
** OpenShift Online
** OpenShift Origin

== OPS635 ==
* Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
** OpenStack and/or others?
* SOA
** Network Services
** Compute Services
** Storage Services
** Monitoring Service

= Resources: hardware, software and others =
* Rack mount servers
** CPU:
** Memory: 32GB
** NICs: >10G
* SAN
* OS - Enterprise Linux
* Web mail, wiki, moodle, wordpress, etc
* OpenShift
* OpenStack
* Floating IPs (142.204.x.0/24)
* Registered domain name, for ICT or subdomain from Seneca College