Rchan-notepad

OPS curriculum topics for discussion

Key Topics to be included/discussed/introduced

• Lower Semesters OPS stream should have covered the following topics
  • OS Installation - various favours of Linux distributions: Debian (ubuntu), RedHat (Fedora, CentOS), SuSE, etc.
  • Package management systems: dpkg (apt-get), yum, dnf, etc
  • Bash Shell Command Line utilities (list of common used commands for daily system administration)
  • TCP/IP networking: iproute2, bridging, routing, firewall
  • User Management on a single host
  • ...
• 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
• application scripting (bash/python)
• virtualization - control of vm using bash/python scripts

OPS535

• Platform as a service (PaaS)
  • OpenShift Online
  • OpenShift Origin
• SOA:
  • Application services
  • Configuration management service
  • Name Service

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