OPS345 Weekly Schedule

Note: Each professor will indicate the due dates for labs, tests and assignments for their sections. This schedule is a general guideline for week-by-week content.

Week	Objectives and Tasks	Labs
Week 1: 10 jan - 14 jan	Course introduction About the course Review of prerequisite skills from ULI101 and OPS245 AWS account requirements and account setup Your workstation setup	Prep for Labs
Week 2: 17 jan - 21 jan	First VM in the cloud AWS cost monitoring Basic security on a public-facing server: users, passwords, login requirements, SSH keys, lock-out prevention AWS networking, static IPs Deploying a pre-built VM on AWS	Lab 1
Week 3: 24 jan - 28 jan	AWS networking, iptables The purpose of a firewall on a server on the internet AWS Security Groups and iptables iptables fundamentals iptables setup & troubleshooting Port forwarding	Lab 2
Week 4: 31 jan - 4 feb	Web server Apache web server configuration Web server storage, configuration, LVM Simple PHP websites Public server without public ip HTTP vs HTTPS	Lab 3
Week 5: 7 feb - 11 feb	Databases RDBMS fundamentals MariaDB on AWS Practice with MariaDB Web server + database example: NextCloud	Lab 4
Week 6: 14 feb - 18 feb	Assignment 1 Creating/using AMIs Automatic synchronisation using rsync, ssh keys, & cron Simple load balancing using iptables Really simple python scripting	Assignment 1
Week 7: 21 feb - 25 feb (Monday is a holiday)	Evaluation Guided self-evaluation (online) Presentation (in-class)
Study Week: 28 feb - 4 mar
Week 8: 7 mar - 11 mar	DNS DNS overview Register a domain name Set up A, CNAME, TXT records Set up Let's Encrypt Modify Apache to use HTTPS	Lab 5
Week 9: 14 mar - 18 mar	Simple email server Email overview MX records Third AWS VM: email Basic Postfix setup Delivery using dovecot-lda to Maildir Email server security: open relays, port access	Lab 6
Week 10: 21 mar - 25 mar	IMAP server Set up Thunderbird for your domain Add encryption and authentication support to Postfix Set up Dovecot with SSL Set up Thunderbird for myseneca	Lab 7
Week 11: 28 mar - 1 apr	Proper Cloud data storage Storage overview on AWS EBS RDS EFS S3	Lab 8
Week 12: 4 apr - 8 apr	Automatic Deployment and Configuration Management (no lab) What we did wrong in this course Automatic, demand-based deployment of VMs Automatically configuring new VMs Containers
Week 13: 11 apr - 15 apr (Friday is a holiday)	Assignment 2 Assignment 2 Roundcube Webmail
Week 14: 18 apr - 22 apr	Evaluation Guided self-evaluation (online) Presentation (in-class)