| Week |
Objectives and Tasks |
Labs |
Week 1:
date
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Course introduction
- About the course
- Review of prerequisite skills from ULI101 and OPS245
- AWS account requirements and account setup
- Your workstation setup
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Prep for Labs |
Week 2:
date
|
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
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Lab 1 |
Week 3:
date
|
AWS networking, iptables
- The purpose of a firewall on a server on the internet
- AWS Security Groups and iptables
- iptables fundamentals
- iptables setup, troubleshooting, lock-out prevention
- Securing services that need to be publicly accessible
- Port forwarding
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Lab 2 |
Week 4:
date
|
Web server
- Apache web server configuration
- Web server storage, configuration, LVM
- Simple PHP websites
- Public server without public ip
- HTTP vs HTTPS
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Lab 3 |
Week 5:
date
|
Databases
- RDBMS fundamentals
- MariaDB on AWS
- Practice with MariaDB
- Web server + database example: NextCloud
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Lab 4 |
Week 6:
date
|
Assignment 1
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Week 7:
date
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Evaluation
- Guided self-evaluation (online)
- Presentation (in-class)
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Study Week:
date |
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Week 8:
date
|
DNS
- DNS overview
- Register a domain name
- Set up A, CNAME, TXT records
- Set up Let's Encrypt
- Modify Apache to use HTTPS
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Lab 5 |
Week 9:
date
|
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
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Lab 6 |
Week 10:
date
|
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
- Webmail??
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Lab 7 |
Week 11:
date
|
Proper Cloud data storage
- Storage overview on AWS
- EBS
- RDS
- EFS
- S3
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Lab 8 |
Week 12:
date
|
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
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Week 13:
date
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Assignment 2 |
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Week 14:
date
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Evaluation
- Guided self-evaluation (online)
- Presentation (in-class)
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