OPS345 Weekly Schedule

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The current schedule for OPS345 is here: OPS335_Weekly_Schedule

Instructors: see OPS345

Note: Each OPS345 instructor will indicate the due dates for labs, tests and assignments. This schedule is a general guideline for week-by-week content.

Week Objectives and Tasks Labs
Week 1:
date
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:
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
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
Lab 2
Week 4:
date
Web server
  • Apache web server configuration
  • Web server storage, configuration, LVM
  • HTTP vs HTTPS
  • Simple PHP websites
  • Configuration using a self-signed certificate
  • Firefox setup on workstation to include CA
  • Configuring Roundcube Webmail
Lab 3
Week 5:
date
Databases
  • RDBMS fundamentals
  • MariaDB on AWS
  • Practice with MariaDB
  • Web server + database example: NextCloud
Lab 4
Week 6:
date
Assignment 1
  • Assignment 1
    • Register a domain name
    • Use registrar's interface to set up A, TXT records
    • Set up Let's Encrypt
    • Modify Apache to use HTTPS
    • HTTP redirect from HTTP to HTTPS
    • ...
Week 7:
date
Evaluation
  • Guided self-evaluation (online)
  • Presentation (in-class)
Study Week:
date
 
Week 8:
date
DNS
  • DNS overview
  • Bind DNS server configuration
  • Forward lookups
  • Forwarders
  • Workstation configuration
Lab 5
Week 9:
date
Simple email server
  • Second AWS VM: email
  • Basic Postfix setup
  • Delivery using dovecot-lda to Maildir
  • Monitoring script from 'dns' sending messages to 'email'
  • Reading Maildir using Mutt
  • Email server security: open relays, port access
Lab 6
Week 10:
date
IMAP server
  • Certificate/key management using TinyCA
  • Dovecot configuration as an IMAP server using a self-signed certificate
  • Postfix remote access configuration using a self-signed certificate
  • Thunderbird setup on the workstation (including CA)
Lab 7
Week 11:
date
Proper Cloud data storage
  • Storage overview on AWS
  • EBS
  • RDS
  • EFS
  • S3
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
Week 13:
date
Assignment 2
Week 14:
date
Evaluation
  • Guided self-evaluation (online)
  • Presentation (in-class)