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: 6 sep - 9 sep (monday is a holiday)	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: 12 sep - 16 sep	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: 19 sep - 23 sep	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: 26 sep - 30 sep	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: 3 oct - 7 oct	Databases RDBMS fundamentals MariaDB on AWS Practice with MariaDB Web server + database example: NextCloud	Lab 4
Week 6: 11 oct - 14 oct (monday is a holiday)	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: 17 oct - 21 oct	Evaluation Guided self-evaluation (online) Presentation (in-class)
Study Week: 24 oct - 28 oct
Week 8: 31 oct - 4 nov	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: 7 nov - 11 nov	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: 14 nov - 18 nov	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: 21 nov - 25 nov	Proper Cloud data storage Storage overview on AWS EBS RDS EFS S3	Lab 8
Week 12: 28 nov - 2 dec	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: 5 dec - 9 dec	Assignment 2 Roundcube Webmail Alternative Assignment 2 Overview of skills gained
Week 14: 12 dec - 16 dec	Evaluation Guided self-evaluation (online) Presentation (in-class)