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	Videos	Labs
Week 1: 8 - 12 may	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: 15 - 19 may	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: 22 - 26 may	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: 29 may - 2 june	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: 5 - 9 june	Databases RDBMS fundamentals MariaDB on AWS Practice with MariaDB Web server + database example: NextCloud		Lab 4
Week 6: 12 - 16 june	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: 19 - 23 june	Evaluation Midterm test
Study Week: 26 - 30 june
Week 8: 4 - 7 july	DNS DNS overview Register a domain name Set up A, CNAME, TXT records		Lab 5
Week 9: 4 - 7 july	Public key encryption Encryption, certificates Set up Let's Encrypt Modify Apache to use HTTPS		Lab 6
Week 10: 10 - 14 july	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 7
Week 11: 17 - 21 july	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 8
Week 13: 7 - 11 august	Assignment 2 Roundcube Webmail Overview of skills gained		Assignment 2
Week 14: 14 - 18 august	Evaluation Exam