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: 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	Andrew's Course Introduction Andrew's Prep for Labs	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)