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   <td width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 1:'''<br>6 sep - 9 sep
   <td width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 1:'''<br>9 - 13 jan<br></td>
(monday is a holiday)<br></td>
   <td style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Course introduction'''<ul>
   <td style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Course introduction'''<ul>
     <li>About the course</li>
     <li>About the course</li>
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   <td width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 2:'''<br>12 sep - 16 sep<br></td>
   <td width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 2:'''<br>16 - 20 jan<br></td>
   <td style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''First VM in the cloud'''<ul>
   <td style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''First VM in the cloud'''<ul>
     <li>AWS cost monitoring</li>
     <li>AWS cost monitoring</li>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 3:'''<br>19 sep - 23 sep<br></td>
   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 3:'''<br>23 - 27 jan<br></td>
   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''AWS networking, iptables'''<ul>
   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''AWS networking, iptables'''<ul>
     <li>The purpose of a firewall on a server on the internet</li>
     <li>The purpose of a firewall on a server on the internet</li>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 4:'''<br>26 sep - 30 sep<br></td>
   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 4:'''<br>30 jan - 3 feb<br></td>
   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Web server'''<ul>
   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Web server'''<ul>
     <li>Apache web server configuration</li>
     <li>Apache web server configuration</li>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 5:'''<br>3 oct - 7 oct<br></td>
   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 5:'''<br>6 - 10 feb<br></td>
   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Databases'''<ul>
   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Databases'''<ul>
     <li>RDBMS fundamentals</li>
     <li>RDBMS fundamentals</li>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 6:'''<br>11 oct - 14 oct
   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 6:'''<br>13 - 17 feb<br></td>
(monday is a holiday)<br></td>
   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">[[OPS345_Assignment 1 |'''Assignment 1''']]<ul>
   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">[[OPS345_Assignment 1 |'''Assignment 1''']]<ul>
     <li>Creating/using AMIs</li>
     <li>Creating/using AMIs</li>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 7:'''<br><br>17 oct - 21 oct</td>
   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 7:'''
21 - 24 feb
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   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Evaluation'''<ul>
   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Evaluation'''<ul>
     <li>Guided self-evaluation (online)</li>
     <li>Guided self-evaluation (online)</li>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;background-color:#f0f0f5;">'''Study Week:'''<br>24 oct - 28 oct</td>
   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;background-color:#f0f0f5;">'''Study Week:'''<br>27 feb - 3 mar</td>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 8:'''<br>31 oct - 4 nov</td>
   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 8:'''<br>6 - 10 mar</td>
   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''DNS'''<ul>
   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''DNS'''<ul>
     <li>DNS overview</li>
     <li>DNS overview</li>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 9:'''<br>7 nov - 11 nov</td>
   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 9:'''<br>13 - 17 mar</td>
   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Simple email server'''<ul>
   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Simple email server'''<ul>
     <li>Email overview</li>
     <li>Email overview</li>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 10:'''<br>14 nov - 18 nov<br></td>
   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 10:'''<br>20 - 24 mar<br></td>
   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''IMAP server'''<ul>
   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''IMAP server'''<ul>
     <li>Set up Thunderbird for your domain</li>
     <li>Set up Thunderbird for your domain</li>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 11:'''<br>21 nov - 25 nov<br></td>
   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 11:'''<br>27 - 31 mar<br></td>
   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Proper Cloud data storage'''<ul>
   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Proper Cloud data storage'''<ul>
     <li>Storage overview on AWS</li>
     <li>Storage overview on AWS</li>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 12:'''<br>28 nov - 2 dec<br></td>
   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 12:'''3 - 6 apr
(friday is a holiday)
 
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   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Automatic Deployment and Configuration Management (no lab)'''<ul>
   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Automatic Deployment and Configuration Management (no lab)'''<ul>
     <li>What we did wrong in this course</li>
     <li>What we did wrong in this course</li>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 13:'''<br>5 dec - 9 dec</td>
   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 13:'''<br>10 - 14 apr</td>
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   '''[[OPS345_Assignment_2 |Assignment 2]]'''<ul>
   '''[[OPS345_Assignment_2 |Assignment 2]]'''<ul>
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   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 14:'''<br>12 dec - 14 dec<br></td>
   <td  width="20%" style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Week 14:'''<br>17 - 21 apr<br></td>
   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Evaluation'''<ul>
   <td  style="border-bottom: thin solid black;">'''Evaluation'''<ul>
     <li>Guided self-evaluation (online)</li>
     <li>Guided self-evaluation (online)</li>

Revision as of 14:56, 6 January 2023

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:
9 - 13 jan
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:
16 - 20 jan
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
Andrew's Lab 1 Lab 1
Week 3:
23 - 27 jan
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
Andrew's Lab 2 Lab 2
Week 4:
30 jan - 3 feb
Web server
  • Apache web server configuration
  • Web server storage, configuration, LVM
  • Simple PHP websites
  • Public server without public ip
  • HTTP vs HTTPS
Andrew's Lab 3 Lab 3
Week 5:
6 - 10 feb
Databases
  • RDBMS fundamentals
  • MariaDB on AWS
  • Practice with MariaDB
  • Web server + database example: NextCloud
Andrew's Lab 4 Lab 4
Week 6:
13 - 17 feb
Assignment 1
  • Creating/using AMIs
  • Automatic synchronisation using rsync, ssh keys, & cron
  • Simple load balancing using iptables
  • Really simple python scripting
Andrew's Asg 1 Assignment 1
Week 7:

21 - 24 feb

(monday is a holiday)
Evaluation
  • Guided self-evaluation (online)
  • Presentation (in-class)
Study Week:
27 feb - 3 mar
Week 8:
6 - 10 mar
DNS
  • DNS overview
  • Register a domain name
  • Set up A, CNAME, TXT records
  • Set up Let's Encrypt
  • Modify Apache to use HTTPS
Andrew's Lab 5 part 1
Andrew's Lab 5 part 2
Lab 5
Week 9:
13 - 17 mar
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
Andrew's Lab 6 Lab 6
Week 10:
20 - 24 mar
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
Andrew's Lab 7 Lab 7
Week 11:
27 - 31 mar
Proper Cloud data storage
  • Storage overview on AWS
  • EBS
  • RDS
  • EFS
  • S3
Lab 8
Week 12:3 - 6 apr

(friday is a holiday)


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:
10 - 14 apr
Assignment 2
  • Roundcube Webmail
  • Overview of skills gained
Assignment 2
Week 14:
17 - 21 apr
Evaluation
  • Guided self-evaluation (online)
  • Presentation (in-class)