OPS345 Weekly Schedule

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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:
5 - 8 september
(monday is a holiday)
Course introduction Andrew's Course Introduction
Andrew's Prep for Labs
Prep for Labs
Week 2:
11 - 15 september
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:
18 - 22 september
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:
25 - 29 september
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:
2 - 6 october
Databases
  • RDBMS fundamentals
  • MariaDB on AWS
  • Practice with MariaDB
  • Web server + database example: NextCloud
Andrew's Lab 4 Lab 4
Week 6:
10 - 13 october
(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
Andrew's Assignment 1 Assignment 1
Week 7:

16 - 20 october

Evaluation
  • Midterm test
Study Week:

23 - 27 october

Week 8:
30 october - 3 november
DNS
  • DNS overview
  • Register a domain name
  • Set up A, CNAME, TXT records
Andrew's Lab 5 Lab 5
Week 9:
6 - 10 november
Public key encryption
  • Encryption, certificates
  • Set up Let's Encrypt
  • Modify Apache to use HTTPS
Andrew's Lab 6 Lab 6
Week 10:
13 - 17 november
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 7 Lab 7
Week 11:
20 - 24 november
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 12:
27 november - 1 december
Catch up with labs
  • Make sure your labs are finished so that you can complete the assignment.
Week 13:
4 - 8 december
Assignment 2
  • Roundcube Webmail
  • Overview of skills gained
Assignment 2
Week 14:
11 - 13 december
Evaluation
  • Exam