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: 2-5 september (monday is a holiday)	Course introduction About the course Course Passing Requirements 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: 8-12 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: 15-19 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: 22-26 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: 29 september - 3 october	Databases RDBMS fundamentals MariaDB on AWS Practice with MariaDB Web server + database example: NextCloud	Andrew's Lab 4	Lab 4
Week 6: 6 - 10 october	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: 14 - 17 october (monday is a holiday)	Evaluation Midterm test
Study Week: 20 - 24 october
Week 8: 27 - 31 october	DNS DNS overview Register a domain name Set up A, CNAME, TXT records	Andrew's Lab 5	Lab 5
Week 9: 3 - 7 november	Public key encryption Encryption, certificates Set up Let's Encrypt Modify Apache to use HTTPS	Andrew's Lab 6	Lab 6
Week 10: 10 - 14 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: 17 - 21 november	IMAP server Set up Thunderbird for your domain Add encryption and authentication support to Postfix Set up Dovecot with SSL	Andrew's Lab 8	Lab 8
Week 12: 24 - 28 november	Catch up with labs Make sure your labs are finished so that you can complete the assignment.
Week 13: 1 - 5 december	Assignment 2 Roundcube Webmail Overview of skills gained		Assignment 2
Week 14: 8 - 12 december	Evaluation Exam