Cisco DevNet Associate Cert Prep 4: Application Deployment and Security

Introduction

• Preparing for Cisco Exam 4

1. Cloud Computing and Deployment

• How to deploy applications in the public cloud
• Application deployment considerations with private cloud
• Use hybrid cloud for application deployment
• Learn about edge computing
• The Edge Cloud approach

2. Application Deployment Types

• Learn to deploy applications with virtual machines
• Use bare metal servers for application deployment
• Containers and deployment

3. Linux Bash Shell Operations

• Learn about Linux file management
• How to navigate around Linux directories
• Learn to use environmental variables in Linux shell

4. DevOps Principles and Practices

• Learn about DevOps principles
• What are the DevOps practices?

5. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Pipeline

• Learn about components in a CI/CD pipeline
• Build a Python code test with unittest
• Learn about Jenkins in CI/CD pipeline

6. Containers and Docker

• Learn about Dockerfiles
• Learn about Docker images
• How to deploy Docker on local machines

7. Application Security

• How to protect application secrets and keys
• How to encryption contents for storage and transport
• Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)

8. Network Components for Application Security

• How to protect applications with firewalls
• Learn about load balancer and security
• Implement security with DNS
• Learn about reverse proxy

Conclusion

• Next steps