One Week Foundation Training

From ControlTier

Send an email to training@dtosolutions.com or go to the ControlTier Training and Support page to schedule the One Week FoundationTraining.

Contents 1 Overview 1.1 Learn To 1.2 Audience 1.3 Prerequisites 1.3.1 Required Prerequisites 2 Schedule 2.1 Day 1 2.2 Day 2 2.3 Day 3 2.4 Day 4 2.5 Day 5

Overview

A five day training program covering, introductory concepts, installation, project setup, package management, service management and continuous deployment.

Learn To

• Understand the core concepts that drive and underly the ControlTier system
• Use the GUI and command line interfaces
• Install and configure a multi-node ControlTier infrastructure
• Execute commands via the CTL command dispatcher
• Create and import packages into the ControlTier server
• Define and manage a long running application service
• Deploy packages to application services
• Define and integrate scripts to manage startup and shutdown of a service
• Manage logically grouped sets of Services centrally using a Site
• Use ProjectBuilder to manage the ControlTier model and repository artifacts
• Integrate ControlTier to your SCM via ProjectBuilder and create project builds

Audience

• System Administrators
• Software Engineers
• Build Engineers
• System Engineers

Prerequisites

Required Prerequisites

This training course contains a number of laboratory exercises that have the same system requirements as the ControlTier demonstration.

Schedule

The training program is broken down into five days, where each day is broken into three sessions: morning, lunch and afternoon. We realize that the attendees are key personnel and often need some flexibility to handle operational activities. We can tailor the schedule to fit the needs of your team.

Day 1

Morning

• Introduction
  • What is ControlTier, Getting Started
  • Fundamentals, Roles and Responsibilities, UI orientation: Course - ControlTier Introduction
  • How to use ControlTier
  • Obtain installation prerequisites

Lunch

Afternoon

• System Administration
  • Course - System Administration: Part 1
  • Installation, ZIP installer
  • ZIP_installer (client-only), ZIP installer (multiple-clients)
  • Environment and command line tools overview. Command-line utilities

Day 2

Morning

• Executing commands
  • CTL: CTL architecture, Command execution
  • Running ad hoc commands
  • Running defined commands
  • Use node filtering options
  • Jobs and Jobcenter
  • Labs: Replace your SSH loop script, Multi-node tail -f, Use Deployment exec command

Lunch

Afternoon

• Package Management: Part 1
  • Course - Package Manager
  • Labs: Creating packages, Prepare Finish Scripts

Day 3

Morning

• Service Management: Services
  • Course - Service Life cycle Management
• Labs: Mock Unix Service Example, Service Package Deployment Example

Lunch

Afternoon

• Service Management: Sites
  • Introducing Mediator and Site types and life cycles, Understanding runtime state control and startup ranks
  • Course - Service Life cycle Management#The Site Type
  • Labs: Mock Site Example, Site Coordination Models

Day 4

Morning

• Dukes Bank demo
  • Install demo
  • Run demos

Lunch

Afternoon

• Package Management: Builders
  • Builder types and life cycle
  • Understanding Change-Dependencies for automatic deployment
• Labs: Builder Simple Example

Day 5

Morning

• Project management
  • Category:Projects
• Labs: Use ProjectBuilder

Lunch

Afternoon

• Project management (cont)
  • Generating forrest documentation
  • Running a project build
  • Release management