DevOps for Federated services

8 Mar 2016, 08:00 → 10 Mar 2016, 17:45 Africa/Lagos

Seminar Room 1 (Human Resource Development Centre - HRDC)

Bruce Becker (Meraka Institute, CSIR), Owen Iyoha (Eko-Konnect)

An introduction to service development in a federated environment, using the DevOps approach, continuous integration and testing, and focussing on Ansible, Travis and Jenkins as tools. Two days will be dedicated to the DevOps and CI tools, with one day dedicated to the application of these to federated service and identity providers.

Candidate Services discussion http://discourse.sci-gaia.eu/t/candidate-services-for-eko-konnect-and-ngren/1952

discussion http://discourse.sci-gaia.eu/t/ansible-training-for-eko-konnect-community/1887/9

notes http://discourse.sci-gaia.eu/t/installng-docker-at-eko-konnect-workshop/1939

Tuesday, 8 March

1 Foundations: Some theory and background

Speaker: Dr Bruce Becker (Meraka Institute, CSIR)

Slides Setting_the_Stage.pdf

2 Introduction to Ansible: The long version

Speaker: Dr Bruce Becker (Meraka Institute, CSIR)

Slides introduction_to_ansible.pdf

3 Hands-on Ansible: Getting hands dirty with Ansible

Speaker: Dr Bruce Becker (Meraka Institute, CSIR)

Slides Deeper_into_Ansible.pdf

14:00 lunch break

4 Ansible in AAROC: why, what

Speaker: Dr Bruce Becker (Meraka Institute, CSIR)

See Github Repo https://github.com/AAROC/DevOps

Wednesday, 9 March

5 Ansible in depth: Inventory management. Writing playbooks. Variables. Loops and Conditionals.

Speaker: Dr Bruce Becker (Meraka Institute, CSIR)

more information http://discourse.sci-gaia.eu/t/lagos-devops-workshop-ansible-lesson-1/1950/1

6 Ansible in depth: Error handling and idempotence

Speaker: Dr Bruce Becker (Meraka Institute, CSIR)

7 Continuous Integration: Travis vs Jenkins

Speaker: Dr Bruce Becker (Meraka Institute, CSIR)

More information http://discourse.sci-gaia.eu/t/lagos-devops-workshop-ansible-lesson-2/1951

14:00 lunch break

8 Ansible in Depth: Continuous Integration and Delivery

Speaker: Dr Bruce Becker (Meraka Institute, CSIR)

Thursday, 10 March

9 Shibboleth Service Providers : Basic installation and configuration of SSO.

Step by step installation of Shibboleth SP; Basic configuration Use case : Access to restricted web resources for users of a single Identity Provider.

Speaker: Dr Bruce Becker (Meraka Institute, CSIR)

prepackaged virtual appliance http://dx.doi.org/11623/sci-gaia:1448900352.99

Slides

• http://dx.doi.org/11623/sci-gaia:1457359430.6
• http://dx.doi.org/11623/sci-gaia:1457368082.87
• http://dx.doi.org/11623/sci-gaia:1457368205.75
• http://dx.doi.org/11623/sci-gaia:1457368401.84

10 Step by step installation of a single Identity Provider

Receiving attributes and using them in the application. Standard and custom attributes Configuring local and SSO logins

Speaker: Dr Bruce Becker (Meraka Institute, CSIR)

11 Developing the Executable IdP

Planning the coding and execution of a Shibboleth IdP with Ansible

Speaker: Dr Bruce Becker (Meraka Institute, CSIR)

14:00 lunch

12 Shibboleth SP: Advanced configuration

Speaker: Dr Bruce Becker (Meraka Institute, CSIR)

13 Discovery service

Speaker: Dr Bruce Becker (Meraka Institute, CSIR)

14 Further topics and wrapup

A pointer to topics not covered in the course, and discussion of lessons learned and potential leads

Speaker: Dr Bruce Becker (Meraka Institute, CSIR)