Learn the core principles of application deployment and production environments.
- What is deployment?
- Development vs production
- Deployment strategies
- Environment management
- Configuration management
- Deployment pipelines
- Release management
- Rollback strategies
Set up and configure servers for hosting backend applications.
- Linux server basics
- User management
- Security hardening
- Firewall configuration
- SSH setup
- Package management
- System monitoring
- Log management
Configure web servers and reverse proxies for production deployments.
- Nginx configuration
- Apache setup
- Reverse proxy setup
- Load balancing
- SSL/TLS certificates
- Gzip compression
- Static file serving
- Security headers
Manage application processes, auto-restart, and service management.
- Process managers
- PM2 for Node.js
- Systemd services
- Auto-restart policies
- Environment variables
- Cluster mode
- Log rotation
- Health monitoring
Package applications using Docker containers for consistent deployments.
- Docker fundamentals
- Dockerfile creation
- Image optimization
- Container orchestration
- Docker Compose
- Volume management
- Network configuration
- Registry management
Orchestrate containers at scale using Kubernetes and other tools.
- Kubernetes basics
- Pods and services
- Deployments
- ConfigMaps and secrets
- Ingress controllers
- Scaling strategies
- Rolling updates
- Health checks
Deploy applications to cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Cloud deployment strategies
- AWS deployment
- Azure deployment
- Google Cloud deployment
- Platform-as-a-Service
- Serverless deployment
- CDN configuration
- DNS management
Automate deployment with continuous integration and delivery pipelines.
- CI/CD concepts
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI/CD
- Jenkins setup
- Pipeline configuration
- Automated testing
- Deployment automation
- Pipeline security
Deploy and manage databases in production environments.
- Database hosting options
- Migration strategies
- Backup and recovery
- Connection pooling
- Database monitoring
- Replica configuration
- Performance tuning
- Security hardening
Implement comprehensive monitoring and logging for production systems.
- Application monitoring
- Performance metrics
- Error tracking
- Log aggregation
- Alerting systems
- Uptime monitoring
- Analytics integration
- Dashboard creation
Optimize performance and implement scaling strategies for high-traffic applications.
- Performance optimization
- Horizontal scaling
- Vertical scaling
- Load balancing
- Caching strategies
- CDN implementation
- Auto-scaling
- Performance testing
Secure production deployments and maintain systems effectively.
- Security best practices
- SSL/TLS configuration
- Vulnerability scanning
- Security updates
- Backup strategies
- Disaster recovery
- Maintenance windows
- Compliance requirements