Mainframe Modernization: CI/CD Mastery

Mainframes are the heart of finance, healthcare, and government, among others. Modernization of legacy mainframe systems combining modern software development practices, such as CI/CD, poses unique challenges. This course, Mainframe Modernization: CI/CD Mastery, will be a lengthy course since it will take the IT professional through the adoption of CI/CD practices into a mainframe environment for modernizing their workflow, reducing their cycle of developments, and improving efficiency in deployment.

This course takes the students through all the critical steps of mainframe CI/CD deployment-all the way from foundational concepts and establishing version control through automating builds, testing, and deployments. It will be teaching the student how to set up tools like Git and Jenkins for codebases, establishing automated testing frameworks, and ensuring that all this ties together well with seamless and low-downtime deployments. It's very stressful during the course to cover these issues, for example, the maintenance of legacy code for COBOL and Assembler, securing CI/CD pipelines, and rolling back in case of any mishap.

There is a companion book for the course, which is "Mainframe Modernization: CI/CD Mastery". This serves as a companion guide and reference and goes deep into the matter of each lesson, which is full of additional examples and advanced configurations and reference information. Since this course engages lessons, demos, and quizzes, the book companion amplifies learning with an even richer layer of extra info that is equally as informative as the course. Intended to be used as a flexible, live hand book by students when taking CI/CD into their own organizations-the real solutions to real problems or best practices that aren't exactly part of core curriculum.

By the end of this course, attendees can boldly integrate CI/CD pipelines to the mainframe, enhanced teaming, and quicken up the development and deployment process within their organization. Designed for any mainframe developer, DevOps engineer or even IT manager wishing to modernize the workflow at the mainframes so that these systems remain agile, secure, and ready to meet the demands of the fast pace business landscape that exists today.

It points out who the course is for.
Target audience: Mainframe Systems Managers, IT Infrastructure Directors/ Leads, Cloud & DevOps Managers, Technical Support Engineers, Developers & Programmers.