DevOps Engineering

The practices and toolchain of modern DevOps: version control, CI/CD pipelines, containers, infrastructure as code and monitoring.

DevOpsIntermediate

About this course

DevOps is a way of working as much as a set of tools. This course connects the pieces — source control, automated builds, deployments, infrastructure as code and observability — into one delivery pipeline that you build yourself.

What you will learn

Describe DevOps principles and the software delivery lifecycle
Use Git workflows suited to team collaboration
Build CI/CD pipelines that test, package and deploy applications
Provision infrastructure with code
Add monitoring and feedback to a delivery pipeline

Curriculum

01DevOps foundationsCulture, principles and flow.
- The delivery lifecycle
- Collaboration between development and operations
02Version controlWorking together with Git.
- Branching strategies
- Pull requests and reviews
03Continuous integrationAutomating builds and tests.
- Pipeline structure
- Build artefacts
- Automated testing stages
04Continuous deliveryReleasing with confidence.
- Deployment strategies
- Containerised deployments
- Environment promotion
05Infrastructure as codeTreating infrastructure like software.
- Terraform basics
- Configuration and secrets
06Monitoring and feedbackKnowing how systems behave.
- Metrics and logs
- Alerting
- Learning from incidents

Prerequisites

Working knowledge of Linux
Basic familiarity with a cloud platform
Some scripting experience is helpful

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