Course objectives
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Understand the core principles and practices of DevOps
- Design and implement effective CI/CD pipelines
- Automate infrastructure and application deployments
- Integrate security into the DevOps pipeline
- Optimize delivery pipelines for speed and reliability
- Monitor and improve DevOps processes
Course outlines
- 1. DevOps Foundations
- What is DevOps?
- The DevOps Culture and Mindset
- The DevOps Toolchain
- Key DevOps Principles and Practices
- 2. Continuous Integration (CI)
- Version Control Systems (Git, SVN)
- Build Automation Tools (Jenkins, Maven, Gradle)
- Code Quality and Security Testing
- Automated Testing (Unit, Integration, and Functional Testing)
- 3. Continuous Delivery (CD)
- Deployment Pipelines and Strategies
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Configuration Management Tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
- Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- 4. Continuous Testing
- Test Automation Frameworks (Selenium, JUnit, TestNG)
- Test-Driven Development (TDD)
- Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)
- Performance Testing and Load Testing
- 5. Continuous Monitoring
- Monitoring Tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack)
- Log Management and Analysis
- Alerting and Notification Systems
- Incident Response and Problem Management
- 6. DevOps Security
- Security Best Practices in DevOps
- Securing the CI/CD Pipeline
- Vulnerability Scanning and Penetration Testing
- Compliance and Regulatory Requirements
- 7. DevOps Metrics and Analytics
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for DevOps
- Measuring DevOps Success
- Data-Driven Decision Making
- 8. Advanced DevOps Topics
- Microservices Architecture
- Serverless Computing
- AI and Machine Learning in DevOps
- DevOps for Cloud-Native Applications