DevOps

Main Objective

This 6-week intensive course provides a practical introduction to DevOps, covering modern infrastructure, cloud computing, container orchestration, and deployment pipelines. Designed for aspiring DevOps engineers and technical professionals, it offers hands-on experience with real tools used in production environments.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

• Core DevOps concepts, systems architecture, and deployment strategies
• Cloud platforms, networking fundamentals, and automation principles

Skills

• Working with Linux systems, containers, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code
• Monitoring, logging, and security best practices

Competences

• Deploying and managing scalable, secure environments
• Collaborating through GitOps and automating workflows
• Building production-ready systems with cloud-native tools

Key Topics

• Terminal tools and scripting
• Linux, networking, and web stacks
• Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and Istio
• CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation
• Cloud platforms (AWS, Hetzner) and serverless architectures
• Monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Jaeger
• DevOps security with firewalls, proxies, and AWS KMS
• Architecture principles: cloud patterns, API-first design, CAP theorem

Course Structure

Week 1
Intro to DevOps, terminal tools, scripting, and Linux setup

Week 2
Workshop: Linux server setup, hardening, firewall, and web stack configuration

Week 3
Containers and cloud: Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms

Week 4
Workshop: Deploy a full-stack app using containers and load balancers

Week 5
Advanced DevOps: CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, observability, infrastructure as code

Week 6
Capstone project: Build and deploy a scalable, production-ready environment with monitoring and auto-scaling

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