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DevOps and SRE Fundamentals

From code commit to production: learn the practices, tools, and culture behind modern DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering.

Intermediate1.1 hours10 lessons
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What You'll Learn

  • ✓Understand the DevOps culture, CALMS framework, and how it differs from traditional IT
  • ✓Design and reason about CI/CD pipelines from commit to production deployment
  • ✓Apply Git branching strategies including trunk-based development and GitFlow
  • ✓Implement GitOps to manage infrastructure and deployments from a Git repository
  • ✓Use Docker to build, ship, and run containerised applications
  • ✓Integrate Kubernetes into a DevOps pipeline for deployment and rollback
  • ✓Write Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and understand configuration management
  • ✓Apply SRE principles: SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, and toil reduction
  • ✓Build observability into systems using the three pillars: metrics, logs, and traces
  • ✓Run effective incident response and blameless postmortems

Prerequisites

  • •Basic command-line familiarity (Linux terminal)
  • •Understanding of what a web application is
  • •Completing the Linux Basics course is recommended

Course Curriculum

Module 1: DevOps Foundations

  1. 01What is DevOps?6 min
  2. 02CI/CD Pipelines7 min

Module 2: Version Control and GitOps

  1. 01Git Branching Strategies6 min
  2. 02GitOps and Pipeline Automation6 min

Module 3: Containers and Orchestration

  1. 01Docker and Container Fundamentals6 min
  2. 02Kubernetes for DevOps Teams7 min

Module 4: Infrastructure as Code

  1. 01Infrastructure as Code with Terraform7 min
  2. 02Configuration Management and Secrets5 min

Module 5: SRE and Observability

  1. 01SRE Principles: SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets7 min
  2. 02Observability: Metrics, Logs, and Traces7 min

Practice for the Real Exam

After completing this course, test yourself with exam-style practice questions.

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