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Python for DevOps and Cloud

Use Python to automate cloud infrastructure, glue services together, and ship reliable production code.

Beginner1 hours10 lessons
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What You'll Learn

  • ✓Set up Python and a productive editor environment
  • ✓Work confidently with strings, collections, and control flow
  • ✓Read, write, and process files and CLI arguments
  • ✓Call REST APIs with the requests library and handle JSON
  • ✓Automate AWS, Azure, and GCP using their official Python SDKs
  • ✓Write infrastructure scripts with idempotency, retries, and error handling
  • ✓Add logging, structured errors, and unit tests to your scripts
  • ✓Package projects with virtual environments, pip, and pyproject.toml
  • ✓Use async/await to parallelise network I/O
  • ✓Pick the right tools for common DevOps tasks

Prerequisites

  • •Basic command-line familiarity
  • •Some prior exposure to any programming language helps but is not required

Course Curriculum

Module 1: Python Fundamentals for Ops

  1. 01Setting Up Python and Your First Scripts5 min
  2. 02Data Types and Control Flow6 min

Module 2: Working with Files and APIs

  1. 01Files, Paths, and CLI Arguments6 min
  2. 02Calling REST APIs with requests6 min

Module 3: Automating Cloud and Infrastructure

  1. 01boto3 and the Cloud Provider SDKs7 min
  2. 02Writing Robust Infrastructure Automation6 min

Module 4: Production-Ready Python

  1. 01Errors, Logging, and Testing6 min
  2. 02Virtual Environments and Packaging6 min

Module 5: Advanced Topics

  1. 01Async, Threads, and Parallelism6 min
  2. 02The Python DevOps Toolbelt5 min

Practice for the Real Exam

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

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