DevOps Engineering

DevOps EngineerPlatform EngineerBuild & Release EngineerCloud Engineer

Start at the command line with no prior experience and finish able to containerise an application, build a CI/CD pipeline, deploy it to Kubernetes, describe the infrastructure as code and know within seconds when it breaks. This is the path most people mean when they say they want to 'get into DevOps'.

Curriculum

Tier 0 · Fundamentals

DevOps From Absolute Zero

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01What DevOps Actually Is12m · +25 XP 02Your First Terminal Session16m · +25 XP 03What a Server Actually Is15m · +25 XP 04Deploy Something By Hand, Once18m · +30 XP

Linux Foundations

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01The Shell and the Filesystem14m · +25 XP 02Permissions, Users and Processes16m · +25 XP 03Text Processing and Your First Script18m · +30 XP 04Diagnosing a Linux Box Under Load18m · +40 XP

Networking and Version Control

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01TCP/IP, DNS and HTTP in One Sitting18m · +30 XP 02Git That You Actually Understand20m · +30 XP 03SSH, Keys and Working on Remote Machines12m · +25 XP 04TLS, Certificates and Reading the Wire17m · +40 XP

Tier 1 · Core

Containers with Docker

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01Images, Layers and Containers16m · +30 XP 02Writing a Dockerfile That Is Small, Fast and Safe18m · +35 XP 03Running a Real Stack with Compose15m · +30 XP 04Container Security and What Runs as Root18m · +45 XP

CI/CD Pipelines

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01The Anatomy of a Pipeline14m · +30 XP 02Building a Pipeline with GitHub Actions20m · +35 XP 03Quality Gates That Are Worth the Wait14m · +30 XP 04Securing the Pipeline Itself17m · +45 XP

Cloud Platforms in Practice

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01Every Cloud Has the Same Nine Things16m · +30 XP 02Networking and Identity: The Two That Bite18m · +30 XP 03The Bill Is an Engineering Problem16m · +30 XP 04The Part That Cannot Be Rebuilt18m · +35 XP

Tier 2 · Advanced

Kubernetes

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01Pods, Deployments and Services20m · +35 XP 02Configuration, Secrets and Storage16m · +35 XP 03Debugging Workloads Under Pressure18m · +40 XP 04Kubernetes Networking, Ingress and Network Policy19m · +45 XP

Infrastructure as Code and Observability

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01Terraform: Infrastructure You Can Review18m · +35 XP 02Metrics, Logs, Traces and Alerts That Wake You For Good Reason16m · +35 XP 03Release Safety: Flags, Canaries and Rollback15m · +35 XP 04GitOps and Progressive Delivery in Practice18m · +45 XP