DevOps Foundations

Introduction

• The foundations of DevOps

1. DevOps Basics

• What is DevOps?
• DevOps core values: CAMS
• DevOps guiding principles: The Three Ways
• Your DevOps practice playbook
• Which DevOps tools should I use?

2. DevOps and People: A Culture Change

• Why do we need a DevOps culture?
• Communication and trust power DevOps
• Collaboration: Break silos in case of DevOps
• Continuous learning the DevOps way

3. DevOps and Process: The Building Blocks

• DevOps process building block: Agile
• DevOps process building block: Lean
• DevOps process building block: Visible ops change control

4. Infrastructure as Code

• What is infrastructure as code?
• DevOps applications of infrastructure as code
• Configuration management: From golden image to foil ball
• Automating infrastructure, containers, and platforms
• Your DevOps infrastructure as code toolchain

5. Continuous Delivery

• What is continuous delivery?
• Six practices for continuous integration
• Five practices for continuous delivery
• The role of QA in DevOps
• Continuous deployment: The final frontier
• Your DevOps CI toolchain

6. Site Reliability Engineering

• What is site reliability engineering?
• Building for reliability: Theory
• Building for reliability: Practice
• Operational feedback: Observability
• Operational feedback: Incident response and retrospectives
• Your DevOps SRE toolchain

7. Advanced Topics

• Platform engineering: The paved road
• DevSecOps: Making your systems more secure the DevOps way
• Cloud native and Kubernetes
• DevOps and chaos engineering
• MLOps: Leveraging DevOps to run ML systems
• AIOps: Using AI in your DevOps work

8. Your DevOps Career

• DevOps and your career
• DevOps learning resources
• Your personal DevOps journey