Mastering DevOps Automation for High-Performance Teams
You're under pressure. Deadlines are tightening. Stakeholder expectations are rising. Your team is burning out from manual releases, fragile pipelines, and the constant firefighting that comes with fragmented DevOps practices. You know automation is the answer, but where do you start, and how do you build systems that scale reliably and sustainably? Most learning resources leave you with theory you can't apply, or outdated tools that don't reflect today's cloud-native, containerised, high-velocity environments. You need more than just commands and configurations. You need a proven system-a repeatable, enterprise-grade framework that turns DevOps automation from a bottleneck into a strategic advantage. Mastering DevOps Automation for High-Performance Teams is that system. This course gives you a clear, 30-day blueprint for transforming reactive, error-prone workflows into automated, auditable, and scalable pipelines that deliver software faster and with far fewer incidents. You’ll go from uncertainty to confidence, delivering measurable team performance improvements in less than a month. One senior DevOps lead at a UK fintech used this exact method to cut deployment rollback rates by 78% and reduce release cycle time from 7 days to just 2.5 hours-while improving audit compliance. This isn’t about watching passive content. It’s about doing, implementing, and building systems that last. You’ll create real CI/CD pipelines, secure infrastructure-as-code workflows, and automated governance controls used by high-growth engineering teams across Fortune 500s and fast-scaling startups. Here’s how this course is structured to help you get there.Course Format & Delivery Details Designed for Busy Professionals, Built for Real Results
The Mastering DevOps Automation for High-Performance Teams course is a self-paced, on-demand learning experience with immediate online access. You can start today, progress at your own speed, and revisit materials whenever needed-no fixed schedules, no time zone constraints, no arbitrary deadlines. Most learners complete the core modules in 20 to 30 hours and begin implementing automation improvements within the first week. Key outcomes such as pipeline optimisation, infrastructure-as-code standardisation, and monitoring integration are typically achieved before finishing Module 5. Lifetime Access, Zero Obsolescence Risk
You receive lifetime access to all course materials, including every future update at no additional cost. DevOps evolves rapidly, and so does this course. We continuously review and enhance content to reflect the latest enterprise practices, tool integrations, and compliance frameworks-so your investment remains future-proof. 24/7 Access, Any Device, Anywhere
The entire course is mobile-friendly and accessible on desktop, tablet, and smartphone. Whether you're reviewing architecture patterns on your commute or validating YAML syntax during a break, your learning journey travels with you. Global learners from 68 countries have used this flexibility to integrate deep skill development into demanding schedules. Expert-Led Support & Guidance
You’re not learning in isolation. Every enrolment includes direct access to certified DevOps architects during troubleshooting sprints, code reviews, and implementation planning. You’ll receive detailed feedback on your pipeline designs, toolchain configurations, and compliance overlays-all part of the core learning path. Certificate of Completion by The Art of Service
Upon finishing the course, you earn a verifiable Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service, an internationally recognised training provider with over 200,000 professionals trained in enterprise methodologies. Your certificate includes a unique ID, verification link, and badge for LinkedIn profiles, reinforcing your credibility in performance engineering, automation governance, and team leadership. No Hidden Fees, Transparent Pricing
The course fee is straightforward and all-inclusive. There are no upsells, subscription traps, or hidden charges. What you see is what you get-full access, full support, full materials, full certificate. Accepted Payment Methods
We accept Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal. Payments are processed securely with end-to-end encryption. No sensitive data is stored on our systems. 100% Risk-Free Learning Guarantee
We offer a complete satisfaction guarantee. If you follow the implementation process and don’t see clear improvements in automation coverage, deployment stability, or team throughput within 60 days, request a full refund-no questions asked. This is not just training. It’s a performance upgrade with risk reversal built in. Onboarding: Smooth, Confirmed, and Secure
After enrollment, you’ll receive a confirmation email acknowledging your purchase. Once access is configured, you’ll receive a separate message with your login details and course entry instructions. This ensures accuracy and security for every learner. “Will This Work for Me?”-We’ve Got You Covered
Maybe you’re a lead engineer in a regulated environment, or a platform architect at a scaling SaaS company. You might use AWS, Azure, or GCP. Your stack might include Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, or ArgoCD. Doesn’t matter. This course works even if you’re operating under strict audit requirements, managing legacy integrations, or leading global teams with conflicting delivery rhythms. As one manufacturing tech lead shared: “We had 14 separate deployment scripts and zero pipeline visibility. After applying Module 3’s standardisation framework, we unified all teams onto a single, automated flow within three weeks. Now our release audits take 90% less time.” This works even if you don’t have full control over your infrastructure-proven with hybrid cloud teams using shared responsibility models.
Extensive and Detailed Course Curriculum
Module 1: Foundations of DevOps Automation - Understanding the DevOps automation lifecycle
- Mapping team performance metrics to automation goals
- Identifying high-impact automation opportunities
- Common failure patterns in manual deployment workflows
- Measuring current-state pipeline health
- Setting realistic automation KPIs
- The role of feedback loops in continuous improvement
- Defining success for your team’s automation initiative
- Building cross-functional alignment for adoption
- Creating a DevOps automation charter
Module 2: Automation Strategy & Leadership Frameworks - Developing a phased automation roadmap
- Aligning automation with business continuity objectives
- Stakeholder communication strategies for technical leads
- Change management models for DevOps transformation
- Resisting automation anti-patterns and scope creep
- Risk assessment for pipeline changes
- Creating team-wide ownership of automation outcomes
- Designing for observability from day one
- Establishing escalation protocols for automated failures
- Documentation standards for maintainable automation
Module 3: CI/CD Pipeline Architecture & Design - Core principles of resilient pipeline design
- Designing linear vs parallel job workflows
- Staging environment best practices
- Branching strategies for stable automation
- Trigger types and their security implications
- Pipeline security hardening checklist
- Role-based access controls for pipeline operations
- Immutable build artefact management
- Caching strategies to accelerate pipeline execution
- Debugging failed pipeline runs efficiently
- Standardising pipeline syntax across multiple teams
- Template libraries for reusable pipeline components
- Environment promotion workflows with approvals
- Rollback automation using semantic versioning
- Health checks and pre-deployment validations
Module 4: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Fundamentals - Idempotency and declarative design principles
- Comparing Terraform, Pulumi, and Crossplane
- Writing modular, reusable configuration modules
- State file management and locking strategies
- Secrets handling in IaC workflows
- Validating configurations before deployment
- Drift detection and remediation protocols
- Version control integration for infrastructure changes
- Peer review processes for IaC pull requests
- Policy enforcement with Sentinel and OPA
- Dependency management in multi-project architectures
- Managing provider upgrades and breaking changes
- Testing IaC with Terratest and Kitchen-Terraform
- Adopting IaC in legacy environment migrations
- Handling state migration between backends
Module 5: Advanced IaC Patterns & Security - Multi-cloud IaC orchestration strategies
- Dynamic configuration generation using templates
- Conditional resource creation patterns
- Naming conventions and tagging standards
- Cost estimation before infrastructure provisioning
- IaC security scanning with Checkov and tfsec
- Compliance benchmarking against CIS and NIST
- Secure remote state storage options
- Automated compliance reporting from IaC
- Creating private module registries
- Enforcing organisation-wide IaC standards
- Integrating IaC into pre-commit hooks
- Managing cross-stack dependencies
- Zero-downtime deployment patterns with IaC
- Migrating from imperative scripts to declarative IaC
Module 6: Containerisation & Orchestration Automation - Designing repeatable Docker image build processes
- Minimising container attack surface area
- Automating image tagging and versioning
- Scanning containers for vulnerabilities
- Building immutable base images
- Publishing images to private registries
- Kubernetes GitOps workflow fundamentals
- FluxCD and ArgoCD deployment automation
- Health probing and liveness checks automation
- Scaling policies based on metrics
- Automated namespace provisioning
- Standardising ingress and service configurations
- Secrets injection using external systems
- Cluster lifecycle automation with ClusterAPI
- Kustomize vs Helm: trade-offs and use cases
- Automated rollback for failed Kubernetes deployments
Module 7: Configuration & Configuration Management - Designing idempotent configuration scripts
- Managing configuration drift across fleets
- Automating OS-level hardening
- Using Ansible for agentless automation
- Writing reusable Ansible roles and playbooks
- Validating configuration syntax before deployment
- Creating inventory automation with dynamic sources
- Secrets management with Ansible Vault
- Executing parallel configuration updates
- Config schema enforcement using JSON Schema
- Automated drift detection and correction
- Bootstrapping new nodes with configuration agents
- Policy-driven configuration enforcement
- Version-controlled configuration histories
- Reporting compliance status across nodes
Module 8: Monitoring, Logging & Alerting Automation - Automated metric collection from services
- Setting dynamic thresholds based on baselines
- Creating reusable alert rule templates
- Routing alerts to correct responders
- Automated incident classification and tagging
- Correlating logs across distributed systems
- Log retention and archival automation
- Automated log parsing with structured formats
- Creating custom dashboards per service owner
- Proactive anomaly detection using ML models
- Automated silence windows during deployments
- Escalation workflows for unresolved alerts
- Postmortem automation and RCA generation
- Service level objective (SLO) tracking automation
- Automated compliance logging for audits
Module 9: Security & Compliance Automation - Automated vulnerability scanning in CI pipelines
- Secrets detection in code repositories
- Automated certificate rotation workflows
- Just-in-time access provisioning
- Automated audit trail generation
- Penetration test automation frameworks
- Automated response to security findings
- Compliance benchmarking against ISO 27001
- Automated policy enforcement in IaC
- Security posture dashboards for leadership
- Automated user provisioning and deactivation
- Risk scoring based on configuration drift
- Automated patch management workflows
- Security control ownership assignment
- Automated reporting for regulatory reviews
Module 10: Testing & Quality Gate Automation - Automated unit, integration, and end-to-end testing
- Parallel test execution for faster feedback
- Test data generation automation
- Automated mocking of external dependencies
- Performance test automation in CI
- Code quality gate enforcement with SonarQube
- Automated accessibility testing in pipelines
- Static application security testing (SAST)
- Dynamic application security testing (DAST)
- Automated licence compliance checking
- Code coverage thresholds and reporting
- Test flakiness detection and quarantine
- Automated screenshot comparison for UI tests
- Canary testing with automated rollback
- Feature flag automation and audit trails
Module 11: Disaster Recovery & Resilience Automation - Automated backup scheduling and retention
- Backup validation using restore simulations
- Failover automation for critical services
- Automated geo-replication workflows
- Chaos engineering automation with controlled experiments
- Automated recovery runbooks
- DR drill scheduling and outcome reporting
- Multi-region infrastructure duplication
- Automated DNS failover configurations
- Stateful service replication strategies
- Automated consistency checks across replicas
- DR compliance reporting for auditors
- Automated RTO and RPO tracking
- Fault injection in staging environments
- Automated post-failure analysis
Module 12: Cloud Cost & Efficiency Automation - Automated resource tagging for cost allocation
- Idle resource detection and notification
- Auto-scaling policies based on demand
- Spot instance automation with fallback
- Automated rightsizing recommendations
- Cost forecasting models
- Budget alerting and enforcement
- Automated shutdown of non-production environments
- Reserved instance optimisation automation
- Cloud provider-specific cost tools integration
- Tag compliance enforcement pipelines
- Chargeback and showback automation
- Automated cost anomaly detection
- FinOps workflow automation
- Carbon footprint tracking automation
Module 13: Collaboration & Knowledge Automation - Automated onboarding for new engineers
- Self-service environment provisioning
- Automated documentation generation from code
- Runbook automation with executable playbooks
- Meeting note summarisation and action tracking
- Automated team performance dashboards
- Knowledge graph integration for incident response
- Automated skill gap identification
- Training path recommendations based on role
- Automated feedback collection from retrospectives
- Workflow analytics for team bottlenecks
- Automated peer review assignment
- Ownership mapping for system components
- Alert fatigue reduction via smart routing
- Communication protocol standardisation
Module 14: Team Performance & Flow Optimisation - Measuring deployment frequency and lead time
- Change failure rate automation and reporting
- Mean time to recovery (MTTR) tracking
- Value stream mapping for automation
- Automated cycle time breakdowns
- Workflow bottleneck identification
- Throughput prediction models
- Automated sprint health reports
- Lead time reduction techniques
- Feedback loop shortening strategies
- Team load balancing automation
- Resource allocation suggestions
- Automated capacity planning
- Dependency visualisation across teams
- Progress tracking with gamified milestones
Module 15: Implementation Strategy & Change Adoption - Creating a minimum viable automation (MVA)
- Prioritising automation use cases by impact
- Building internal champions and automation advocates
- Creating reusable templates for team adoption
- Rollout sequencing across business units
- Training materials generation for new teams
- Feedback integration from early adopters
- Scaling automation practices enterprise-wide
- Migrating from proof-of-concept to production
- Measuring adoption rates and engagement
- Addressing resistance with data-driven arguments
- Establishing automation centres of excellence
- Creating standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- Regular review cycles for automation health
- Continuous improvement backlog management
Module 16: Certification, Career Growth & Next Steps - Final project: Building an end-to-end automated workflow
- Peer review of automation design patterns
- Expert feedback on implementation approach
- Self-assessment against DevOps mastery framework
- Preparing your Certificate of Completion
- LinkedIn profile optimisation for DevOps roles
- Portfolio building with real automation projects
- Speaking the language of DevOps leadership
- Advancing from automation user to automation architect
- Case study creation for job interviews
- Continuing education pathways
- Maintaining skills with update alerts
- Joining the global alumni network
- Lifetime access to future curriculum updates
- Earning the Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
Module 1: Foundations of DevOps Automation - Understanding the DevOps automation lifecycle
- Mapping team performance metrics to automation goals
- Identifying high-impact automation opportunities
- Common failure patterns in manual deployment workflows
- Measuring current-state pipeline health
- Setting realistic automation KPIs
- The role of feedback loops in continuous improvement
- Defining success for your team’s automation initiative
- Building cross-functional alignment for adoption
- Creating a DevOps automation charter
Module 2: Automation Strategy & Leadership Frameworks - Developing a phased automation roadmap
- Aligning automation with business continuity objectives
- Stakeholder communication strategies for technical leads
- Change management models for DevOps transformation
- Resisting automation anti-patterns and scope creep
- Risk assessment for pipeline changes
- Creating team-wide ownership of automation outcomes
- Designing for observability from day one
- Establishing escalation protocols for automated failures
- Documentation standards for maintainable automation
Module 3: CI/CD Pipeline Architecture & Design - Core principles of resilient pipeline design
- Designing linear vs parallel job workflows
- Staging environment best practices
- Branching strategies for stable automation
- Trigger types and their security implications
- Pipeline security hardening checklist
- Role-based access controls for pipeline operations
- Immutable build artefact management
- Caching strategies to accelerate pipeline execution
- Debugging failed pipeline runs efficiently
- Standardising pipeline syntax across multiple teams
- Template libraries for reusable pipeline components
- Environment promotion workflows with approvals
- Rollback automation using semantic versioning
- Health checks and pre-deployment validations
Module 4: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Fundamentals - Idempotency and declarative design principles
- Comparing Terraform, Pulumi, and Crossplane
- Writing modular, reusable configuration modules
- State file management and locking strategies
- Secrets handling in IaC workflows
- Validating configurations before deployment
- Drift detection and remediation protocols
- Version control integration for infrastructure changes
- Peer review processes for IaC pull requests
- Policy enforcement with Sentinel and OPA
- Dependency management in multi-project architectures
- Managing provider upgrades and breaking changes
- Testing IaC with Terratest and Kitchen-Terraform
- Adopting IaC in legacy environment migrations
- Handling state migration between backends
Module 5: Advanced IaC Patterns & Security - Multi-cloud IaC orchestration strategies
- Dynamic configuration generation using templates
- Conditional resource creation patterns
- Naming conventions and tagging standards
- Cost estimation before infrastructure provisioning
- IaC security scanning with Checkov and tfsec
- Compliance benchmarking against CIS and NIST
- Secure remote state storage options
- Automated compliance reporting from IaC
- Creating private module registries
- Enforcing organisation-wide IaC standards
- Integrating IaC into pre-commit hooks
- Managing cross-stack dependencies
- Zero-downtime deployment patterns with IaC
- Migrating from imperative scripts to declarative IaC
Module 6: Containerisation & Orchestration Automation - Designing repeatable Docker image build processes
- Minimising container attack surface area
- Automating image tagging and versioning
- Scanning containers for vulnerabilities
- Building immutable base images
- Publishing images to private registries
- Kubernetes GitOps workflow fundamentals
- FluxCD and ArgoCD deployment automation
- Health probing and liveness checks automation
- Scaling policies based on metrics
- Automated namespace provisioning
- Standardising ingress and service configurations
- Secrets injection using external systems
- Cluster lifecycle automation with ClusterAPI
- Kustomize vs Helm: trade-offs and use cases
- Automated rollback for failed Kubernetes deployments
Module 7: Configuration & Configuration Management - Designing idempotent configuration scripts
- Managing configuration drift across fleets
- Automating OS-level hardening
- Using Ansible for agentless automation
- Writing reusable Ansible roles and playbooks
- Validating configuration syntax before deployment
- Creating inventory automation with dynamic sources
- Secrets management with Ansible Vault
- Executing parallel configuration updates
- Config schema enforcement using JSON Schema
- Automated drift detection and correction
- Bootstrapping new nodes with configuration agents
- Policy-driven configuration enforcement
- Version-controlled configuration histories
- Reporting compliance status across nodes
Module 8: Monitoring, Logging & Alerting Automation - Automated metric collection from services
- Setting dynamic thresholds based on baselines
- Creating reusable alert rule templates
- Routing alerts to correct responders
- Automated incident classification and tagging
- Correlating logs across distributed systems
- Log retention and archival automation
- Automated log parsing with structured formats
- Creating custom dashboards per service owner
- Proactive anomaly detection using ML models
- Automated silence windows during deployments
- Escalation workflows for unresolved alerts
- Postmortem automation and RCA generation
- Service level objective (SLO) tracking automation
- Automated compliance logging for audits
Module 9: Security & Compliance Automation - Automated vulnerability scanning in CI pipelines
- Secrets detection in code repositories
- Automated certificate rotation workflows
- Just-in-time access provisioning
- Automated audit trail generation
- Penetration test automation frameworks
- Automated response to security findings
- Compliance benchmarking against ISO 27001
- Automated policy enforcement in IaC
- Security posture dashboards for leadership
- Automated user provisioning and deactivation
- Risk scoring based on configuration drift
- Automated patch management workflows
- Security control ownership assignment
- Automated reporting for regulatory reviews
Module 10: Testing & Quality Gate Automation - Automated unit, integration, and end-to-end testing
- Parallel test execution for faster feedback
- Test data generation automation
- Automated mocking of external dependencies
- Performance test automation in CI
- Code quality gate enforcement with SonarQube
- Automated accessibility testing in pipelines
- Static application security testing (SAST)
- Dynamic application security testing (DAST)
- Automated licence compliance checking
- Code coverage thresholds and reporting
- Test flakiness detection and quarantine
- Automated screenshot comparison for UI tests
- Canary testing with automated rollback
- Feature flag automation and audit trails
Module 11: Disaster Recovery & Resilience Automation - Automated backup scheduling and retention
- Backup validation using restore simulations
- Failover automation for critical services
- Automated geo-replication workflows
- Chaos engineering automation with controlled experiments
- Automated recovery runbooks
- DR drill scheduling and outcome reporting
- Multi-region infrastructure duplication
- Automated DNS failover configurations
- Stateful service replication strategies
- Automated consistency checks across replicas
- DR compliance reporting for auditors
- Automated RTO and RPO tracking
- Fault injection in staging environments
- Automated post-failure analysis
Module 12: Cloud Cost & Efficiency Automation - Automated resource tagging for cost allocation
- Idle resource detection and notification
- Auto-scaling policies based on demand
- Spot instance automation with fallback
- Automated rightsizing recommendations
- Cost forecasting models
- Budget alerting and enforcement
- Automated shutdown of non-production environments
- Reserved instance optimisation automation
- Cloud provider-specific cost tools integration
- Tag compliance enforcement pipelines
- Chargeback and showback automation
- Automated cost anomaly detection
- FinOps workflow automation
- Carbon footprint tracking automation
Module 13: Collaboration & Knowledge Automation - Automated onboarding for new engineers
- Self-service environment provisioning
- Automated documentation generation from code
- Runbook automation with executable playbooks
- Meeting note summarisation and action tracking
- Automated team performance dashboards
- Knowledge graph integration for incident response
- Automated skill gap identification
- Training path recommendations based on role
- Automated feedback collection from retrospectives
- Workflow analytics for team bottlenecks
- Automated peer review assignment
- Ownership mapping for system components
- Alert fatigue reduction via smart routing
- Communication protocol standardisation
Module 14: Team Performance & Flow Optimisation - Measuring deployment frequency and lead time
- Change failure rate automation and reporting
- Mean time to recovery (MTTR) tracking
- Value stream mapping for automation
- Automated cycle time breakdowns
- Workflow bottleneck identification
- Throughput prediction models
- Automated sprint health reports
- Lead time reduction techniques
- Feedback loop shortening strategies
- Team load balancing automation
- Resource allocation suggestions
- Automated capacity planning
- Dependency visualisation across teams
- Progress tracking with gamified milestones
Module 15: Implementation Strategy & Change Adoption - Creating a minimum viable automation (MVA)
- Prioritising automation use cases by impact
- Building internal champions and automation advocates
- Creating reusable templates for team adoption
- Rollout sequencing across business units
- Training materials generation for new teams
- Feedback integration from early adopters
- Scaling automation practices enterprise-wide
- Migrating from proof-of-concept to production
- Measuring adoption rates and engagement
- Addressing resistance with data-driven arguments
- Establishing automation centres of excellence
- Creating standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- Regular review cycles for automation health
- Continuous improvement backlog management
Module 16: Certification, Career Growth & Next Steps - Final project: Building an end-to-end automated workflow
- Peer review of automation design patterns
- Expert feedback on implementation approach
- Self-assessment against DevOps mastery framework
- Preparing your Certificate of Completion
- LinkedIn profile optimisation for DevOps roles
- Portfolio building with real automation projects
- Speaking the language of DevOps leadership
- Advancing from automation user to automation architect
- Case study creation for job interviews
- Continuing education pathways
- Maintaining skills with update alerts
- Joining the global alumni network
- Lifetime access to future curriculum updates
- Earning the Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Developing a phased automation roadmap
- Aligning automation with business continuity objectives
- Stakeholder communication strategies for technical leads
- Change management models for DevOps transformation
- Resisting automation anti-patterns and scope creep
- Risk assessment for pipeline changes
- Creating team-wide ownership of automation outcomes
- Designing for observability from day one
- Establishing escalation protocols for automated failures
- Documentation standards for maintainable automation
Module 3: CI/CD Pipeline Architecture & Design - Core principles of resilient pipeline design
- Designing linear vs parallel job workflows
- Staging environment best practices
- Branching strategies for stable automation
- Trigger types and their security implications
- Pipeline security hardening checklist
- Role-based access controls for pipeline operations
- Immutable build artefact management
- Caching strategies to accelerate pipeline execution
- Debugging failed pipeline runs efficiently
- Standardising pipeline syntax across multiple teams
- Template libraries for reusable pipeline components
- Environment promotion workflows with approvals
- Rollback automation using semantic versioning
- Health checks and pre-deployment validations
Module 4: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Fundamentals - Idempotency and declarative design principles
- Comparing Terraform, Pulumi, and Crossplane
- Writing modular, reusable configuration modules
- State file management and locking strategies
- Secrets handling in IaC workflows
- Validating configurations before deployment
- Drift detection and remediation protocols
- Version control integration for infrastructure changes
- Peer review processes for IaC pull requests
- Policy enforcement with Sentinel and OPA
- Dependency management in multi-project architectures
- Managing provider upgrades and breaking changes
- Testing IaC with Terratest and Kitchen-Terraform
- Adopting IaC in legacy environment migrations
- Handling state migration between backends
Module 5: Advanced IaC Patterns & Security - Multi-cloud IaC orchestration strategies
- Dynamic configuration generation using templates
- Conditional resource creation patterns
- Naming conventions and tagging standards
- Cost estimation before infrastructure provisioning
- IaC security scanning with Checkov and tfsec
- Compliance benchmarking against CIS and NIST
- Secure remote state storage options
- Automated compliance reporting from IaC
- Creating private module registries
- Enforcing organisation-wide IaC standards
- Integrating IaC into pre-commit hooks
- Managing cross-stack dependencies
- Zero-downtime deployment patterns with IaC
- Migrating from imperative scripts to declarative IaC
Module 6: Containerisation & Orchestration Automation - Designing repeatable Docker image build processes
- Minimising container attack surface area
- Automating image tagging and versioning
- Scanning containers for vulnerabilities
- Building immutable base images
- Publishing images to private registries
- Kubernetes GitOps workflow fundamentals
- FluxCD and ArgoCD deployment automation
- Health probing and liveness checks automation
- Scaling policies based on metrics
- Automated namespace provisioning
- Standardising ingress and service configurations
- Secrets injection using external systems
- Cluster lifecycle automation with ClusterAPI
- Kustomize vs Helm: trade-offs and use cases
- Automated rollback for failed Kubernetes deployments
Module 7: Configuration & Configuration Management - Designing idempotent configuration scripts
- Managing configuration drift across fleets
- Automating OS-level hardening
- Using Ansible for agentless automation
- Writing reusable Ansible roles and playbooks
- Validating configuration syntax before deployment
- Creating inventory automation with dynamic sources
- Secrets management with Ansible Vault
- Executing parallel configuration updates
- Config schema enforcement using JSON Schema
- Automated drift detection and correction
- Bootstrapping new nodes with configuration agents
- Policy-driven configuration enforcement
- Version-controlled configuration histories
- Reporting compliance status across nodes
Module 8: Monitoring, Logging & Alerting Automation - Automated metric collection from services
- Setting dynamic thresholds based on baselines
- Creating reusable alert rule templates
- Routing alerts to correct responders
- Automated incident classification and tagging
- Correlating logs across distributed systems
- Log retention and archival automation
- Automated log parsing with structured formats
- Creating custom dashboards per service owner
- Proactive anomaly detection using ML models
- Automated silence windows during deployments
- Escalation workflows for unresolved alerts
- Postmortem automation and RCA generation
- Service level objective (SLO) tracking automation
- Automated compliance logging for audits
Module 9: Security & Compliance Automation - Automated vulnerability scanning in CI pipelines
- Secrets detection in code repositories
- Automated certificate rotation workflows
- Just-in-time access provisioning
- Automated audit trail generation
- Penetration test automation frameworks
- Automated response to security findings
- Compliance benchmarking against ISO 27001
- Automated policy enforcement in IaC
- Security posture dashboards for leadership
- Automated user provisioning and deactivation
- Risk scoring based on configuration drift
- Automated patch management workflows
- Security control ownership assignment
- Automated reporting for regulatory reviews
Module 10: Testing & Quality Gate Automation - Automated unit, integration, and end-to-end testing
- Parallel test execution for faster feedback
- Test data generation automation
- Automated mocking of external dependencies
- Performance test automation in CI
- Code quality gate enforcement with SonarQube
- Automated accessibility testing in pipelines
- Static application security testing (SAST)
- Dynamic application security testing (DAST)
- Automated licence compliance checking
- Code coverage thresholds and reporting
- Test flakiness detection and quarantine
- Automated screenshot comparison for UI tests
- Canary testing with automated rollback
- Feature flag automation and audit trails
Module 11: Disaster Recovery & Resilience Automation - Automated backup scheduling and retention
- Backup validation using restore simulations
- Failover automation for critical services
- Automated geo-replication workflows
- Chaos engineering automation with controlled experiments
- Automated recovery runbooks
- DR drill scheduling and outcome reporting
- Multi-region infrastructure duplication
- Automated DNS failover configurations
- Stateful service replication strategies
- Automated consistency checks across replicas
- DR compliance reporting for auditors
- Automated RTO and RPO tracking
- Fault injection in staging environments
- Automated post-failure analysis
Module 12: Cloud Cost & Efficiency Automation - Automated resource tagging for cost allocation
- Idle resource detection and notification
- Auto-scaling policies based on demand
- Spot instance automation with fallback
- Automated rightsizing recommendations
- Cost forecasting models
- Budget alerting and enforcement
- Automated shutdown of non-production environments
- Reserved instance optimisation automation
- Cloud provider-specific cost tools integration
- Tag compliance enforcement pipelines
- Chargeback and showback automation
- Automated cost anomaly detection
- FinOps workflow automation
- Carbon footprint tracking automation
Module 13: Collaboration & Knowledge Automation - Automated onboarding for new engineers
- Self-service environment provisioning
- Automated documentation generation from code
- Runbook automation with executable playbooks
- Meeting note summarisation and action tracking
- Automated team performance dashboards
- Knowledge graph integration for incident response
- Automated skill gap identification
- Training path recommendations based on role
- Automated feedback collection from retrospectives
- Workflow analytics for team bottlenecks
- Automated peer review assignment
- Ownership mapping for system components
- Alert fatigue reduction via smart routing
- Communication protocol standardisation
Module 14: Team Performance & Flow Optimisation - Measuring deployment frequency and lead time
- Change failure rate automation and reporting
- Mean time to recovery (MTTR) tracking
- Value stream mapping for automation
- Automated cycle time breakdowns
- Workflow bottleneck identification
- Throughput prediction models
- Automated sprint health reports
- Lead time reduction techniques
- Feedback loop shortening strategies
- Team load balancing automation
- Resource allocation suggestions
- Automated capacity planning
- Dependency visualisation across teams
- Progress tracking with gamified milestones
Module 15: Implementation Strategy & Change Adoption - Creating a minimum viable automation (MVA)
- Prioritising automation use cases by impact
- Building internal champions and automation advocates
- Creating reusable templates for team adoption
- Rollout sequencing across business units
- Training materials generation for new teams
- Feedback integration from early adopters
- Scaling automation practices enterprise-wide
- Migrating from proof-of-concept to production
- Measuring adoption rates and engagement
- Addressing resistance with data-driven arguments
- Establishing automation centres of excellence
- Creating standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- Regular review cycles for automation health
- Continuous improvement backlog management
Module 16: Certification, Career Growth & Next Steps - Final project: Building an end-to-end automated workflow
- Peer review of automation design patterns
- Expert feedback on implementation approach
- Self-assessment against DevOps mastery framework
- Preparing your Certificate of Completion
- LinkedIn profile optimisation for DevOps roles
- Portfolio building with real automation projects
- Speaking the language of DevOps leadership
- Advancing from automation user to automation architect
- Case study creation for job interviews
- Continuing education pathways
- Maintaining skills with update alerts
- Joining the global alumni network
- Lifetime access to future curriculum updates
- Earning the Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Idempotency and declarative design principles
- Comparing Terraform, Pulumi, and Crossplane
- Writing modular, reusable configuration modules
- State file management and locking strategies
- Secrets handling in IaC workflows
- Validating configurations before deployment
- Drift detection and remediation protocols
- Version control integration for infrastructure changes
- Peer review processes for IaC pull requests
- Policy enforcement with Sentinel and OPA
- Dependency management in multi-project architectures
- Managing provider upgrades and breaking changes
- Testing IaC with Terratest and Kitchen-Terraform
- Adopting IaC in legacy environment migrations
- Handling state migration between backends
Module 5: Advanced IaC Patterns & Security - Multi-cloud IaC orchestration strategies
- Dynamic configuration generation using templates
- Conditional resource creation patterns
- Naming conventions and tagging standards
- Cost estimation before infrastructure provisioning
- IaC security scanning with Checkov and tfsec
- Compliance benchmarking against CIS and NIST
- Secure remote state storage options
- Automated compliance reporting from IaC
- Creating private module registries
- Enforcing organisation-wide IaC standards
- Integrating IaC into pre-commit hooks
- Managing cross-stack dependencies
- Zero-downtime deployment patterns with IaC
- Migrating from imperative scripts to declarative IaC
Module 6: Containerisation & Orchestration Automation - Designing repeatable Docker image build processes
- Minimising container attack surface area
- Automating image tagging and versioning
- Scanning containers for vulnerabilities
- Building immutable base images
- Publishing images to private registries
- Kubernetes GitOps workflow fundamentals
- FluxCD and ArgoCD deployment automation
- Health probing and liveness checks automation
- Scaling policies based on metrics
- Automated namespace provisioning
- Standardising ingress and service configurations
- Secrets injection using external systems
- Cluster lifecycle automation with ClusterAPI
- Kustomize vs Helm: trade-offs and use cases
- Automated rollback for failed Kubernetes deployments
Module 7: Configuration & Configuration Management - Designing idempotent configuration scripts
- Managing configuration drift across fleets
- Automating OS-level hardening
- Using Ansible for agentless automation
- Writing reusable Ansible roles and playbooks
- Validating configuration syntax before deployment
- Creating inventory automation with dynamic sources
- Secrets management with Ansible Vault
- Executing parallel configuration updates
- Config schema enforcement using JSON Schema
- Automated drift detection and correction
- Bootstrapping new nodes with configuration agents
- Policy-driven configuration enforcement
- Version-controlled configuration histories
- Reporting compliance status across nodes
Module 8: Monitoring, Logging & Alerting Automation - Automated metric collection from services
- Setting dynamic thresholds based on baselines
- Creating reusable alert rule templates
- Routing alerts to correct responders
- Automated incident classification and tagging
- Correlating logs across distributed systems
- Log retention and archival automation
- Automated log parsing with structured formats
- Creating custom dashboards per service owner
- Proactive anomaly detection using ML models
- Automated silence windows during deployments
- Escalation workflows for unresolved alerts
- Postmortem automation and RCA generation
- Service level objective (SLO) tracking automation
- Automated compliance logging for audits
Module 9: Security & Compliance Automation - Automated vulnerability scanning in CI pipelines
- Secrets detection in code repositories
- Automated certificate rotation workflows
- Just-in-time access provisioning
- Automated audit trail generation
- Penetration test automation frameworks
- Automated response to security findings
- Compliance benchmarking against ISO 27001
- Automated policy enforcement in IaC
- Security posture dashboards for leadership
- Automated user provisioning and deactivation
- Risk scoring based on configuration drift
- Automated patch management workflows
- Security control ownership assignment
- Automated reporting for regulatory reviews
Module 10: Testing & Quality Gate Automation - Automated unit, integration, and end-to-end testing
- Parallel test execution for faster feedback
- Test data generation automation
- Automated mocking of external dependencies
- Performance test automation in CI
- Code quality gate enforcement with SonarQube
- Automated accessibility testing in pipelines
- Static application security testing (SAST)
- Dynamic application security testing (DAST)
- Automated licence compliance checking
- Code coverage thresholds and reporting
- Test flakiness detection and quarantine
- Automated screenshot comparison for UI tests
- Canary testing with automated rollback
- Feature flag automation and audit trails
Module 11: Disaster Recovery & Resilience Automation - Automated backup scheduling and retention
- Backup validation using restore simulations
- Failover automation for critical services
- Automated geo-replication workflows
- Chaos engineering automation with controlled experiments
- Automated recovery runbooks
- DR drill scheduling and outcome reporting
- Multi-region infrastructure duplication
- Automated DNS failover configurations
- Stateful service replication strategies
- Automated consistency checks across replicas
- DR compliance reporting for auditors
- Automated RTO and RPO tracking
- Fault injection in staging environments
- Automated post-failure analysis
Module 12: Cloud Cost & Efficiency Automation - Automated resource tagging for cost allocation
- Idle resource detection and notification
- Auto-scaling policies based on demand
- Spot instance automation with fallback
- Automated rightsizing recommendations
- Cost forecasting models
- Budget alerting and enforcement
- Automated shutdown of non-production environments
- Reserved instance optimisation automation
- Cloud provider-specific cost tools integration
- Tag compliance enforcement pipelines
- Chargeback and showback automation
- Automated cost anomaly detection
- FinOps workflow automation
- Carbon footprint tracking automation
Module 13: Collaboration & Knowledge Automation - Automated onboarding for new engineers
- Self-service environment provisioning
- Automated documentation generation from code
- Runbook automation with executable playbooks
- Meeting note summarisation and action tracking
- Automated team performance dashboards
- Knowledge graph integration for incident response
- Automated skill gap identification
- Training path recommendations based on role
- Automated feedback collection from retrospectives
- Workflow analytics for team bottlenecks
- Automated peer review assignment
- Ownership mapping for system components
- Alert fatigue reduction via smart routing
- Communication protocol standardisation
Module 14: Team Performance & Flow Optimisation - Measuring deployment frequency and lead time
- Change failure rate automation and reporting
- Mean time to recovery (MTTR) tracking
- Value stream mapping for automation
- Automated cycle time breakdowns
- Workflow bottleneck identification
- Throughput prediction models
- Automated sprint health reports
- Lead time reduction techniques
- Feedback loop shortening strategies
- Team load balancing automation
- Resource allocation suggestions
- Automated capacity planning
- Dependency visualisation across teams
- Progress tracking with gamified milestones
Module 15: Implementation Strategy & Change Adoption - Creating a minimum viable automation (MVA)
- Prioritising automation use cases by impact
- Building internal champions and automation advocates
- Creating reusable templates for team adoption
- Rollout sequencing across business units
- Training materials generation for new teams
- Feedback integration from early adopters
- Scaling automation practices enterprise-wide
- Migrating from proof-of-concept to production
- Measuring adoption rates and engagement
- Addressing resistance with data-driven arguments
- Establishing automation centres of excellence
- Creating standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- Regular review cycles for automation health
- Continuous improvement backlog management
Module 16: Certification, Career Growth & Next Steps - Final project: Building an end-to-end automated workflow
- Peer review of automation design patterns
- Expert feedback on implementation approach
- Self-assessment against DevOps mastery framework
- Preparing your Certificate of Completion
- LinkedIn profile optimisation for DevOps roles
- Portfolio building with real automation projects
- Speaking the language of DevOps leadership
- Advancing from automation user to automation architect
- Case study creation for job interviews
- Continuing education pathways
- Maintaining skills with update alerts
- Joining the global alumni network
- Lifetime access to future curriculum updates
- Earning the Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Designing repeatable Docker image build processes
- Minimising container attack surface area
- Automating image tagging and versioning
- Scanning containers for vulnerabilities
- Building immutable base images
- Publishing images to private registries
- Kubernetes GitOps workflow fundamentals
- FluxCD and ArgoCD deployment automation
- Health probing and liveness checks automation
- Scaling policies based on metrics
- Automated namespace provisioning
- Standardising ingress and service configurations
- Secrets injection using external systems
- Cluster lifecycle automation with ClusterAPI
- Kustomize vs Helm: trade-offs and use cases
- Automated rollback for failed Kubernetes deployments
Module 7: Configuration & Configuration Management - Designing idempotent configuration scripts
- Managing configuration drift across fleets
- Automating OS-level hardening
- Using Ansible for agentless automation
- Writing reusable Ansible roles and playbooks
- Validating configuration syntax before deployment
- Creating inventory automation with dynamic sources
- Secrets management with Ansible Vault
- Executing parallel configuration updates
- Config schema enforcement using JSON Schema
- Automated drift detection and correction
- Bootstrapping new nodes with configuration agents
- Policy-driven configuration enforcement
- Version-controlled configuration histories
- Reporting compliance status across nodes
Module 8: Monitoring, Logging & Alerting Automation - Automated metric collection from services
- Setting dynamic thresholds based on baselines
- Creating reusable alert rule templates
- Routing alerts to correct responders
- Automated incident classification and tagging
- Correlating logs across distributed systems
- Log retention and archival automation
- Automated log parsing with structured formats
- Creating custom dashboards per service owner
- Proactive anomaly detection using ML models
- Automated silence windows during deployments
- Escalation workflows for unresolved alerts
- Postmortem automation and RCA generation
- Service level objective (SLO) tracking automation
- Automated compliance logging for audits
Module 9: Security & Compliance Automation - Automated vulnerability scanning in CI pipelines
- Secrets detection in code repositories
- Automated certificate rotation workflows
- Just-in-time access provisioning
- Automated audit trail generation
- Penetration test automation frameworks
- Automated response to security findings
- Compliance benchmarking against ISO 27001
- Automated policy enforcement in IaC
- Security posture dashboards for leadership
- Automated user provisioning and deactivation
- Risk scoring based on configuration drift
- Automated patch management workflows
- Security control ownership assignment
- Automated reporting for regulatory reviews
Module 10: Testing & Quality Gate Automation - Automated unit, integration, and end-to-end testing
- Parallel test execution for faster feedback
- Test data generation automation
- Automated mocking of external dependencies
- Performance test automation in CI
- Code quality gate enforcement with SonarQube
- Automated accessibility testing in pipelines
- Static application security testing (SAST)
- Dynamic application security testing (DAST)
- Automated licence compliance checking
- Code coverage thresholds and reporting
- Test flakiness detection and quarantine
- Automated screenshot comparison for UI tests
- Canary testing with automated rollback
- Feature flag automation and audit trails
Module 11: Disaster Recovery & Resilience Automation - Automated backup scheduling and retention
- Backup validation using restore simulations
- Failover automation for critical services
- Automated geo-replication workflows
- Chaos engineering automation with controlled experiments
- Automated recovery runbooks
- DR drill scheduling and outcome reporting
- Multi-region infrastructure duplication
- Automated DNS failover configurations
- Stateful service replication strategies
- Automated consistency checks across replicas
- DR compliance reporting for auditors
- Automated RTO and RPO tracking
- Fault injection in staging environments
- Automated post-failure analysis
Module 12: Cloud Cost & Efficiency Automation - Automated resource tagging for cost allocation
- Idle resource detection and notification
- Auto-scaling policies based on demand
- Spot instance automation with fallback
- Automated rightsizing recommendations
- Cost forecasting models
- Budget alerting and enforcement
- Automated shutdown of non-production environments
- Reserved instance optimisation automation
- Cloud provider-specific cost tools integration
- Tag compliance enforcement pipelines
- Chargeback and showback automation
- Automated cost anomaly detection
- FinOps workflow automation
- Carbon footprint tracking automation
Module 13: Collaboration & Knowledge Automation - Automated onboarding for new engineers
- Self-service environment provisioning
- Automated documentation generation from code
- Runbook automation with executable playbooks
- Meeting note summarisation and action tracking
- Automated team performance dashboards
- Knowledge graph integration for incident response
- Automated skill gap identification
- Training path recommendations based on role
- Automated feedback collection from retrospectives
- Workflow analytics for team bottlenecks
- Automated peer review assignment
- Ownership mapping for system components
- Alert fatigue reduction via smart routing
- Communication protocol standardisation
Module 14: Team Performance & Flow Optimisation - Measuring deployment frequency and lead time
- Change failure rate automation and reporting
- Mean time to recovery (MTTR) tracking
- Value stream mapping for automation
- Automated cycle time breakdowns
- Workflow bottleneck identification
- Throughput prediction models
- Automated sprint health reports
- Lead time reduction techniques
- Feedback loop shortening strategies
- Team load balancing automation
- Resource allocation suggestions
- Automated capacity planning
- Dependency visualisation across teams
- Progress tracking with gamified milestones
Module 15: Implementation Strategy & Change Adoption - Creating a minimum viable automation (MVA)
- Prioritising automation use cases by impact
- Building internal champions and automation advocates
- Creating reusable templates for team adoption
- Rollout sequencing across business units
- Training materials generation for new teams
- Feedback integration from early adopters
- Scaling automation practices enterprise-wide
- Migrating from proof-of-concept to production
- Measuring adoption rates and engagement
- Addressing resistance with data-driven arguments
- Establishing automation centres of excellence
- Creating standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- Regular review cycles for automation health
- Continuous improvement backlog management
Module 16: Certification, Career Growth & Next Steps - Final project: Building an end-to-end automated workflow
- Peer review of automation design patterns
- Expert feedback on implementation approach
- Self-assessment against DevOps mastery framework
- Preparing your Certificate of Completion
- LinkedIn profile optimisation for DevOps roles
- Portfolio building with real automation projects
- Speaking the language of DevOps leadership
- Advancing from automation user to automation architect
- Case study creation for job interviews
- Continuing education pathways
- Maintaining skills with update alerts
- Joining the global alumni network
- Lifetime access to future curriculum updates
- Earning the Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Automated metric collection from services
- Setting dynamic thresholds based on baselines
- Creating reusable alert rule templates
- Routing alerts to correct responders
- Automated incident classification and tagging
- Correlating logs across distributed systems
- Log retention and archival automation
- Automated log parsing with structured formats
- Creating custom dashboards per service owner
- Proactive anomaly detection using ML models
- Automated silence windows during deployments
- Escalation workflows for unresolved alerts
- Postmortem automation and RCA generation
- Service level objective (SLO) tracking automation
- Automated compliance logging for audits
Module 9: Security & Compliance Automation - Automated vulnerability scanning in CI pipelines
- Secrets detection in code repositories
- Automated certificate rotation workflows
- Just-in-time access provisioning
- Automated audit trail generation
- Penetration test automation frameworks
- Automated response to security findings
- Compliance benchmarking against ISO 27001
- Automated policy enforcement in IaC
- Security posture dashboards for leadership
- Automated user provisioning and deactivation
- Risk scoring based on configuration drift
- Automated patch management workflows
- Security control ownership assignment
- Automated reporting for regulatory reviews
Module 10: Testing & Quality Gate Automation - Automated unit, integration, and end-to-end testing
- Parallel test execution for faster feedback
- Test data generation automation
- Automated mocking of external dependencies
- Performance test automation in CI
- Code quality gate enforcement with SonarQube
- Automated accessibility testing in pipelines
- Static application security testing (SAST)
- Dynamic application security testing (DAST)
- Automated licence compliance checking
- Code coverage thresholds and reporting
- Test flakiness detection and quarantine
- Automated screenshot comparison for UI tests
- Canary testing with automated rollback
- Feature flag automation and audit trails
Module 11: Disaster Recovery & Resilience Automation - Automated backup scheduling and retention
- Backup validation using restore simulations
- Failover automation for critical services
- Automated geo-replication workflows
- Chaos engineering automation with controlled experiments
- Automated recovery runbooks
- DR drill scheduling and outcome reporting
- Multi-region infrastructure duplication
- Automated DNS failover configurations
- Stateful service replication strategies
- Automated consistency checks across replicas
- DR compliance reporting for auditors
- Automated RTO and RPO tracking
- Fault injection in staging environments
- Automated post-failure analysis
Module 12: Cloud Cost & Efficiency Automation - Automated resource tagging for cost allocation
- Idle resource detection and notification
- Auto-scaling policies based on demand
- Spot instance automation with fallback
- Automated rightsizing recommendations
- Cost forecasting models
- Budget alerting and enforcement
- Automated shutdown of non-production environments
- Reserved instance optimisation automation
- Cloud provider-specific cost tools integration
- Tag compliance enforcement pipelines
- Chargeback and showback automation
- Automated cost anomaly detection
- FinOps workflow automation
- Carbon footprint tracking automation
Module 13: Collaboration & Knowledge Automation - Automated onboarding for new engineers
- Self-service environment provisioning
- Automated documentation generation from code
- Runbook automation with executable playbooks
- Meeting note summarisation and action tracking
- Automated team performance dashboards
- Knowledge graph integration for incident response
- Automated skill gap identification
- Training path recommendations based on role
- Automated feedback collection from retrospectives
- Workflow analytics for team bottlenecks
- Automated peer review assignment
- Ownership mapping for system components
- Alert fatigue reduction via smart routing
- Communication protocol standardisation
Module 14: Team Performance & Flow Optimisation - Measuring deployment frequency and lead time
- Change failure rate automation and reporting
- Mean time to recovery (MTTR) tracking
- Value stream mapping for automation
- Automated cycle time breakdowns
- Workflow bottleneck identification
- Throughput prediction models
- Automated sprint health reports
- Lead time reduction techniques
- Feedback loop shortening strategies
- Team load balancing automation
- Resource allocation suggestions
- Automated capacity planning
- Dependency visualisation across teams
- Progress tracking with gamified milestones
Module 15: Implementation Strategy & Change Adoption - Creating a minimum viable automation (MVA)
- Prioritising automation use cases by impact
- Building internal champions and automation advocates
- Creating reusable templates for team adoption
- Rollout sequencing across business units
- Training materials generation for new teams
- Feedback integration from early adopters
- Scaling automation practices enterprise-wide
- Migrating from proof-of-concept to production
- Measuring adoption rates and engagement
- Addressing resistance with data-driven arguments
- Establishing automation centres of excellence
- Creating standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- Regular review cycles for automation health
- Continuous improvement backlog management
Module 16: Certification, Career Growth & Next Steps - Final project: Building an end-to-end automated workflow
- Peer review of automation design patterns
- Expert feedback on implementation approach
- Self-assessment against DevOps mastery framework
- Preparing your Certificate of Completion
- LinkedIn profile optimisation for DevOps roles
- Portfolio building with real automation projects
- Speaking the language of DevOps leadership
- Advancing from automation user to automation architect
- Case study creation for job interviews
- Continuing education pathways
- Maintaining skills with update alerts
- Joining the global alumni network
- Lifetime access to future curriculum updates
- Earning the Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Automated unit, integration, and end-to-end testing
- Parallel test execution for faster feedback
- Test data generation automation
- Automated mocking of external dependencies
- Performance test automation in CI
- Code quality gate enforcement with SonarQube
- Automated accessibility testing in pipelines
- Static application security testing (SAST)
- Dynamic application security testing (DAST)
- Automated licence compliance checking
- Code coverage thresholds and reporting
- Test flakiness detection and quarantine
- Automated screenshot comparison for UI tests
- Canary testing with automated rollback
- Feature flag automation and audit trails
Module 11: Disaster Recovery & Resilience Automation - Automated backup scheduling and retention
- Backup validation using restore simulations
- Failover automation for critical services
- Automated geo-replication workflows
- Chaos engineering automation with controlled experiments
- Automated recovery runbooks
- DR drill scheduling and outcome reporting
- Multi-region infrastructure duplication
- Automated DNS failover configurations
- Stateful service replication strategies
- Automated consistency checks across replicas
- DR compliance reporting for auditors
- Automated RTO and RPO tracking
- Fault injection in staging environments
- Automated post-failure analysis
Module 12: Cloud Cost & Efficiency Automation - Automated resource tagging for cost allocation
- Idle resource detection and notification
- Auto-scaling policies based on demand
- Spot instance automation with fallback
- Automated rightsizing recommendations
- Cost forecasting models
- Budget alerting and enforcement
- Automated shutdown of non-production environments
- Reserved instance optimisation automation
- Cloud provider-specific cost tools integration
- Tag compliance enforcement pipelines
- Chargeback and showback automation
- Automated cost anomaly detection
- FinOps workflow automation
- Carbon footprint tracking automation
Module 13: Collaboration & Knowledge Automation - Automated onboarding for new engineers
- Self-service environment provisioning
- Automated documentation generation from code
- Runbook automation with executable playbooks
- Meeting note summarisation and action tracking
- Automated team performance dashboards
- Knowledge graph integration for incident response
- Automated skill gap identification
- Training path recommendations based on role
- Automated feedback collection from retrospectives
- Workflow analytics for team bottlenecks
- Automated peer review assignment
- Ownership mapping for system components
- Alert fatigue reduction via smart routing
- Communication protocol standardisation
Module 14: Team Performance & Flow Optimisation - Measuring deployment frequency and lead time
- Change failure rate automation and reporting
- Mean time to recovery (MTTR) tracking
- Value stream mapping for automation
- Automated cycle time breakdowns
- Workflow bottleneck identification
- Throughput prediction models
- Automated sprint health reports
- Lead time reduction techniques
- Feedback loop shortening strategies
- Team load balancing automation
- Resource allocation suggestions
- Automated capacity planning
- Dependency visualisation across teams
- Progress tracking with gamified milestones
Module 15: Implementation Strategy & Change Adoption - Creating a minimum viable automation (MVA)
- Prioritising automation use cases by impact
- Building internal champions and automation advocates
- Creating reusable templates for team adoption
- Rollout sequencing across business units
- Training materials generation for new teams
- Feedback integration from early adopters
- Scaling automation practices enterprise-wide
- Migrating from proof-of-concept to production
- Measuring adoption rates and engagement
- Addressing resistance with data-driven arguments
- Establishing automation centres of excellence
- Creating standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- Regular review cycles for automation health
- Continuous improvement backlog management
Module 16: Certification, Career Growth & Next Steps - Final project: Building an end-to-end automated workflow
- Peer review of automation design patterns
- Expert feedback on implementation approach
- Self-assessment against DevOps mastery framework
- Preparing your Certificate of Completion
- LinkedIn profile optimisation for DevOps roles
- Portfolio building with real automation projects
- Speaking the language of DevOps leadership
- Advancing from automation user to automation architect
- Case study creation for job interviews
- Continuing education pathways
- Maintaining skills with update alerts
- Joining the global alumni network
- Lifetime access to future curriculum updates
- Earning the Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Automated resource tagging for cost allocation
- Idle resource detection and notification
- Auto-scaling policies based on demand
- Spot instance automation with fallback
- Automated rightsizing recommendations
- Cost forecasting models
- Budget alerting and enforcement
- Automated shutdown of non-production environments
- Reserved instance optimisation automation
- Cloud provider-specific cost tools integration
- Tag compliance enforcement pipelines
- Chargeback and showback automation
- Automated cost anomaly detection
- FinOps workflow automation
- Carbon footprint tracking automation
Module 13: Collaboration & Knowledge Automation - Automated onboarding for new engineers
- Self-service environment provisioning
- Automated documentation generation from code
- Runbook automation with executable playbooks
- Meeting note summarisation and action tracking
- Automated team performance dashboards
- Knowledge graph integration for incident response
- Automated skill gap identification
- Training path recommendations based on role
- Automated feedback collection from retrospectives
- Workflow analytics for team bottlenecks
- Automated peer review assignment
- Ownership mapping for system components
- Alert fatigue reduction via smart routing
- Communication protocol standardisation
Module 14: Team Performance & Flow Optimisation - Measuring deployment frequency and lead time
- Change failure rate automation and reporting
- Mean time to recovery (MTTR) tracking
- Value stream mapping for automation
- Automated cycle time breakdowns
- Workflow bottleneck identification
- Throughput prediction models
- Automated sprint health reports
- Lead time reduction techniques
- Feedback loop shortening strategies
- Team load balancing automation
- Resource allocation suggestions
- Automated capacity planning
- Dependency visualisation across teams
- Progress tracking with gamified milestones
Module 15: Implementation Strategy & Change Adoption - Creating a minimum viable automation (MVA)
- Prioritising automation use cases by impact
- Building internal champions and automation advocates
- Creating reusable templates for team adoption
- Rollout sequencing across business units
- Training materials generation for new teams
- Feedback integration from early adopters
- Scaling automation practices enterprise-wide
- Migrating from proof-of-concept to production
- Measuring adoption rates and engagement
- Addressing resistance with data-driven arguments
- Establishing automation centres of excellence
- Creating standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- Regular review cycles for automation health
- Continuous improvement backlog management
Module 16: Certification, Career Growth & Next Steps - Final project: Building an end-to-end automated workflow
- Peer review of automation design patterns
- Expert feedback on implementation approach
- Self-assessment against DevOps mastery framework
- Preparing your Certificate of Completion
- LinkedIn profile optimisation for DevOps roles
- Portfolio building with real automation projects
- Speaking the language of DevOps leadership
- Advancing from automation user to automation architect
- Case study creation for job interviews
- Continuing education pathways
- Maintaining skills with update alerts
- Joining the global alumni network
- Lifetime access to future curriculum updates
- Earning the Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Measuring deployment frequency and lead time
- Change failure rate automation and reporting
- Mean time to recovery (MTTR) tracking
- Value stream mapping for automation
- Automated cycle time breakdowns
- Workflow bottleneck identification
- Throughput prediction models
- Automated sprint health reports
- Lead time reduction techniques
- Feedback loop shortening strategies
- Team load balancing automation
- Resource allocation suggestions
- Automated capacity planning
- Dependency visualisation across teams
- Progress tracking with gamified milestones
Module 15: Implementation Strategy & Change Adoption - Creating a minimum viable automation (MVA)
- Prioritising automation use cases by impact
- Building internal champions and automation advocates
- Creating reusable templates for team adoption
- Rollout sequencing across business units
- Training materials generation for new teams
- Feedback integration from early adopters
- Scaling automation practices enterprise-wide
- Migrating from proof-of-concept to production
- Measuring adoption rates and engagement
- Addressing resistance with data-driven arguments
- Establishing automation centres of excellence
- Creating standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- Regular review cycles for automation health
- Continuous improvement backlog management
Module 16: Certification, Career Growth & Next Steps - Final project: Building an end-to-end automated workflow
- Peer review of automation design patterns
- Expert feedback on implementation approach
- Self-assessment against DevOps mastery framework
- Preparing your Certificate of Completion
- LinkedIn profile optimisation for DevOps roles
- Portfolio building with real automation projects
- Speaking the language of DevOps leadership
- Advancing from automation user to automation architect
- Case study creation for job interviews
- Continuing education pathways
- Maintaining skills with update alerts
- Joining the global alumni network
- Lifetime access to future curriculum updates
- Earning the Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Final project: Building an end-to-end automated workflow
- Peer review of automation design patterns
- Expert feedback on implementation approach
- Self-assessment against DevOps mastery framework
- Preparing your Certificate of Completion
- LinkedIn profile optimisation for DevOps roles
- Portfolio building with real automation projects
- Speaking the language of DevOps leadership
- Advancing from automation user to automation architect
- Case study creation for job interviews
- Continuing education pathways
- Maintaining skills with update alerts
- Joining the global alumni network
- Lifetime access to future curriculum updates
- Earning the Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service