Mastering DevOps: From Continuous Integration to Automated Deployment
You're facing pressure to deliver faster, more reliably, and with fewer errors-but your current workflow feels like a bottleneck. Manual deployments, inconsistent environments, and fragile release cycles are costing you time, reputation, and momentum. You know DevOps is the answer, but where do you start without drowning in fragmented tools, incomplete guides, or theoretical fluff that doesn’t translate to real systems? Mastering DevOps: From Continuous Integration to Automated Deployment is your step-by-step blueprint to build, secure, and scale a modern deployment pipeline from the ground up-no guesswork, no filler, just proven architecture and executable workflows. This isn’t about abstract concepts. It’s about transforming how you ship software. One engineer, Sarah Chen, Principal Build Engineer at a Tier-1 fintech firm, used this course to reduce her team’s deployment failures by 78% within six weeks and deliver a CI/CD pipeline audit report that earned executive recognition and budget approval for platform expansion. You’ll go from uncertain and stuck to confident, strategic, and technically equipped-building secure, automated pipelines that your organisation trusts and relies on. You’ll go from idea to production-ready deployment system in 30 days, with a documented, auditable, and board-ready implementation plan. Here’s how this course is structured to help you get there.Course Format & Delivery Details Fully Self-Paced with Immediate Online Access
This course is designed for professionals who need maximum flexibility without sacrificing results. You begin as soon as you enroll, learning on your schedule, from any location, with full control over your pace and progress. - Self-paced learning: Start and stop when it suits you. No deadlines, no live sessions.
- On-demand access: Learn anytime, day or night. No fixed dates or time commitments.
- Typical completion time: 28–35 hours, with most learners implementing their first automated pipeline in under 10 days.
- Lifetime access: Your enrollment never expires. Return as often as you need, for as long as you need.
- Ongoing updates at no extra cost: All future enhancements, toolkit upgrades, and security revisions are automatically included.
- 24/7 global access: Available on any device, including smartphones, tablets, and desktops. Fully mobile-optimized.
Continuous Instructor Support & Technical Guidance
Throughout the course, you receive direct, actionable guidance from a lead DevOps architect with over 14 years of experience in high-stakes environments-from regulated financial platforms to global SaaS infrastructures. You’ll have access to structured support channels, guided troubleshooting workflows, and responsive feedback loops to ensure you overcome real blockers quickly and maintain momentum. Certificate of Completion Issued by The Art of Service
Upon finishing the course and submitting your final implementation documentation, you’ll earn a verified Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service-a globally recognised credential trusted by over 42,000 professionals across 117 countries. This certificate validates your ability to design, implement, and audit end-to-end CI/CD pipelines and is optimised for LinkedIn, résumé, and internal promotion use. Transparent Pricing. Zero Hidden Fees.
The listed price is all you pay. No upsells, no add-ons, no subscription traps. One payment, full access, forever. We accept Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal-securely processed with bank-level encryption. 100% Risk-Free Enrollment: Satisfied or Refunded
We stand behind the transformative value of this course with an unconditional money-back guarantee. If you complete the first three modules and don’t feel you’ve gained actionable clarity, technical confidence, and a direct path to deployment automation, contact us for a full refund-no questions asked. What You’ll Receive After Enrollment
After registration, you’ll receive a confirmation email. Your access credentials and course entry instructions will be delivered separately once your learner profile is fully provisioned-ensuring system stability and secure onboarding for all participants. This Works Even If...
You’ve tried other DevOps training and failed to implement anything in production. You work in a complex, regulated environment with legacy systems and strict compliance boundaries. You’re not a full-time infrastructure engineer-you’re a developer, QA lead, or engineering manager stepping into a DevOps role. Our curriculum is built using role-specific implementation paths, enterprise-grade security practices, and compliance-aware automation templates so you can adapt the content to your real-world context immediately. Learners in regulated industries-including healthcare, finance, and government-have successfully deployed auditable, compliant CI/CD pipelines using this course’s methodology.
Extensive and Detailed Course Curriculum
Module 1: Foundations of Modern DevOps - Defining DevOps: Beyond the buzzword to measurable outcomes
- The evolution of software delivery: From waterfall to CI/CD
- Key DevOps principles: Collaboration, automation, measurement, sharing
- Understanding the DevOps lifecycle
- Distinguishing between DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering
- The role of culture in successful DevOps transformation
- Measuring DevOps success: Lead time, deployment frequency, MTTR, change failure rate
- Common anti-patterns and how to avoid them
- Setting up your personal DevOps lab environment
- Toolchain philosophy: Choosing tools that last, not just trends
Module 2: Source Control Mastery with Git - Advanced Git branching strategies: Trunk-based vs GitFlow vs GitHub Flow
- Configuring Git for enterprise use: Hooks, templates, and norms
- Secure handling of credentials and secrets in Git repositories
- Setting up signed commits for auditability
- Repository structure best practices for CI/CD integration
- Handling large repositories: Git LFS and partial cloning
- GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket: Platform-specific configurations
- Automated pull request validation workflows
- Enforcing code ownership and merge policies
- Migration from SVN or Mercurial to Git
Module 3: Continuous Integration Fundamentals - Defining CI: What it is, what it isn’t
- Setting up a reliable CI pipeline from day one
- Choosing between Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, and CircleCI
- Architecture of a robust CI server: Master, agents, isolation
- Parallel job execution and resource optimisation
- Idempotent build processes: Ensuring consistency across runs
- Dependency caching strategies for faster builds
- Multi-language build setups: Java, Python, Node.js, Go
- Build artifact management and retention policies
- Integrating static analysis tools into the CI pipeline
Module 4: Test Automation in the Pipeline - Unit, integration, and end-to-end tests in CI
- Test pyramid implementation across team workflows
- Parallelising and sharding test suites for speed
- Setting up headless browser testing
- API contract testing with Pact and OpenAPI
- Test result reporting and flaky test detection
- Running security scans as part of test automation
- Generating code coverage reports and thresholds
- Test data management in automated pipelines
- Mocking external services for reliable testing
Module 5: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform - Principles of Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform vs CloudFormation vs Pulumi: Choosing the right tool
- Terraform configuration structure: Modules, variables, outputs
- State management: Remote backends and locking
- Secure handling of credentials in Terraform
- Reusable module design for cross-project consistency
- Workspaces and environment segregation (dev, staging, prod)
- Policy enforcement with Sentinel or Open Policy Agent
- Automated Terraform validation in CI
- Migrating existing infrastructure to Terraform safely
Module 6: Configuration Management with Ansible - Agentless automation: Why Ansible fits modern stacks
- YAML syntax best practices for playbooks
- Role-based structure for reusability
- Dynamic inventory management
- Secure credential handling with Ansible Vault
- Idempotency patterns in configuration tasks
- Running playbooks in CI/CD pipelines
- Integration with cloud providers and container platforms
- Rollback procedures using Ansible
- Reporting and compliance auditing with Ansible
Module 7: Containerisation with Docker - Docker fundamentals: Images, containers, layers, registries
- Writing efficient, secure Dockerfiles
- Multi-stage builds for production optimisation
- Image scanning for vulnerabilities
- Minimising attack surface with non-root users
- Docker Compose for local development environments
- Best practices for tagging and versioning images
- Private registry setup and access controls
- Integrating Docker into CI pipelines
- Managing container resource limits and health checks
Module 8: Container Orchestration with Kubernetes - Kubernetes architecture: Control plane, nodes, pods
- Deployments, services, and ingress controllers
- Namespaces and resource quotas for multi-tenancy
- ConfigMaps and Secrets management
- Rolling updates and rollback mechanisms
- Scaling applications based on metrics
- Integrating with CI/CD pipelines
- Canary deployments and blue-green strategies
- Cluster monitoring and logging setup
- Security hardening: RBAC, network policies, pod security standards
Module 9: Advanced CI/CD Pipeline Design - Pipeline as Code: Writing pipelines in version-controlled formats
- Designing staging environments that mirror production
- Managing pipeline triggers: Events vs schedules vs manual
- Approval gates and human intervention points
- Environment promotion workflows
- Managing secrets across environments securely
- Immutable pipeline design principles
- Idempotent deployment scripts
- Parallel and sequential stage execution
- Pipeline templating and reuse across projects
Module 10: Security Integration (DevSecOps) - Shifting security left in the CI/CD pipeline
- Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
- Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
- Software Composition Analysis (SCA) for open-source risks
- Secrets detection in code and pipelines
- Security scanning of container images
- Infrastructure security policy compliance checks
- Automated remediation workflows for common findings
- Integrating with vulnerability databases
- Generating security compliance reports
Module 11: Monitoring, Logging, and Observability - Instrumenting applications for observability
- Centralised logging with ELK or Grafana Loki
- Application and infrastructure metrics collection
- Setting up dashboards in Grafana
- Creating meaningful alerts without noise
- Distributed tracing with Jaeger or Tempo
- Log retention and compliance requirements
- Linking deployment events to metric spikes
- Automated incident response triggers
- Post-mortem documentation and root cause analysis
Module 12: Automated Deployment Strategies - Blue-green deployments: Setup, traffic switching, rollback
- Canary releases: Incremental rollouts with monitoring
- Feature flags and their integration with CI/CD
- Dark launching and shadow traffic techniques
- Database schema change management in automated pipelines
- Zero-downtime deployment patterns
- A/B testing in production with metrics validation
- Automated rollback triggers based on health checks
- Handling stateful applications in automated deployments
- Validating deployments with synthetic transactions
Module 13: Cloud Provider Integration (AWS, Azure, GCP) - CI/CD integration with AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild
- Azure DevOps Pipelines for hybrid cloud environments
- Google Cloud Build and Cloud Deploy for GKE
- Managing cloud credentials securely in pipelines
- Multi-cloud deployment considerations
- Using managed services to simplify pipeline operations
- Infrastructure cost monitoring in CI/CD
- Region-aware deployment strategies
- Enabling cross-account deployments securely
- Compliance enforcement in regulated cloud environments
Module 14: Pipeline Performance Optimisation - Analysing pipeline execution time bottlenecks
- Caching strategies: Dependencies, Docker layers, build outputs
- Parallelising test and build stages
- Reducing redundant steps and rework
- Optimising agent provisioning and scaling
- Minimising container pull times
- Smart triggering: Only run what changed
- Resource throttling and pipeline queuing
- Measuring and improving pipeline reliability
- Documentation and handover of optimised pipelines
Module 15: Compliance, Auditability, and Governance - Designing auditable CI/CD pipelines
- Immutable logs and pipeline execution records
- Role-based access controls in CI/CD systems
- Change approval workflows for regulated environments
- Integrating with ticketing and change management systems
- Automated compliance checks in pipelines
- GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 alignment
- Generating compliance evidence packs
- Third-party auditor readiness checklists
- Internal audit response procedures
Module 16: Disaster Recovery and Pipeline Resilience - Backup and restore strategies for CI/CD systems
- Disaster recovery planning for Jenkins, GitLab, etc
- Failover mechanisms for distributed agents
- Rebuilding pipelines from source control only
- Data loss prevention in pipeline systems
- Testing recovery procedures regularly
- High availability configurations
- Monitoring pipeline health continuously
- Automated alerts for system degradation
- Documenting recovery runbooks
Module 17: Real-World Implementation Projects - Building a full pipeline for a microservices architecture
- Deploying a serverless application with CI/CD
- Setting up CI/CD for a monorepo with multiple services
- Automating database migrations in production
- Creating a secure pipeline for a PCI-compliant system
- Handling CI/CD in air-gapped or offline environments
- CI/CD for embedded systems and IoT
- Pipeline for mobile app deployments (iOS and Android)
- Multi-region deployment automation
- Custom pipeline visualisation and reporting dashboard
Module 18: Career Advancement and Certification Preparation - Porting your hands-on projects to your résumé
- Describing DevOps impact using business metrics
- Preparing for DevOps interview questions
- Writing technical documentation for your pipelines
- Presenting your implementation to non-technical stakeholders
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion for internal promotions
- Using your certification on LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Continuing education pathways in SRE, platform engineering, and cloud architecture
- Maintaining continuous improvement in your DevOps practice
- Networking with other Art of Service DevOps alumni
Module 1: Foundations of Modern DevOps - Defining DevOps: Beyond the buzzword to measurable outcomes
- The evolution of software delivery: From waterfall to CI/CD
- Key DevOps principles: Collaboration, automation, measurement, sharing
- Understanding the DevOps lifecycle
- Distinguishing between DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering
- The role of culture in successful DevOps transformation
- Measuring DevOps success: Lead time, deployment frequency, MTTR, change failure rate
- Common anti-patterns and how to avoid them
- Setting up your personal DevOps lab environment
- Toolchain philosophy: Choosing tools that last, not just trends
Module 2: Source Control Mastery with Git - Advanced Git branching strategies: Trunk-based vs GitFlow vs GitHub Flow
- Configuring Git for enterprise use: Hooks, templates, and norms
- Secure handling of credentials and secrets in Git repositories
- Setting up signed commits for auditability
- Repository structure best practices for CI/CD integration
- Handling large repositories: Git LFS and partial cloning
- GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket: Platform-specific configurations
- Automated pull request validation workflows
- Enforcing code ownership and merge policies
- Migration from SVN or Mercurial to Git
Module 3: Continuous Integration Fundamentals - Defining CI: What it is, what it isn’t
- Setting up a reliable CI pipeline from day one
- Choosing between Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, and CircleCI
- Architecture of a robust CI server: Master, agents, isolation
- Parallel job execution and resource optimisation
- Idempotent build processes: Ensuring consistency across runs
- Dependency caching strategies for faster builds
- Multi-language build setups: Java, Python, Node.js, Go
- Build artifact management and retention policies
- Integrating static analysis tools into the CI pipeline
Module 4: Test Automation in the Pipeline - Unit, integration, and end-to-end tests in CI
- Test pyramid implementation across team workflows
- Parallelising and sharding test suites for speed
- Setting up headless browser testing
- API contract testing with Pact and OpenAPI
- Test result reporting and flaky test detection
- Running security scans as part of test automation
- Generating code coverage reports and thresholds
- Test data management in automated pipelines
- Mocking external services for reliable testing
Module 5: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform - Principles of Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform vs CloudFormation vs Pulumi: Choosing the right tool
- Terraform configuration structure: Modules, variables, outputs
- State management: Remote backends and locking
- Secure handling of credentials in Terraform
- Reusable module design for cross-project consistency
- Workspaces and environment segregation (dev, staging, prod)
- Policy enforcement with Sentinel or Open Policy Agent
- Automated Terraform validation in CI
- Migrating existing infrastructure to Terraform safely
Module 6: Configuration Management with Ansible - Agentless automation: Why Ansible fits modern stacks
- YAML syntax best practices for playbooks
- Role-based structure for reusability
- Dynamic inventory management
- Secure credential handling with Ansible Vault
- Idempotency patterns in configuration tasks
- Running playbooks in CI/CD pipelines
- Integration with cloud providers and container platforms
- Rollback procedures using Ansible
- Reporting and compliance auditing with Ansible
Module 7: Containerisation with Docker - Docker fundamentals: Images, containers, layers, registries
- Writing efficient, secure Dockerfiles
- Multi-stage builds for production optimisation
- Image scanning for vulnerabilities
- Minimising attack surface with non-root users
- Docker Compose for local development environments
- Best practices for tagging and versioning images
- Private registry setup and access controls
- Integrating Docker into CI pipelines
- Managing container resource limits and health checks
Module 8: Container Orchestration with Kubernetes - Kubernetes architecture: Control plane, nodes, pods
- Deployments, services, and ingress controllers
- Namespaces and resource quotas for multi-tenancy
- ConfigMaps and Secrets management
- Rolling updates and rollback mechanisms
- Scaling applications based on metrics
- Integrating with CI/CD pipelines
- Canary deployments and blue-green strategies
- Cluster monitoring and logging setup
- Security hardening: RBAC, network policies, pod security standards
Module 9: Advanced CI/CD Pipeline Design - Pipeline as Code: Writing pipelines in version-controlled formats
- Designing staging environments that mirror production
- Managing pipeline triggers: Events vs schedules vs manual
- Approval gates and human intervention points
- Environment promotion workflows
- Managing secrets across environments securely
- Immutable pipeline design principles
- Idempotent deployment scripts
- Parallel and sequential stage execution
- Pipeline templating and reuse across projects
Module 10: Security Integration (DevSecOps) - Shifting security left in the CI/CD pipeline
- Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
- Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
- Software Composition Analysis (SCA) for open-source risks
- Secrets detection in code and pipelines
- Security scanning of container images
- Infrastructure security policy compliance checks
- Automated remediation workflows for common findings
- Integrating with vulnerability databases
- Generating security compliance reports
Module 11: Monitoring, Logging, and Observability - Instrumenting applications for observability
- Centralised logging with ELK or Grafana Loki
- Application and infrastructure metrics collection
- Setting up dashboards in Grafana
- Creating meaningful alerts without noise
- Distributed tracing with Jaeger or Tempo
- Log retention and compliance requirements
- Linking deployment events to metric spikes
- Automated incident response triggers
- Post-mortem documentation and root cause analysis
Module 12: Automated Deployment Strategies - Blue-green deployments: Setup, traffic switching, rollback
- Canary releases: Incremental rollouts with monitoring
- Feature flags and their integration with CI/CD
- Dark launching and shadow traffic techniques
- Database schema change management in automated pipelines
- Zero-downtime deployment patterns
- A/B testing in production with metrics validation
- Automated rollback triggers based on health checks
- Handling stateful applications in automated deployments
- Validating deployments with synthetic transactions
Module 13: Cloud Provider Integration (AWS, Azure, GCP) - CI/CD integration with AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild
- Azure DevOps Pipelines for hybrid cloud environments
- Google Cloud Build and Cloud Deploy for GKE
- Managing cloud credentials securely in pipelines
- Multi-cloud deployment considerations
- Using managed services to simplify pipeline operations
- Infrastructure cost monitoring in CI/CD
- Region-aware deployment strategies
- Enabling cross-account deployments securely
- Compliance enforcement in regulated cloud environments
Module 14: Pipeline Performance Optimisation - Analysing pipeline execution time bottlenecks
- Caching strategies: Dependencies, Docker layers, build outputs
- Parallelising test and build stages
- Reducing redundant steps and rework
- Optimising agent provisioning and scaling
- Minimising container pull times
- Smart triggering: Only run what changed
- Resource throttling and pipeline queuing
- Measuring and improving pipeline reliability
- Documentation and handover of optimised pipelines
Module 15: Compliance, Auditability, and Governance - Designing auditable CI/CD pipelines
- Immutable logs and pipeline execution records
- Role-based access controls in CI/CD systems
- Change approval workflows for regulated environments
- Integrating with ticketing and change management systems
- Automated compliance checks in pipelines
- GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 alignment
- Generating compliance evidence packs
- Third-party auditor readiness checklists
- Internal audit response procedures
Module 16: Disaster Recovery and Pipeline Resilience - Backup and restore strategies for CI/CD systems
- Disaster recovery planning for Jenkins, GitLab, etc
- Failover mechanisms for distributed agents
- Rebuilding pipelines from source control only
- Data loss prevention in pipeline systems
- Testing recovery procedures regularly
- High availability configurations
- Monitoring pipeline health continuously
- Automated alerts for system degradation
- Documenting recovery runbooks
Module 17: Real-World Implementation Projects - Building a full pipeline for a microservices architecture
- Deploying a serverless application with CI/CD
- Setting up CI/CD for a monorepo with multiple services
- Automating database migrations in production
- Creating a secure pipeline for a PCI-compliant system
- Handling CI/CD in air-gapped or offline environments
- CI/CD for embedded systems and IoT
- Pipeline for mobile app deployments (iOS and Android)
- Multi-region deployment automation
- Custom pipeline visualisation and reporting dashboard
Module 18: Career Advancement and Certification Preparation - Porting your hands-on projects to your résumé
- Describing DevOps impact using business metrics
- Preparing for DevOps interview questions
- Writing technical documentation for your pipelines
- Presenting your implementation to non-technical stakeholders
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion for internal promotions
- Using your certification on LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Continuing education pathways in SRE, platform engineering, and cloud architecture
- Maintaining continuous improvement in your DevOps practice
- Networking with other Art of Service DevOps alumni
- Advanced Git branching strategies: Trunk-based vs GitFlow vs GitHub Flow
- Configuring Git for enterprise use: Hooks, templates, and norms
- Secure handling of credentials and secrets in Git repositories
- Setting up signed commits for auditability
- Repository structure best practices for CI/CD integration
- Handling large repositories: Git LFS and partial cloning
- GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket: Platform-specific configurations
- Automated pull request validation workflows
- Enforcing code ownership and merge policies
- Migration from SVN or Mercurial to Git
Module 3: Continuous Integration Fundamentals - Defining CI: What it is, what it isn’t
- Setting up a reliable CI pipeline from day one
- Choosing between Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, and CircleCI
- Architecture of a robust CI server: Master, agents, isolation
- Parallel job execution and resource optimisation
- Idempotent build processes: Ensuring consistency across runs
- Dependency caching strategies for faster builds
- Multi-language build setups: Java, Python, Node.js, Go
- Build artifact management and retention policies
- Integrating static analysis tools into the CI pipeline
Module 4: Test Automation in the Pipeline - Unit, integration, and end-to-end tests in CI
- Test pyramid implementation across team workflows
- Parallelising and sharding test suites for speed
- Setting up headless browser testing
- API contract testing with Pact and OpenAPI
- Test result reporting and flaky test detection
- Running security scans as part of test automation
- Generating code coverage reports and thresholds
- Test data management in automated pipelines
- Mocking external services for reliable testing
Module 5: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform - Principles of Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform vs CloudFormation vs Pulumi: Choosing the right tool
- Terraform configuration structure: Modules, variables, outputs
- State management: Remote backends and locking
- Secure handling of credentials in Terraform
- Reusable module design for cross-project consistency
- Workspaces and environment segregation (dev, staging, prod)
- Policy enforcement with Sentinel or Open Policy Agent
- Automated Terraform validation in CI
- Migrating existing infrastructure to Terraform safely
Module 6: Configuration Management with Ansible - Agentless automation: Why Ansible fits modern stacks
- YAML syntax best practices for playbooks
- Role-based structure for reusability
- Dynamic inventory management
- Secure credential handling with Ansible Vault
- Idempotency patterns in configuration tasks
- Running playbooks in CI/CD pipelines
- Integration with cloud providers and container platforms
- Rollback procedures using Ansible
- Reporting and compliance auditing with Ansible
Module 7: Containerisation with Docker - Docker fundamentals: Images, containers, layers, registries
- Writing efficient, secure Dockerfiles
- Multi-stage builds for production optimisation
- Image scanning for vulnerabilities
- Minimising attack surface with non-root users
- Docker Compose for local development environments
- Best practices for tagging and versioning images
- Private registry setup and access controls
- Integrating Docker into CI pipelines
- Managing container resource limits and health checks
Module 8: Container Orchestration with Kubernetes - Kubernetes architecture: Control plane, nodes, pods
- Deployments, services, and ingress controllers
- Namespaces and resource quotas for multi-tenancy
- ConfigMaps and Secrets management
- Rolling updates and rollback mechanisms
- Scaling applications based on metrics
- Integrating with CI/CD pipelines
- Canary deployments and blue-green strategies
- Cluster monitoring and logging setup
- Security hardening: RBAC, network policies, pod security standards
Module 9: Advanced CI/CD Pipeline Design - Pipeline as Code: Writing pipelines in version-controlled formats
- Designing staging environments that mirror production
- Managing pipeline triggers: Events vs schedules vs manual
- Approval gates and human intervention points
- Environment promotion workflows
- Managing secrets across environments securely
- Immutable pipeline design principles
- Idempotent deployment scripts
- Parallel and sequential stage execution
- Pipeline templating and reuse across projects
Module 10: Security Integration (DevSecOps) - Shifting security left in the CI/CD pipeline
- Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
- Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
- Software Composition Analysis (SCA) for open-source risks
- Secrets detection in code and pipelines
- Security scanning of container images
- Infrastructure security policy compliance checks
- Automated remediation workflows for common findings
- Integrating with vulnerability databases
- Generating security compliance reports
Module 11: Monitoring, Logging, and Observability - Instrumenting applications for observability
- Centralised logging with ELK or Grafana Loki
- Application and infrastructure metrics collection
- Setting up dashboards in Grafana
- Creating meaningful alerts without noise
- Distributed tracing with Jaeger or Tempo
- Log retention and compliance requirements
- Linking deployment events to metric spikes
- Automated incident response triggers
- Post-mortem documentation and root cause analysis
Module 12: Automated Deployment Strategies - Blue-green deployments: Setup, traffic switching, rollback
- Canary releases: Incremental rollouts with monitoring
- Feature flags and their integration with CI/CD
- Dark launching and shadow traffic techniques
- Database schema change management in automated pipelines
- Zero-downtime deployment patterns
- A/B testing in production with metrics validation
- Automated rollback triggers based on health checks
- Handling stateful applications in automated deployments
- Validating deployments with synthetic transactions
Module 13: Cloud Provider Integration (AWS, Azure, GCP) - CI/CD integration with AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild
- Azure DevOps Pipelines for hybrid cloud environments
- Google Cloud Build and Cloud Deploy for GKE
- Managing cloud credentials securely in pipelines
- Multi-cloud deployment considerations
- Using managed services to simplify pipeline operations
- Infrastructure cost monitoring in CI/CD
- Region-aware deployment strategies
- Enabling cross-account deployments securely
- Compliance enforcement in regulated cloud environments
Module 14: Pipeline Performance Optimisation - Analysing pipeline execution time bottlenecks
- Caching strategies: Dependencies, Docker layers, build outputs
- Parallelising test and build stages
- Reducing redundant steps and rework
- Optimising agent provisioning and scaling
- Minimising container pull times
- Smart triggering: Only run what changed
- Resource throttling and pipeline queuing
- Measuring and improving pipeline reliability
- Documentation and handover of optimised pipelines
Module 15: Compliance, Auditability, and Governance - Designing auditable CI/CD pipelines
- Immutable logs and pipeline execution records
- Role-based access controls in CI/CD systems
- Change approval workflows for regulated environments
- Integrating with ticketing and change management systems
- Automated compliance checks in pipelines
- GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 alignment
- Generating compliance evidence packs
- Third-party auditor readiness checklists
- Internal audit response procedures
Module 16: Disaster Recovery and Pipeline Resilience - Backup and restore strategies for CI/CD systems
- Disaster recovery planning for Jenkins, GitLab, etc
- Failover mechanisms for distributed agents
- Rebuilding pipelines from source control only
- Data loss prevention in pipeline systems
- Testing recovery procedures regularly
- High availability configurations
- Monitoring pipeline health continuously
- Automated alerts for system degradation
- Documenting recovery runbooks
Module 17: Real-World Implementation Projects - Building a full pipeline for a microservices architecture
- Deploying a serverless application with CI/CD
- Setting up CI/CD for a monorepo with multiple services
- Automating database migrations in production
- Creating a secure pipeline for a PCI-compliant system
- Handling CI/CD in air-gapped or offline environments
- CI/CD for embedded systems and IoT
- Pipeline for mobile app deployments (iOS and Android)
- Multi-region deployment automation
- Custom pipeline visualisation and reporting dashboard
Module 18: Career Advancement and Certification Preparation - Porting your hands-on projects to your résumé
- Describing DevOps impact using business metrics
- Preparing for DevOps interview questions
- Writing technical documentation for your pipelines
- Presenting your implementation to non-technical stakeholders
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion for internal promotions
- Using your certification on LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Continuing education pathways in SRE, platform engineering, and cloud architecture
- Maintaining continuous improvement in your DevOps practice
- Networking with other Art of Service DevOps alumni
- Unit, integration, and end-to-end tests in CI
- Test pyramid implementation across team workflows
- Parallelising and sharding test suites for speed
- Setting up headless browser testing
- API contract testing with Pact and OpenAPI
- Test result reporting and flaky test detection
- Running security scans as part of test automation
- Generating code coverage reports and thresholds
- Test data management in automated pipelines
- Mocking external services for reliable testing
Module 5: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform - Principles of Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform vs CloudFormation vs Pulumi: Choosing the right tool
- Terraform configuration structure: Modules, variables, outputs
- State management: Remote backends and locking
- Secure handling of credentials in Terraform
- Reusable module design for cross-project consistency
- Workspaces and environment segregation (dev, staging, prod)
- Policy enforcement with Sentinel or Open Policy Agent
- Automated Terraform validation in CI
- Migrating existing infrastructure to Terraform safely
Module 6: Configuration Management with Ansible - Agentless automation: Why Ansible fits modern stacks
- YAML syntax best practices for playbooks
- Role-based structure for reusability
- Dynamic inventory management
- Secure credential handling with Ansible Vault
- Idempotency patterns in configuration tasks
- Running playbooks in CI/CD pipelines
- Integration with cloud providers and container platforms
- Rollback procedures using Ansible
- Reporting and compliance auditing with Ansible
Module 7: Containerisation with Docker - Docker fundamentals: Images, containers, layers, registries
- Writing efficient, secure Dockerfiles
- Multi-stage builds for production optimisation
- Image scanning for vulnerabilities
- Minimising attack surface with non-root users
- Docker Compose for local development environments
- Best practices for tagging and versioning images
- Private registry setup and access controls
- Integrating Docker into CI pipelines
- Managing container resource limits and health checks
Module 8: Container Orchestration with Kubernetes - Kubernetes architecture: Control plane, nodes, pods
- Deployments, services, and ingress controllers
- Namespaces and resource quotas for multi-tenancy
- ConfigMaps and Secrets management
- Rolling updates and rollback mechanisms
- Scaling applications based on metrics
- Integrating with CI/CD pipelines
- Canary deployments and blue-green strategies
- Cluster monitoring and logging setup
- Security hardening: RBAC, network policies, pod security standards
Module 9: Advanced CI/CD Pipeline Design - Pipeline as Code: Writing pipelines in version-controlled formats
- Designing staging environments that mirror production
- Managing pipeline triggers: Events vs schedules vs manual
- Approval gates and human intervention points
- Environment promotion workflows
- Managing secrets across environments securely
- Immutable pipeline design principles
- Idempotent deployment scripts
- Parallel and sequential stage execution
- Pipeline templating and reuse across projects
Module 10: Security Integration (DevSecOps) - Shifting security left in the CI/CD pipeline
- Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
- Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
- Software Composition Analysis (SCA) for open-source risks
- Secrets detection in code and pipelines
- Security scanning of container images
- Infrastructure security policy compliance checks
- Automated remediation workflows for common findings
- Integrating with vulnerability databases
- Generating security compliance reports
Module 11: Monitoring, Logging, and Observability - Instrumenting applications for observability
- Centralised logging with ELK or Grafana Loki
- Application and infrastructure metrics collection
- Setting up dashboards in Grafana
- Creating meaningful alerts without noise
- Distributed tracing with Jaeger or Tempo
- Log retention and compliance requirements
- Linking deployment events to metric spikes
- Automated incident response triggers
- Post-mortem documentation and root cause analysis
Module 12: Automated Deployment Strategies - Blue-green deployments: Setup, traffic switching, rollback
- Canary releases: Incremental rollouts with monitoring
- Feature flags and their integration with CI/CD
- Dark launching and shadow traffic techniques
- Database schema change management in automated pipelines
- Zero-downtime deployment patterns
- A/B testing in production with metrics validation
- Automated rollback triggers based on health checks
- Handling stateful applications in automated deployments
- Validating deployments with synthetic transactions
Module 13: Cloud Provider Integration (AWS, Azure, GCP) - CI/CD integration with AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild
- Azure DevOps Pipelines for hybrid cloud environments
- Google Cloud Build and Cloud Deploy for GKE
- Managing cloud credentials securely in pipelines
- Multi-cloud deployment considerations
- Using managed services to simplify pipeline operations
- Infrastructure cost monitoring in CI/CD
- Region-aware deployment strategies
- Enabling cross-account deployments securely
- Compliance enforcement in regulated cloud environments
Module 14: Pipeline Performance Optimisation - Analysing pipeline execution time bottlenecks
- Caching strategies: Dependencies, Docker layers, build outputs
- Parallelising test and build stages
- Reducing redundant steps and rework
- Optimising agent provisioning and scaling
- Minimising container pull times
- Smart triggering: Only run what changed
- Resource throttling and pipeline queuing
- Measuring and improving pipeline reliability
- Documentation and handover of optimised pipelines
Module 15: Compliance, Auditability, and Governance - Designing auditable CI/CD pipelines
- Immutable logs and pipeline execution records
- Role-based access controls in CI/CD systems
- Change approval workflows for regulated environments
- Integrating with ticketing and change management systems
- Automated compliance checks in pipelines
- GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 alignment
- Generating compliance evidence packs
- Third-party auditor readiness checklists
- Internal audit response procedures
Module 16: Disaster Recovery and Pipeline Resilience - Backup and restore strategies for CI/CD systems
- Disaster recovery planning for Jenkins, GitLab, etc
- Failover mechanisms for distributed agents
- Rebuilding pipelines from source control only
- Data loss prevention in pipeline systems
- Testing recovery procedures regularly
- High availability configurations
- Monitoring pipeline health continuously
- Automated alerts for system degradation
- Documenting recovery runbooks
Module 17: Real-World Implementation Projects - Building a full pipeline for a microservices architecture
- Deploying a serverless application with CI/CD
- Setting up CI/CD for a monorepo with multiple services
- Automating database migrations in production
- Creating a secure pipeline for a PCI-compliant system
- Handling CI/CD in air-gapped or offline environments
- CI/CD for embedded systems and IoT
- Pipeline for mobile app deployments (iOS and Android)
- Multi-region deployment automation
- Custom pipeline visualisation and reporting dashboard
Module 18: Career Advancement and Certification Preparation - Porting your hands-on projects to your résumé
- Describing DevOps impact using business metrics
- Preparing for DevOps interview questions
- Writing technical documentation for your pipelines
- Presenting your implementation to non-technical stakeholders
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion for internal promotions
- Using your certification on LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Continuing education pathways in SRE, platform engineering, and cloud architecture
- Maintaining continuous improvement in your DevOps practice
- Networking with other Art of Service DevOps alumni
- Agentless automation: Why Ansible fits modern stacks
- YAML syntax best practices for playbooks
- Role-based structure for reusability
- Dynamic inventory management
- Secure credential handling with Ansible Vault
- Idempotency patterns in configuration tasks
- Running playbooks in CI/CD pipelines
- Integration with cloud providers and container platforms
- Rollback procedures using Ansible
- Reporting and compliance auditing with Ansible
Module 7: Containerisation with Docker - Docker fundamentals: Images, containers, layers, registries
- Writing efficient, secure Dockerfiles
- Multi-stage builds for production optimisation
- Image scanning for vulnerabilities
- Minimising attack surface with non-root users
- Docker Compose for local development environments
- Best practices for tagging and versioning images
- Private registry setup and access controls
- Integrating Docker into CI pipelines
- Managing container resource limits and health checks
Module 8: Container Orchestration with Kubernetes - Kubernetes architecture: Control plane, nodes, pods
- Deployments, services, and ingress controllers
- Namespaces and resource quotas for multi-tenancy
- ConfigMaps and Secrets management
- Rolling updates and rollback mechanisms
- Scaling applications based on metrics
- Integrating with CI/CD pipelines
- Canary deployments and blue-green strategies
- Cluster monitoring and logging setup
- Security hardening: RBAC, network policies, pod security standards
Module 9: Advanced CI/CD Pipeline Design - Pipeline as Code: Writing pipelines in version-controlled formats
- Designing staging environments that mirror production
- Managing pipeline triggers: Events vs schedules vs manual
- Approval gates and human intervention points
- Environment promotion workflows
- Managing secrets across environments securely
- Immutable pipeline design principles
- Idempotent deployment scripts
- Parallel and sequential stage execution
- Pipeline templating and reuse across projects
Module 10: Security Integration (DevSecOps) - Shifting security left in the CI/CD pipeline
- Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
- Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
- Software Composition Analysis (SCA) for open-source risks
- Secrets detection in code and pipelines
- Security scanning of container images
- Infrastructure security policy compliance checks
- Automated remediation workflows for common findings
- Integrating with vulnerability databases
- Generating security compliance reports
Module 11: Monitoring, Logging, and Observability - Instrumenting applications for observability
- Centralised logging with ELK or Grafana Loki
- Application and infrastructure metrics collection
- Setting up dashboards in Grafana
- Creating meaningful alerts without noise
- Distributed tracing with Jaeger or Tempo
- Log retention and compliance requirements
- Linking deployment events to metric spikes
- Automated incident response triggers
- Post-mortem documentation and root cause analysis
Module 12: Automated Deployment Strategies - Blue-green deployments: Setup, traffic switching, rollback
- Canary releases: Incremental rollouts with monitoring
- Feature flags and their integration with CI/CD
- Dark launching and shadow traffic techniques
- Database schema change management in automated pipelines
- Zero-downtime deployment patterns
- A/B testing in production with metrics validation
- Automated rollback triggers based on health checks
- Handling stateful applications in automated deployments
- Validating deployments with synthetic transactions
Module 13: Cloud Provider Integration (AWS, Azure, GCP) - CI/CD integration with AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild
- Azure DevOps Pipelines for hybrid cloud environments
- Google Cloud Build and Cloud Deploy for GKE
- Managing cloud credentials securely in pipelines
- Multi-cloud deployment considerations
- Using managed services to simplify pipeline operations
- Infrastructure cost monitoring in CI/CD
- Region-aware deployment strategies
- Enabling cross-account deployments securely
- Compliance enforcement in regulated cloud environments
Module 14: Pipeline Performance Optimisation - Analysing pipeline execution time bottlenecks
- Caching strategies: Dependencies, Docker layers, build outputs
- Parallelising test and build stages
- Reducing redundant steps and rework
- Optimising agent provisioning and scaling
- Minimising container pull times
- Smart triggering: Only run what changed
- Resource throttling and pipeline queuing
- Measuring and improving pipeline reliability
- Documentation and handover of optimised pipelines
Module 15: Compliance, Auditability, and Governance - Designing auditable CI/CD pipelines
- Immutable logs and pipeline execution records
- Role-based access controls in CI/CD systems
- Change approval workflows for regulated environments
- Integrating with ticketing and change management systems
- Automated compliance checks in pipelines
- GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 alignment
- Generating compliance evidence packs
- Third-party auditor readiness checklists
- Internal audit response procedures
Module 16: Disaster Recovery and Pipeline Resilience - Backup and restore strategies for CI/CD systems
- Disaster recovery planning for Jenkins, GitLab, etc
- Failover mechanisms for distributed agents
- Rebuilding pipelines from source control only
- Data loss prevention in pipeline systems
- Testing recovery procedures regularly
- High availability configurations
- Monitoring pipeline health continuously
- Automated alerts for system degradation
- Documenting recovery runbooks
Module 17: Real-World Implementation Projects - Building a full pipeline for a microservices architecture
- Deploying a serverless application with CI/CD
- Setting up CI/CD for a monorepo with multiple services
- Automating database migrations in production
- Creating a secure pipeline for a PCI-compliant system
- Handling CI/CD in air-gapped or offline environments
- CI/CD for embedded systems and IoT
- Pipeline for mobile app deployments (iOS and Android)
- Multi-region deployment automation
- Custom pipeline visualisation and reporting dashboard
Module 18: Career Advancement and Certification Preparation - Porting your hands-on projects to your résumé
- Describing DevOps impact using business metrics
- Preparing for DevOps interview questions
- Writing technical documentation for your pipelines
- Presenting your implementation to non-technical stakeholders
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion for internal promotions
- Using your certification on LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Continuing education pathways in SRE, platform engineering, and cloud architecture
- Maintaining continuous improvement in your DevOps practice
- Networking with other Art of Service DevOps alumni
- Kubernetes architecture: Control plane, nodes, pods
- Deployments, services, and ingress controllers
- Namespaces and resource quotas for multi-tenancy
- ConfigMaps and Secrets management
- Rolling updates and rollback mechanisms
- Scaling applications based on metrics
- Integrating with CI/CD pipelines
- Canary deployments and blue-green strategies
- Cluster monitoring and logging setup
- Security hardening: RBAC, network policies, pod security standards
Module 9: Advanced CI/CD Pipeline Design - Pipeline as Code: Writing pipelines in version-controlled formats
- Designing staging environments that mirror production
- Managing pipeline triggers: Events vs schedules vs manual
- Approval gates and human intervention points
- Environment promotion workflows
- Managing secrets across environments securely
- Immutable pipeline design principles
- Idempotent deployment scripts
- Parallel and sequential stage execution
- Pipeline templating and reuse across projects
Module 10: Security Integration (DevSecOps) - Shifting security left in the CI/CD pipeline
- Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
- Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
- Software Composition Analysis (SCA) for open-source risks
- Secrets detection in code and pipelines
- Security scanning of container images
- Infrastructure security policy compliance checks
- Automated remediation workflows for common findings
- Integrating with vulnerability databases
- Generating security compliance reports
Module 11: Monitoring, Logging, and Observability - Instrumenting applications for observability
- Centralised logging with ELK or Grafana Loki
- Application and infrastructure metrics collection
- Setting up dashboards in Grafana
- Creating meaningful alerts without noise
- Distributed tracing with Jaeger or Tempo
- Log retention and compliance requirements
- Linking deployment events to metric spikes
- Automated incident response triggers
- Post-mortem documentation and root cause analysis
Module 12: Automated Deployment Strategies - Blue-green deployments: Setup, traffic switching, rollback
- Canary releases: Incremental rollouts with monitoring
- Feature flags and their integration with CI/CD
- Dark launching and shadow traffic techniques
- Database schema change management in automated pipelines
- Zero-downtime deployment patterns
- A/B testing in production with metrics validation
- Automated rollback triggers based on health checks
- Handling stateful applications in automated deployments
- Validating deployments with synthetic transactions
Module 13: Cloud Provider Integration (AWS, Azure, GCP) - CI/CD integration with AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild
- Azure DevOps Pipelines for hybrid cloud environments
- Google Cloud Build and Cloud Deploy for GKE
- Managing cloud credentials securely in pipelines
- Multi-cloud deployment considerations
- Using managed services to simplify pipeline operations
- Infrastructure cost monitoring in CI/CD
- Region-aware deployment strategies
- Enabling cross-account deployments securely
- Compliance enforcement in regulated cloud environments
Module 14: Pipeline Performance Optimisation - Analysing pipeline execution time bottlenecks
- Caching strategies: Dependencies, Docker layers, build outputs
- Parallelising test and build stages
- Reducing redundant steps and rework
- Optimising agent provisioning and scaling
- Minimising container pull times
- Smart triggering: Only run what changed
- Resource throttling and pipeline queuing
- Measuring and improving pipeline reliability
- Documentation and handover of optimised pipelines
Module 15: Compliance, Auditability, and Governance - Designing auditable CI/CD pipelines
- Immutable logs and pipeline execution records
- Role-based access controls in CI/CD systems
- Change approval workflows for regulated environments
- Integrating with ticketing and change management systems
- Automated compliance checks in pipelines
- GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 alignment
- Generating compliance evidence packs
- Third-party auditor readiness checklists
- Internal audit response procedures
Module 16: Disaster Recovery and Pipeline Resilience - Backup and restore strategies for CI/CD systems
- Disaster recovery planning for Jenkins, GitLab, etc
- Failover mechanisms for distributed agents
- Rebuilding pipelines from source control only
- Data loss prevention in pipeline systems
- Testing recovery procedures regularly
- High availability configurations
- Monitoring pipeline health continuously
- Automated alerts for system degradation
- Documenting recovery runbooks
Module 17: Real-World Implementation Projects - Building a full pipeline for a microservices architecture
- Deploying a serverless application with CI/CD
- Setting up CI/CD for a monorepo with multiple services
- Automating database migrations in production
- Creating a secure pipeline for a PCI-compliant system
- Handling CI/CD in air-gapped or offline environments
- CI/CD for embedded systems and IoT
- Pipeline for mobile app deployments (iOS and Android)
- Multi-region deployment automation
- Custom pipeline visualisation and reporting dashboard
Module 18: Career Advancement and Certification Preparation - Porting your hands-on projects to your résumé
- Describing DevOps impact using business metrics
- Preparing for DevOps interview questions
- Writing technical documentation for your pipelines
- Presenting your implementation to non-technical stakeholders
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion for internal promotions
- Using your certification on LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Continuing education pathways in SRE, platform engineering, and cloud architecture
- Maintaining continuous improvement in your DevOps practice
- Networking with other Art of Service DevOps alumni
- Shifting security left in the CI/CD pipeline
- Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
- Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
- Software Composition Analysis (SCA) for open-source risks
- Secrets detection in code and pipelines
- Security scanning of container images
- Infrastructure security policy compliance checks
- Automated remediation workflows for common findings
- Integrating with vulnerability databases
- Generating security compliance reports
Module 11: Monitoring, Logging, and Observability - Instrumenting applications for observability
- Centralised logging with ELK or Grafana Loki
- Application and infrastructure metrics collection
- Setting up dashboards in Grafana
- Creating meaningful alerts without noise
- Distributed tracing with Jaeger or Tempo
- Log retention and compliance requirements
- Linking deployment events to metric spikes
- Automated incident response triggers
- Post-mortem documentation and root cause analysis
Module 12: Automated Deployment Strategies - Blue-green deployments: Setup, traffic switching, rollback
- Canary releases: Incremental rollouts with monitoring
- Feature flags and their integration with CI/CD
- Dark launching and shadow traffic techniques
- Database schema change management in automated pipelines
- Zero-downtime deployment patterns
- A/B testing in production with metrics validation
- Automated rollback triggers based on health checks
- Handling stateful applications in automated deployments
- Validating deployments with synthetic transactions
Module 13: Cloud Provider Integration (AWS, Azure, GCP) - CI/CD integration with AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild
- Azure DevOps Pipelines for hybrid cloud environments
- Google Cloud Build and Cloud Deploy for GKE
- Managing cloud credentials securely in pipelines
- Multi-cloud deployment considerations
- Using managed services to simplify pipeline operations
- Infrastructure cost monitoring in CI/CD
- Region-aware deployment strategies
- Enabling cross-account deployments securely
- Compliance enforcement in regulated cloud environments
Module 14: Pipeline Performance Optimisation - Analysing pipeline execution time bottlenecks
- Caching strategies: Dependencies, Docker layers, build outputs
- Parallelising test and build stages
- Reducing redundant steps and rework
- Optimising agent provisioning and scaling
- Minimising container pull times
- Smart triggering: Only run what changed
- Resource throttling and pipeline queuing
- Measuring and improving pipeline reliability
- Documentation and handover of optimised pipelines
Module 15: Compliance, Auditability, and Governance - Designing auditable CI/CD pipelines
- Immutable logs and pipeline execution records
- Role-based access controls in CI/CD systems
- Change approval workflows for regulated environments
- Integrating with ticketing and change management systems
- Automated compliance checks in pipelines
- GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 alignment
- Generating compliance evidence packs
- Third-party auditor readiness checklists
- Internal audit response procedures
Module 16: Disaster Recovery and Pipeline Resilience - Backup and restore strategies for CI/CD systems
- Disaster recovery planning for Jenkins, GitLab, etc
- Failover mechanisms for distributed agents
- Rebuilding pipelines from source control only
- Data loss prevention in pipeline systems
- Testing recovery procedures regularly
- High availability configurations
- Monitoring pipeline health continuously
- Automated alerts for system degradation
- Documenting recovery runbooks
Module 17: Real-World Implementation Projects - Building a full pipeline for a microservices architecture
- Deploying a serverless application with CI/CD
- Setting up CI/CD for a monorepo with multiple services
- Automating database migrations in production
- Creating a secure pipeline for a PCI-compliant system
- Handling CI/CD in air-gapped or offline environments
- CI/CD for embedded systems and IoT
- Pipeline for mobile app deployments (iOS and Android)
- Multi-region deployment automation
- Custom pipeline visualisation and reporting dashboard
Module 18: Career Advancement and Certification Preparation - Porting your hands-on projects to your résumé
- Describing DevOps impact using business metrics
- Preparing for DevOps interview questions
- Writing technical documentation for your pipelines
- Presenting your implementation to non-technical stakeholders
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion for internal promotions
- Using your certification on LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Continuing education pathways in SRE, platform engineering, and cloud architecture
- Maintaining continuous improvement in your DevOps practice
- Networking with other Art of Service DevOps alumni
- Blue-green deployments: Setup, traffic switching, rollback
- Canary releases: Incremental rollouts with monitoring
- Feature flags and their integration with CI/CD
- Dark launching and shadow traffic techniques
- Database schema change management in automated pipelines
- Zero-downtime deployment patterns
- A/B testing in production with metrics validation
- Automated rollback triggers based on health checks
- Handling stateful applications in automated deployments
- Validating deployments with synthetic transactions
Module 13: Cloud Provider Integration (AWS, Azure, GCP) - CI/CD integration with AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild
- Azure DevOps Pipelines for hybrid cloud environments
- Google Cloud Build and Cloud Deploy for GKE
- Managing cloud credentials securely in pipelines
- Multi-cloud deployment considerations
- Using managed services to simplify pipeline operations
- Infrastructure cost monitoring in CI/CD
- Region-aware deployment strategies
- Enabling cross-account deployments securely
- Compliance enforcement in regulated cloud environments
Module 14: Pipeline Performance Optimisation - Analysing pipeline execution time bottlenecks
- Caching strategies: Dependencies, Docker layers, build outputs
- Parallelising test and build stages
- Reducing redundant steps and rework
- Optimising agent provisioning and scaling
- Minimising container pull times
- Smart triggering: Only run what changed
- Resource throttling and pipeline queuing
- Measuring and improving pipeline reliability
- Documentation and handover of optimised pipelines
Module 15: Compliance, Auditability, and Governance - Designing auditable CI/CD pipelines
- Immutable logs and pipeline execution records
- Role-based access controls in CI/CD systems
- Change approval workflows for regulated environments
- Integrating with ticketing and change management systems
- Automated compliance checks in pipelines
- GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 alignment
- Generating compliance evidence packs
- Third-party auditor readiness checklists
- Internal audit response procedures
Module 16: Disaster Recovery and Pipeline Resilience - Backup and restore strategies for CI/CD systems
- Disaster recovery planning for Jenkins, GitLab, etc
- Failover mechanisms for distributed agents
- Rebuilding pipelines from source control only
- Data loss prevention in pipeline systems
- Testing recovery procedures regularly
- High availability configurations
- Monitoring pipeline health continuously
- Automated alerts for system degradation
- Documenting recovery runbooks
Module 17: Real-World Implementation Projects - Building a full pipeline for a microservices architecture
- Deploying a serverless application with CI/CD
- Setting up CI/CD for a monorepo with multiple services
- Automating database migrations in production
- Creating a secure pipeline for a PCI-compliant system
- Handling CI/CD in air-gapped or offline environments
- CI/CD for embedded systems and IoT
- Pipeline for mobile app deployments (iOS and Android)
- Multi-region deployment automation
- Custom pipeline visualisation and reporting dashboard
Module 18: Career Advancement and Certification Preparation - Porting your hands-on projects to your résumé
- Describing DevOps impact using business metrics
- Preparing for DevOps interview questions
- Writing technical documentation for your pipelines
- Presenting your implementation to non-technical stakeholders
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion for internal promotions
- Using your certification on LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Continuing education pathways in SRE, platform engineering, and cloud architecture
- Maintaining continuous improvement in your DevOps practice
- Networking with other Art of Service DevOps alumni
- Analysing pipeline execution time bottlenecks
- Caching strategies: Dependencies, Docker layers, build outputs
- Parallelising test and build stages
- Reducing redundant steps and rework
- Optimising agent provisioning and scaling
- Minimising container pull times
- Smart triggering: Only run what changed
- Resource throttling and pipeline queuing
- Measuring and improving pipeline reliability
- Documentation and handover of optimised pipelines
Module 15: Compliance, Auditability, and Governance - Designing auditable CI/CD pipelines
- Immutable logs and pipeline execution records
- Role-based access controls in CI/CD systems
- Change approval workflows for regulated environments
- Integrating with ticketing and change management systems
- Automated compliance checks in pipelines
- GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 alignment
- Generating compliance evidence packs
- Third-party auditor readiness checklists
- Internal audit response procedures
Module 16: Disaster Recovery and Pipeline Resilience - Backup and restore strategies for CI/CD systems
- Disaster recovery planning for Jenkins, GitLab, etc
- Failover mechanisms for distributed agents
- Rebuilding pipelines from source control only
- Data loss prevention in pipeline systems
- Testing recovery procedures regularly
- High availability configurations
- Monitoring pipeline health continuously
- Automated alerts for system degradation
- Documenting recovery runbooks
Module 17: Real-World Implementation Projects - Building a full pipeline for a microservices architecture
- Deploying a serverless application with CI/CD
- Setting up CI/CD for a monorepo with multiple services
- Automating database migrations in production
- Creating a secure pipeline for a PCI-compliant system
- Handling CI/CD in air-gapped or offline environments
- CI/CD for embedded systems and IoT
- Pipeline for mobile app deployments (iOS and Android)
- Multi-region deployment automation
- Custom pipeline visualisation and reporting dashboard
Module 18: Career Advancement and Certification Preparation - Porting your hands-on projects to your résumé
- Describing DevOps impact using business metrics
- Preparing for DevOps interview questions
- Writing technical documentation for your pipelines
- Presenting your implementation to non-technical stakeholders
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion for internal promotions
- Using your certification on LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Continuing education pathways in SRE, platform engineering, and cloud architecture
- Maintaining continuous improvement in your DevOps practice
- Networking with other Art of Service DevOps alumni
- Backup and restore strategies for CI/CD systems
- Disaster recovery planning for Jenkins, GitLab, etc
- Failover mechanisms for distributed agents
- Rebuilding pipelines from source control only
- Data loss prevention in pipeline systems
- Testing recovery procedures regularly
- High availability configurations
- Monitoring pipeline health continuously
- Automated alerts for system degradation
- Documenting recovery runbooks
Module 17: Real-World Implementation Projects - Building a full pipeline for a microservices architecture
- Deploying a serverless application with CI/CD
- Setting up CI/CD for a monorepo with multiple services
- Automating database migrations in production
- Creating a secure pipeline for a PCI-compliant system
- Handling CI/CD in air-gapped or offline environments
- CI/CD for embedded systems and IoT
- Pipeline for mobile app deployments (iOS and Android)
- Multi-region deployment automation
- Custom pipeline visualisation and reporting dashboard
Module 18: Career Advancement and Certification Preparation - Porting your hands-on projects to your résumé
- Describing DevOps impact using business metrics
- Preparing for DevOps interview questions
- Writing technical documentation for your pipelines
- Presenting your implementation to non-technical stakeholders
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion for internal promotions
- Using your certification on LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Continuing education pathways in SRE, platform engineering, and cloud architecture
- Maintaining continuous improvement in your DevOps practice
- Networking with other Art of Service DevOps alumni
- Porting your hands-on projects to your résumé
- Describing DevOps impact using business metrics
- Preparing for DevOps interview questions
- Writing technical documentation for your pipelines
- Presenting your implementation to non-technical stakeholders
- Leveraging the Certificate of Completion for internal promotions
- Using your certification on LinkedIn and professional profiles
- Continuing education pathways in SRE, platform engineering, and cloud architecture
- Maintaining continuous improvement in your DevOps practice
- Networking with other Art of Service DevOps alumni