Course Outline

Introduction to DevOps and Platform Engineering

  • Defining DevOps and its core principles
  • Understanding platform engineering
  • The synergy between DevOps and platform engineering

Culture and Collaboration

  • Building a collaborative culture
  • Communication strategies for teams
  • Overcoming silos in IT departments

Tools and Technologies

  • Essential tools for DevOps and platform engineering
  • Automation and orchestration platforms
  • Monitoring and analytics for continuous improvement

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

  • Principles of IaC
  • Implementing IaC with configuration management tools
  • Best practices for managing infrastructure

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

  • The CI/CD pipeline: From code to deployment
  • Integrating platform engineering into CI/CD
  • Case studies: Successful CI/CD implementations

Microservices and Containerization

  • Microservices architecture and its benefits
  • Containerization with Docker and Kubernetes
  • Managing services at scale

Security and Compliance

  • DevSecOps: Integrating security into the pipeline
  • Compliance as code
  • Security best practices for platform engineering

Observability and Reliability

  • The pillars of observability
  • Ensuring system reliability
  • Incident response and postmortems

Platform as a Product

  • Treating platforms as products
  • User-centric design for internal platforms
  • Measuring success and ROI

Hands-On Workshops

  • Setting up a basic DevOps pipeline
  • Building and deploying a microservice
  • Implementing IaC for cloud infrastructure

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • An understanding of software development and operations
  • Experience with basic system administration
  • Familiarity with command-line interfaces and version control systems

Audience

  • Software developers
  • System administrators
  • IT project managers
 14 Hours

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