DevOps Basics for Everyone

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Free Online Course: DevOps Basics for Everyone provided by edX is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 3 weeks long, 3-4 hours a week. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from edX. DevOps Basics for Everyone is taught by John Rofrano.

Overview
  • The DevOps Basics for Everyone course explores DevOps as a cultural movement. By thinking from a DevOps perspective, you will be able to build better products for your customer. This course provides views of DevOps from both a business perspective and as a DevOps engineer.

    You will learn about building a business case for DevOps, the essentials of DevOps, and receive a brief history of DevOps. Additionally, new ways of thinking, working, organizing, and measuring to fully gain the benefits of DevOps methodologies will also be taught.

    You will learn how breaking down silos and organizing developers and operators into single cross-functional teams is necessary for truly adopting DevOps. Having everyone contributing and being responsible is at the core of being successful at applying DevOps.

    You will see how building a culture of shared responsibility and transparency is the foundation of every high performing DevOps team.

    Exploring the key concepts of infrastructure for DevOps Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery is taught during this course. You will be able to use actionable measures that apply directly to decision making that will ultimately result in continuous improvement.

    The course wraps up with a case study of a DevOps scenario for you to test and apply your newly acquired DevOps knowledge.

Syllabus
  • Module 1: Overview of DevOps ****

    * Business Case for DevOps

    * DevOps Adoption

    * Definition of DevOps

    * Essential Characteristics of DevOps

    * Leading up to DevOps

    * XP, Agile, and Beyond

    * A Brief History of DevOps

    Module 2: Thinking DevOps

    * Social Coding Principles

    * Git Repository Guidelines

    * Working in Small Batches

    * Minimum Viable Product

    * Test Driven Development

    * Behavior Driven Development

    * Cloud Native Microservices

    * Designing for Failure

    Module 3: Working DevOps

    * Taylorism and Working in Silos

    * Software Engineering vs Civil Engineering

    * Required DevOps Behaviors

    * Infrastructure as Code

    * Continuous Integration

    * Continuous Delivery

    Module 4: Organizing for DevOps

    * Organizational Impact of DevOps

    * There is no DevOps Team

    * Everyone is Responsible for Success

    Module 5: Measuring DevOps

    * Rewarding for "A" while hoping for "B"

    * Vanity Metrics vs Actionable Metrics

    * How to measure your culture

    * DevOps maturity in your organization

    * Comparison of DevOps to SRE

    Module 6: Honors Final Project