DevOps Foundation
- Course Duration
- 2 Days
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Course Description
DevOps Foundation® is a fast-paced, interactive two-day course that introduces essential DevOps principles, practices, and cultural shifts. Through real-world examples and hands-on exercises, you’ll learn how DevOps bridges development and operations to drive collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement.
Inspired by The Phoenix Project and backed by the latest State of DevOps research, this course goes beyond theory. It helps business and technical professionals alike understand how to bridge silos, increase collaboration, and accelerate innovation. Whether you’re looking to drive digital transformation or just work more effectively in cross-functional teams, DevOps Foundation® sets you up for success.
Course Objective
This course builds foundational knowledge of DevOps as both a cultural movement and a practical approach to modern software development. You’ll explore the “Three Ways” of DevOps, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), infrastructure as code, and automation strategies using tools like Docker and Kubernetes. It highlights how DevOps aligns with Agile, Lean, ITSM, and project management while supporting continuous improvement, reduced change failures, and faster deployment. You’ll also study real-world case studies, cultural frameworks, DevSecOps, and DevOps Institute best practices that accelerate innovation across the development and operations lifecycle.
Course Outline
1 – Exploring DevOps
- Defining DevOps
- Why Does DevOps Matter?
2 – Core DevOps Principles
- The Three Ways
- The First Way
- The Theory of Constraints
- The Second Way
- The Third Way
- Chaos Engineering
- Learning Organizations
3 – Key DevOps Practices
- Continuous Delivery
- Site Reliability & Resilience Engineering
- DevSecOps
- ChatOps
- Kanban
4 – Business and Technology Frameworks
- Agile
- ITSM
- Lean
- Safety Culture
- Learning Organizations
- Sociocracy/Holacracy
- Continuous Funding
5 – Culture, Behaviors & Operating Models
- Defining Culture
- Behavioral Models
- Organizational maturity models
- Target Operating Models
6 – Automation & Architecting DevOps Toolchains
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Containers
- Kubernetes
- DevOps Toolchain
7 – Measurement, Metrics, and Reporting
- The Importance of Metrics
- Technical Metrics
- Business Metrics
- Measuring & Reporting Metrics
8 – Sharing, Shadowing and Evolving
- Collaborative Platforms
- Immersive, Experiential Learning
- DevOps Leadership
- Evolving Change