Become a DevOps Engineer

Are you a developer learning continuous delivery, a sys admin keeping current, or a new engineer getting started? This Learning Path helps you gain skills to work in DevOps. Learn about infrastucture automation, lean and agile transformation, security, monitoring, and site reliability engineering.

Discover how to adopt DevOps at your organization.

Explore tools and concepts for infrastructure automation.

Build a continuous delivery pipeline using practices.

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DevOps Foundations with Ernest Mueller

Learn how DevOps can help you establish a culture of collaboration and communication between software engineers (Dev) and IT operations (Ops).

2h 53m • COURSE

Learning Ansible with Jesse Keating

Explore Ansible, an easy-to-use IT automation engine. Learn about the basic purpose of Ansible, the different components that make up this software, and the variety of high-level use cases that it was designed to handle.

59m 56s • COURSE

Learning Puppet with Josh Samuelson

Manage your infrastructure more efficiently with Puppet, the IT automation platform. Learn best practices for using Puppet in a real-world environment.

1h 39m • COURSE

Learning Chef with Robin Beck

Learn how to use Chef, a powerful platform that transforms your infrastructure into code, to simplify and automate configuration management.

2h 56m • COURSE

Learning Docker with Arthur Ulfeldt

Learn the basics of Docker, the open-source tool for deploying and managing applications as containers.

2h 35m • COURSE

DevOps Foundations: Continuous Delivery/Continuous Integration with James Wickett

Discover how to build faster, more reliable software with continuous delivery and continuous integration. Learn about core CI/CD concepts by seeing how they fit into a delivery pipeline.

2h 9m • COURSE

Learning Jenkins with Michael Jenkins

Learn how to automate software development and system administration tasks with Jenkins, the open-source automation tool for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Docker.

1h 20m • COURSE

Learning Software Version Control with Michael Lehman

Reviews the history of version control and demonstrates its fundamental concepts: check-in/checkout, forking, merging, commits, and distribution.

2h 55m • COURSE

DevOps Foundations: Lean and Agile with Ernest Mueller

Learn how to apply lean and agile principles to deliver better systems and better business outcomes for your DevOps team.

1h 26m • COURSE

Lean Technology Strategy: Running Agile at Scale with Jez Humble

Learn about common pitfalls you may encounter when adopting agile across an organization. Discover practical techniques that can help you successfully manage a transformation.

46m 5s • COURSE

Lean Technology Strategy: Building High-Performing Teams with Jez Humble

Great teams develop better products. Get tips to build a high-performing lean team.

33m 49s • COURSE

Lean Technology Strategy: Starting Your Business Transformation with Barry O'Reilly

Learn how to leverage the lean management approach to innovate your organization and kick-start your business transformation.

37m 32s • COURSE

Lean Technology Strategy: Moving Fast With Defined Constraints with Joanne Molesky

Learn how to adopt lean and agile practices while dealing with defined processes, compliance, risk, and other concerns.

47m 33s • COURSE

DevOps Foundations: DevSecOps with Tim Chase

Get an overview of DevSecOps. Find out how a DevSecOps program can help you integrate security into the application development pipeline.

54m 24s • COURSE

DevOps Foundations: Infrastructure as Code with Ernest Mueller

Learn the basics of infrastructure as code, including how to keep your configuration in a source repository and have it built and deployed like an application.

2h 6m • COURSE

DevSecOps: Building a Secure Continuous Delivery Pipeline with James Wickett

Explore best practices and tools that can help you implement security across the entirety of the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline.

1h 12m • COURSE

DevSecOps: Automated Security Testing with James Wickett

Learn how to set up automated security testing for your software delivery workflow, including continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines.

1h 35m • COURSE

DevOps Foundations: Monitoring and Observability with Ernest Mueller

Learn about techniques and tools for monitoring from a DevOps mindset.

2h 12m • COURSE

Learning the Elastic Stack with Emmanuel Henri

Discover how to set up and use the Elastic Stack to ingest your data, analyze it, and visualize it with charts and graphs.

1h 30m • COURSE

Learning Nagios with Josh Samuelson

Learn how to use Nagios to monitor system health and gain actionable intelligence about your IT infrastructure.

1h 6m • COURSE

Graphite and Grafana: Visualizing Application Performance with Laura Stone

Learn how to combine StatsD, Graphite, and Grafana to visualize metrics about the performance of your applications.

1h 49m • COURSE

DevOps Foundations: Site Reliability Engineering with Ernest Mueller

Explore the basics of site reliability engineering for DevOps. Learn SRE techniques for release, change and incident management, self-service automation, and more.

1h 20m • COURSE

Learning Kubernetes with Karthik Gaekwad

Learn how to deploy container-based applications using Kubernetes, the world's most popular open-source orchestration engine.

2h 19m • COURSE

Kubernetes: Cloud Native Ecosystem with Karthik Gaekwad

Learn about the tools and platforms provided by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and the problems these tools can solve.

27m 42s • COURSE

Kubernetes: Microservices with Karthik Gaekwad

Get started with Kubernetes and microservices. Learn how to break monolithic applications down into nimble microservices and deploy them in a container-centric Kubernetes environment.

1h 28m • COURSE