DevOps for Developers: How to Get Started

edX DevOps for Developers: How to Get Started

Platform
edX
Provider
Microsoft
Effort
3-4 hours/week
Length
3 weeks
Language
English
Credentials
Paid Certificate Available
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Overview
This course is part of the Microsoft Professional Program Certificate in Front-End Web Development.

DevOps is the union of people, process and products to enable the continuous delivery of value to end users. It aims to create a culture and environment where building, testing, and releasing software can happen rapidly, frequently, and more reliably, so you can innovate like a startup and scale for the enterprise. By taking this introductory DevOps course, you’ll be able to define DevOps, understand why you need DevOps, and learn how you can get started with DevOps. You’ll learn the key ideas and techniques to bring development and operations together to produce higher-quality software and deliver it more quickly.

What you'll learn
  • The value, history, and building blocks of DevOps
  • How to unify processes and improve collaboration between development and operations
  • Continuous Integration (CI), continuous testing, and continuous deployment
  • Release Management, configuration management, and monitoring in DevOps
Syllabus
  • Week 1: Introduction to DevOps
    Introduction to the definition, value, history, building blocks, and best practices of DevOps
  • Week 2: A unified process between development and operations
    Introduction to how Agile software development process applies to DevOps, the importance of integrating source control in DevOps, and how automation is applied to DevOps
  • Week 3: Continuous Integration (CI), continuous testing, and continuous deployment
    Introduction to the key concepts, benefits, tools, and practices of implementing Continuous Integration (CI), continuous testing, and continuous deployment
  • Week 4: Configuration management and release management
    Introduction to the key concepts, benefits, tools and practices of implementing release management and configuration management.
  • Week 5: Monitoring and feedback
    Introduction to the key concepts and tools of tracking production and aligning with suitable metrics to improve business results.

Taught by
Lei Ma and Steven Borg
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edX
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