Introduction

Learn about DevOps to support organizational effort in reducing costs while increasing agility, quality and customer service. Leverage case studies, real-world success stories, and metrics to demonstrate business success in this foundation level course to support digital transformation.

Course Duration :

2 Days Instructor-Led Classroom Training

Synopsis

Outline

Objectives

Audience

Certification & Exam Info

Prerequisites

Synopsis

As organizations are facing new entrants in their respective markets, they need to stay competitive and release new and updated products on a regular basis.

The course includes a baseline understanding of key DevOps terminologies, the latest thinking, principles and practices from the DevOps community including real-world case studies from many high performing organizations that engage and inspire learners, leveraging multimedia and interactive exercises that bring the learning experience to life, including the Three Ways as highlighted in the Phoenix Project the latest from the State of DevOps report.

Participants will gain an understanding of this cultural and professional movement that stresses communication, collaboration, integration, and automation to improve the flow of work between software developers and IT operations professionals.

It is designed for a broad audience, enabling those on the business side to obtain an understanding of Kubernetes and Containers while those on the technical side will obtain an understanding as to the business value of DevOps to reduce cost, increase quality and enhance agility to support business objectives in support of digital transformation initiatives.

Outline

Exploring DevOps
- Defining DevOps
- Why Does DevOps Matter?
Core DevOps Principles
- The Three Ways
- The First Way
- The Theory of Constraints
- The Second Way
- The Third Way
- Chaos Engineering
- Learning Organizations
Key DevOps Practices
- Continuous Delivery
- Site Reliability & Resilience Engineering
- DevSecOps
- ChatOps
- Kanban
Business and Technology Frameworks
- Agile
- ITSM
- Lean
- Safety Culture
- Learning Organizations
- Sociocracy/Holacracy
- Continuous Funding
Culture, Behaviors & Operating Models
- Defining Culture
- Behavioral Models
- Organizational maturity models
- Target Operating Models
Automation & Architecting DevOps Toolchains
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Containers
- Kubernetes
- DevOps Toolchain
Measurement, Metrics, and Reporting
- The Importance of Metrics
- Technical Metrics
- Business Metrics
- Measuring & Reporting Metrics
Sharing, Shadowing and Evolving
- Collaborative Platforms
- Immersive, Experiential Learning
- DevOps Leadership
- Evolving Change

Objectives

On completion of this course, the following learning outcomes will be achieved:

DevOps objectives and vocabulary
Benefits to the business and IT
Principles and practices including Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, testing, security and the Three Ways
DevOps relationship to Agile, Lean and ITSM
Improved workflows, communication and feedback loops
Automation practices including deployment pipelines and DevOps toolchains
Scaling DevOps for the enterprise
Critical success factors and key performance indicators
Real-life examples and results

Audience

The target audience for this course and qualification include Management, Operations, Developers, QA and Testing professionals including:

Individuals involved in IT development, IT operations or IT service management
Individuals who require an understanding of DevOps principles IT professionals working within, or about to enter, an Agile Service Design Environment

Certification & Exam Info

CERTIFICATION

Participants who successfully complete the course and pass the examination will be recognized as certified with DevOps Foundation issued by DevOps Institute. Delegates who do not attain a passing score for the examination would be awarded a course attendance certificate only.

The DevOps Foundation course is a prerequisite for sitting the DevOps advance-level courses and examination.

EXAMINATION FORMAT

40 Multiple Choice
1 mark per correct answer
26 marks required to pass (out of 40 available) – 65%
One hour duration
Closed-book

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites to attending the DevOps Foundation course or for sitting for the DevOps Foundation certification examination. Familiarity with IT terminology and IT related work experience is advantageous.