DevOps Series Curriculum :

Prerequisites :

• You must be familiar with at least one programming language (Python or JavaScript) and its basic concepts such as loops, variables, functions, and other fundamentals.

• You should have built at least one full-stack project, or a basic project like an e-commerce website. This will help the course make more sense to you.

• What is DevOps? (culture, principles, lifecycle)

• DevOps vs Agile vs SDLC

• CI/CD basic idea

• Developer → Ops communication gap

• Overview of DevOps tools ecosystem

2. OS & Terminal Fundamentals

• Linux basics (commands, permissions)

• aliases, .bashrc/.zshrc ,

• Shell scripting (bash scripting)

• Environment variables

• Process management, Cron jobs , networking commands (ping, netstat, curl)

• interactive vs non interactive shells

• [File transfer - ftp, scp] , [ File permissions ].

• Writing your own Bash script - using variables, loops, conditionals, and functions.

• System monitoring (top, htop, df, du)

• args in bash scripts , grep

• stderr, stdout, File descriptors, piping
• Projects:
1. System Info CLI Tool (Beginner)
2. Automated Backup Script (Intermediate)

3. Version Control (Git & GitHub)

• Git basic commands (init, clone, commit, push, pull, branch)

• Git branching strategies (Git Flow)

• Merging & resolving conflicts

• GitHub Actions overview (for CI)

4. Continuous Integration (CI)

• CI concept and workflow

• Jenkins fundamentals (setup, pipeline creation)

• GitHub Actions

• Build tools: Maven, npm
• automate the process of compiling, testing, packaging, and managing dependencies.

• Running unit tests in CI

• Code quality checks ( ESLint)

5. Continuous Delivery & Deployment (CD)

• CD pipelines overview

• Blue-Green & Canary Deployments (Basic)

• Rolling updates

• Automated deployment scripts

6. Containers & Docker

• What is containerization?

• Docker architecture

• Dockerfile (writing and optimization)

• Docker Compose

• Docker volumes & networks

• Multi-stage builds

• Pushing images to Docker Hub / private registry

7. Kubernetes (K8s) — Container Orchestration

• Why Kubernetes? (problem it solves)

• K8s core components (Pod, ReplicaSet, Deployment, Service)

• ConfigMaps, Secrets

• Namespaces

• Ingress & LoadBalancer

• Persistent Volumes (PV, PVC)

• Helm charts

• Rolling updates in K8s

• K8s dashboard & kubectl commands

• Autoscaling (HPA, VPA)

8. CDNs and Object stores

• What are object stores, Why object stores?

• Intro to CDNs , S3, R2 for assets

• Cloudfront as a CDN

9. Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Concept of IaC

• Terraform basics (providers, variables, outputs)

• Creating AWS infrastructure using Terraform

• Ansible basics (playbooks, inventory, roles)

• Ansible vs Terraform (use-cases)

10. Cloud Platforms (AWS Focus)

• Cloud basics (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)

• AWS Core Services:
• EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, EBS, ELB, RDS

• Networking in AWS (CIDR, Subnet, Route Table, NAT)

• AWS CLI & SDK

• Hosting applications on EC2

• Load Balancer + Auto Scaling

• AWS EKS (Kubernetes on AWS)

• CloudWatch basics for monitoring

11. Security & Secrets Management

• SSH keys & access management

• IAM roles, users, policies

• Secrets management with Vault / AWS Secrets Manager

• SSL certificates

• Secure pipeline practices (avoid hardcoded secrets)

12. Monitoring & Logging

• Importance of observability

• Metrics, logs, tracing (3 pillars)

• Prometheus (setup, alerts)

• Grafana (dashboards)

• Application performance monitoring (APM tools: New Relic, Datadog)

13. Alerting & Incident Response

• Setting alerts with Prometheus + Alertmanager

• Slack / Email / PagerDuty integration

• Status pages (e.g., BetterStack style)

• On-call management and SLO/SLI/SLA basics

Project :

• Uptimematrix : A monitoring tool creating something like : incident_ioAll-in-one incident management platform | incident.io
  

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  incident.io is an all-in-one incident management platform unifying on-call scheduling, real-time incident response, and integrated status pages – helping teams resolve issues faster and reduce downtime.

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14. Automation Tool

• Puppet Automation tool
• Website scrapper.

15. Networking & Load Balancing (Deep Dive)

• DNS, CDN, HTTP vs HTTPS

• Reverse proxy & Load Balancer (Nginx, HAProxy)

• SSL termination

16. Advanced CI/CD (End-to-End)

• Multi-environment pipelines (dev → staging → prod)

• GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux) - Kubernetes concept based.

• Canary + Blue/Green in Kubernetes

• Rollback strategies

17. Observability + Logging Advanced

• Centralized log aggregation

• Correlating logs, metrics, and traces

• Dashboards for multi-service environments

19. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Basics

• What is SRE?

• Error budgets, SLIs, SLAs

• Reliability vs velocity tradeoffs

• Incident management

• Postmortems & blameless culture

20. Advanced Topics & Real Projects

• Full CI/CD pipeline on AWS

• Infrastructure automation from scratch (uptimematrix)

• Real-time monitoring dashboard (Prometheus + Grafana)

• Scaling web app on AWS - Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

• Setup of GitOps using ArgoCD

• Deployment strategies simulation (Blue-Green, Canary)

21. DevOps Tools You Should Know (Summary Table)