DevOps Foundations
Understand how software moves from an idea to a reliable service, and how product, development, operations, security, and governance collaborate throughout that lifecycle.
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Learning Path
Master the complete DevOps journey from foundations and Linux through Azure, pipelines, containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, security, observability, reliability, automation, and disaster recovery.
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Core DevOpsOperating SystemsAutomationNetworkingSource ControlMicrosoft AzureAzure DevOpsContainersKubernetesInfrastructure as CodeConfiguration ManagementQuality EngineeringSecurityObservabilityDelivery EngineeringOperationsDelivery GovernanceData EngineeringPlatform EngineeringResilience
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Core DevOps
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Operating Systems
Linux Administration
Operate the Linux hosts and runtime environments that support build agents, containers, middleware, observability components, and production applications.
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Automation
Bash Scripting and Automation
Use Bash to turn reliable Linux commands into repeatable operational and pipeline automation with clear inputs, validation, logging, and failure handling.
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Open complete module Python Automation for DevOps
Build maintainable Python automation that handles files, processes, JSON, YAML, REST calls, Azure SDK operations, structured logging, and exceptions in local and pipeline execution.
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Open complete module PowerShell Automation for DevOps
Automate Azure and pipeline operations with object-based PowerShell cmdlets, control flow, functions, modules, file handling, REST integration, and predictable error behavior.
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Open complete module REST API and Azure DevOps Automation
Use HTTP, JSON, authentication, Azure DevOps REST resources, and Python or PowerShell clients to automate pipelines, repositories, and work items reliably.
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Networking
Networking Fundamentals
Understand how application traffic moves from a client through name resolution, routing, security controls, proxies, load balancers, and transport sessions to a service endpoint.
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Source Control
Git Version Control
Use Git as a distributed history and collaboration system, not merely a place to upload files. Understand how changes move from the working tree into commits and shared branches.
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Open complete module GitHub Collaboration and Security
Operate GitHub as a governed engineering platform for repositories, reviews, planning, packages, releases, automation, secrets, and software-supply-chain security.
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Microsoft Azure
Azure Fundamentals and Governance
Structure Azure estates so ownership, policy, access, cost, resilience, and lifecycle rules apply consistently from the tenant down to individual resources.
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Open complete module Azure Compute Services
Choose and operate the right Azure compute model, from virtual machines to managed application, function, container, and Kubernetes platforms.
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Open complete module Azure Networking
Design private, controlled, observable connectivity between Azure workloads, users, on-premises networks, the internet, and global entry points.
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Open complete module Azure Storage and Data Protection
Select, secure, scale, and lifecycle-manage Azure storage for objects, shared files, messages, key-value data, and virtual machine disks.
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Open complete module Azure Identity and Security
Protect Azure access and sensitive material using Microsoft Entra ID, workload identities, conditional access, Key Vault, Defender for Cloud, and Microsoft Sentinel.
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Azure DevOps
Azure DevOps Organizations and Boards
Structure Azure DevOps organizations, projects, teams, permissions, connections, agents, and planning boards so delivery work remains visible, governed, and traceable.
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Open complete module Azure Repos and Pull-Request Governance
Manage Azure Repos as a protected collaboration surface with clear branch strategy, review ownership, validation policy, merge behavior, tags, and repository permissions.
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Open complete module Azure Pipelines Architecture and YAML
Model repeatable delivery workflows in Azure Pipelines using triggers, agents, jobs, steps, stages, variables, parameters, expressions, templates, dependencies, and outputs.
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Open complete module CI/CD Execution and Deployment Controls
Build an evidence-producing path that takes source code through dependency restore, compilation, tests, analysis, security, containerization, artifact publication, controlled promotion, deployment, and validation.
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Open complete module Azure Artifacts and Package Management
Create governed feeds for application and universal packages with predictable versioning, upstream controls, retention, and producer-consumer permissions.
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Containers
Docker and Container Engineering
Package applications into portable container images and operate their runtime configuration, storage, connectivity, composition, optimization, security, and troubleshooting.
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Open complete module Azure Container Registry
Operate Azure Container Registry as a private, authenticated, replicated, and scanned distribution point for versioned container images.
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Kubernetes
Kubernetes Core Workloads
Understand Kubernetes control-plane reconciliation and the workload resources used to run stateless, stateful, scheduled, and node-level applications.
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Open complete module Kubernetes Storage, Networking, Security, and Scheduling
Control persistent data, ingress and east-west traffic, workload identity, resource allocation, health signaling, autoscaling, disruption, and pod placement in Kubernetes.
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Open complete module Azure Kubernetes Service Engineering
Design and operate AKS clusters with appropriate node pools, networking, registry access, Entra integration, managed identity, secret delivery, ingress, scaling, upgrades, monitoring, and security.
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Open complete module Helm Package Management
Package Kubernetes manifests into reusable, versioned charts whose templates and values support controlled installation, upgrade, rollback, dependency, and environment variation.
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Infrastructure as Code
Terraform Infrastructure as Code
Model, plan, provision, change, import, and govern infrastructure with Terraform providers, resources, expressions, modules, state, backends, and lifecycle controls.
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Open complete module ARM Templates and Bicep
Deploy Azure resources through native ARM JSON and Bicep declarations with parameters, variables, functions, dependencies, modules, loops, conditions, outputs, and controlled deployment modes.
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Configuration Management
Ansible Configuration Automation
Use Ansible inventories, playbooks, modules, variables, facts, handlers, roles, templates, Vault, and dynamic inventory to configure systems consistently after infrastructure exists.
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Quality Engineering
SonarQube and Code Quality
Measure source quality with SonarQube analysis, coverage, profiles, and gates so maintainability and correctness become enforceable delivery evidence.
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Security
DevSecOps Security Scanning
Place complementary security tests across source, dependencies, secrets, images, infrastructure code, and running applications, then convert findings into risk-based delivery gates.
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Open complete module Key Vault Integration and Secret Rotation
Deliver secrets, keys, and certificates to pipelines and AKS workloads through identity-based Key Vault access with rotation and auditability.
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Observability
Azure Monitor and Application Observability
Collect, correlate, query, visualize, alert, and test Azure platform and application telemetry using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and KQL.
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Open complete module Prometheus Monitoring and Alerting
Collect time-series metrics from applications and infrastructure using Prometheus exporters, scraping, PromQL, recording and alert rules, and Alertmanager routing.
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Open complete module Grafana Dashboards and Alerting
Turn metrics and logs from Prometheus and Azure Monitor into usable Grafana dashboards, variables, queries, panels, and alerts for engineering and operations audiences.
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Open complete module Centralized Logging and Analysis
Collect application, operating-system, container, Kubernetes, and Azure logs into centralized platforms with parsing, correlation, querying, retention, access, and cost controls.
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Delivery Engineering
Deployment Strategies and Release Safety
Choose rolling, recreate, blue-green, canary, A/B, shadow, feature-flag, and rollback patterns based on availability, capacity, data compatibility, observability, and risk.
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Open complete module GitOps with Argo CD and Flux
Operate Kubernetes desired state through reviewed Git manifests and in-cluster Argo CD or Flux reconciliation with sync, health, drift detection, and recovery controls.
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Operations
Site Reliability Engineering
Define measurable reliability through SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets, then run on-call, incident, capacity, postmortem, and toil-reduction practices around those objectives.
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Open complete module Production Troubleshooting and Recovery
Diagnose failures across pipelines, deployments, HTTP responses, compute resources, storage, networks, DNS, certificates, Kubernetes, databases, and application latency without increasing impact.
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Delivery Governance
Release Management
Coordinate versioning, release branches, change records, approvals, freezes, notes, production deployment, smoke testing, rollback, and hotfixes as one traceable release process.
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Open complete module Delivery Security, Governance, and Compliance
Enforce least privilege, protected branches and environments, controlled approvals, auditable service connections, secret management, policy, and compliance evidence across delivery systems.
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Data Engineering
Database CI/CD and Schema Evolution
Version, validate, package, migrate, and recover relational database schema changes using SQL scripts, DACPAC, Flyway, or Liquibase in a controlled delivery pipeline.
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Platform Engineering
Enterprise Pipeline Architecture
Scale governed delivery across repositories, applications, templates, environments, subscriptions, regions, and tenants without copying pipeline logic or centralizing every decision.
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Resilience
Backup and Disaster Recovery
Translate business recovery objectives into protected backups, restores, Azure Backup, Site Recovery, multi-region architecture, failover, failback, and rehearsed disaster-recovery procedures.
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