Introduction to DevOps

Definition, principles, and goals of DevOps. Evolution and historical context. Key practices and cultural aspects. Key DevOps Practices- Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CD), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Configuration Management. DevOps Culture and Tools- Collaboration and communication, Automation mindset, Measurement and sharing, Introduction to popular DevOps tools.

Version Control Basics- Introduction to version control systems (e.g., Git), Branching strategies and best practices. Collaboration Tools and Git Workflows- Using collaboration tools (e.g., GitHub, GitLab), Pull Requests and Code Reviews, Feature branching and Gitflow workflow. Git Advanced Topics- Rebasing and merging strategies, Managing conflicts, Git hooks.

Continuous Integration and Automated Testing-CI fundamentals and benefits, Setting up a CI pipeline (using Jenkins), Types of automated tests and frameworks. Continuous Deployment-CD principles and practices, Blue-Green deployments and Canary releases, Monitoring and Logging. Introduction to monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana), Logging best practices.

Introduction to IaC and Terraform Basics-Definition and benefits of IaC, Popular IaC tools (e.g., Terraform), Infrastructure provisioning and declarative configuration. Terraform Advanced Topics-Modules and workspaces, Terraform state and backends. Configuration Management with Ansible-Introduction to Ansible. Ansible playbooks and roles.

Containerization Basics and Docker-Introduction to containers (Docker), Docker basics and commands. Docker Compose and Container Orchestration with Kubernetes-Defining multi-container applications using Docker Compose, Introduction to Kubernetes, Deploying applications on Kubernetes. Kubernetes Advanced Topics- Helm charts, Kubernetes networking. Stateful Sets and Daemon Sets.