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DevOps from culture to code: what it really is, measuring delivery with DORA metrics, collaboration and blameless learning, Git and trunk-based development, CI/CD and release strategies, testing and artefacts, infrastructure as code, DevSecOps, monitoring, platform engineering and how to lead a transformation, with interview scenarios and a career plan.

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What you will cover

DevOps culture and measurement
Collaboration and blameless learning
Git, CI and continuous delivery
Release strategies and testing
Infrastructure as code and environments
DevSecOps and monitoring
Platform engineering and scaling teams
Transformation playbook and interviews

22 lessons across 7 tracks · 6 free lessons · 2 simulations · 112 practice questions · learning roadmap.

Tracks

🧭 DevOps Foundations

What DevOps really is, how we got here, how to measure it, and the traps that stall improvement.

What DevOps Really Is: Culture, Flow and Feedback Explained SimplyStart here. Why DevOps exists, what it is and is not, the CALMS framework, the delivery pipeline end to end, and a practical plan to begin improving how your organisation ships software.Foundation22 minFREE How We Got Here: Waterfall, Agile, Lean, ITIL and the Rise of DevOpsThe methodologies that shaped modern delivery, what each got right and wrong, how they connect to DevOps, and how to pick practices from each without dogma.Foundation14 min🔒Measuring DevOps Performance: DORA Metrics, Flow and Honest DashboardsThe four key delivery metrics, how to calculate each from your own tools, benchmarks, supporting flow and quality measures, how to avoid gaming, and a plan to roll out measurement across teams.Foundation24 minFREE Why DevOps Efforts Stall: Six Traps and How to Escape Each OneThe patterns that quietly block improvement, from tool-first buying to gatekeeper teams and metrics used as weapons. Learn to spot each trap, measure its cost and fix it with structure rather than slogans.Foundation20 minFREE

🤝 Culture and Collaboration

Shared goals, blameless learning, trust between teams, mentoring and sustainable on-call.

Collaboration That Works: Shared Goals, Working Agreements and Healthy CommunicationPractical ways to make developers, operations, security and product genuinely work as one team: shared goals, working agreements, decision records, meetings that earn their time, and conflict handled early.Foundation22 minFREE Blameless Culture and Learning from FailureHow to run reviews that produce real learning: the psychology of safety, a facilitation guide, contributing-factor analysis, tracking improvements, and building a learning habit across teams.Intermediate15 min🔒Trust and Shared Ownership Between Teams: From "Us and Them" to "WePractical techniques to build trust across team boundaries: embedded engineers, shared on-call, inner-source, team interfaces, and measuring the health of the relationship between teams.Intermediate14 min🔒Growing People: Mentoring, Feedback, Career Paths and Sustainable On-CallHow to develop engineers in a DevOps organisation: mentoring that works, giving and receiving feedback, learning time, career ladders for T-shaped engineers, and designing humane on-call.Intermediate14 min🔒

📦 Source, Build and Delivery

Git workflows, CI pipelines, continuous delivery, release strategies, testing and artefact management.

Git Workflows and Trunk-Based Development: Small Changes, Fast FeedbackHow version control underpins delivery, the common branching models and their trade-offs, why short-lived branches win, code review habits that scale, and a practical migration plan to trunk-based development.Foundation24 minFREE Continuous Integration Pipelines: Fast, Reliable Builds and TestsHow to design a CI pipeline people trust: stages, caching and parallelism, handling flaky tests, secure runners, pipeline as code, and the metrics that keep builds fast.Intermediate17 min🔒Continuous Delivery and Release Strategies: Deploying Safely, OftenFrom continuous integration to continuous delivery and deployment, environment promotion, feature flags, blue-green and canary releases, database changes, rollback design and release metrics.Intermediate17 min🔒Testing in the Pipeline and Artifact ManagementA practical test strategy (pyramid, contract tests, performance and security tests), test data and environments, and how to store, version, promote and secure build artefacts and dependencies.Intermediate15 min🔒

🏗️ Infrastructure and Automation

Infrastructure as code, configuration management, immutable infrastructure and environments.

Infrastructure as Code Fundamentals: Declarative, Versioned and RepeatableWhy servers and networks should be defined in files, declarative versus imperative tools, state and drift, modules and environments, testing and policy, and a rollout plan from manual consoles to automated infrastructure.Intermediate17 min🔒Configuration Management and Immutable InfrastructureHow to keep servers consistent: configuration management tools, idempotence, the move from mutable servers to immutable images and containers, golden images, patching strategy and how to choose an approach.Intermediate14 min🔒Environments, Cloud Foundations and Cost Awareness for DevOps TeamsHow to design dev, test, staging and production environments, cloud account structure, ephemeral environments, containers and orchestration at a glance, and keeping cost visible.Intermediate14 min🔒

🛡️ DevSecOps and Operations

Security in the pipeline, monitoring, logging and alerting that close the feedback loop.

DevSecOps: Building Security Into Every Stage of DeliveryShift security left without slowing teams: threat modeling, secure coding checks, dependency and image scanning, secrets handling, policy as code, compliance evidence from pipelines and how to build a security champions programme.Intermediate16 min🔒Monitoring, Logging and Alerting for DevOps TeamsClose the feedback loop from production: what to measure at each layer, metrics versus logs versus traces, alert design, dashboards, on-call handoffs and tying monitoring to deployments and releases.Intermediate15 min🔒

📈 Scaling DevOps

Team structures, platform engineering, transformation playbooks and toolchain governance.

Scaling DevOps: Team Structures, Platform Engineering and Paved RoadsHow practices that work for one team break at fifty, team topologies for delivery, building an internal platform as a product, golden paths, self-service, governance and measuring platform success.Advanced17 min🔒The DevOps Transformation Playbook for LeadersA phased playbook for leaders: assessment, sponsorship, pilot selection, the first 100 days, scaling waves, governance and metrics, handling resistance, a worked example and an executive scorecard.Leader18 min🔒Choosing, Standardising and Retiring Tools: The DevOps Toolchain Decision GuideA map of the toolchain by category, a repeatable way to evaluate and choose tools, build versus buy, standardisation with exceptions, integration, and how to retire tools without drama.Advanced14 min🔒

🎯 Interview and Career

Realistic DevOps interview scenarios and a career and preparation plan.

DevOps Interview Scenarios: Pipelines, Culture, Incidents and Design QuestionsTwelve realistic DevOps interview scenarios with a structure for answering, model responses, the follow-ups to expect and a rapid-fire question set, for engineers at every level.Intermediate26 minFREE DevOps Career Paths and Interview Preparation PlanThe roles, skills and levels in DevOps careers, an eight-week study plan from fundamentals to hands-on projects, portfolio ideas, the resume and story advice that works, and what each level is tested on.Foundation14 min🔒

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Inside the DevOps section

22 lessons across 7 tracks.

DevOps Foundations

What DevOps really is, how we got here, how to measure it, and the traps that stall improvement.

Culture and Collaboration

Shared goals, blameless learning, trust between teams, mentoring and sustainable on-call.

Source, Build and Delivery

Git workflows, CI pipelines, continuous delivery, release strategies, testing and artefact management.

Infrastructure and Automation

Infrastructure as code, configuration management, immutable infrastructure and environments.

DevSecOps and Operations

Security in the pipeline, monitoring, logging and alerting that close the feedback loop.

Scaling DevOps

Team structures, platform engineering, transformation playbooks and toolchain governance.

Interview and Career

Realistic DevOps interview scenarios and a career and preparation plan.

One path from your first pipeline to leading a transformation

Whether you are building your first CI pipeline or leading change across an organisation, start at the stage that fits you and keep growing.

Getting started

New to DevOps or moving from development or operations

What DevOps really is
Measuring delivery performance
Common traps
Git and team working habits

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Practitioner

Building and running delivery pipelines

CI pipelines and testing
Release strategies
Infrastructure as code
Monitoring and blameless learning

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Senior and platform

Designing delivery systems across teams

Environments and cloud foundations
DevSecOps
Trust between teams
Platform engineering

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Leader

Leading change and building teams

Transformation playbook
Toolchain governance
Career and hiring
Interview mastery

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Learn

22 deep lessons on DevOps, from first principles to leadership, with real examples and rollout plans.

Practise

2 scored scenarios where your decisions change the outcome, with a debrief.

Rehearse

112 interview questions with model answers, taken from every lesson. Answer aloud, then check.

Interview trainer

Prove

1:1 mock interviews with a written scorecard. ₹99 for one, ₹300 for five.

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