DevOps Foundation

Course Duration

2 Days

Audience

Employees of federal, state and local governments; and businesses working with the government.

Prerequisites

There are no formal prerequisites for this course. An understanding of basic IT concepts is beneficial.

Course Description

The DevOps Foundation® course provides a baseline understanding of key DevOps terminology to ensure everyone is talking the same language and highlights the benefits of DevOps to support organizational success. This course prepares you for the DevOps Foundation (DOFD)® certification.

Learning Objectives

• 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

Course Outline

Course Topics

• Defining DevOps
• Why Does DevOps Matter?
• The Three Ways
• The First Way
• The Theory of Constraints
• The Second Way
• The Third Way
• Chaos Engineering
• Learning Organizations
• Continuous Delivery
• Site Reliability & Resilience Engineering
• DevSecOps
• ChatOps
• Kanban
• Agile
• ITSM
• Lean
• Safety Culture
• Learning Organizations
• Sociocracy/Holacracy
• Continuous Funding
• Defining Culture
• Behavioral Models
• Organizational maturity models
• Target Operating Models
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Containers
• Kubernetes
• DevOps Toolchain
• The Importance of Metrics
• Technical Metrics
• Business Metrics
• Measuring & Reporting Metrics
• Collaborative Platforms
• Immersive, Experiential Learning
• DevOps Leadership
• Evolving Change