Advanced DevOps + Platform Engineering Combo
Course Duration: 20–22 Weeks (Flexible) | Mode: Offline/Online
Goal: Upon completing this programme, students will be able to design, build, and manage advanced DevOps pipelines and cloud-native platform environments. They will gain hands-on expertise in CI/CD, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and security, making them job-ready for roles like Platform Engineer or Senior DevOps Engineer.
MODULE 1: DevOps Advanced Concepts (Week 1–2)
- DevOps fundamentals recap (for students & professionals)
- DevOps lifecycle & workflows
- Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment overview
- Version control advanced workflows (Git branching strategies, GitOps)
- Collaboration & communication in DevOps teams
MODULE 2: Advanced CI/CD Pipelines (Week 3–4)
- CI/CD design principles
- Jenkins pipelines (declarative & scripted)
- GitHub Actions / GitLab CI/CD pipelines
- Artifact management (Nexus, Artifactory)
- Testing automation integration (unit, integration, and smoke tests)
MODULE 3: Containerization & Orchestration (Week 5–6)
- Docker advanced usage (multi-stage builds, Docker Compose)
- Container security best practices
- Kubernetes architecture & concepts
- Helm charts for application deployment
- Namespaces, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Ingress
- Scaling & self-healing with Kubernetes
MODULE 4: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Configuration Management (Week 7–8)
- IaC concepts & benefits
- Terraform advanced workflows (modules, remote state, workspaces)
- CloudFormation & Pulumi overview
- Ansible playbooks for configuration management
- Managing secrets & environment-specific configurations
MODULE 5: Cloud Platforms & Platform Engineering (Week 9–10)
- Cloud-native architecture principles
- AWS, Azure, and GCP services for platform engineering
- Platform engineering concepts: DevSecOps, developer platforms, self-service environments
- Environment standardization & blueprinting
- Multi-cloud vs hybrid cloud strategies
MODULE 6: Observability, Monitoring & Logging (Week 11–12)
- Metrics, logging, tracing (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack)
- Alerting and incident management (PagerDuty, OpsGenie)
- Application performance monitoring (APM)
- Cloud-native monitoring & dashboards
- Chaos engineering basics
MODULE 7: Security & Compliance in DevOps (Week 13)
- DevSecOps principles
- Security scanning (SAST, DAST)
- Secrets management (Vault, KMS, AWS Secrets Manager)
- Compliance & governance (SOC2, GDPR, ISO)
- Automated security testing in CI/CD
MODULE 8: Platform Engineering Projects (Week 14–16)
- Building enterprise-grade developer platforms
- Self-service CI/CD templates
- Automated provisioning & environment setup
- Internal developer portals for reusable infrastructure
MODULE 9: Practical & Interview Preparation (Week 17–22)
- Practical
- Interview Preparation