Cloud + DevOps Engineer Combo

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Goal:  Students become job-ready Cloud & DevOps Engineers with hands-on experience, projects, and certification-ready knowledge. 

 Cloud Foundations

• Introduction to IT Infrastructure
• What is Cloud Computing?
• IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
• Public, Private, Hybrid Cloud
• Cloud Providers Overview (AWS/Azure/GCP)

 DevOps Foundations

• DevOps culture & mindset
• DevOps Lifecycle: Plan → Code → Build → Test → Deploy → Monitor
• CI/CD, IaC, GitOps
• Overview of DevOps Tools

 Linux Essentials 

• Linux architecture
• Commands, files, permissions
• Processes, services, systemd
• Bash scripting

 Networking Foundations

• OSI/TCP-IP Model
• IP, Subnets, DNS, Routing
• HTTP/HTTPS, Load Balancing
• Firewalls, Ports, Security Basics 

 Compute Services

• EC2 Instances
• AMIs, EBS, Snapshots
• Auto Scaling 

  Storage Services 

• S3, EFS, Glacier
• Lifecycle rules
• Static website hosting

 Cloud Networking 

• VPC, Subnets, Route Tables
• NAT, Internet Gateway
• NACL vs Security Groups

 Identity & Security 

• IAM Users, Groups, Policies
• Roles, MFA
• Logging: CloudTrail, Config

 Databases & Serverless 

• RDS, DynamoDB
• Lambda functions
• API Gateway

 Monitoring & Cost Optimization 

• CloudWatch Metrics, Logs, Alarms
• Budgets & Cost Explorer

 Git & Source Control

• Git advanced concepts
• Branching strategies
• GitHub Actions introduction

 Docker Containers 

• Containers vs Virtual Machines
• Docker Engine, Images, Containers
• Dockerfile, best practice
• Docker Compose

 CI with Jenkins 

• Jenkins architecture
• Pipelines (Declarative/Scripted)
• Jenkins + GitHub + Docker Integration

 Testing Automation & CI Best Practices 

• Unit test automation
• Static code analysis
• Pipeline artifacts

 Terraform Basics 

• Providers, resources
• Variables, outputs
• Terraform state & backends

 Terraform Modules & Multi-Environment

• Modules, workspaces
• Remote state
• Terraform Cloud 

 Configuration Management — Ansible 

• Architecture, Inventory, Playbooks
• Ansible roles
• Cloud provisioning

 Kubernetes Core Concepts

• Nodes, Pods, ReplicaSets, Deployments
• Services, Ingress

  Storage, Secrets & Helm

• ConfigMaps, Secrets
• Persistent Volumes
• Helm charts 

 Kubernetes Advanced 

• Autoscaling
• Rolling updates
• RBAC, Network Policies

 GitOps with ArgoCD

• GitOps principles
• ArgoCD installation
• Declarative delivery workflows 

DevSecOps Fundamentals

• Image scanning
• SAST, DAST
• Secrets management
• Services, Ingress

  Monitoring & Logging 

• Prometheus & Grafana
• ELK/EFK stack
• Alerting & dashboards

• Practical
• Interview Preparation