DevOps Fundamentals

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This course provides an introduction to DevOps – the cultural and professional movement that stresses communication, collaboration, integration and automation in order to improve the flow of work between software developers and IT operations professionals.

To maximize the IT value flow to customers, DevOps creates an improved ability to design, develop, deploy and operate software and services faster for the benefit of the business. Higher customer satisfaction, better quality, faster delivery and lower costs are all benefits.

Course Objective

DevOps Fundamentals provides participants with an extensive introduction to the core Agile DevOps principles, covering the essential knowledge and skill competences that have been defined by DASA.  Key objectives include:

• Gain an understanding of the drivers responsible for the emergence of DevOps.
• Define and discuss the key concepts and principles of DevOps.
• Appreciate the business benefits of DevOps and continuous delivery.
• Describe the Service Delivery process.
• Learn the concepts of test automation, infrastructure automation, and build and deployment automation.
• Describe how DevOps relates to Lean and Agile methodologies.
• Summarize case studies of IT organizations that are making the transformation to Adaptive IT and DevOps models.
• List the most common and popular DevOps tools.
• Discuss the critical success factors for DevOps implementation.

Course Summary

• DevOps Core Concepts. What is DevOps. Emergence of DevOps.
• Essence, key elements and considerations for a DevOps culture.
• Exploring a DevOps organisation model. Autonomous Teams. Governance.
• Processes. Relationship between DevOps and ITSM. Agile and Scrum. Agile Principles. Lean Process Optimisation. Business value optimisation and story mapping.
• Automation for software delivery. Emergence of cloud technology and principles. Cloud services concepts in a DevOps organisation. Automated provisioning concepts. Platform product characteristics and application maturity.
• Measurement and Improvement. Importance of measurement. Choosing the right metrics. Monitoring and Logging.

Materials

A comprehensive participant handbook is provided.

All courses may be conducted onsite or at our premises, with experienced trainers providing group and/or individual instruction. All courses can be customised to suit your training requirements

Our three-day interactive and practical course provides participants with an opportunity to develop an understanding of DevOps concepts and terminology through real-life case studies, examples, interactive group discussions and extensive exercises.

Our accredited trainers will use a comprehensive participant handbook and a dynamic case study delivery approach to provide participants with a ‘hands-on’, multi-faceted and challenging learning experience.

The DASA DevOps Fundamentals examination is a 60 minute, 40 question, closed book multiple choice paper. The pass mark is 26 out of 40 (65%). The Fundamentals qualification is designed to provide the core education necessary to build your DevOps vocabulary and to understand DevOps principles and practices.