Introduction to DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering
- Free to audit
- Paid certificate
- Course certificate
- Beginner
- 10 weeks
Introduction to DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (LFS162x) is a Linux Foundation course on edX about the practices behind modern software delivery. Its topics, as listed on the page, are how DevOps is changing software delivery and why operations staff need these skills; how cloud computing lets organisations build and scale quickly; the open container ecosystem led by Kubernetes and the operations engineer's role in it; the why, what and how of infrastructure as code; continuous integration; continuous deployment and delivery and what a deployment pipeline looks like; and observability systems. The prerequisites are substantial: an intermediate understanding of Linux, networking and troubleshooting, basic scripting, security and virtualisation concepts, and systems administration experience.
edX lists it at introductory level, self-paced, at ten weeks of one to two hours a week. Auditing is free with access that expires after the estimated course length and no graded work or certificate; the verified track costs 209 US dollars.
What you’ll learn
- Explain how DevOps changes software delivery and the operations role
- Describe how cloud computing and the container ecosystem enable rapid deployment
- Explain infrastructure as code and why it matters
- Outline continuous integration, continuous delivery and a deployment pipeline
- Describe what observability systems monitor and why
Who it’s for
System administrators and operations engineers with Linux experience who want to move into DevOps or SRE roles; not a first course in IT.
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