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From a Linux shell to a production platform: how software gets built, shipped, run and observed.

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Systems foundations

The layer everything else sits on. Skipping it is why most DevOps learning stalls at "the tutorial worked".

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Linux for engineers

beginner2h

Processes, signals, file descriptors, permissions and the /proc filesystem. Enough to answer "why is this container using 4GB?" without guessing.

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Processes and signals
File descriptors
Permissions and users
systemd units

Shell scripting that survives review

beginner1h 15m

Networking you will actually debug

beginner2h

Git and delivery workflows

beginner1h 15m

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Containers

What a container actually is, before what a container orchestrator does.

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What a container really is

intermediate1h 30m

Images and Dockerfiles

intermediate1h 30m

Local environments with Compose

intermediate1h

Registries, tags and supply chain

intermediate1h

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Orchestration

Kubernetes, taught as a control loop rather than a pile of YAML.

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The Kubernetes object model

intermediate2h

Services, ingress and cluster networking

advanced1h 30m

Config, secrets and storage

advanced1h 15m

Scheduling, limits and autoscaling

advanced1h 30m

Packaging with Helm and Kustomize

advanced1h

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Delivery

Getting a commit into production repeatedly, safely and without a person holding their breath.

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Continuous integration

intermediate1h 30m

Deployment strategies

advanced1h 30m

GitOps

advanced1h 15m

Infrastructure as code

advanced2h

Secrets management

advanced1h 15m

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Running it

The part of the job that starts after the deploy succeeds.

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Metrics, logs and traces

intermediate2h

SLIs, SLOs and error budgets

advanced1h 30m

Alerting people will not ignore

advanced1h 15m

Incident response and postmortems

advanced1h 15m

Capacity, cost and performance

advanced1h 15m

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Platform security

Security as a property of the platform, not a review at the end.

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Threat modelling a service

advanced1h 15m

Hardening workloads

advanced1h 30m

Backups, restore and disaster recovery

advanced1h 15m

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