DevOps Fundamentals

Upcoming Classes (Virtual)

DevOps Foundations October 12, 13 & 14

Why should I take the DevOps course?

DevOps Fundamentals provides the core education necessary to build your DevOps vocabulary and to understand its principles and practices. With the help of key DevOps concepts and terminology, real-life case studies, examples and interactive group discussions and exercises, you will acquire a fundamental understanding of DevOps.

Certification levels

DevOps Fundamentals (3 days)

What is included?

The course includes:

Classroom training from a DevOps Fundamentals Approved Trainer
Accredited course material including sample exam questions
DevOps Fundamentals exam + Certificate

What will I learn?

By the end of the course you will be ready to:

Explain the drivers responsible for the emergence of DevOps
Define and discuss the key concepts and principles of DevOps
List and explain the business benefits of DevOps and continuous delivery
Describe the Service Delivery process
Explain 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
Take and pass the DevOps Fundamentals exam

What are the course prerequisites?

There are no prerequisites to take this course. Basic familiarity with Agile, Scrum, Lean, and ITSM principles is beneficial.

What are the course contents?

This is the full DASA DevOps Fundamentals course. It covers the full DevOps Fundamentals syllabus.

Key Learning Points

Course & DevOps Introduction

Overview & Course Objectives
Know the historical development of DevOps
Core concepts underlying DevOps and the DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA)
Key elements of the Business Case for DevOps
Principal benefits of DevOps and DevOps definitions
The culture of high-performance IT
Relationship between DevOps, Agile and Lean IT
DevOps principles and aspects of IT
Qualification scheme, mission and vision

Framework

Possible problems that can arise
Core principles of DevOps
Competence framework (8 knowledge areas and 4 skills)
Three core profiles

Culture

Building your DevOps organization around teams
Three Horizons Model for Innovation
Cultural aspects of the Team
Service Mindset and Quality at the Source

Skill Areas

Team building
Continuous improvement
Courage
DevOps Leadership

Organization

Impact of DevOps on the organization
Traditional structuring of teams and waste
Activity-focused versus product-focused approaches

Autonomy

Criteria for autonomous teams
Conway’s Law and Organizations’ Architecture
Solving autonomy problems

Architecting

Aim of IT architecture
Relation between complexity and quality

Micro Services Architecture (MSA)

Moving from legacy to smaller services

Governance

Govvernance within teams and between multiple teams
Scrum of Scrums with Agile teams to coordinate and collaborate

Processes

Definition and key components of a process: goal, result, input, throughput, output, customer
DevOps in relation it ITSM
Optimizing processes using Lean
Story mapping
Advantages and disadvantages of developing software using Waterfall approach

Automation

Team and focus on delivery of value
Continuous delivery and its impact on DevOps team’s
performance
Cycle time reduction
Types of feedback
Build and software package delivery flow
Test and optimized software validation (tests)
Deployment benefits and strategies
Containerization
Continuous delivery backlog

Cloud Technology and Principles

National Institute of Standardization (NIST)
DevOps Platform Teams as a “Cloud” Service Provider
Different Types of Clouds to Operate

Registration

Contact Us: paradigmtraining@paradigmconsulting.com for more information or to register.

*THIS TRAINING IS CANADA JOB GRANT ELIGIBLE