DevOps Foundation Training — Core Concepts, Practices & Toolchain Introduction
Start your DevOps journey: CI/CD, version control, containers, cloud, and automation fundamentals. 4-week foundation course for beginners. Hands-on labs. No prior DevOps experience needed.
Why DevOps Foundation Training?
This is our entry-level DevOps course — designed for people with no prior DevOps experience. In 4 weeks, you'll go from "what is CI/CD?" to building your own pipeline that tests and deploys code. This course covers the essential concepts and tools at a foundation level — enough to be productive and ready for deeper learning. It's the on-ramp to our comprehensive DevOps Engineering domain course and a prerequisite for those completely new to DevOps.
Who Should Attend
- Absolute beginners to DevOps — no prior experience required
- Software engineers who want to understand the delivery side
- IT professionals exploring DevOps careers
- Engineering managers who need DevOps literacy
How This Differs from Other DevOps Courses
DevOps Foundation (this course): 4 weeks, no prerequisites, covers fundamentals — Git, basic CI/CD, Docker introduction, cloud basics. DevOps Online Training: 8 weeks, live cohort, intermediate depth. DevOps Engineering (domain course): 8 weeks, 16 modules, comprehensive — the full DevOps toolchain in production depth. Choose based on your experience level and learning goals.
Course Modules
- What Is DevOps? — Culture, collaboration, automation. DevOps vs. traditional ops. CALMS framework.
- Version Control with Git — Repositories, commits, branches, pull requests. GitHub fundamentals.
- Continuous Integration — Automated builds. Testing in CI. Introduction to Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
- Continuous Delivery — Deployment pipelines. Environments. Release strategies.
- Introduction to Containers — Docker concepts. Running containers. Dockerfiles. Docker Hub.
- Cloud Basics — AWS introduction. EC2, S3. Infrastructure as a service.
- Infrastructure as Code Introduction — Terraform basics. Declarative infrastructure. First Terraform apply.
- Capstone: First DevOps Pipeline — Build a simple CI/CD pipeline: Git → test → build → deploy to cloud.
Hands-on Labs (14 total)
All labs are beginner-friendly with step-by-step guidance. Push code to GitHub. Create a Jenkins job. Build a Docker image. Deploy to AWS EC2 with Terraform. No prior experience needed — just bring curiosity and a laptop.
Related Courses
Continue with DevOps Online Training or the comprehensive DevOps Engineering domain course.
TOOLS_COVERED
PREREQUISITES
- None — this is a foundation course
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