LINUX & SHELL

Linux fundamentals: filesystems, permissions, processes
Shell scripting (bash) and automation basics
Package managers, systemd, cron jobs & troubleshooting
User and group management, logs and basic security hardening

VERSION CONTROL & CI

Git fundamentals, branching strategies & GitHub/GitLab flows
Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins
Automated testing, builds and pipeline best practices
Secrets management and artifact handling

CONTAINERS & DOCKER

Docker basics: images, containers, volumes and networking
Dockerfile best practices & multi-stage builds
Docker Compose for local multi-container apps
Container security and image scanning

INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE

Terraform fundamentals: providers, modules & state
Reusable modules and remote state management
Hands-on: provision networks, VMs, and managed services
Intro to CloudFormation and comparing IaC tools

CLOUD PLATFORMS

AWS fundamentals: EC2, S3, IAM, VPC basics
Deploying applications to AWS, DigitalOcean and GCP basics
Managed services overview: RDS, EKS, ECS, Cloud Run
Cost awareness and best practices for production workloads

KUBERNETES & ORCHESTRATION

Kubernetes architecture: pods, deployments, services
Helm charts, namespaces, RBAC and config management
Stateful workloads, storage, and networking in K8s
Hands-on: deploy microservices to a cluster (minikube / k3s / EKS)

CI/CD & GITOPS

Designing pipelines for build, test, and deploy
GitOps practices: Argo CD / Flux basics
Blue/green, canary and rollback strategies
Automated release promotion and observability hooks

MONITORING & OBSERVABILITY

Metrics collection with Prometheus & alerting
Visualization with Grafana and dashboards
Centralized logging (ELK / EFK) and distributed tracing (Jaeger)
SLIs, SLOs, and incident response basics

SECURITY & COMPLIANCE

Securing CI/CD pipelines and secrets management
Vulnerability scanning, image signing and hardening
Basics of compliance, IAM best practices and least-privilege
Incident response and forensics overview

AUTOMATION

Configuration management with Ansible
Writing effective automation playbooks and roles
Task orchestration and idempotency practices
Scripting in Python for automation tasks

NETWORKING

TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP(s) and common network debugging tools
Load balancers, ingress controllers and service meshes
VPNs, VPC design and subnetting basics
Performance tuning and connection troubleshooting

SRE & RELIABILITY

SRE principles: SLIs, SLOs, error budgets and toil reduction
Capacity planning and incident management playbooks
Chaos engineering fundamentals and resilience testing
Runbooks, postmortems and continuous improvement

PROJECTS & CAPSTONE

3–4 hands-on projects that cover CI/CD, IaC, and monitoring
End-to-end: build pipelines, provision infra, deploy to K8s
Implement monitoring, alerting, logging and runbooks
Capstone: production-ready deployment with GitOps & Terraform

Projects You'll Build

Real-world, production-focused projects to showcase your skills

Project #1

CI/CD Pipeline

Build a complete CI pipeline with automated tests and a CD workflow that deploys to a staging environment using GitHub Actions / Jenkins.

GitHub Actions Docker Terraform Kubernetes

Project #3

Observability Stack

Deploy Prometheus, Grafana and ELK/EFK to monitor and visualize application metrics, logs and traces for a microservice app.

Prometheus Grafana ELK Jaeger

Project #3

Observability Stack

Deploy Prometheus, Grafana and ELK/EFK to monitor and visualize application metrics, logs and traces for a microservice app.

Prometheus Grafana ELK Jaeger