DevOps & Automation Track

Become a Job-Ready DevOps / Platform Engineer

DevOps Master Program

A 20-week, hands-on DevOps engineering program covering Linux, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Terraform, monitoring and cloud automation — with 15+ real production projects and live mentor sessions.

Live Instructor-LedLinux & GitDocker & KubernetesCI/CD PipelinesTerraform IaCCloud DevOpsPlacement Support

20 Weeks

6 Phases

15+ Projects

Live Mentorship

Learning Path

Linux & Git

Docker & Containers

Kubernetes & Orchestration

CI/CD Pipelines

Terraform & IaC

Monitoring & SRE

Full Syllabus

Complete Curriculum

Click any module to expand topics. Every phase ends with a real-world project.

Phase 1

Linux, Git & Networking Foundations

3 Weeks

Master the Linux command line, shell scripting, networking fundamentals and Git workflows — the non-negotiable foundation every DevOps engineer must have.

Module 1 — Linux Administration

6 topics

Topics Covered

Linux filesystem hierarchy and navigation
User management: users, groups, sudo, PAM
File permissions: chmod, chown, ACLs
Process management: ps, top, kill, systemd, journalctl
Package management: apt, yum/dnf, snap
Cron jobs and task scheduling

Hands-On Lab

Automate user provisioning and log rotation using shell scripts on Ubuntu

Module 2 — Shell Scripting & Automation

6 topics

Topics Covered

Bash scripting: variables, loops, conditionals, functions
Text processing: grep, sed, awk, cut, sort
Input/output redirection and pipes
Script debugging: set -x, error handling, exit codes
Python scripting for sysadmin tasks
Automating repetitive operations

Hands-On Lab

Write a production-grade deployment script with logging, error handling and notifications

Module 3 — Networking & Git Fundamentals

6 topics

Topics Covered

TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSH protocol
Network tools: netstat, ss, curl, ping, traceroute, nmap
SSH: key-based auth, config files, tunnels, jump hosts
Git internals: commits, trees, objects
Branching strategies: GitFlow, trunk-based development
Pull requests, code review and merge strategies

Hands-On Lab

Set up SSH key-based authentication and implement a complete GitFlow workflow

Phase 1 Project — Linux Server Automation

Automated server setup script (LAMP stack)
Log monitoring and alerting script
Git repository with team workflow configured
SSH hardening and security baseline script

Phase 2

Docker & Containerisation

3 Weeks

Learn how to containerise applications using Docker, build production-ready images, manage multi-container applications with Docker Compose, and push to container registries.

Module 1 — Docker Fundamentals

6 topics

Topics Covered

Containers vs VMs — architecture deep dive
Docker Engine v29.3.1 (May 2026): daemon, CLI, BuildKit, Wasm runtime support
Docker images: layers, Union File System, caching
Docker Hub: pull, push, tags, private registries
Container lifecycle: create, run, stop, remove
Docker networking: bridge, host, overlay, none

Hands-On Lab

Containerise a Python Flask and Node.js application from scratch

Module 2 — Dockerfile & Best Practices

6 topics

Topics Covered

Dockerfile syntax: FROM, RUN, COPY, ADD, CMD, ENTRYPOINT
Multi-stage builds for optimised production images
Layer caching strategies for faster builds
Non-root user, HEALTHCHECK, .dockerignore
Image vulnerability scanning: Trivy, Docker Scout
Docker image size optimisation techniques

Hands-On Lab

Build a production-optimised Docker image: multi-stage, non-root, health checks

Module 3 — Docker Compose & Registries

6 topics

Topics Covered

Docker Compose: services, volumes, networks, depends_on
Environment variables and .env files
Docker Compose profiles for dev/staging/prod
Azure Container Registry (ACR) and Amazon ECR
Docker volumes: named volumes vs bind mounts
Docker secrets and config management

Hands-On Lab

Deploy a full-stack app (React + Node + PostgreSQL + Redis) with Docker Compose

Phase 2 Project — Containerised Microservices

3-service application containerised with Docker
Multi-stage Dockerfile with security hardening
Docker Compose for local development environment
Images pushed to private container registry
Vulnerability scan report with remediations

Phase 3

Kubernetes & Container Orchestration

4 Weeks

Master Kubernetes — the industry standard for container orchestration. Learn to deploy, scale and manage containerised applications on both self-managed and managed Kubernetes (AKS/EKS).

Module 1 — Kubernetes Architecture & Workloads

6 topics

Topics Covered

Kubernetes 1.36.1 (May 2026) architecture: control plane, nodes, etcd
Pods, multi-container pods and init containers
Deployments, ReplicaSets and DaemonSets
StatefulSets for stateful applications
Jobs and CronJobs for batch workloads
Namespace isolation and resource quotas

Hands-On Lab

Deploy a 3-tier application on Kubernetes with Deployments and Services

Module 2 — Services, Networking & Storage

6 topics

Topics Covered

Services: ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer, ExternalName
Ingress controllers: NGINX Ingress, path and host routing
TLS termination with cert-manager and Let's Encrypt
Persistent Volumes, PVCs and StorageClasses
ConfigMaps and Secrets management
Network Policies for pod-level firewall

Hands-On Lab

Configure Ingress with TLS, persistent storage and network policies for an app

Module 3 — Kubernetes Operations & Managed K8s

6 topics

Topics Covered

Resource requests and limits — CPU and memory
Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) and Vertical Pod Autoscaler
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS): cluster creation and node pools
Amazon EKS: cluster setup and managed node groups
Kubernetes RBAC: roles, role bindings, service accounts
Rolling updates, rollbacks and canary deployments

Hands-On Lab

Deploy and scale an application on AKS with HPA, RBAC and cluster autoscaler

Module 4 — Helm & GitOps

6 topics

Topics Covered

Helm architecture: charts, values, templates, hooks
Creating and publishing custom Helm charts
Helm repositories and versioning
GitOps principles and Argo CD basics
Flux CD for automated reconciliation
Managing Kubernetes across multiple clusters

Hands-On Lab

Package an application as a Helm chart and deploy via GitOps with Argo CD

Phase 3 Project — Production Kubernetes Platform

Multi-service app deployed on AKS with Helm
Ingress with TLS certificate automation
HPA and cluster autoscaler configured
RBAC policies for development team
GitOps deployment pipeline with Argo CD

Phase 4

CI/CD Pipeline Engineering

4 Weeks

Design and implement production-grade CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps. Automate build, test, security scan and deployment workflows.

Module 1 — Jenkins CI/CD

6 topics

Topics Covered

Jenkins architecture: master, agents, executors
Freestyle jobs vs Pipeline jobs
Declarative Pipeline: stages, steps, post conditions
Jenkins shared libraries and reusable functions
Jenkins credentials store and Vault integration
Blue Ocean UI and build notifications

Hands-On Lab

Build a Jenkins Declarative Pipeline: code checkout → build → test → deploy to K8s

Module 2 — GitHub Actions

6 topics

Topics Covered

GitHub Actions: workflow syntax, triggers, jobs, steps
GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners
Secrets, environment variables and OIDC authentication
Reusable workflows and composite actions
Matrix builds for cross-platform testing
GitHub Actions for Docker build, push and K8s deploy

Hands-On Lab

Build a GitHub Actions workflow: test → Docker build → push to ACR → deploy to AKS

Module 3 — Azure DevOps Pipelines

6 topics

Topics Covered

Azure Pipelines: YAML multi-stage pipelines
Azure Boards: Epics, User Stories, Sprints
Azure Artifacts: npm, NuGet, Maven package feeds
Deployment environments and approval gates
Integration with AKS, ACR and Azure App Service
Pipeline templates and extends for reusability

Hands-On Lab

Build an end-to-end Azure DevOps pipeline with approval gates and Kubernetes deployment

Module 4 — DevSecOps: Security in CI/CD

6 topics

Topics Covered

SAST: SonarQube and Semgrep in pipelines
DAST: OWASP ZAP integration
Container image scanning: Trivy in CI/CD
Secret scanning: GitLeaks and TruffleHog
Dependency scanning: OWASP Dependency-Check
Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) generation

Hands-On Lab

Add full DevSecOps security gates to an existing CI/CD pipeline

Phase 4 Project — Enterprise CI/CD Platform

Jenkins pipeline: build → SAST → test → deploy
GitHub Actions workflow for Docker + AKS
Azure DevOps pipeline with approval gates
Security scanning integrated (Trivy + SonarQube)
Multi-environment promotion (dev → staging → prod)

Phase 5

Infrastructure as Code — Terraform

3 Weeks

Master Terraform for cloud infrastructure automation. Learn to write modular, reusable Terraform code that provisions and manages production Azure and AWS infrastructure.

Module 1 — Terraform Foundations

6 topics

Topics Covered

Terraform / OpenTofu 1.12.0 (May 2026): providers, state, resources, data sources
HCL syntax: variables, outputs, locals, expressions
Terraform plan, apply, destroy and import
State management: local vs remote (Azure Storage, S3)
State locking and workspace management
Terraform Cloud and enterprise features

Hands-On Lab

Provision a complete Azure VNet, VM and storage using Terraform from scratch

Module 2 — Terraform Modules & Best Practices

6 topics

Topics Covered

Module structure: main.tf, variables.tf, outputs.tf
Reusable modules and the Terraform Registry
Module versioning and dependency management
for_each and count for dynamic resources
Terraform testing: terratest and terraform validate
Secrets management: Vault provider and sensitive variables

Hands-On Lab

Build and publish a reusable Terraform module for a 3-tier Azure application

Module 3 — Terraform in CI/CD & GitOps

6 topics

Topics Covered

Terraform in GitHub Actions: plan on PR, apply on merge
Atlantis for pull-request-based Terraform workflow
Drift detection and automated remediation
Terraform with Azure DevOps: service connection and OIDC
Policy as Code with Sentinel (Terraform Cloud)
Migrating existing infrastructure to Terraform

Hands-On Lab

Automate infrastructure deployment via GitHub Actions + Terraform with plan/apply PR workflow

Phase 5 Project — Full Azure IaC Platform

Modular Terraform codebase for full Azure stack
Remote state in Azure Storage with state locking
CI/CD pipeline for Terraform (plan on PR, apply on merge)
AKS cluster, ACR, networking all Terraform-managed
Compliance validation using terraform-compliance

Phase 6

Monitoring, Observability & SRE

3 Weeks

Build production-grade observability platforms. Learn the SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) mindset: SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, on-call practices and incident management.

Module 1 — Prometheus & Grafana

6 topics

Topics Covered

Prometheus architecture: scrape, storage, alert rules
PromQL: rate, histogram_quantile, aggregation operators
Exporters: node_exporter, kube-state-metrics, custom
Alertmanager: routing, inhibition, silencing
Grafana: dashboards, data sources, variables, annotations
Grafana Loki for log aggregation

Hands-On Lab

Deploy Prometheus + Grafana on Kubernetes with 20+ dashboards and alert rules

Module 2 — Azure Monitor & ELK Stack

6 topics

Topics Covered

Azure Monitor: metrics, logs, alerts, workbooks
Log Analytics KQL: querying application and infra logs
Application Insights: APM, distributed tracing, live metrics
Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK) fundamentals
Fluentd/Fluent Bit for log collection and forwarding
OpenTelemetry for vendor-neutral observability

Hands-On Lab

Set up Azure Monitor with Application Insights and build a KQL-powered dashboard

Module 3 — SRE Practices & Incident Management

6 topics

Topics Covered

SRE principles: error budgets, toil reduction
SLIs, SLOs and SLAs — defining and measuring
Incident management: severity levels, on-call rotation
Post-mortems: blameless culture, action items
Chaos Engineering with Chaos Monkey / Azure FIS
Runbooks, playbooks and automated remediation

Hands-On Lab

Define SLOs for a production application, simulate failures and write a post-mortem

Final Capstone — Full Production DevOps Platform

Prometheus + Grafana + Loki observability stack on K8s
Azure Monitor + Application Insights for cloud services
SLO dashboard with error budget tracking
Automated incident response runbook
Complete CI/CD pipeline from code to production K8s
GitHub portfolio with 6 production-ready projects

Hands-On

Real-World Projects

Portfolio-ready projects that employers recognise.

Linux Server Automation Scripts

Bash scripts for server provisioning, log rotation, user management and backup automation

Dockerised Microservices App

3-service app (frontend + API + database) containerised with Docker Compose and pushed to ACR

Production Kubernetes Platform

Multi-service deployment on AKS with Helm, Ingress, TLS, HPA and GitOps via Argo CD

Jenkins CI/CD Pipeline

Full Jenkins pipeline: Git checkout → Maven/Node build → Trivy scan → Docker push → K8s deploy

GitHub Actions Full Workflow

Automated workflow: code test → build Docker image → push to ECR → deploy to EKS

Azure DevOps Enterprise Pipeline

Multi-stage Azure Pipeline with approval gates, environments and deployment to AKS

Terraform Azure IaC Module

Reusable Terraform modules provisioning VNet, AKS, ACR, Storage with remote state

Terraform CI/CD Integration

GitHub Actions Terraform workflow: plan on PR → human approval → apply on merge

Prometheus + Grafana Stack

Full observability stack on Kubernetes with 20+ dashboards, alert rules and PagerDuty integration

Azure Monitor Operations Centre

Log Analytics workspace with KQL queries, Application Insights and automated runbooks

DevSecOps Security Pipeline

CI/CD with SAST (SonarQube) + Trivy image scan + DAST (ZAP) + secrets detection integrated

End-to-End Production Deployment

Terraform infra → Helm chart → GitHub Actions CI/CD → Prometheus monitoring — full production stack

SRE Runbook & Incident Drill

Define SLOs, simulate cascading failures with chaos engineering, and write a blameless post-mortem

Microservices on EKS (AWS)

Docker-based microservices deployed to AWS EKS with ALB Ingress and CloudWatch monitoring

GitOps with Argo CD

Full GitOps workflow: infrastructure changes via PR → Argo CD syncs K8s cluster automatically

Tech Stack

Tools & Technologies

LinuxBashDocker v29.3Kubernetes 1.36HelmJenkinsGitHub ActionsAzure DevOpsTerraform / OpenTofu 1.12PrometheusGrafanaLokiArgo CD v3.3SonarQubeTrivyAzure MonitorAWS EKSAKS

You Prepare For

Certifications

⚙️

CKA

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (prep)

🏗️

HashiCorp Terraform

Terraform Associate Certification (prep)

🟦

AZ-400

Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert (prep)

☁️

AWS DevOps Pro

AWS DevOps Engineer Professional (prep)

Bonus — Included Free

Bonus Learning Tracks

Python for DevOps

boto3 AWS automation
Azure SDK scripts
REST API calls with requests
YAML/JSON parsing
Paramiko SSH automation

Cloud Security Basics

IAM least-privilege design
Network security groups
Secrets management best practices
Container runtime security
CIS Benchmark hardening

Interview Preparation

100+ DevOps interview questions
System design for DevOps
Kubernetes troubleshooting drills
CI/CD design questions
Mock technical interviews

After This Program

Career Outcomes

Entry-Level (0–1 yr)

Junior DevOps Engineer
Build & Release Engineer
Cloud Operations Analyst
CI/CD Engineer

Mid-Level (1–3 yr)

DevOps Engineer
Platform Engineer
Cloud DevOps Engineer
Kubernetes Engineer

Advanced (3+ yr)

Senior DevOps Engineer
Site Reliability Engineer
DevSecOps Engineer
Principal Platform Engineer

Ideal For

Who Should Enroll

Students & Freshers

No prior DevOps experience needed. Build 15 real projects in 5 months and land a DevOps role at an MNC or product company.

Software Developers

Own the deployment process. Add Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD and Terraform to your developer skillset and command a 40-60% salary premium.

Sysadmins & IT Engineers

Modernise your infrastructure skills. Replace manual server management with automated, cloud-native DevOps workflows that scale.

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DevOps Master Program

Live Instructor-LedLinux & GitDocker & KubernetesCI/CD PipelinesTerraform IaCCloud DevOpsPlacement Support

20 Weeks

6 Phases

15+ Projects

Live Mentorship

Real-World Projects

Portfolio-ready projects that employers recognise.

Linux Server Automation Scripts

Bash scripts for server provisioning, log rotation, user management and backup automation

Dockerised Microservices App

3-service app (frontend + API + database) containerised with Docker Compose and pushed to ACR

Production Kubernetes Platform

Multi-service deployment on AKS with Helm, Ingress, TLS, HPA and GitOps via Argo CD

Jenkins CI/CD Pipeline

Full Jenkins pipeline: Git checkout → Maven/Node build → Trivy scan → Docker push → K8s deploy

GitHub Actions Full Workflow

Automated workflow: code test → build Docker image → push to ECR → deploy to EKS

Azure DevOps Enterprise Pipeline

Multi-stage Azure Pipeline with approval gates, environments and deployment to AKS

Terraform Azure IaC Module

Reusable Terraform modules provisioning VNet, AKS, ACR, Storage with remote state

Terraform CI/CD Integration

GitHub Actions Terraform workflow: plan on PR → human approval → apply on merge

Prometheus + Grafana Stack

Full observability stack on Kubernetes with 20+ dashboards, alert rules and PagerDuty integration

Azure Monitor Operations Centre

Log Analytics workspace with KQL queries, Application Insights and automated runbooks

DevSecOps Security Pipeline

CI/CD with SAST (SonarQube) + Trivy image scan + DAST (ZAP) + secrets detection integrated

End-to-End Production Deployment

Terraform infra → Helm chart → GitHub Actions CI/CD → Prometheus monitoring — full production stack

SRE Runbook & Incident Drill

Define SLOs, simulate cascading failures with chaos engineering, and write a blameless post-mortem

Microservices on EKS (AWS)

Docker-based microservices deployed to AWS EKS with ALB Ingress and CloudWatch monitoring

GitOps with Argo CD

Full GitOps workflow: infrastructure changes via PR → Argo CD syncs K8s cluster automatically