DevOps & SRE
DevOps Foundations
A practical two-day introduction to DevOps principles, value streams, CI/CD, automation, cloud operations, reliability, incident response, DevSecOps, and DORA-style measurement.
- Format
- Live virtual, in-person, or private on-site
- Duration
- 2 days
- Level
- Introductory
- From
- $1295.00
About this course
Course overview
Understand how modern delivery and operations work together.
DevOps Foundations is a two-day course for leaders, project teams, analysts, product teams, and technology professionals who need a practical understanding of how modern software delivery and operations work together. Participants learn DevOps principles, value streams, CI/CD, automation, cloud operating practices, observability, reliability, incident response, security, measurement, and improvement planning.
The course is intentionally practical and role-inclusive. It helps cross-functional teams understand where delivery slows down, how automation and platform practices help, how reliability and incident learning improve outcomes, and how to use DORA-style metrics responsibly without turning metrics into individual performance targets.
Learning outcomes
What you'll learn
Every module is tied to an outcome you can bring back to your team the next day.
- Describe DevOps principles, culture, collaboration, value streams, flow, feedback, learning, automation, and shared ownership
- Identify handoffs, queues, bottlenecks, rework, dependencies, and constraints across idea-to-production value streams
- Explain CI/CD, trunk-based development concepts, test automation, deployment strategies, environment management, and infrastructure as code
- Use observability, reliability practices, incident response, problem learning, and resilience concepts to support better service outcomes
- Connect DevSecOps, governance, risk, compliance, change enablement, architecture, and platform practices to delivery flow
- Use DORA-style metrics, flow metrics, service health indicators, and retrospectives to build a realistic DevOps improvement roadmap
- Document 16.0 PMI education PDUs: 10 Ways of Working, 3 Power Skills, and 3 Business Acumen
Audience
Who it's for
- Leaders, project managers, product managers, business analysts, and delivery leads working with software or platform teams
- Technology professionals who need a practical overview of DevOps, SRE, CI/CD, automation, reliability, and DevSecOps
- Operations, support, cloud, security, and service-management teams improving delivery flow and service reliability
- Organizations building shared language across product, engineering, operations, security, and business stakeholders
Course structure
Syllabus
A structured path from core concepts to applied practice.
Day 1 - DevOps Principles, Value Streams, and Delivery Flow
- DevOps history, purpose, culture, collaboration, shared ownership, systems thinking, and continuous learning
- DevOps versus agile, ITIL, SRE, platform engineering, and traditional project handoffs
- Idea-to-production value streams, demand intake, prioritization, requirements flow, delivery flow, release flow, and operations feedback
- Handoffs, queues, bottlenecks, rework, dependencies, batch size, work in progress, and constraint management
- Source control, branching strategies, code review, build automation, CI, CD, deployment pipelines, and release orchestration
- Infrastructure as code, configuration management, containers, cloud services, platform teams, golden paths, and developer experience
Day 2 - Operations, Reliability, Security, Metrics, and Improvement Roadmap
- Logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, service-level indicators, service-level objectives, and error budgets
- Incident response, escalation, communication, post-incident review, problem learning, and resilience
- Security shift-left, threat modeling, dependency scanning, vulnerability management, policy as code, and secure delivery controls
- Governance, risk, compliance, auditability, change enablement, approvals, separation of duties, and guardrails
- Deployment frequency, change lead time, change fail rate, failed deployment recovery time, deployment rework rate, flow metrics, service health, and metric misuse risks
- Capability assessment, improvement backlog, sequencing, ownership, constraints, and a 90-day DevOps improvement plan
Public cohorts
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We run this course as a private team cohort on demand, or you can be the first to know when the next public date drops.
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