DevOps Essentials

By William Boyd

Learn what DevOps is and how it impacts IT in the real world.

3 hours
  • 27 Lessons
  • 1 Hands-On Lab
  • 5 Course Quizzes

About the course

This course provides a basic introduction to the concept of DevOps. It seeks to give the student a working knowledge of what DevOps is and how it impacts IT in the real world. This course explains the culture of DevOps as well as some of the main practices and tools associated with DevOps. It also introduces the student to the close relationship between DevOps and the cloud.

Lab Highlights

  • Chapter 1 6 Lessons Introduction 28:23

    An Important Note About A Cloud Guru and Linux Academy Courses

    1:19

    About the Course Author

    0:28

    Course Features and Tools

    2:40

    What is DevOps?

    3:37

    A Brief History of DevOps

    5:19

    QUIZ: DevOps Introduction

    15:00 Quiz
  • Chapter 2 3 Lessons DevOps Culture 34:48

    The Goals of DevOps

    8:18

    A Story of DevOps vs. Traditional Silos

    11:30

    QUIZ: DevOps Culture

    15:00 Quiz
  • Chapter 3 10 Lessons DevOps Concepts and Practices 1:27:34

    Build Automation

    4:39

    Continuous Integration

    4:54

    Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment

    6:09

    Infrastructure as Code

    4:33

    Configuration Management

    4:33

    Orchestration

    5:32

    Monitoring

    4:44

    Microservices

    7:30

    QUIZ: DevOps Concepts and Practices

    15:00 Quiz

    The DevOps Pipeline

    30:00 Hands-On Lab
  • Chapter 4 7 Lessons DevOps Tools 43:34

    Introduction to DevOps Tools

    4:59

    Tools for Build Automation and Continuous Integration

    4:36

    Tools for Configuration Management

    6:29

    Tools for Virtualization and Containerization

    3:09

    Tools for Monitoring

    4:49

    Tools for Orchestration

    4:32

    QUIZ: DevOps Tools

    15:00 Quiz
  • Chapter 5 5 Lessons DevOps and the Cloud 32:14

    DevOps and the Cloud

    6:46

    DevOps and Google Cloud Platform

    3:40

    DevOps and Microsoft Azure

    2:22

    DevOps and Amazon Web Services

    4:26

    QUIZ: DevOps and the Cloud

    15:00 Quiz
  • Chapter 6 1 Lesson Next Steps 2:06

    Next Steps

    2:06

What are Hands-on Labs

What's the difference between theoretical knowledge and real skills? Practical real-world experience. That's where Hands-on Labs come in! Hands-on Labs are guided, interactive experiences that help you learn and practice real-world scenarios in real cloud environments. Hands-on Labs are seamlessly integrated in courses, so you can learn by doing.

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