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DevOps & CI/CD Foundations

IT Infrastructure, Cloud & Security

DevOps & CI/CD Foundations

DevOps & CI/CD Foundations explains how development and operations teams work together to release software quickly and safely. It covers version control, automated builds and the stages of a delivery pipeline. Higher levels move on to infrastructure as code, deployment strategies and monitoring, then to scaling these practices across an organisation's systems.

Levels: 4
Starting from: 280 credits

Choose a level

Each level is unlocked on its own

Level 1 / 4

Beginner

280 credits

What you will study: The history and goals of DevOps, collaboration between development and operations, version control with Git, branching basics and why smaller, frequent releases reduce risk. Simple examples show a change travelling through each stage.
Who it is for: For developers, administrators and IT staff who want to understand what DevOps means and why many teams now release small changes frequently. No previous DevOps experience is needed.
What you will be able to do: You can explain the core ideas of DevOps, use Git to track and share changes and describe how a code change moves from a laptop to production. This prepares you to automate your first pipeline.

Level 2 / 4

Intermediate

480 credits

What you will study: Continuous integration concepts, writing pipeline configuration, automated builds, running tests in the pipeline, build artefacts, managing dependencies and reading pipeline results. Example pipeline files are explained section by section.
Who it is for: For learners comfortable with version control who want to automate builds and tests so every change is checked the moment it is pushed. It turns DevOps ideas into working automation.
What you will be able to do: You can create a working CI pipeline that builds, tests and packages code automatically and fix the most common reasons a pipeline run fails. Problems are caught within minutes instead of days.

Level 3 / 4

Advanced

780 credits

What you will study: Continuous delivery, infrastructure as code, configuration management, container basics, secrets handling, blue-green and canary deployments, rollbacks and promoting builds between environments. Each deployment pattern is compared by risk, speed and complexity.
Who it is for: For engineers who run CI pipelines and now want reliable, repeatable deployments where environments are defined as code instead of set up by hand. It is where delivery becomes fully repeatable.
What you will be able to do: You can define infrastructure in code, deploy applications through automated stages and release changes safely with a clear way to roll back if needed. Releases will become calmer, safer and more predictable.

Level 4 / 4

Expert

1,080 credits

What you will study: Monitoring and observability, incident feedback loops, securing the pipeline, shared pipeline templates, platform standards, compliance in automated delivery and measuring delivery performance. Examples show how shared standards reduce duplicated effort between teams.
Who it is for: For senior engineers and platform owners who want DevOps practices applied consistently across many teams, services and environments throughout an organisation. It takes a platform-wide view of software delivery.
What you will be able to do: You can standardise delivery practices across teams, build security and monitoring into every pipeline and use data to guide ongoing improvement in how software ships. Every team can ship with the same level of confidence.

Levels are paid for with credits. Access details are emailed to you, typically within 24 hours, and if nothing arrives after 72 hours, please contact us.

About This Learning Material

DevOps & CI/CD Foundations looks at software delivery from the infrastructure side, showing how code travels from a developer's machine to a running server. It suits system administrators, developers and IT staff who want releases to be more predictable and less stressful.

The Beginner level introduces DevOps culture, version control with Git and why small, frequent releases reduce risk. Intermediate covers building a continuous integration pipeline that compiles, tests and packages code automatically. Advanced focuses on continuous delivery, infrastructure as code, configuration management and safe deployment patterns such as blue-green and canary releases. Expert examines monitoring, incident feedback loops, security within pipelines and standardising delivery practices across many teams and environments.