{"id":78270,"date":"2026-08-23T09:35:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T09:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=78270"},"modified":"2026-08-23T09:35:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T09:35:53","slug":"how-elearning-platforms-help-businesses-keep-devops-skills-up-to-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/how-elearning-platforms-help-businesses-keep-devops-skills-up-to-date\/","title":{"rendered":"How eLearning Platforms Help Businesses Keep DevOps Skills Up to Date"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As a DevOps team, you\u2019re expected to keep moving, but sometimes your technology ends up moving faster than you can. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are constant updates and new things to use in your daily work, and that\u2019s great. The only issue is that if you don\u2019t have time to learn these things, you and your team end up being left behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Courses and workshops can take hours away from important work, though, so finding the balance is the tricky part. This is often where teams start relying on e-learning, so they can gain new skills when and where it works best for them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are a few ways e-learning can really make a difference in keeping your DevOps team up to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Give every DevOps engineer a consistent baseline<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Your DevOps team doesn’t need to have identical skill sets. In fact, you probably want people to have different areas of expertise. One engineer might be particularly strong in cloud infrastructure<\/a>, while another focuses on automation, security, or CI\/CD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem comes when the baseline knowledge you need from the team isn’t consistent. You don’t want one engineer to understand your security requirements inside out while another has never received formal training on them. You also don’t want your newest employee trying to piece together your processes from old documentation and conversations with whoever happens to be available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

eLearning can give everyone access to the same foundational training. You can establish core learning requirements around areas such as cloud infrastructure, security, automation, CI\/CD, containers, or your internal processes. From there, employees can branch into more specialised training based on their role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Build learning paths around different roles<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Your junior engineers don’t necessarily need the same training as your senior engineers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You might create an introductory learning path for new DevOps engineers, while giving experienced employees more advanced training around Kubernetes, cloud architecture, infrastructure as code, or DevSecOps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This lets you avoid the problem of giving everyone the same training regardless of their experience. Your team gets the knowledge they actually need, rather than having to work through a generic collection of courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Choose an eLearning platform that supports your team’s needs<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

For a DevOps team, the useful features aren’t necessarily the ones that look impressive on a feature list. You need to be able to give people relevant training, manage different learning requirements, and see whether your team is actually progressing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are a few of the top eLearning platforms for businesses<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Kallidus<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Best for: Businesses that want to connect employee learning with skills development and wider business goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kallidus provides an LMS for managing employee learning, with features for creating and assigning training, building learning paths, tracking progress, and reporting on development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a DevOps team, you could use the platform to organise training around specific roles and skills. That could include onboarding for new engineers, core DevOps training, or more advanced development in areas such as cloud computing, automation, security, and infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. TalentLMS<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Best for: Businesses looking for a straightforward platform for managing employee training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TalentLMS provides tools for creating and delivering courses, building learning paths, tracking employee progress, and managing different types of workplace training. You could use it to organise technical training for your DevOps team alongside onboarding, compliance, and other employee development programmes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. 360Learning<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Best for: Teams that want to turn internal expertise into shared training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

360Learning takes a collaborative approach to learning, allowing employees and subject-matter experts to contribute to course creation. That could be particularly useful for DevOps teams where a lot of important knowledge exists internally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your senior engineers might know the ins and outs of your deployment process, infrastructure, monitoring setup, or incident response procedures<\/a>. Instead of keeping that knowledge with one person, you can turn some of it into training that other employees can access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Close skills gaps before they become a problem<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A skills gap isn’t always obvious until you need something your team doesn’t have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe only one person knows how to manage a critical part of your infrastructure. Or you’re planning to adopt a new technology but don’t have enough employees with experience using it. Or perhaps your team has technical knowledge but needs more training around security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These gaps can become a problem when the person with the specialist knowledge is unavailable or when a project suddenly requires a skill you haven’t developed yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

E-learning gives you a way to respond to these gaps before they affect your projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can identify the skills your team needs, compare them with the knowledge your employees already have, and assign training where it’s needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Track progress across your team<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It’s difficult to know whether your training programme is working if you can’t see what’s happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An e-learning platform can give you information about course completion, employee progress, assessments, and other learning activities. Depending on the platform you choose, you may also be able to manage skills profiles and identify areas where employees need further development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That gives you a better starting point for conversations about your team’s capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of asking, “Has everyone done their training?”, you can start asking whether your team has the skills it needs for the next project, technology change, or business requirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep DevOps knowledge consistent as your team grows<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Growing your DevOps team means getting new employees up to speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your existing engineers may have years of experience with your infrastructure and processes, but a new hire doesn’t automatically have that context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can, of course, rely on your existing team to explain everything. The problem is that this takes time away from the people who are already doing the work. Some of that knowledge can be turned into structured learning instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can use e-learning as part of your onboarding process, giving new employees a starting point for understanding the tools, technologies, security requirements, and processes they’ll encounter in their role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your senior engineers can still provide mentoring and hands-on guidance, but they don’t have to repeat the same basic explanations every time someone joins the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Give new hires a clear starting point<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A structured learning path can also help new employees understand what they need to know before they start taking on more complex responsibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You might cover your development and deployment processes first, followed by your infrastructure, security practices, monitoring tools, and other technologies relevant to their role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That gives employees a clearer picture of how your DevOps environment works instead of expecting them to learn everything through trial and error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turn training into something your team can actually use<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Completing an eLearning course doesn’t automatically mean someone can use the skill in a real DevOps environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You need to give employees opportunities to put what they’ve learned into practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If someone completes a course about Kubernetes<\/a> but never gets to work with containers, for example, they’re likely to forget much of the material. The same applies to infrastructure as code, security practices, automation, and other technical skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Combine eLearning with hands-on practice<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

After an employee completes a course, give them a chance to use the knowledge. That could mean working through a lab, contributing to a project, shadowing another engineer, testing a new tool in a safe environment, or taking responsibility for a small part of an existing workflow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can use eLearning to give employees the theoretical knowledge they need, then use hands-on work to help them build confidence. This also gives you a better indication of whether the training has actually helped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Make continuous learning part of your DevOps culture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You can’t realistically expect your DevOps team to know every new tool, technology, and best practice as soon as it appears. What you can do is make it easier for them to keep learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

E-learning gives your team a flexible way to build new skills without pulling everyone away from their work for hours at a time. You can use it to support new technology rollouts, close skills gaps, onboard new employees, and give your team a consistent foundation of knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The important thing is to connect that learning to the work your team actually does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When training reflects the technologies you’re using, the skills you’re missing, and the projects you’re working towards, keeping your DevOps knowledge up to date becomes much more manageable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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