Black Duck Advanced Training
Run Black Duck at enterprise scale and build a governed open source and software supply chain program around it. Learn Black Duck through a clear Foundation to Advanced path, with hands-on labs, live cohort options, certification support and full LMS access.
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Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Black Duck levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
About Black Duck Advanced Training.
Understand where Black Duck fits in modern software delivery, what this level covers, and how the program builds practical confidence step by step.
Program overview
Black Duck is taught as a practical technical skill for modern engineering, operations and platform teams. The course explains where the tool fits, how it is used in real delivery environments, and how learners can apply it through guided practice.
This DevOpsSchool Black Duck program is built for working professionals who want usable skills instead of only conceptual exposure. The training emphasizes live examples, workflow clarity, operational controls and progressive skill depth from Foundation to Advanced.
Private Black Duck training for delivery teams, platform groups and engineering organizations.
DevOpsSchool provides corporate Black Duck training for teams that need faster adoption, workflow standardization, administrative control, integration guidance and governance-ready rollout. Private batches can be aligned to development practice, release workflow, access model, maturity level and internal tooling.
- Private online or classroom delivery for engineering teams
- Aligned to Black Duck usage maturity, admin depth and collaboration patterns
- Useful for rollout, migration, governance and workflow consistency goals
- Can be tailored for developers, administrators, DevOps teams and leadership stakeholders
Why teams use DevOpsSchool
DevOpsSchool combines live demonstration, practical workflow discussion, implementation-oriented examples, and strong post-session learning support. That makes the training more usable for real teams than generic slide-led courses.
Choose any level. The page still shows the full progression.
Foundation, Essential, Intermediate and Advanced are presented as one linked training flow. Self-paced buyers get all levels by default, even if they start from only one course page.
Instructor-led, self-paced and corporate delivery options.
Compare delivery format, duration, level access and batch style. Fees are shown only in the top decision panel and once again after the agenda.
| Duration | Mode | Level access | Batch |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | Live & Interactive | Advanced | Public batch |
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | 1:1 Live training | Advanced | Starts immediately |
| 1 year LMS access | Self-paced video | All 4 levels | Anytime access |
| 5 Days | Corporate | Black Duck Advanced Training | Private team batch |
What learners should be able to do after Black Duck training.
The outcomes are written for practical delivery teams: developers, DevOps engineers, release engineers, administrators and technical leads.
Identify open source risk
Scan applications with Black Duck to find components, vulnerabilities and license obligations.
Remediate and enforce policy
Triage findings, apply policies and gate CI/CD pipelines on security and license rules.
Govern the software supply chain
Run Black Duck at scale and deliver SBOMs, audits and compliance reporting.
Why this skill, what you will achieve, and who should attend.
Use this section to decide whether the course matches your role, current experience and expected Black Duck responsibilities before reviewing the detailed agenda.
Why Black Duck matters
- Black Duck helps teams standardize a critical part of their software delivery, infrastructure, automation or operations workflow.
- It gives learners a repeatable way to move from basic usage to confident execution in team and enterprise environments.
- For DevOps and platform teams, Black Duck becomes more valuable when connected with automation, governance, monitoring and delivery practices.
- Teams using Black Duck effectively reduce ad-hoc execution and move toward consistent engineering standards.
Objectives
- Understand Black Duck concepts, architecture, terminology and operational usage patterns.
- Learn practical configuration, workflow design, access controls, team usage and quality practices.
- Apply Black Duck in real delivery workflows using automation, integrations, traceability and governance patterns.
- Build practical confidence to use Black Duck for individual, team and organizational use cases.
Pre-requisites
- Basic computer literacy and familiarity with software development workflows.
- Helpful but not mandatory: introductory DevOps, cloud, automation or software delivery awareness.
- No deep programming background is required for the Foundation and Essential levels.
Who this course is for
- Developers, administrators and engineers who need practical Black Duck usage skills.
- DevOps engineers, release engineers, SREs and platform teams managing delivery standards.
- Engineering leads and technical managers responsible for workflow quality, access controls and governance.
- Corporate teams migrating to or standardizing on Black Duck.
Small-batch live training starts every month.
Weekday batches start on the 1st and weekend batches on the first Saturday of every month. One-to-one (1:1) training can start immediately; corporate sessions are scheduled on demand.
Weekend live batch
Starts on the first Saturday of every month. Weekend sessions with demos, labs and Q&A; max 10 learners.
Weekday live batch
Starts on the 1st of every month. Weekday sessions for working professionals and distributed teams; max 10 learners.
Ask advisorAgenda depth up to the selected level.
This page shows the learning flow from Foundation through Advanced. Each level adds to the previous one, and the agenda stops at the current page level. Day counts are for corporate (day-wise) delivery; live online batches cover the same agenda in max 8 to 10 hours.
Foundation Level: open source risk, SCA concepts and first scanDay 1
- Open source risk: security vulnerabilities, license compliance and operational risk in dependencies
- Software composition analysis: how SCA identifies components, versions and known vulnerabilities
- Software bill of materials: what an SBOM is and the SPDX and CycloneDX formats
- Black Duck SCA overview: KnowledgeBase, Black Duck Security Advisories and supported ecosystems
- Architecture: Black Duck server, PostgreSQL database, job runners and the Detect scanning client
- Deployment options: hosted service versus self-managed installs on Docker or Kubernetes
- UI tour: dashboard, projects, versions, Bill of Materials and component details
- Scan types: package manager detectors, signature scanning, binary scanning and snippet matching
- Black Duck Detect: running the Detect script, required properties and API tokens
- First scan: scanning a Maven or npm project and reviewing the resulting BOM
Essential Level = Foundation + BOM review, vulnerabilities, licenses and policiesDay 2 · 2 days cumulative
- Projects and versions: naming, phases, distribution settings and project ownership
- BOM review: components, origins, match types and confirming or ignoring components
- Vulnerability management: CVE versus BDSA records, CVSS scores and exploitability
- Remediation workflow: remediation statuses, upgrade guidance and comments
- License management: license families, license terms, obligations and conflicts
- Policy management: policy rules for severity, license, component age and usage
- Component adjustments: manual additions, version overrides and usage settings
- Detect configuration: properties files, environment variables, excluded directories and detector options
- Snippet and string search scanning: when to enable and how to review results
- Reports: SBOM export in SPDX or CycloneDX, notices reports and vulnerability reports
- Notifications: subscribing to project changes and new vulnerabilities
Intermediate Level = Essential + CI/CD integration, automation and administrationDay 3 · 3 days cumulative
- Scanning modes: rapid scans versus full intelligent scans and when to use each
- Jenkins integration: Detect in pipelines, credentials and failing builds on policy violations
- GitHub Actions, GitLab CI and Azure DevOps: running Detect and publishing results
- Container scanning: Docker image inspection and layer-aware results
- Developer feedback: Code Sight IDE plugin for early findings
- Black Duck Alert: routing notifications to Jira, Slack, Microsoft Teams and email
- REST API: authentication, project and BOM endpoints and automating reports
- User administration: users, groups, roles and project-level access
- Authentication: SAML single sign-on and LDAP integration
- Troubleshooting Detect: logs, diagnostic mode, detector failures and network issues
- Scan hygiene: duplicate scans, code locations and cleaning up stale scans
Advanced Level = Intermediate + scale, governance, supply chain and complianceDays 4-5 · 5 days cumulative
- Enterprise deployment: Kubernetes with Helm, sizing, external PostgreSQL and scan capacity planning
- High availability and recovery: backups, database maintenance and upgrade planning
- Performance tuning: job runner scaling, scan concurrency and data retention
- Governance at scale: project groups, policy hierarchies and ownership models
- Open source program office: intake, approval and exception processes
- Regulatory and customer requirements: SBOM delivery, US Executive Order 14028 and the EU Cyber Resilience Act
- Supply chain security: provenance, SLSA levels and signed artifacts alongside SCA
- Combining testing types: SCA with SAST such as Coverity and dynamic testing for full coverage
- Metrics and reporting: mean time to remediate, policy violation trends and executive dashboards
- Audits and due diligence: preparing open source audits for releases and acquisitions
- Capstone: enterprise open source risk program with automated gates and reporting
Choose live training or a full year of self-paced access.
If someone buys Foundation, Essential, Intermediate or Advanced as self-paced video, the price stays the same and access is granted to all four levels by default.
Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Black Duck levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
- Start immediately: no waiting for the monthly batch.
- One learner, one trainer: full attention on your questions.
- Sessions planned around your working hours.
- Your pace, with examples from your own projects and tools.
Method of training and assessment.
The course emphasizes practical demonstration, hands-on labs and assignment-based validation instead of passive lecture-only learning.
| SL | Method of training and assessment | Weightage |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Understanding the problem space | 5% |
| 2 | Concept discussion | 10% |
| 3 | Live demo and walkthrough | 25% |
| 4 | Lab and hands-on exercises | 50% |
| 5 | Assignments and evaluation | 10% |
Labs, exercises and real workflow practice.
Every level moves from explanation to hands-on practice, review and troubleshooting.
Scan your first project
Generate an API token, run Black Duck Detect against an open source Java or Node.js project and review its BOM and risks.
Triage and report a project
Define vulnerability and license policies, triage a scanned project's BOM, remediate key findings and export an SBOM and notices file.
Policy gate in CI/CD
Add Black Duck Detect to a pipeline that fails on critical policy violations, sends alerts to Jira and reports via the REST API.
Enterprise open source risk program
Design project groups, policies and CI gates for several teams, automate SBOM delivery and build an executive risk dashboard.
Black Duck is taught as part of a working delivery ecosystem.
You learn where the tool sits in the wider engineering workflow, not in isolation.
Core foundations
Terminology, concepts, architecture and the operating model behind the tool.
Workflow traceability
Map practical work to tasks, approvals, documentation and delivery visibility.
Automation and integration
Use Black Duck with validation checks, automation hooks and delivery workflows.
Governance controls
Operate with permissions, approvals, policy checks and production-safe workflows.
How your practical work is assessed.
Your certificate is backed by labs, assignments, capstone thinking and completion evidence.
Assignments
Level-specific assignments verify setup, configuration, workflow quality and operating discipline.
Hands-on validation
Learners are expected to complete practical usage, automation and troubleshooting exercises.
Completion record
Certificate issuance is tied to demonstrated participation, practical completion and course-level coverage.
Led by Rajesh Kumar and the DevOpsSchool practitioner network.
Training is grounded in practical DevOps, SRE, security, release and platform engineering experience with real enterprise delivery context.
Earn a DevOpsSchool Black Duck certificate.
Completion includes a digital certificate with credential details, practical assignments and a learning record aligned to the selected Black Duck level.
Certificate verificationCertificate of Completion
Black Duck Advanced Training
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What learners say about training with Rajesh Kumar.
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Used by developers, DevOps engineers, release leads and engineering managers.
Private batches are available for teams that want the same agenda aligned to their own tools and workflows.
Why this Black Duck path is different.
The value is not only one course. The subscription unlocks the full learning ecosystem for one year.
| Feature | DevOpsSchool Black Duck Training | Typical short course |
|---|---|---|
| Levels | Foundation, Essential, Intermediate, Advanced | Single generic syllabus |
| Self-paced access | All four levels plus 20+ courses and 50+ tools | Usually one course only |
| Live training | Demos, labs, Q&A and assignment review | Often lecture-heavy |
| Certificate | DevOpsSchool completion certificate | Varies by provider |
Questions learners ask before joining.
Does Foundation cost less than Advanced?
No. Self-paced pricing is intentionally the same because access includes all four levels by default.
What is included in the yearly subscription?
One year of complete LMS access, all four levels for the selected course, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
Can corporate teams request customization?
Yes. The live format can be aligned to team tools, governance requirements, workflows and internal delivery standards.
What is the recommended sequence?
Foundation → Essential → Intermediate → Advanced. The agenda is designed so each level builds on the previous one.
Talk to DevOpsSchool before choosing the batch.
Use this support section for batch questions, corporate planning, LMS access clarifications, or guidance on which Black Duck level fits your team.
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