Build And Release Advanced Training
Scale build and release for many teams with secure, governed pipelines, deployment strategies and DORA metrics, and lead the DevOps transition. Learn Build And Release 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 Build And Release 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 Build And Release Advanced Training.
Understand where Build And Release fits in modern software delivery, what this level covers, and how the program builds practical confidence step by step.
Program overview
Build And Release 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 Build And Release 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 Build And Release training for delivery teams, platform groups and engineering organizations.
DevOpsSchool provides corporate Build And Release 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 Build And Release 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 | Build And Release Advanced Training | Private team batch |
What learners should be able to do after Build And Release training.
The outcomes are written for practical delivery teams: developers, DevOps engineers, release engineers, administrators and technical leads.
Automate builds and packaging
Build, version and package Java and .NET software with Maven, Gradle, Ant and MSBuild and publish it to Nexus.
Run CI/CD pipelines
Implement Jenkins pipelines with tests, quality gates and configuration management for repeatable releases.
Govern releases at scale
Apply deployment strategies, supply chain controls and DORA metrics to release software safely across teams.
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 Build And Release responsibilities before reviewing the detailed agenda.
Why Build And Release matters
- Build And Release 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, Build And Release becomes more valuable when connected with automation, governance, monitoring and delivery practices.
- Teams using Build And Release effectively reduce ad-hoc execution and move toward consistent engineering standards.
Objectives
- Understand Build And Release concepts, architecture, terminology and operational usage patterns.
- Learn practical configuration, workflow design, access controls, team usage and quality practices.
- Apply Build And Release in real delivery workflows using automation, integrations, traceability and governance patterns.
- Build practical confidence to use Build And Release 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 Build And Release 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 Build And Release.
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: SCM concepts, Linux, Git and buildsDay 1
- Build and release engineering: role, responsibilities and the problem it solves for development and operations
- Software configuration management: identification, version control, change control, audits and its elements
- Concepts: version management, build management, packaging management, release and deployment management
- Linux essentials: user and admin commands, permissions, processes, services, cron and log files
- Windows administration fundamentals: services, scheduled tasks, IIS basics and PowerShell for admins
- Git fundamentals: clone, commit, branch, merge, tags, remotes and pull requests
- Subversion (svn) fundamentals: checkout, commit, trunk/branches/tags layout and migrating to Git with git svn
- Build automation concepts: compile, test, package, reproducible and incremental builds
- Apache Maven fundamentals: pom.xml, lifecycle phases, dependencies, repositories and mvn clean verify
- Bash shell scripting fundamentals: variables, loops, functions, exit codes and build helper scripts
- First pipeline: commit, build, run unit tests and archive a versioned artifact
Essential Level = Foundation + build tools, packaging and artifact repositoriesDay 2 · 2 days cumulative
- Branching strategies: trunk-based development, GitFlow, release branches and hotfix flow
- Git advanced: rebase, cherry-pick, bisect, signed tags and monorepo versus polyrepo trade-offs
- Apache Ant fundamentals: build.xml targets, tasks, properties and dependencies between targets
- Apache Maven advanced: multi-module builds, profiles, dependencyManagement and the release plugin
- Gradle fundamentals: build.gradle and Kotlin DSL, tasks, dependency configurations and the Gradle wrapper
- MSBuild fundamentals: project files, targets, properties, dotnet build and dotnet pack
- Versioning: semantic versioning, build numbers, build metadata and changelogs
- Package management in Linux and Windows: yum/dnf, apt-get, RPM spec files and NuGet packages
- Artifact repository tools: Sonatype Nexus hosted, proxy and group repositories; deploying and promoting artifacts
- PowerShell scripting fundamentals: cmdlets, pipeline, modules and error handling for Windows builds
- Ruby programming fundamentals: syntax, gems and Rake tasks used by build and configuration tools
- Jira fundamentals: issues, workflows, fix versions and linking commits to release versions
Intermediate Level = Essential + CI/CD pipelines, configuration management and releasesDay 3 · 3 days cumulative
- Continuous integration tools: Jenkins fundamentals, jobs, agents, plugins and build triggers
- Jenkins advanced: declarative Jenkinsfile, stages, parallel builds, shared libraries and credentials
- Test automation in the pipeline: unit, integration and continuous testing with reports
- Quality gates: static analysis and coverage thresholds that fail or mark builds unstable
- Configuration management tools: Chef fundamentals with cookbooks, recipes and knife bootstrap
- Puppet fundamentals: manifests, modules, the agent and server model and Hiera data
- CI/CD concept and implementation: continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous deployment
- Delivery pipelines: the major steps to implement them, environment promotion, approvals and release notes
- Incident management tools: Jira incident tickets, SLAs and linking incidents to releases
- Secrets in builds: credential stores, vault integration and keeping secrets out of source control
- Troubleshooting builds: reading logs, flaky tests, dependency conflicts and build caching
Advanced Level = Intermediate + scale, supply chain, governance and DevOps transitionDays 4-5 · 5 days cumulative
- Chef advanced: roles, environments, Policyfiles and data bags for release configuration
- Build performance at scale: distributed agents, remote build caches, parallel Maven and Gradle builds
- Containerized releases: Docker images as artifacts, registries, immutable tags and promotion by digest
- Deployment strategies: blue-green, canary, rolling updates, feature flags and automated rollback
- Software supply chain: SBOMs, artifact signing, provenance and dependency scanning
- Release governance: change management, audit trails, segregation of duties and compliance evidence
- Release metrics: deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate and time to restore
- Multi-platform releases: Java and .NET pipelines targeting Linux and Windows servers
- Modernizing legacy builds: Ant to Maven or Gradle, SVN to Git, freestyle jobs to pipeline as code
- DevOps organization and culture: implementing build and release practices and transitioning a project
- Capstone: end-to-end CI/CD implementation from commit to production with rollback
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 Build And Release 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.
Automate a first Java build
Clone a Java project, build and test it with Maven from a Bash script and archive a versioned JAR as the release artifact.
Package and publish a release
Build the same service with Maven and Gradle, produce an RPM and a NuGet package, and publish versioned artifacts to a Nexus repository.
Build a Jenkins delivery pipeline
Create a Jenkinsfile that builds, tests and analyses an application, publishes to Nexus and deploys to a test server configured with Chef.
End-to-end release platform capstone
Design and build a governed CI/CD flow for a Java and a .NET service with signed artifacts, canary deployment and DORA metric reporting.
Build And Release 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 Build And Release 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 Build And Release certificate.
Completion includes a digital certificate with credential details, practical assignments and a learning record aligned to the selected Build And Release level.
Certificate verificationCertificate of Completion
Build And Release Advanced Training
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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 Build And Release path is different.
The value is not only one course. The subscription unlocks the full learning ecosystem for one year.
| Feature | DevOpsSchool Build And Release 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 Build And Release level fits your team.
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