DevOps Advanced Training
Scale DevOps across an organisation with SRE practices, an internal developer platform, a secure supply chain and a measured transformation roadmap. Learn DevOps 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 DevOps 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 DevOps Advanced Training.
Understand where DevOps fits in modern software delivery, what this level covers, and how the program builds practical confidence step by step.
Program overview
DevOps 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 DevOps 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 DevOps training for delivery teams, platform groups and engineering organizations.
DevOpsSchool provides corporate DevOps 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 DevOps 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 | DevOps Advanced Training | Private team batch |
What learners should be able to do after DevOps training.
The outcomes are written for practical delivery teams: developers, DevOps engineers, release engineers, administrators and technical leads.
Apply DevOps principles
Use DevOps culture, flow and DORA metrics to improve how your team delivers software.
Automate secure delivery
Build CI/CD, GitOps and DevSecOps pipelines from commit to Kubernetes production.
Scale reliable platforms
Run SRE practices, platform engineering and supply chain security across an organisation.
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 DevOps responsibilities before reviewing the detailed agenda.
Why DevOps matters
- DevOps 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, DevOps becomes more valuable when connected with automation, governance, monitoring and delivery practices.
- Teams using DevOps effectively reduce ad-hoc execution and move toward consistent engineering standards.
Objectives
- Understand DevOps concepts, architecture, terminology and operational usage patterns.
- Learn practical configuration, workflow design, access controls, team usage and quality practices.
- Apply DevOps in real delivery workflows using automation, integrations, traceability and governance patterns.
- Build practical confidence to use DevOps 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 DevOps 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 DevOps.
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: DevOps culture, flow metrics and first pipelineDay 1
- Why DevOps: silos, the wall of confusion between dev and ops, business outcomes and a short history
- CALMS and the Three Ways: culture, automation, lean, measurement, sharing; flow, feedback and continual learning
- Value stream mapping: lead time, process time, handoffs, queues and waste in software delivery
- DORA metrics: deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate and time to restore
- Agile foundations for DevOps teams: Scrum and Kanban, WIP limits and small batch sizes
- Team Topologies: stream-aligned, platform, enabling and complicated-subsystem teams
- DevOps lifecycle and toolchain map: plan, code, build, test, release, deploy, operate and monitor
- Linux essentials for DevOps: shell navigation, files and permissions, processes, packages and SSH
- Networking essentials: IP addressing, DNS, HTTP and HTTPS, ports and load balancers, curl and dig
- Branching concepts: trunk-based development versus GitFlow and why short-lived branches win
- CI/CD concepts: continuous integration, delivery versus deployment, pipelines as code and artifacts
- Cloud and infrastructure as code concepts: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, immutable infrastructure, declarative versus imperative
- First pipeline: a GitHub Actions workflow that builds and tests a small app on every push
Essential Level = Foundation + CI/CD pipelines, testing, containers and Kubernetes basicsDay 2 · 2 days cumulative
- GitHub Actions in depth: jobs, matrix builds, caching, artifacts, environments and reusable workflows
- GitLab CI/CD: .gitlab-ci.yml stages, runners, rules, includes and merge request pipelines
- Test automation strategy: test pyramid, unit, integration and contract tests running in the pipeline
- Versioning and artifacts: semantic versioning, changelogs and Nexus, Artifactory or GitHub Packages
- Containers for delivery: multi-stage Dockerfiles, image tags by commit SHA and registry push
- Kubernetes for app teams: pods, deployments, services, ConfigMaps, Secrets and kubectl basics
- Helm charts: chart structure, values per environment, upgrades and rollbacks
- Infrastructure as code in pipelines: OpenTofu or Terraform plan on pull request, apply on merge
- Configuration and secrets: twelve-factor config, environment variables and a managed secret store
- Code quality: linters, formatters, pre-commit hooks and SonarQube quality gates
- Collaboration: pull request reviews, CODEOWNERS and ChatOps notifications
- Environments and approvals: dev, staging and production promotion with manual gates and feature flags
Intermediate Level = Essential + observability, DevSecOps, GitOps and incident responseDay 3 · 3 days cumulative
- Observability: metrics, logs and traces with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and OpenTelemetry
- Alerting and on-call: Alertmanager rules, routing to PagerDuty or Slack and runbooks
- DevSecOps scanning: SAST with CodeQL or Semgrep, dependency updates with Dependabot or Renovate, DAST with ZAP
- Container security: Trivy image scans, minimal base images and non-root containers
- Secrets management: HashiCorp Vault, External Secrets Operator and OIDC keyless access from CI to cloud
- GitOps delivery: Argo CD applications, automated sync and environment repositories
- Progressive delivery: canary and blue-green releases with Argo Rollouts or Flagger and feature flags
- Database changes: Flyway or Liquibase in pipelines and expand-and-contract migrations
- Kubernetes operations: resource requests, probes, HPA autoscaling, namespaces and RBAC
- Configuration management for VMs: Ansible playbooks alongside container workloads
- Incident management: severity levels, incident commander role, communication and blameless postmortems
- Pipeline performance: caching, parallel jobs, self-hosted runners and flaky test quarantine
- Troubleshooting deployments: kubectl describe, logs and events, failed pipeline analysis and rollbacks
Advanced Level = Intermediate + SRE, platform engineering, supply chain and transformationDays 4-5 · 5 days cumulative
- Site reliability engineering: SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, burn-rate alerts and toil reduction
- Platform engineering: internal developer platform, Backstage portal, golden paths and self-service environments
- Software supply chain security: SBOMs with Syft, signing with Sigstore cosign, SLSA provenance and admission policies
- Policy as code and compliance: OPA and Kyverno rules, audit evidence from pipelines, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 mapping
- High availability delivery: multi-cluster and multi-region deployments, failover and disaster recovery drills
- Chaos engineering: LitmusChaos or Chaos Mesh experiments and game days
- FinOps for DevOps: cost per team and service with OpenCost, rightsizing and budgets in pipelines
- CI/CD at scale: monorepo build strategies, remote caching and ephemeral runners on Kubernetes
- AI in DevOps: AI-assisted coding and review, AIOps alert correlation and guardrails for agents
- Measuring transformation: DORA plus SPACE metrics, maturity assessment and improvement roadmaps
- Legacy modernisation: strangler fig pattern, containerising monoliths and cloud migration waves
- Capstone: design and demo a platform with golden-path pipelines, SLOs, signed artifacts and cost reports
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 DevOps 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.
Map a value stream, automate builds
Map your team's delivery value stream with DORA baselines, then create a GitHub Actions workflow that builds and tests a demo service on every push.
Pipeline from commit to Kubernetes
Build a pipeline that tests, scans, versions and containerises a service, then deploys it with Helm to staging and, after approval, to production.
Secure GitOps release with monitoring
Add security scans and Vault secrets to the pipeline, deliver the service through Argo CD as a canary, and wire metrics, traces and alerts for a simulated incident.
Capstone: golden-path delivery platform
Build a Backstage golden path that scaffolds a service with signed images, policy checks, GitOps delivery and SLO dashboards, then run a chaos game day against it.
DevOps 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 DevOps 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 DevOps certificate.
Completion includes a digital certificate with credential details, practical assignments and a learning record aligned to the selected DevOps level.
Certificate verificationCertificate of Completion
DevOps Advanced Training
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What learners say about training with Rajesh Kumar.
“Rajesh is very good trainer. Rajesh was able to resolve our queries and question effectively. We really liked the hands-on examples covered during this training program.”
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“The training was very useful and interactive. Rajesh helped develop the confidence of all.”
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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 DevOps path is different.
The value is not only one course. The subscription unlocks the full learning ecosystem for one year.
| Feature | DevOpsSchool DevOps 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 DevOps level fits your team.
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Live batch experience
Training supports live online, private team and workshop-style delivery.
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