Falco Intermediate Training
Run Falco across Kubernetes clusters with Helm, enrich alerts with metadata, add cloud plugins and troubleshoot detection gaps. Learn Falco 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 Falco 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 Falco Intermediate Training.
Understand where Falco fits in modern software delivery, what this level covers, and how the program builds practical confidence step by step.
Program overview
Falco 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 Falco 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 Intermediate.
Private Falco training for delivery teams, platform groups and engineering organizations.
DevOpsSchool provides corporate Falco 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 Falco 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 | Intermediate | Public batch |
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | 1:1 Live training | Intermediate | Starts immediately |
| 1 year LMS access | Self-paced video | All 4 levels | Anytime access |
| 3 Days | Corporate | Falco Intermediate Training | Private team batch |
What learners should be able to do after Falco training.
The outcomes are written for practical delivery teams: developers, DevOps engineers, release engineers, administrators and technical leads.
Detect runtime threats
Detect suspicious behaviour in hosts, containers and Kubernetes in real time with Falco.
Engineer reliable detections
Write, test and tune Falco rules with low false positives and clear ownership.
Respond and scale securely
Route, automate and govern Falco alerts across multiple clusters and security tools.
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 Falco responsibilities before reviewing the detailed agenda.
Why Falco matters
- Falco 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, Falco becomes more valuable when connected with automation, governance, monitoring and delivery practices.
- Teams using Falco effectively reduce ad-hoc execution and move toward consistent engineering standards.
Objectives
- Understand Falco concepts, architecture, terminology and operational usage patterns.
- Learn practical configuration, workflow design, access controls, team usage and quality practices.
- Apply Falco in real delivery workflows using automation, integrations, traceability and governance patterns.
- Build practical confidence to use Falco 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 Falco 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 Falco.
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 Intermediate. 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: runtime security concepts, drivers and installationDay 1
- Runtime security basics: why scanning is not enough, detecting threats while containers and hosts are running
- What Falco is: CNCF graduated runtime security project, system call monitoring and rule-based detection
- Falco architecture: kernel event collection, libscap and libsinsp, rules engine and output channels
- Event sources: system calls, plus plugins for Kubernetes audit logs, AWS CloudTrail and other sources
- Drivers: modern eBPF probe, legacy eBPF probe and kernel module, and how to choose for your kernel
- Installation on Linux: packages (deb, rpm), systemd services per driver and falcoctl driver setup
- Running in a container: the falcosecurity/falco image, privileges and host mounts
- Configuration file: falco.yaml, rules_files, outputs, priority threshold and json_output
- Default rules: falco_rules.yaml, rule maturity levels and what ships enabled
- Reading alerts: priority, rule name, output fields such as proc.name, user.name and container.id
- Common detections: shell in a container, sensitive file read (/etc/shadow), unexpected outbound connection
- First example: trigger a terminal shell in a container and capture the alert
Essential Level = Foundation + writing rules, macros, lists and alert outputsDay 2 · 2 days cumulative
- Rule syntax: rule, desc, condition, output, priority, tags and enabled fields
- Conditions and fields: evt.type, proc.cmdline, fd.name, container.image.repository and operators
- Macros and lists: reusing conditions, overriding default macros and maintaining lists
- Exceptions: structured exceptions with fields and values to reduce false positives
- Rule overrides: append and replace with override, custom rules files and load order
- Rule testing: the event-generator tool, dry runs and validating rules files with falco -V
- Output channels: stdout, file, syslog, program and http outputs, and json formatting
- Falcosidekick: forwarding alerts to Slack, Teams, Elasticsearch, Loki, webhooks and more
- Falcosidekick UI: browsing, filtering and counting events
- falcoctl: installing and updating rules and plugins as OCI artifacts, artifact follow
- MITRE ATT&CK tags: mapping rules to tactics and techniques for triage
- Team workflow: storing custom rules in Git, peer review and promoting rules between environments
Intermediate Level = Essential + Kubernetes deployment, plugins, metadata and troubleshootingDay 3 · 3 days cumulative
- Kubernetes deployment: falcosecurity Helm chart, DaemonSet, driver selection and values.yaml settings
- Kubernetes metadata: container runtime integration, pod, namespace and label fields in alerts
- Kubernetes audit logs: k8saudit plugin, webhook backend and detecting risky API activity
- Cloud plugins: CloudTrail plugin for AWS activity, plus Okta and GitHub plugins overview
- Falco Talon: automated response actions such as labelling, terminating or isolating pods
- Metrics: Falco metrics, Prometheus endpoint and dashboards for event drops and rule hits
- Performance basics: syscall selection, base_syscalls, buffer sizes and dropped event alerts
- Kubernetes-specific detections: privileged pods, hostPath mounts, service account token access, kubectl exec
- Integrations with SIEM: shipping alerts to Elasticsearch, Splunk or Microsoft Sentinel
- Troubleshooting: driver load failures, unsupported kernels, missing fields and no-alert situations
- Upgrading Falco: version compatibility of rules, plugins and drivers
- Security of Falco itself: least privilege, protecting configuration and alert channel integrity
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 Falco 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.
Catch your first runtime threat
Install Falco with the modern eBPF driver, run suspicious commands inside a container and trace each resulting alert back to its rule.
Write and tune a custom rule
Write a rule that detects a crypto-miner style process, add a macro and exception for a known tool, and send alerts to Slack through Falcosidekick.
Protect a Kubernetes cluster with Falco
Deploy Falco with Helm and the k8saudit plugin, detect a kubectl exec and a privileged pod, and trigger an automated Falco Talon response.
Falco 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 Falco 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 Falco certificate.
Completion includes a digital certificate with credential details, practical assignments and a learning record aligned to the selected Falco level.
Certificate verificationCertificate of Completion
Falco Intermediate 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 Falco path is different.
The value is not only one course. The subscription unlocks the full learning ecosystem for one year.
| Feature | DevOpsSchool Falco 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 Falco level fits your team.
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Email: contact@DevOpsSchool.com
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Live batch experience
Training supports live online, private team and workshop-style delivery.
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