Xops Advanced Training
Design an XOps operating model with platform engineering, SRE and governance, and plan an organisation-wide adoption roadmap. Learn Xops 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 Xops 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 Xops Advanced Training.
Understand where Xops fits in modern software delivery, what this level covers, and how the program builds practical confidence step by step.
Program overview
Xops 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 Xops 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 Xops training for delivery teams, platform groups and engineering organizations.
DevOpsSchool provides corporate Xops 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 Xops 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 | Xops Advanced Training | Private team batch |
What learners should be able to do after Xops training.
The outcomes are written for practical delivery teams: developers, DevOps engineers, release engineers, administrators and technical leads.
Understand the XOps landscape
Explain how DevOps, SecOps, DataOps, MLOps, AIOps and FinOps fit together and when to apply each.
Automate across domains
Build pipelines that deliver applications, infrastructure, data and models with security built in.
Lead XOps adoption
Design platforms, governance and metrics that scale XOps across teams and organisations.
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 Xops responsibilities before reviewing the detailed agenda.
Why Xops matters
- Xops 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, Xops becomes more valuable when connected with automation, governance, monitoring and delivery practices.
- Teams using Xops effectively reduce ad-hoc execution and move toward consistent engineering standards.
Objectives
- Understand Xops concepts, architecture, terminology and operational usage patterns.
- Learn practical configuration, workflow design, access controls, team usage and quality practices.
- Apply Xops in real delivery workflows using automation, integrations, traceability and governance patterns.
- Build practical confidence to use Xops 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 Xops 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 Xops.
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: XOps philosophy, DevOps principles and cloud basicsDay 1
- Introduction to XOps: philosophy, history and benefits of applying operations discipline across domains
- The Ops family: DevOps, DevSecOps, DataOps, MLOps, AIOps, FinOps and GitOps and what each optimises
- Understanding DevOps: CALMS, the Three Ways and how DevOps practices underpin the XOps framework
- Value streams: mapping flow from idea to production and finding handoffs and waiting time
- Measuring delivery: DORA metrics for deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate and recovery time
- Introduction to cloud computing: IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, regions, shared responsibility and pricing models
- Virtualization and containerization: VMs versus containers and why containers suit XOps
- Collaboration foundations: Git workflows, pull requests and trunk-based development
- Toolchain overview: version control, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability and security tools
- Culture and teams: product teams, platform teams, blameless post-incident reviews and shared ownership
- First pipeline: a simple build-and-test workflow triggered by a commit
Essential Level = Foundation + CI/CD, cloud-native, Kubernetes and infrastructure as codeDay 2 · 2 days cumulative
- Continuous integration and continuous delivery: automation, pipelines, artifacts and deployment strategies in XOps
- Pipeline tooling: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI and Jenkins stages, runners and secrets
- Containers: Dockerfiles, image builds, registries and image tagging
- Cloud-native architectures: microservices, twelve-factor apps and how they enable XOps
- Kubernetes and container orchestration: Deployments, Services, scaling and self-healing automation
- Automation and infrastructure as code: IaC principles with Terraform and configuration with Ansible
- GitOps: declarative environments, Argo CD or Flux and pull-based deployment
- Release strategies: blue-green, canary and feature flags for safer changes
- Observability basics: metrics, logs and traces with Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry
- Environment management: dev, test and production parity and ephemeral environments
- Secrets handling: keeping credentials out of code with a secrets manager
Intermediate Level = Essential + SecOps, DataOps, MLOps, AIOps and FinOps practicesDay 3 · 3 days cumulative
- Introduction to SecOps: principles, practices and tools and their role in XOps
- Security testing and compliance: SAST, SCA, DAST, container and IaC scanning in pipelines
- Policy as code: Open Policy Agent or Kyverno guardrails and audit evidence for compliance
- Introduction to DataOps: principles, practices and tools and their role in XOps
- Data management in XOps: data modelling, storage choices and analysis workflows
- Data pipelines: orchestration with Apache Airflow, transformations with dbt and data quality tests
- MLOps: experiment tracking, model registry and automated training and deployment with MLflow
- AIOps: anomaly detection, event correlation and noise reduction in alerting
- FinOps: cost allocation with tags, showback, rightsizing and unit economics
- Incident management: on-call, runbooks, incident command and post-incident reviews
- Integrating the practices: one pipeline that carries security, data and model checks
Advanced Level = Intermediate + platform engineering, governance, scale and case studiesDays 4-5 · 5 days cumulative
- Platform engineering: internal developer platforms, golden paths and self-service with Backstage
- Site reliability engineering: SLIs, SLOs, error budgets and reliability reviews
- Unified observability: correlating delivery, data, model and cost signals in one view
- Governance at scale: guardrails versus gates, audit automation and regulatory alignment
- Supply chain security: SBOMs, signed artifacts with Sigstore and SLSA provenance
- FinOps maturity: forecasting, commitment planning and cost-aware architecture decisions
- Multi-cloud and hybrid operations: consistency, portability and policy across providers
- Operating model design: team topologies, platform and enabling teams and ownership boundaries
- Measuring XOps success: outcome metrics, developer experience and business value
- XOps case studies: examples of implementations across industries and lessons learned
- Transformation roadmap: assessing maturity, prioritising improvements and leading change
- Capstone: an XOps blueprint for an organisation covering delivery, security, data, ML and cost
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 Xops 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 and first pipeline
Map the delivery value stream of a small application, identify bottlenecks and create a first CI workflow that builds and tests it on every commit.
Deliver an app to Kubernetes with GitOps
Provision a Kubernetes cluster with Terraform, containerise an application and deploy it through a CI pipeline and Argo CD with a canary release.
Add security and data checks to pipelines
Extend a delivery pipeline with SAST, dependency and container scans, a policy gate and a data quality test for an Airflow and dbt data pipeline.
Capstone: design an XOps operating model
Assess a case organisation, design its platform, guardrails, SLOs and cost controls, and present a phased XOps adoption roadmap with metrics.
Xops 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 Xops 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 Xops certificate.
Completion includes a digital certificate with credential details, practical assignments and a learning record aligned to the selected Xops level.
Certificate verificationCertificate of Completion
Xops Advanced Training
Unique credential ID, verifiable online
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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 Xops path is different.
The value is not only one course. The subscription unlocks the full learning ecosystem for one year.
| Feature | DevOpsSchool Xops 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 Xops level fits your team.
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Email: contact@DevOpsSchool.com
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Training snapshots and certificate preview.
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Tool-focused training
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Live batch experience
Training supports live online, private team and workshop-style delivery.
Start Xops Advanced training.
Next weekday batch starts on the 1st; weekend batch on the first Saturday. Batches are capped at 10 learners. Send your details and DevOpsSchool will share the syllabus and batch options.