Breaking into DevOps Engineering

This course will give you a thorough understanding of the culture, practices, and principles that are core to DevOps. It will teach the practical things needed to learn and do in order to practice DevOps successfully.
You will learn how DevOps engineers think and how you can leverage DevOps in your own company. The course will touch on all aspects of DevOps, and clear up a lot of misconceptions, in order to demonstrate what it is that a DevOps Engineer actually does. It will give you all the necessary info and background to decide whether you want to pursue a career as a DevOps Engineer, or at least understand the DevOps Engineers in your company and be able to communicate and work with them better.
This course will cover:
The meaning, values, and practices of DevOps culture
The business mindset needed to cultivate DevOps culture, which will set you apart from other techy people and link you better to the company you’ll work for
The various DevOps roles and their responsibilities
The core technologies required for practicing DevOps
How DevOps manifests in different sized companies and generally in the tech industry
Technical documentation
Project management
What you’ll learn and how you can apply it
By the end of this course, the learner should understand the core principles of DevOps, theory and practices, and the practical approach of practicing DevOps, in order to both adopt it in their organization and/or do the transition towards a DevOps role.
This course is for you because:
You are a developer interested in learning what is it that the devops engineers do
You're an engineering team lead
You're an SRE
You're an IT professional wanting to improve productivity and integration with development teams
You're looking to move into a new DevOps role
You want to perfect your soft skills which are crucial for a DevOps role
Prerequisites:
A general technical approach and affinity is needed. This course will not be a deep dive into any specific tech/tools.
A generalist would benefit from the practices and principles taught in this course.