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Stage 04 · DeliverintermediateCloud & DevOps

DevOps Essentials

The DevOps mindset and toolkit: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and a culture of shared ownership. From pipelines to observability — ship faster without breaking trust.

4 hours 7 modules

The framework

CALMS Framework

Culture, Automation, Lean, Measurement, Sharing — the five dimensions of DevOps maturity used to assess and improve software delivery performance.

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How you'll learn

Text-first. Practice-heavy. No video lectures.

15-minute text lessons

Short, dense reading you can finish between meetings — not hour-long video lectures.

Hands-on exercises

Apply the framework to a realistic scenario, right in the module where you learned it.

Quizzes & assessments

Check your judgment, not just your memory — most questions are situational.

Certificate on completion

Finish a course and get a shareable certificate, automatically.

About this course

Understand DevOps not as a toolset but as a philosophy: breaking down silos between development and operations to deliver software faster and more reliably.

The project: CI/CD Pipeline Design for a Microservice

Design a complete CI/CD pipeline for a Python microservice: source control strategy, automated testing gates, containerisation, deployment strategy, and monitoring setup.

  1. 1

    What Is DevOps? The CALMS Framework

    30 min· Knowledge check
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  2. 2

    CI/CD Pipelines: From Code Commit to Production

    30 min· Knowledge check
  3. 3

    Infrastructure as Code & Configuration Management

    The 'I' in CALMS: treating servers, networks and environments as versioned, testable code.

    22 min· Knowledge check
  4. 4

    Monitoring, Observability & Closing the Feedback Loop

    From 'is it up?' to 'why is it behaving this way?' — telemetry as the feedback engine of CALMS.

    20 min· Knowledge check
  5. 5

    DevOps Culture: Blameless Postmortems & Psychological Safety

    The 'C' in CALMS is the hardest: building a culture where failure produces learning instead of blame.

    18 min· Knowledge check
  6. 6

    DORA Metrics: Measuring What Actually Matters

    Deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and time to restore — the four numbers that define delivery performance.

    20 min· Knowledge check
  7. 7

    Capstone: Design a Delivery Pipeline for a Real Team

    Bring CALMS, CI/CD, IaC, observability, and the DORA metrics together into one working delivery system.

    45 min· Knowledge check