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Expert3 to 5 days / 20+ guided hourspublished
DevOps and Automation: Expert
Design a production automation platform with policy checks, rollbacks, observability, and capstone release.
Audience
- Self-paced technical learners
- Instructor-led cohorts
- Enterprise teams preparing staff for hands-on operations
Prerequisites
- Intermediate course or equivalent production experience
- Comfort with troubleshooting and design tradeoffs
Outcomes
- Provision an isolated devops and automation lab from template metadata.
- Use snapshots, rollback, validation checks, and teardown safely.
- Explain how Ansible, Docker, GitHub Actions fit into an enterprise training environment.
- Produce evidence that an instructor or admin can review.
Course plan
Modules and labs
Each module maps to provisioned lab work, validation evidence, reset/rollback policy, and instructor visibility.
Required templates
Ansible control node
definedUbuntu 24.04 LTS
Docker host
definedUbuntu 24.04 LTS
Ubuntu Server 24.04
availableUbuntu 24.04 LTS cloud image
Validation checks
Linux SSH reachable
SSH handshake succeeds with the issued short-lived credential.
Docker running
Docker daemon responds and can run a hello-world container.
VM reachable
The VM reports boot complete and responds through the tenant bastion path.