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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.

Module 1

Production architecture

DevOps and Automation Expert lab 1
Module 2

Failure simulation and hardening

DevOps and Automation Expert lab 2
Module 3

Automation, DR, and capstone

DevOps and Automation Expert capstone
Required templates

Ansible control node

defined

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Docker host

defined

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Ubuntu Server 24.04

available

Ubuntu 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.