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DevOps Foundations

8 Courses
10 Labs
18 Hours
Skill IQ

The DevOps Foundations Learning Path is designed to introduce you to the basics of DevOps, a way to help teams work together to build and deliver applications and infrastructure faster and more efficiently. You’ll learn about key tools like version control, automation, troubleshooting, and security as well as how to use containers and manage infrastructure. This learning path is perfect for beginners, with simple explanations and hands-on labs to help you build skills step by step. By the end, you’ll have a solid understanding of how DevOps works and how it’s used in the real world.

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Content in this path
Core Concepts

An introduction to DevOps foundations and concepts.

Course
DevOps Foundations: Core Concepts and Fundamentals
  • by Chris Behrens
  • 2h 14m
  • May 07, 2025
Version Control

These courses and labs introduces the essential concepts and practices of version control in DevOps. You'll learn how version control systems help teams collaborate, track changes, and manage code effectively.

Lab
DevOps Version Control and Practices: Introduction to Version Control
  • by Matt Allford
  • 1h 20m
  • Aug 04, 2025
Course
DevOps Version Control Concepts and Practices: Introduction to Version Control
  • by Matt Allford
  • 34m
  • Dec 06, 2024
Lab
DevOps Version Control and Practices: Implement Semantic Versioning Principles
  • by Chris Behrens
  • 55m
  • Aug 04, 2025
Containers and Orchestration

These courses and labs provide a foundational understanding of containerization and orchestration in DevOps. You’ll learn how containers package applications and dependencies for consistent deployment across environments. You will also explore orchestration tools which automate the deployment, scaling, and management of containers.

Lab
DevOps Containerization and Orchestration: Deploying Containers
  • by Wes Higbee
  • 1h 15m
  • Aug 04, 2025
Course
DevOps Containerization and Orchestration: Deploying Containers
  • by Wes Higbee
  • 29m
  • Jan 23, 2025
Lab
DevOps Containerization and Orchestration: Code Your Infrastructure with Kubernetes
  • by Chris Behrens
  • 55m
  • Aug 04, 2025
Continuous Integration and Delivery

These courses and labs provide an introduction to Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD), key practices in DevOps that streamline software development and deployment.

Lab
DevOps Continuous Integration and Delivery: Setting Up a CI/CD Pipeline
  • 1h 10m
  • Aug 04, 2025
Course
DevOps Continuous Integration and Delivery: Setting up a CI/CD Pipeline
  • by Andy Thielking
  • 33m
  • Feb 07, 2025
Lab
DevOps Continuous Integration and Delivery: Implement GitFlow Principles
  • by Chris Behrens
  • 50m
  • Aug 05, 2025
Troubleshooting

These courses and labs equip you with the essential skills to troubleshoot and resolve issues in DevOps environments. You’ll learn systematic approaches to identify and fix problems across various stages of the DevOps lifecycle, including code, infrastructure, pipelines, and deployments using various tools and techniques.

Lab
DevOps Troubleshooting: Using Monitoring and Logging
  • by Antonio Jesús Piedra
  • 1h 25m
  • Aug 04, 2025
Lab
DevOps Troubleshooting: Examine Your Code with Static Analysis
  • by Chris Behrens
  • 55m
  • Aug 05, 2025
Course
DevOps Troubleshooting: Planning and Implementing a DevOps Strategy
  • by Richard Seroter
  • 1h 38m
  • Mar 28, 2025
Security

These courses and labs introduce the foundational principles of integrating security into DevOps practices, often called DevSecOps. You’ll learn how to embed security throughout the software development lifecycle, from coding and version control to deployment and monitoring.

Lab
DevOps Security: Security Best Practices
  • by Antonio Jesús Piedra
  • 1h 35m
  • Aug 04, 2025
Course
DevOps Troubleshooting: Security and DevSecOps
  • by David Clinton
  • 44m
  • Mar 28, 2025
Automation and IaC

These courses and labs delve into automating infrastructure provisioning and management through code. You'll explore the principles and tools necessary to define, deploy, and maintain consistent and scalable environments, a cornerstone of modern DevOps workflows.

Course
Getting Started in the Lab Environment
  • by Aaron Rosenmund
  • 6m
  • Oct 07, 2021
Lab
DevOps Automation and Infrastructure as Code: Working with Infrastructure as Code
  • by Andy Thielking
  • 55m
  • Aug 04, 2025
Course
DevOps Automation and Infrastructure as Code: Working with Infrastructure as Code
  • by Andy Thielking
  • 15m
  • Apr 25, 2025
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What You'll Learn
  • Explain the core concepts of DevOps
  • Explain test-driven development and its value
  • Explain continuous integration and continuous delivery
  • Explore the security aspects of DevOps
  • Explain modern operations with DevOps
  • Plan and implement a DevOps strategy within an organization
Prerequisites
  • There are no hard prerequisites though you should be familiar with IT principles.
Related topics
  • IT Operations
  • Software Development
  • Continuous Integration
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Ansible
  • Test Automation
  • DevSecOps
  • Site Reliability Engineering
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Chris Behrens
Chris Behrens
Chris B. Behrens is a writer, speaker and software developer, specializing in DevOps. He has been a developer and architect for more than twenty years focusing on small to medium size companies and the development changes they face. He focuses on his flavor of Fear Based Development, whereby a developer ranks their tasks in descending order of anxiety, and how to tackle them in that order. Chief among these anxiety-inducing processes is software deployment, a topic that Behrens focuses upon. He ...
Matt Allford
Matt Allford
Matt is a DevOps engineer and solution architect with over 10 years of experience in systems administration, architecture and design, primarily in the on-premises data center. He has a new found passion for Cloud and DevOps processes, tools and techniques and enjoys helping customers and the community realize value from technology. Over the past several years Matt has experienced first-hand the power of the communities within the wider IT industry and enjoys learning from others and, where possi...
Wes Higbee
Wes Higbee
Wes Higbee is passionate about helping companies achieve remarkable results with technology and software. He’s had extensive experience developing software and working with teams to improve how software is developed to meet business objectives. Wes launched Full City Tech to leverage his expertise to help companies delight customers. Although his primary focus is on outcomes, implementation often includes technical competency. Wes frequently speaks about impactful aspects of software developm...
Andy Thielking
Andy Thielking
Andy is a highly experienced developer, architect, and DevOps enthusiast with over 13 years of industry experience. Andy has deep expertise in the Microsoft ecosystem of C#, .NET and Azure, as well as DevOps technologies such as Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines. Andy also possesses a breadth of knowledge across the web development ecosystem with other technologies such as Flutter, Node and Golang. Andy has a passion for learning and enjoys sharing that knowledge with others.
Antonio Jesús Piedra
Antonio Jesús Piedra
Antonio is a DevOps Engineer who loves to experiment with cutting-edge technologies. He is a Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Application Developer and Security Specialist. Antonio likes to understand the end-to-end process and he is frequently involved in design reviews, Python development, creating Docker images, writing pipelines or building Kubernetes clusters at home using Raspberry Pi’s. In addition to his passion for technology, Antonio enjoys hiking and DIY projects.
Richard Seroter
Richard Seroter
Richard Seroter is currently the Chief Evangelist at Google Cloud and leads the Developer Relations program. He's also an instructor at Pluralsight, a frequent public speaker, the author of multiple books on software design and development, and a former InfoQ.com editor plus former 12-time Microsoft MVP for cloud. As Chief Evangelist at Google Cloud, Richard leads the team of developer advocates, developer engineers, outbound product managers, and technical writers who ensure that people find, u...
David Clinton
David Clinton
David Clinton is a data analyst, an AWS Solutions Architect and a Linux server administrator. He's written books on cloud and Linux administration, IT security, and data analytics.
Aaron Rosenmund
Aaron Rosenmund
Aaron M. Rosenmund is a cyber security operations subject matter expert, with a background in federal and business defensive and offensive cyber operations and system automation. Leveraging his administration and automation experience, Aaron actively contributes to multiple open and closed source security operation platform projects and continues to create tools and content to benefit the community. As an educator & cyber security researcher at Pluralsight, he is focused on advancing cyber secur...

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