DevOps Foundation training provides participants with a solid understanding of core DevOps concepts and terminology, ensuring that everyone in the organisation speaks the same language when it comes to collaboration, automation, and continuous delivery.
The DevOps Foundation course introduces the principles and practices that allow organisations to respond faster to market demands and improve the quality of their digital services. In today’s competitive environment, where new players constantly emerge, organisations can no longer afford to release digital products only once or twice a year.
DevOps Foundation highlights why adopting a culture of frequent updates, rapid innovation, and seamless integration between development and operations is essential. By completing the DevOps Foundation training, participants learn how DevOps practices enable faster delivery, higher quality outcomes, and stronger alignment between IT and business objectives, ultimately driving sustainable organisational success.
The course covers the latest thinking, principles and practices of the DevOps community, including case studies of high-performing organisations such as ING Bank, Ticketmaster, Capital One, Alaska Air, Target, Fannie Mae, Societe Generale and Disney. These cases engage and inspire learners through multimedia and interactive exercises that bring the learning experience to life. The training also discusses the Three Paths highlighted by Gene Kim in his book ‘The Phoenix Project’ and the latest information from the State of DevOps and DevOps Institute Upskilling reports.
Participants will gain an understanding of DevOps, a cultural and professional movement that emphasises communication, collaboration, integration and automation to improve workflow between developers and IT operations professionals.
Purpose of the training
Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to understand:
- the objectives and vocabulary associated with DevOps,
- the business benefits and IT principles and practices, such as continuous integration, continuous delivery, testing, security, and The Three Ways,
- the relationship between DevOps and Agile, Lean, and ITSM,
- improved processes, communication and feedback loops at work,
- automation practices, including deployment pipelines and DevOps tool chains,
- scaling DevOps in an enterprise,
- key success factors and performance indicators,
- examples and results of DevOps application in everyday life.
Target group
- people from the business department who want to understand microservices and containers,
- technical people who want to understand the business value of DevOps in reducing costs (overall IT cost reduction of 15-25%), with increased quality (50-70% reduction in change failure rates) and flexibility (up to 90% reduction in deployment and release times) to support business goals within digital transformation initiatives,
- everyone involved in IT development, IT operations and IT service management,
- People who want to understand the principles of the DevOps model,
- IT professionals working in agile environments or intending to enter this environment,
- customers and people in business roles within the organisation.
- people who want to prepare for the exam to obtain the official DevOps Foundation certification.
Benefits
Benefits for the organisation
- building a culture of communication, learning safety and continuous improvement,
- shortening development cycles and faster implementation of modern solutions,
- reducing the number of errors during implementation and rollback of changes, while reducing the time needed to restore data,
- improving communication and cooperation within the organisation,
- increasing efficiency,
- reducing IT costs.
Benefits for employees
- using common concepts and terminology related to DevOps,
- understanding the benefits for business and IT,
- CI/CD delivery pipeline – continuous integration, delivery, testing, security,
- combining DevOps with Agile, Lean and ITSM,
- improved workflow, communication and feedback loops,
- guidance on automating implementation processes and DevOps tools,
- scaling DevOps in the enterprise,
- confirmation of basic DevOps knowledge.
Exam and certification
- non-mandatory exam,
- multiple-choice, single-response questions test,
- number of questions: 40,
- pass threshold: 65% (26 out of 40 possible points),
- language of the exam: English, Polish, among others – selected on the Accreditor’s website during exam registration,
- current list of available exam languages can be found on the Accreditor’s website,
- duration: 60 minutes (75 minutes for non-native speakers),
- mode: online (after online training) or in-person (after in-person training),
- date: post training, selected by participants at the Accreditor’s availability,
- closed book – no use of materials,
- validity of the certificate: 3 years,
- the participant who scores the necessary number of points in the exam is awarded the international certificate in electronic form.
In addition, you can purchase exam retake Take2 Re-sit Exam Option. In case of a negative result, this option allows you to retake the exam in an online format within 6 months of the original date, without paying the full cost of the exam.
The Take2 Re-sit Exam Option can only be purchased when placing an order for the first exam date.
Training programme
Module 1: Discovering DevOps
- Defining DevOps
- Why is DevOps important?
- The business perspective
- The IT perspective
Module 2: Core principles of DevOps
- The three paths
- The theory of constraints
- Chaos engineering
- Learning organisations
Module 3: Key DevOps practices
- Continuous Testing
- Continuous Integration, Delivery, Deployment
- Site Reliability & Resilience Engineering
- DevSecOps
- ChatOps
- Kanban
Module 4: Business and Technology Tools
- Agile
- ITSM
- Lean
- Security Culture
- Learning Organisations
- Permanent funding
Module 5: Culture, behavioural patterns and operating models
- Defining culture
- Cultural debt
- Behavioural models
- Organisational models
Module 6: Automation and DevOps toolkit design
- CI/CD delivery pipeline
- Infrastructure as code
- Cloud solutions
- Containers & Microservices
- Machine Learning
- DevOps Toolchains
Module 7: Measurment, Metrics and Reporting
- The Importance of Measurement
- DevOps Metrics
- Speed/Throughput/Tempo
- Quality
- Stability
- Culture
- Deployment/Change Times
- Outcome/value-based metrics
Module 8: Sharing, observation and evolution
- DevOps Days
- DevOps in the enterprise
- Roles
- Leadership in DevOps
- Organisational aspects
- Challenges, risks and key success factors
Guides & Resources
Find expert articles, official resources from our accrediting partners, the full training program in PDF, and practical links to help you make the most of your learning journey.
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