🎓 The Ultimate DevOps Course (early access 🚧)

This course is my ultimate guide to DevOps,SRE & platform engineering for beginners

🚀 Setting the stage

In my many years working in the field, I have noticed a range of challenges and problems that people face when trying to start a DevOps, SRE, platform or cloud engineering career.

🔴The current challenges of careers in Tech - where to start ?

DevOps has its challenges:

• There is no simple starting point to start learning about DevOps
• DevOps requires a very broad range of skills that can be very overwhelming for new people to learn
• DevOps is often treated as "Dev" and "Ops" which means you need understanding of two very broad fields
• DevOps technologies are littered with buzz words, such as cloud, AI, machine learning, CI/CD, scalability, immutable infrastructure, automation, security and it never ends

Qualifications have its challenges:

• Universities or Colleges offer IT degrees or courses, which often only cover traditional & "legacy" IT knowledge.
• They do not cover real world challenges faced when working with the cloud, or working with popular open source technologies or modern challenges that businesses face these days
• These technologies are often evolving at a rapid pace and traditional Universities cannot keep up with these.

Cloud certifications have its challenges:

• Cloud certifications often only focus on a specific cloud provider which can build bias
• Often only solve really specific problems, and miss real world problems
• Develop very narrow focussed problem solving skill
• Miss out on powerful open source skills
• Vendor locking: Often stuck only specialising in one vendor's product
  

🎯 Course Goals & Expectations

This course provides a practical hands-on roadmap into the world of DevOps, SRE and platform engineering.

It will set you up with all the fundamentals required for successful future learning.
During this course you will apply a wide range of DevOps principles and use modern technologies in a real world hands-on manner to create yourself a personal website.
While building your website, we will cover topics such as:

• Source Control
• Developer Tools
• Operating Systems
• Servers & Virtualization
• Web technology
• Monitoring, Logging, Metrics
• Observability
• Command line and automation scripting
• CI / CD Pipelines
• Infrastructure as Code
• Basics of Cloud
• Cloud deployments

The personal website created throughout this course will become your marketing tool for your career to demonstrate all your newly obtained above-mentioned skills and abilities.
You will build the ultimate foundation and be equipped to make more informed decisions on what you want to focus on next in your career.

🛠 System & Other Requirements

• a Github account: To follow along, we will be creating GitHub accounts
• Operating System: Windows (Pro and Enterprise ), Linux or MacOS
• * note: You'll need Pro or Enterprise Windows to support Virtualization
• You will need at least 2GB EXTRA RAM and 25GB of hard disk space to complete modules related to virtualization.
• * These numbers are early access guide only and may be reviewed and adjusted based on course feedback