Get Started with DevOps
Course overview
About this course
This course cuts through outdated habits and shows you how DevOps can transform the way you work by breaking down traditional silos between development and operations teams. Doing so is crucial for creating better products that genuinely meet user needs. You'll walk away with practical know-how that helps you create value from day one.
Essential DevOps culture: shared responsibility, transparency, and approaches for reducing organizational silos
Core technical practices: Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Infrastructure as Code, Microservices, and key supporting tools
Organizational impact: creating effective feedback loops that improve efficiency, reliability, and delivery speed
Benefits for all stakeholders, technical and non-technical, including executives, product owners, and project managers
Role of AI in automating and continuously monitoring product development and delivery
Average time to complete: 2.5–3 hours
Format: On demand
Credential: Microcredential digital badge
Prerequisites: None
What you'll get:
A digital badge to showcase your new skills, and a 2-year professional membership with Scrum Alliance for current nonmembers
Access to 24/7 on-demand content
Actionable insights you can use immediately
Reflection journal with guided prompts and practical frameworks
Real-world case studies that bring DevOps to life
Who is this course for?
Get Started with DevOps is designed for both technical and non-technical professionals who want to overcome organizational barriers and enhance collaboration across teams and departments:
Technical professionals such as software developers, QA engineers, and technology leaders
Non-technical professionals, including product managers, scrum masters, business analysts, and those transitioning into tech
Anyone looking for practical guidance on driving organizational change
Teams ready to bring testing forward in the development process and improve how they deliver products
Course modules
What is DevOps, and how has it evolved to address the challenges faced by software teams?
Explore the origins and core principles of DevOps, focusing on how it addresses the pain points of siloed teams, outdated processes, and resistance to change. This module sets the stage for breaking down barriers and aligning teams around shared goals, providing a common language and understanding to drive transformation.
Explain why DevOps matters.
Distinguish DevOps from related approaches.
Describe basic DevOps practices.
Define the Seven Pillars of DevOps.
How can we apply systems thinking and automation to improve the flow and efficiency of our software delivery processes?
Discover how to improve your operations by looking at the big picture with systems thinking and optimizing your processes. This module focuses on addressing the challenges posed by outdated systems and manual tasks. You'll learn how automation and value stream mapping can help make your work smoother, minimize mistakes, and allow your team to focus on more important strategic tasks.
Explain value stream mapping.
Recognize bottlenecks in a system.
Explain the benefits of breaking down silos.
Describe the integration of security and AI capabilities in DevOps environments.
How can we create effective feedback loops, measure the right indicators, and gain visibility into our systems to drive continuous improvement?
This module focuses on building effective feedback loops and leveraging data to drive continuous improvement. Learn how to measure what matters, gain visibility into your systems, and use analytics to inform smarter, faster decision-making.
Describe feedback loops using leading and lagging metrics.
Compare observability approaches across different organizational contexts.
Identify AI applications for enhancing observability.
How can we cultivate a DevOps-friendly culture, leverage effective team structures, and embrace a mindset of continuous learning to drive innovation and agility?
Investigate strategies for cultivating a DevOps-friendly culture that embraces change, continuous learning, and innovation. This module addresses the human side of transformation, providing techniques to overcome resistance and foster cross-functional alignment.
Summarize the essential components for creating a DevOps culture of learning and innovation.
Describe team topologies.
Explain Site Reliability Engineering adoption readiness.
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Is a microcredential worth it?
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- Relevant — topics prioritized to cover industry trends and emerging technologies
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After this course, you'll be ready to apply DevOps principles to software delivery, making it more efficient, reliable, and fast. You'll also understand strategies for removing cumbersome organizational silos, growing a collaborative culture in place of those silos.
Your coursework includes learning about feedback loops and what makes them effective so that you can leverage these processes to drive continuous improvement in delivery.
Not only will you understand DevOps by the course's conclusion, you'll also identify key tools and technologies that will enable you to drive successful DevOps implementations at your organization.
And because no implementation can truly be successful without buy-in from the right people, you'll learn how to discuss the benefits of DevOps with technical and non-technical stakeholders at your organization, including executives, project managers, and product owners.
DevOps is a way of building software where the people who create it and the people who run it work closely together to deliver updates faster and more reliably.
DevOps is an approach that combines and automates software development and operations within cross-disciplinary teams. It speeds and stabilizes building, testing, delivery, and iteration by removing traditional silos. It means developers and operations engineers work together through the entire service lifecycle.
With AI now handling tasks like automated testing and CI/CD pipeline orchestration, some teams wonder whether DevOps engineers are becoming obsolete. While it's true that AI can streamline parts of the DevOps workflow, it cannot replace the need for human judgment, problem-solving, and oversight. Instead, it creates a major opportunity for DevOps professionals who know how to use AI to strengthen and accelerate their work.
In fact, today's enterprises and leading employers are desperate for competent, confident DevOps engineers who know how to use AI to deepen their impact and increase reliability.
Agile and DevOps tackle different parts of the same problem: how to deliver better software, faster. Agile shapes how teams plan and build products through short, iterative cycles that invite constant learning. DevOps extends that mindset into delivery and operations by uniting development and ops, applying automation, and creating a smooth, reliable path from code to customer. Together, they form a complete system that helps organizations move with speed, clarity, and confidence.
DevOps offers several clear benefits:
Faster, more predictable software delivery through automation
Reduced time to market
Higher quality releases supported by continuous testing and feedback
Reduced downtime and quicker incident response
Stronger collaboration between development and operations teams
More reliable and repeatable deployment processes
Better ability to adapt to changing business and customer needs
Better risk management
Effective feedback loops
High-quality code that meets project specifications.
DevOps often involves coding, but it's typically used in service of automation and building the systems that support fast and reliable delivery. DevOps professionals write scripts, build pipelines, and manage infrastructure as code, but the discipline isn't limited to software engineers. People from operations, security, QA, and other non-software backgrounds all play crucial roles in shaping and sustaining effective DevOps practices because it's ultimately about collaboration, not job titles.
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