Interactive learning

Learn DevOps by Doing

22 hands-on tutorials with quizzes, checkpoints, and real-world scenarios. Build practical skills in CI/CD, SRE, Security, and Platform Engineering.

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Building Your First CI Pipeline

Learn to set up a continuous integration pipeline from scratch using GitHub Actions

beginner

45 minutes

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First win in 8 minutes: See your first CI workflow run green in GitHub Actions

What you'll learn

Create a GitHub Actions workflow that runs on pull requests
Configure reproducible installs with npm ci and a lockfile
Interpret CI logs to diagnose and fix a failing step

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beginner

11 tutorials

beginner

30 minutes

Feature Flags for Safe Releases

Learn to use feature flags for progressive delivery and instant rollback

First Win in 10 minutes: Create a working feature flag helper and toggle a feature on for specific users

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beginner

30 minutes

Secrets Management Fundamentals

Learn to store, inject, and rotate secrets securely without exposing them in code

First Win in 5 minutes: Block a secret from being committed using a pre-commit hook

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beginner

35 minutes

Dependency Hygiene and SBOM

Learn to manage dependencies securely with automated updates, vulnerability scanning, and software bill of materials

First Win in 8 minutes: Generate your first SBOM and identify a known vulnerability in your dependencies

Requires: Building Your First CI Pipeline

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beginner

40 minutes

Golden Signals Monitoring

Implement the four golden signals (latency, traffic, errors, saturation) to monitor service health effectively

First Win in 10 minutes: See your first golden signal metric in a dashboard

Requires: Building Your First CI Pipeline

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beginner

35 minutes

Controls as Code Basics

Learn to define and enforce security and compliance controls as version-controlled, testable code

First Win in 8 minutes: Write and test your first policy that blocks a non-compliant resource

Requires: Building Your First CI Pipeline

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beginner

30 minutes

Trunk-Based Development

Learn to ship faster and safer by working from a single main branch with short-lived feature branches

First Win in 10 minutes: Merge a feature branch to main within 24 hours of creation

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beginner

40 minutes

Test Strategy Pyramid

Learn to build a balanced test suite with the right mix of unit, integration, and end-to-end tests

First Win in 12 minutes: Write one test at each level of the pyramid and see them run in CI

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beginner

30 minutes

Architecture Decision Records

Learn to document important technical decisions so teams understand why systems are built the way they are

First Win in 10 minutes: Write your first ADR documenting a recent technical decision

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beginner

45 minutes

Infrastructure as Code Basics

Learn to manage infrastructure using code for consistency, repeatability, and version control

First Win in 12 minutes: Create a cloud resource using code instead of clicking in a console

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beginner

35 minutes

On-Call Readiness

Prepare to be effective on-call with the skills, tools, and mindset to handle incidents confidently

First Win in 10 minutes: Set up your on-call environment and respond to a practice alert

Requires: Incident Response Fundamentals

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beginner

40 minutes

Security Scanning in CI

Integrate security scanning into your CI pipeline to catch vulnerabilities before they reach production

First Win in 10 minutes: Run your first security scan and see vulnerability results in CI

Requires: Building Your First CI Pipeline

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intermediate

10 tutorials

intermediate

60 minutes

Implementing SLOs and Error Budgets

Learn to define Service Level Objectives and use error budgets to balance reliability and velocity

First Win in 15 minutes: Calculate your first error budget and see exactly how much downtime your SLO allows

Requires: Building Your First CI Pipeline

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intermediate

45 minutes

Incident Response Fundamentals

Learn structured incident response from detection to postmortem

First Win in 10 minutes: Draft your first IC status update using a proven template

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intermediate

45 minutes

Canary Deployments

Learn to safely release new versions by gradually shifting traffic and validating with production data

First Win in 12 minutes: Route 10% of traffic to a canary version and observe metrics

Requires: Building Your First CI Pipeline, Golden Signals Monitoring

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intermediate

50 minutes

Platform Golden Path

Learn to create self-service templates that help teams deploy services correctly by default

First Win in 15 minutes: Create a service template that a team can use to deploy a new service in minutes

Requires: Building Your First CI Pipeline

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intermediate

45 minutes

Release and Rollback

Learn to release confidently and rollback quickly when things go wrong

First Win in 15 minutes: Deploy a release and successfully rollback to the previous version

Requires: Building Your First CI Pipeline

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intermediate

45 minutes

Chaos Engineering Introduction

Learn to proactively find weaknesses in your system by running controlled experiments

First Win in 15 minutes: Run your first chaos experiment and observe system behavior

Requires: Golden Signals Monitoring, Incident Response Fundamentals

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intermediate

50 minutes

DORA Metrics Dashboard

Build a dashboard to track the four key DevOps metrics that predict software delivery performance

First Win in 15 minutes: See your first deployment frequency metric calculated from real pipeline data

Requires: Building Your First CI Pipeline

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intermediate

45 minutes

API Contract Testing

Ensure API consumers and providers stay compatible using contract testing

First Win in 12 minutes: Write and verify your first API contract between a consumer and provider

Requires: Building Your First CI Pipeline

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intermediate

50 minutes

Blue-Green Deployments

Deploy with zero downtime by maintaining two identical production environments

First Win in 15 minutes: Switch traffic between blue and green environments with zero downtime

Requires: Building Your First CI Pipeline

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intermediate

55 minutes

Service Mesh Basics

Understand service mesh architecture and implement basic traffic management, observability, and security

First Win in 15 minutes: See automatic request tracing across services without code changes

Requires: Building Your First CI Pipeline

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