Introduction to DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (LFS162)

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Training Course

Learn how to start transforming your organization using the principles and practices of DevOps in this free course.

Who Is It For

If you are a manager looking for guidelines on how to start transforming organizations, and understand where to start, this course is for you. If you aspire to make a career in the world of DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering, this course is your starting point.

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What You’ll Learn

In this course you will learn how DevOps is influencing software delivery, how cloud computing has enabled organizations to rapidly build and deploy products and expand capacity, how the open container ecosystem, with Kubernetes in the lead, is truly revolutionizing software delivery, and the why, what and how of writing Infrastructure as Code. The course also covers Continuous Deployment and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), as well as the role played by observability systems, what to observe and why.

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What It Prepares You For

Upon completion, you should have a good understanding of the foundation, principles, and practices of DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering, and have gained the knowledge and skills to understand how to deploy software with confidence, agility and high reliability using modern DevOps and SRE practices.

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Course Outline

Chapter 1. Welcome!

Chapter 2. Introduction to DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering

Chapter 3. Introduction to Cloud

Chapter 4. Introduction to Containers

Chapter 5. Infrastructure as Code

Chapter 6. Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery

Chapter 7. Introduction to Observability

Chapter 8. Site Reliability Engineering

Prerequisites

To make the most of this course, you will need to have:

Intermediate understanding of Linux systems
Knowledge of networking concepts, utilities and troubleshooting
Basic scripting knowledge
Computer and network security concepts
Virtualization concepts
Systems administration and troubleshooting skills

Any modern day laptop with a minimal configuration of at least 4 GB of RAM, 2 vCPUs and a terminal emulator software like putty is needed.

Reviews

Mar 2025

The course gradually covered topics, and this helped me understand the relationship between DevOps and SRE better. The SRE related topics broadened my concepts, and introduced important aspects that I was unaware of, but which are important for a system to be reliable and secure.

Feb 2025

The course provides a solid foundation in DevOps and SRE principles, making complex topics accessible to beginners. One of the best aspects is how it covers both cultural and technical aspects, explaining not just tools and automation, but also collaboration, reliability, and continuous improvement.

Aug 2024

The information provided was a great introduction to DevOps and SRE, and now I have a better understanding of how to contribute to the development process.

Jun 2024

I had no idea about the DevOps practices, but now I have a basic and clear understanding of concepts and practices.

Jun 2024

I liked the lab use, it was very helpful to be able to understand how these tools integrate.

Jun 2024

I liked the emphasis on the difference between SRE/DevOps. The industry uses the terms indistinctly.

May 2024

I liked the clear explanation of DevOps, and how it’s implemented in a Kubernetes or Linux environment Cloud System. Excellent!

Mar 2024

I definitely liked the content. It cleared up all my questions about SRE/DevOps, the tools, and everything I need to get started.

Mar 2024

One of the best courses I have ever found. Thank you, Linux Foundation.

Feb 2024

I really enjoyed that it covers some basics, and the way the instructor explains them. It makes it easy to understand some complex things in DevOps and SRE.

Feb 2024

The course is not biased towards a particular vendor/technology, and it presents all that is available. Following the course, I still got a good overall idea of what Devops is.

Feb 2024

It gave a bigger picture of the world of DevOps and SRE, and helped me gain a perspective on problem-solving, rather than mindlessly learning tools.

Jan 2024

A very well-put-together overview of DevOps and SRE.