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IBM Applied DevOps Engineering Professional Certificate
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IBM Applied DevOps Engineering Professional Certificate

Advance your career to high demand field of DevOps. Build on your software development skills with the latest DevOps concepts, tools, and technologies to get job ready in less than 3 months.

John Rofrano
Upkar Lidder
Alex Parker

Instructors: John Rofrano

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Earn a career credential that demonstrates your expertise
4.8

(555 reviews)

Intermediate level

Recommended experience

3 months
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Write quality agile user stories, estimate and assign story points to them, and track stories using a kanban board on ZenHub

  • Develop RESTful Python microservices, test with TDD methods, practice CI/CD, and deploy using serverless and container technologies like Kubernetes

  • Develop and execute unit tests with test driven development (TDD) methods including coverage reports, factories, fakes, and mock objects

  • Gain technical experience through hands on labs and projects and build a portfolio to demonstrate your job readiness

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Professional Certificate - 9 course series

Introduction to DevOps

Introduction to DevOps

Course 19 hours

What you'll learn

  • The essential characteristics of DevOps including building a culture of shared responsibility, transparency, and embracing failure.

  • The importance of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, Infrastructure as Code, Test Driven Development, Behavior Driven Development.

  • Essential DevOps concepts: software engineering practices, cloud native microservices, automated continuous deployments, and building resilient code.

  • The organizational impact of DevOps, including breaking down silos, working in cross functional teams, and sharing responsibilities.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Code Coverage
Category: Test Automation
Category: Software Testing
Category: Unit Testing
Category: Behavior-Driven Development
Category: Automated Testing
Category: Gherkin (Scripting Language)
Category: Microservices
Category: Test Data
Category: Test-Driven Development
Category: Test Case
Category: Restful API
Category: Test Driven Development (TDD)
Category: Test Tools

What you'll learn

  • Adopt the 5 practices of Agile, a subset of DevOps: small batches, minimum viable product, pair programming, behavior- and test-driven development.

  • Write good user stories, estimate and assign story points and track stories using a kanban board. Incorporate Scrum artifacts, events, and benefits.

  • Create and refine a product backlog using the sprint planning process. Produce potentially shippable product increments with every iteration.

  • Create burndown charts to forecast the ability to meet a sprint goal. Use metrics to enhance performance, productivity, and client satisfaction.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Command-Line Interface
Category: Kubernetes
Category: Cloud-Native Computing
Category: Virtualization
Category: Openshift
Category: CI/CD
Category: Cloud Platforms
Category: Istio
Category: Scalability
Category: Cloud Native
Category: Microservices
Category: Docker
Category: Containerization
Category: DevOps
Category: Docker (Software)
Category: Containers
Category: Application Deployment

What you'll learn

  • Using containers, learn how to move applications quickly across any environment.

  • Build cloud native applications using Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Istio.

  • Describe and leverage Kubernetes architecture to set up and use an entire lifecycle-based container management system.

  • Create and leverage a YAML deployment file to configure and create resources such as pods, services, replicasets, and others in a declarative way.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Continuous Integration
Category: Kubernetes
Category: Scrum (Software Development)
Category: Cloud-Native Computing
Category: Unit Testing
Category: OpenShift
Category: CI/CD
Category: Microservices
Category: Containerization
Category: User Story
Category: Flask (Web Framework)
Category: Kanban Principles
Category: Secure Coding
Category: Devops
Category: Restful API
Category: Continuous Deployment
Category: Code Review
Category: Test Driven Development (TDD)
Category: Cloud Computing
Category: Application Deployment
Category: Agile Methodology

What you'll learn

  • Summarize the fundamentals of Microservices, their advantages, and contrast with monolithic architectures.

  • Create REST API endpoints and invoke them using cURL and Postman; Use SwaggerUI to document and test APIs.

  • Create, and deploy microservices using Docker containers and serverless technologies like IBM Code Engine.

  • Practice hands-on with labs and projects using a no-charge cloud-based environment.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Kubernetes
Category: Continuous Integration
Category: GitHub
Category: Continuous Development
Category: Unit Testing
Category: OpenShift
Category: Git (Version Control System)
Category: CI/CD
Category: Containerization
Category: Continuous Delivery
Category: Automation
Category: DevOps
Category: Docker (Software)
Category: Jenkins
Category: Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Category: Infrastructure As Code
Category: Application Deployment

What you'll learn

  • Explain the importance of testing 

  • Describe test-driven development (TDD) and explain its benefits for DevOps

  • Develop unit tests with test assertions and test fixtures and then run the tests

  • Improve unit testing through advanced TDD methods including coverage reports, factories, fakes, and mock objects

Skills you'll gain

Category: Continuous Monitoring
Category: Vulnerability Scanning
Category: Data Security
Category: Application Performance Management
Category: Monitoring
Category: Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
Category: Development Environment
Category: Software Development Life Cycle
Category: security
Category: Threat Modeling
Category: Encryption
Category: Security Testing
Category: Vulnerability Assessments
Category: Application Security
Category: Secure Coding
Category: DevOps
Category: System Monitoring
Category: logging
Category: DevSecOps
Category: Observability

What you'll learn

  • Explain Infrastructure as Code, describe tools used, and create Infrastructure as Code scripts using Terraform

  • Describe cloud platforms and automation, and automate CI/CD tasks using Jenkins and GitHub actions

  • Define Continuous Integration (CI) and list some examples of tools used for CI

  • Describe the process of Continuous Deployment (CD) with tools like OpenShift Pipelines and Argo CD

Skills you'll gain

Category: Kubernetes
Category: Serverless Computing
Category: API Gateway
Category: IBM Cloud
Category: Openshift
Category: serverless
Category: Istio
Category: Representational State Transfer (REST)
Category: Application Development
Category: Microservices
Category: Containerization
Category: Software Architecture
Category: Flask (Web Framework)
Category: Cloud Applications
Category: Restful API
Category: Cloud Computing
Category: Application Deployment

What you'll learn

  • Explain security by design, learn to develop applications using security by design principles; perform defensive coding following OWASP principles.

  • Describe IBM cloud container vulnerability; perform vulnerability scanning and pen testing with Kali Linux.

  • Describe what to look for in app performance; perform troubleshooting using logging, stack trace, and log analytics.

  • Discuss concepts like Golden Signals; list tools for monitoring and troubleshooting; and test monitoring in action with Prometheus and Grafana.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Scrum (Software Development)
Category: Cloud-Native Computing
Category: Behavior-Driven Development
Category: TDD/BDD
Category: CI/CD
Category: Cloud Native
Category: Team Oriented
Category: Microservices
Category: Performance Metric
Category: Culture Transformation
Category: Cross-Functional Collaboration
Category: Devops
Category: agile
Category: Test Driven Development (TDD)
Category: Accountability
Category: Agile Methodology

What you'll learn

  • Explain the importance of monitoring and describe concepts like Golden Signals

  • Demonstrate your knowledge of observability with Instana and explain the pillars of observability, cloud native observability, and types of sampling

  • Implement logging and demonstrate your knowledge of telemetry using OpenTelemetry and tracing using Kubernetes

  • Develop hands-on experience with a variety of tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Mezmo (LogDNA), OpenTelemetry, and Instana

Skills you'll gain

Category: Kubernetes
Category: Continuous Monitoring
Category: Tracing
Category: Cloud-Native Computing
Category: Information Technology Operations
Category: Application Performance Management
Category: Monitoring
Category: Distributed Computing
Category: Prometheus (Software)
Category: Grafana
Category: DevOps
Category: Docker (Software)
Category: System Monitoring
Category: logging
Category: Interactive Data Visualization
Category: Telemetry
Category: Observability
DevOps Capstone Project

DevOps Capstone Project

Course 918 hours

What you'll learn

  • Identify user requirements, write user stories, create and execute sprint plans.

  • Build an application composed of several microservices and employ containers and serverless for running apps in Cloud.

  • Develop test cases and test your app during various stages of its lifecycle; utilize CI/CD tools to update and deploy your app.

  • List several next steps for starting or enhancing your career as a DevOps professional.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Zenhub
Category: GitHub
Category: Backlogs
Category: Sprint Retrospectives
Category: Plan Execution
Category: Continuous Improvement Process
Category: Estimation
Category: Performance Metric
Category: User Story
Category: Kanban Principles
Category: Agile Project Management
Category: Sprint Planning
Category: Kanban
Category: Scrum Methodology
Category: Workflow Management
Category: Agile Software Development
Category: Team Building
Category: Lean Methodologies
Category: Agile Methodology

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Instructors

Upkar Lidder
IBM
15 Courses409,205 learners
John Rofrano

Top Instructor

IBM
7 Courses261,877 learners
Alex Parker
IBM
3 Courses143,296 learners

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