DevOps Professional
A 32-lesson, lab-driven course covering platform engineering, resilience, migration, supply chain, governance and architecture defense. Includes 24 hands-on labs.
Professional - for practitioners who run platforms or lead delivery; requires DevOps L1 plus L2 · 8 modules · 32 lessons · ~5 h reading
Module 1
Platform design and tenancy
Platform design, reliability, DR, DevSecOps, hybrid networks, governance, incident leadership.
- Platform as a Product and the Golden Path
- Tenant Boundaries and RBAC That Holds
- Quotas and Policy: Fair Shares with Teeth
- Self-Service with Checkpoints
Hands-on labs (3) · local guide plus browser playground where linked
Module 2
Reliability, capacity and resilience
Platform design, reliability, DR, DevSecOps, hybrid networks, governance, incident leadership.
- Error Budgets as Delivery Decisions
- Capacity and Bottlenecks: Measure Before You Buy
- Retries and Backpressure: Bounded Help, Not Storms
- Failure Domains and the Limits of HA
Hands-on labs (3) · local guide plus browser playground where linked
Module 3
Migration, restore and disaster recovery
Platform design, reliability, DR, DevSecOps, hybrid networks, governance, incident leadership.
- Migration and Cutover: Two Systems, One Truth at a Time
- Consistency and Reconciliation Across the Move
- RPO and RTO: Numbers Before Promises
- Restore versus Rollback: Different Tools, Different Moments
Hands-on labs (3) · local guide plus browser playground where linked
Module 4
DevSecOps and supply chain
Platform design, reliability, DR, DevSecOps, hybrid networks, governance, incident leadership.
- Threat Models for Delivery Systems
- SBOM and Provenance: Knowing What You Ship
- Policy and Admission: Rejecting the Bad Before It Runs
- Secret Rotation and the Leak Drill
Hands-on labs (3) · local guide plus browser playground where linked
Module 5
Hybrid networks and hard integrations
Platform design, reliability, DR, DevSecOps, hybrid networks, governance, incident leadership.
- Hybrid Boundaries: Modeling On-Prem and Cloud as One System
- DNS, TLS and Proxy Chains: The Request's Full Journey
- Restricted Egress: Choosing What May Leave
- Dependency and Connectivity Design for Hard Integrations
Hands-on labs (3) · local guide plus browser playground where linked
Module 6
Governance, cost and change control
Platform design, reliability, DR, DevSecOps, hybrid networks, governance, incident leadership.
- Cost and Capacity Math on Stated Assumptions
- Change Plans Against Permission, Approval and Audit Rules
- Ownership: From Untagged to Accountable
- Operational Sustainability: Running Well for Years
Hands-on labs (3) · local guide plus browser playground where linked
Module 7
Incident leadership and handover
Platform design, reliability, DR, DevSecOps, hybrid networks, governance, incident leadership.
- Incident Coordination: One Lead, One Timeline, One Order
- Evidence, Communication and the Postmortem That Teaches
- Handover Packages Someone Else Can Use
- Ops Ownership and Sustainable Rotation
Hands-on labs (3) · local guide plus browser playground where linked
Module 8
Architecture decisions and defense
Platform design, reliability, DR, DevSecOps, hybrid networks, governance, incident leadership.
- ADRs: Decisions with Trade-offs in Context
- Balancing Security, Cost and Reliability
- When Requirements Change: Revise the Design
- Technical Defense: Evidence Packs with Limits Stated
Hands-on labs (3) · local guide plus browser playground where linked