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DevOps Foundations

  • Number of Courses7 courses
  • Duration12 hours
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So what in the world is DevOps? Is it a tool, a bunch of tools, a philosophy? Well, this path has the answer for you. You’ll be introduced to the foundational concepts of DevOps and learn a bit more about what it an mean for you and your organization.

Ultimately, DevOps is an IT management philosophy that seeks to improve and speed up the delivery of software and services to users. While Developers have adopted frameworks such as Agile to enable rapid "sprints" of software development, IT Operations has typically lagged in their ability to safely deploy the results of these "sprints." DevOps proposes to improve the situation by removing the silos between IT teams, and adopting a product-centric approach that emphasizes automation and tooling to speed up, and make more safe, the mechanical tasks of testing and deploying software. DevOps often necessitates serious cultural changes in an organization, and benefits from the use of specialized tools that help to implement its many techniques and approaches. DevOps seeks to reduce time to delivery, enabling IT teams to rapidly evolve their software in short bursts, and quickly deploy those into production.

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DevOps Foundations

So what in the world is DevOps? Is it a tool, a bunch of tools, a philosophy? Well, this path has the answer for you. You’ll be introduced to the foundational concepts of DevOps and learn a bit more about what it an mean for you and your organization.

Ultimately, DevOps is an IT management philosophy that seeks to improve and speed up the delivery of software and services to users. While Developers have adopted frameworks such as Agile to enable rapid "sprints" of software development, IT Operations has typically lagged in their ability to safely deploy the results of these "sprints." DevOps proposes to improve the situation by removing the silos between IT teams, and adopting a product-centric approach that emphasizes automation and tooling to speed up, and make more safe, the mechanical tasks of testing and deploying software. DevOps often necessitates serious cultural changes in an organization, and benefits from the use of specialized tools that help to implement its many techniques and approaches. DevOps seeks to reduce time to delivery, enabling IT teams to rapidly evolve their software in short bursts, and quickly deploy those into production.

DevOps: The Big Picture

  • by Richard Seroter
  • 1h 10m Duration
  •  (127)

DevOps Foundations: Core Concepts and Fundamentals

  • by Chris Behrens
  • 2h 13m Duration
  •  (47)

DevOps Foundations: Test-driven Development

  • by Chris Behrens
  • 2h 10m Duration
  •  (14)

DevOps Foundations: Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery

  • by Barry Luijbregts
  • 59m Duration
  •  (137)

DevOps Foundations: Security and DevSecOps

  • by David Clinton
  • 44m Duration
  •  (11)

DevOps Foundations: Operational Strategies

  • by Matt Conran
  • 2h 36m Duration

DevOps Foundations: Planning and Implementing a DevOps Strategy

  • by Richard Seroter
  • 1h 38m Duration
  •  (14)

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Richard Seroter
Richard Seroter
Richard Seroter is a Director of Outbound Product Management at Google Cloud, with a master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Colorado. He’s also an instructor at Pluralsight, lead InfoQ.com editor for cloud computing, frequent public speaker, author of multiple books on software design and development, and former 12-time Microsoft MVP for cloud. Richard maintains a regularly updated blog on topics of architecture and solution design and can be found on Twitter as @rseroter.
Chris Behrens
Chris Behrens
Chris B. Behrens is a writer, speaker and software developer, specializing in DevOps. He has been a developer and architect for more than twenty years focusing on small to medium size companies and the development changes they face. He focuses on his flavor of Fear Based Development, whereby a developer ranks their tasks in descending order of anxiety, and how to tackle them in that order. Chief among these anxiety-inducing processes is software deployment, a topic that Behrens focuses upon. He ... more
Barry Luijbregts
Barry Luijbregts
Barry is an independent software architect and developer with a passion for the cloud. He is also a Pluralsight author and a podcast host. He has worked for lots of companies throughout the last decades and is keen to share his knowledge with the community. He has a broad and deep knowledge of the Microsoft stack with a special interest on web technology and the cloud. He currently teaches people about the benefits of the cloud. You can reach Barry on Twitter @AzureBarry and through his website ... more
David Clinton
David Clinton
David Clinton is an AWS Solutions Architect and a Linux server administrator. He's written books on cloud and Linux administration, IT security, and data analytics.
Matt Conran
Matt Conran
Matt Conran has more than 24 years of networking industry with entrepreneurial start-ups, government organizations and others. He is a lead Network & Security Architect and successfully delivered major global greenfield service provider and data center networks. Core skill set includes advanced data center, service provider, security, and virtualization technologies. He loves to travel and has a passion for landscape photography.

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