DevOps & Cloud Engineering Advanced Professional Diploma

Linux administration, shell, processes, permissions, networking basics, Git workflow and collaboration.

Practical work: Administer a Linux VM and manage a team Git workflow.

Build/test pipelines, artefacts, secrets, branch strategy, deployment stages and rollback concepts.

Practical work: Create a working CI pipeline for a sample application.

Docker images, containers, networking, volumes, Compose and image security basics.

Practical work: Containerize a multi-service application.

Compute, storage, networking, IAM, load balancing, monitoring, cost awareness and shared responsibility.

Practical work: Deploy an application to a controlled cloud sandbox.

Declarative infrastructure, Terraform concepts, state, modules and configuration management concepts.

Practical work: Provision a small reproducible environment.

Pods, deployments, services, config/secrets, scaling, health checks and troubleshooting.

Practical work: Deploy and troubleshoot an app in a training cluster.

Logs, metrics, alerts, SRE basics, backup, secrets, vulnerability scanning and incident practices.

Practical work: Create an operations dashboard and runbook.

Architecture, repository, pipeline, infrastructure, deployment, monitoring, documentation and cost review.

Practical work: Deliver an end-to-end automated deployment project.