DevOps & Cloud Engineering Path

Description

Build the Infrastructure That Scales

Great code means nothing if it can’t be deployed, scaled, and monitored reliably. The DevOps & Cloud Engineering Path bridges the gap between writing software and running it in production. Over 16 weeks, you’ll master the tools, practices, and mindset that modern engineering teams rely on to ship fast and stay online.

What You’ll Build

• Automated CI/CD Pipeline — A multi-stage pipeline with automated testing, security scanning, staging environments, and zero-downtime deployments
• Container Orchestration Platform — A Kubernetes cluster running microservices with auto-scaling, rolling updates, health checks, and centralized logging
• Infrastructure as Code Suite — Complete AWS infrastructure (VPC, EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront) provisioned and managed entirely through Terraform
• Observability Dashboard — A monitoring stack with custom metrics, alerting rules, distributed tracing, and incident response runbooks

Curriculum Overview — 32 Modules

Foundations (Weeks 1–3): Linux command line mastery, shell scripting and automation, networking fundamentals (DNS, load balancing, SSL/TLS), Git advanced workflows (rebasing, cherry-picking, monorepo strategies)

Containers (Weeks 4–6): Docker from first principles, multi-stage builds and image optimization, Docker Compose for local development, container security and vulnerability scanning

Orchestration (Weeks 7–10): Kubernetes architecture and core concepts, deployments, services, and ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets, and persistent storage, Helm charts and package management, horizontal pod autoscaling, cluster monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

Cloud & IaC (Weeks 11–14): AWS core services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront, SQS), Terraform fundamentals and state management, infrastructure modules and reusability, multi-environment management (dev, staging, production), cost optimization strategies

CI/CD & SRE (Weeks 15–16): GitHub Actions and workflow design, deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, rolling), site reliability engineering principles, incident management, SLOs/SLIs/SLAs, chaos engineering introduction

What’s Included

• 32 structured modules with hands-on labs
• Cloud sandbox environments for safe experimentation
• 4 production-grade infrastructure projects
• AI-powered configuration reviews
• Private DevOps community channel
• Certificate of completion
• Lifetime access to all materials and future updates

Who This Is For

Developers who want to own the full deployment lifecycle, sysadmins transitioning to DevOps, engineers preparing for cloud certification exams, or anyone who wants to understand how modern infrastructure works. Basic command-line familiarity recommended.