After taking this course, you should be able to:

• Describe the DevOps philosophy and practices, and how they apply to real-life challenges
• Explain container-based architectures and available tooling provided by Docker
• Describe application packaging into containers and start building secure container images
• Utilize container networking and deploy a three-tier network application
• Explain the concepts of configuration item (CI) pipelines and what tooling is available
• Implement a basic pipeline with Gitlab CI that builds and deploys applications
• Implement automated build testing and validation
• Describe DevOps principles applied to infrastructure
• Implement on-demand test environments and explain how to integrate them with an existing pipeline
• Implement tooling for metric and log collection, analysis, and alerting
• Describe the benefits of application health monitoring, telemetry, and chaos engineering in the context of improving the stability and reliability of the ecosystem
• Describe how to implement secure DevOps workflows by safely handling sensitive data and validating applications
• Explain design and operational concepts related to using a mix of public and private cloud deployments
• Describe modern application design and microservices architectures
• Describe the building blocks of Kubernetes and how to use its APIs to deploy an application
• Explain advanced Kubernetes deployment patterns and implement an automated pipeline
• Explain how monitoring, logging, and visibility concepts apply to Kubernetes

This course is designed for network and software engineers interested in automation and programmability and who hold job roles such as:

• Account manager
• Consulting systems engineer
• Network administrator, engineer, and manager
• Sales engineer
• Systems engineer
• Technical solutions architect
• Wireless design engineer
• Wireless engineer

Before taking this course, you should have the following knowledge and skills:

• Basic programming language concepts and familiarity with Python
• Basic understanding of compute virtualization
• Ability to use Linux, text-driven interfaces, and CLI tools, such as Secure Shell (SSH), Bourne-Again SHell (Bash), grep, ip, vim/nano, cURL, ping, traceroute, and Telnet
• Foundational understanding of Linux-based OS architecture and system utilities
• CCNA-level core networking knowledge
• Foundational understanding of DevOps concepts
• Awareness and familiarity with continuous integration, delivery, and deployment (CI/CD) concepts
• Hands-on experience with Git

The following Cisco courses can help you gain the knowledge you need to prepare for this course:

• Developing Applications and Automating Workflows using Cisco Platforms (DEVASC)
• Developing Applications using Cisco Core Platforms and APIs (DEVCOR)

Associated Certification: Cisco Certified DevNet Professional

Associated Exam: 300-910 DEVOPS