: DevOps Short Course – Foundational

Welcome to the DevOps Short Course, the foundational level.

This course is to be completed in 6 weeks.

Learners should spend 4 to 6 hours every week on self paced learning, including reading, working on tasks, quizzes etc.

General information

Tilde

Tilde is our central place of work. It is a kanban board, review system, progress checker.

Syllabus

Where all the studying material lives. The content from the Syllabus becomes cards on Tilde.

Instant messaging

We will have a chat system somewhere (like Slack, Discord, Teams).

It will be used for announcements, links, extra content etc.

Questions should be made on Hesk!

Hesk

A place to ask anything related to course content, Umuzi tooling, due dates, general information etc.

Recordings

All sessions will be recorded and be readily available.

Group session structure

We will have two 1h group sessions per week. They will mostly follow the structure below:

  • Chat about tasks and questions from last week
  • Conceptual session: the learners will be broken into groups and given a conceptual question or problem to work on for a specific amount of time. Once the time is up, the learners will be brought back to the main room and present their solutions.

The week’s tasks and quizzes must be sent by latest on Sunday.

Course Content

Week 0: Introduction to Umuzi

Here you will learn about tools and practices used through out an Umuzi short course.

First, take the Intro to Tilde for non-coder bootcampers.

Then, learn how to use GitHub and Tilde.

Session #1

Welcome to Umuzi session.

Week 1: Intro to DevOps

Session #1

Read through the whole content before session #1!

The first session will have introductions between learners and facilitators, how the course is structured, calendar etc.

Then we will chat about DevOps and break the room into multiple groups to analyse some case studies.

Session #2

Chat about the week’s questions and tasks.

After that, we will breakdown the group and work through some DevOps scenarios.

Week 2: Infrastructure Components

Session #1

Read through the whole content before session #1!

Chat about the week’s questions and tasks.

During the session, we will breakdown the room into multiple rooms to work on a conceptual or practical problem.

Session #2

Chat about the week’s questions and tasks.

During the session, we will breakdown the room into multiple rooms to work on a conceptual or practical problem.


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