• Foundational understanding of DevOps concepts
• Awareness and familiarity with continuous integration,
continuous deployment, and continuous delivery
(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 Core Platforms (DEVASC)
• Developing Applications Using Cisco Core
Platforms and APIs (DEVCOR)

Course Objectives

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