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DevOps & Engineering Methodologies

From Docker containers to Kubernetes orchestration, GitHub Actions CI/CD to canary deployments. Plus the engineering practices that make teams fast: trunk-based development, feature flags, SLOs, and blameless post-mortems.

What You Build

A complete DevOps pipeline: infrastructure as code, containerized app, CI/CD with canary deploys, monitoring, and incident response runbooks

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Zero to AI-Powered Developer

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Dev Jordan

walkthrough · casual

First 5 lessons are free (33% of the course). No login required.

DevOps Foundations

Culture, the Three Ways, and infrastructure as code.

DevOps Is a Culture, Not a Role

25 min Build in Public

Tweet: Tweet: 'DevOps isn't a job title — it's the elimination of the wall between building and running software.'

The Three Ways: Flow, Feedback, Continuous Learning

30 min

Infrastructure as Code: Terraform & Pulumi

35 min Ship

Ship: Cloud infrastructure defined in code and deployable with one command

Containers & Orchestration

Docker, Compose, Kubernetes, Helm, and GitOps.

Docker: Containers from First Principles

35 min Ship

Ship: Multi-stage Dockerfile that builds, tests, and packages your app

Docker Compose for Local Development

30 min Ship

Ship: Compose file running app + database + cache + monitoring locally

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Kubernetes Fundamentals: Pods, Services, Deployments

40 min

Helm Charts & GitOps with ArgoCD

35 min

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CI/CD & Deployment

GitHub Actions, deployment strategies, and feature flags.

GitHub Actions: Build Your Own CI Pipeline

35 min

Deployment Strategies: Blue-Green, Canary, Rolling

30 min

Feature Flags & Progressive Delivery

25 min

Engineering Practices

Agile, trunk-based development, incident response, and post-mortems.

Agile Done Right: Sprints Without the Ceremony Bloat

25 min

Trunk-Based Development & Ship Small

25 min

Incident Response: SLOs, Error Budgets, Runbooks

30 min

Post-Mortems That Actually Prevent Recurrence

25 min

Final Ship

Build and deploy a complete DevOps pipeline for a real project.

Ship a Full DevOps Pipeline

55 min

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Software Architecture & Design Foundations

The decisions that matter most are the ones that are expensive to change. Learn monolith vs microservices, SOLID, DDD, event-driven architecture, CQRS, API design, database architecture, caching, and security. Write ADRs that future you will thank you for.

DevOps & Engineering Methodologies

What You Build

A complete DevOps pipeline: infrastructure as code, containerized app, CI/CD with canary deploys, monitoring, and incident response runbooks