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
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)
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
