OCI DevOps Professional Certification Course

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) DevOps service is a comprehensive platform for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). It enables developers to build, test, and deploy their applications efficiently.

Course Overview

This course will help you master the fundamental concepts of DevOps and learn how to automate development, deployment, and infrastructure management processes. You will get familiar with modern DevOps tools and learn how to work with cloud services, containerization, CI/CD, monitoring, and cost optimization.

What You Will Learn in This Course?

• DevOps fundamentals and the role of a
• DevOps engineer
• Working with Linux, Git, and virtualization
• Configuring cloud services in AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, CloudFront, etc.)
• Containerization with Docker and Kubernetes
• Deployment automation through CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)
• Monitoring and logging (Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, ELK)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
• Cost optimization and secrets management

Gain hands-on experience with DevOps tools and prepare for real-world projects!

Prerequisites

The course was designed for career starters and career switchers.

We expect to work with High-School graduates and Bachelors of non-technical specialties as potential students for the program.

Time Commitment

The time you need to allocate really depends on your knowledge level and can vary a lot. We did a very rough estimation for a career starter with a minimum knowledge level, and the minimum required time to work with the provided trainer content and additional is about 99 hours.

So, you can complete this course in two and half months if you can commit to studying at least 6 hours each week.

However, this course is flexible, and you can study at your own pace and spend more or less time depending on your progress. Nevertheless, finishing by a particular date might be required if you want to match the application date for the main track.

There will be 2 lessons per week. Each lesson will take 1.15 hours. The course is complete with home tasks.

Course Breakdown

Module 1. DevOps Introduction.
About the professtion

Module 2. Virtualization
Virtualization overview

Module 3. Linux basics
OS commands.
Network commands

Module 4. Git overview

Module 5. Basic AWS
EC2
Load Balancing

Module 6. AWS
IAM

Module 7. Advanced AWS
S3
CloudFront
SQS
SNS
Kinesis
Containerization overview

Module 8. Disaster Recovery in AWS
HA Clusters
Backups
DR strategies

Module 9. AWS Web
Certificates and ACM
S3
Cloudfront CDN

Module 10. Desired State configuration
Packer
Ansible

Module 11. Containerization
Docker basics
Docker network
Docker Volumes
Docker Compose

Module 12. CI/CD tools
CI/CD basics
Tools overview - GitHub Actions, Gitlab CI, TeamCity
Jenkins

Module 13. Infrastructure Monitoring
Infrastructure Monitoring
Zabbix

Module 14. Advanced monitoring
Prometheus
Grafana

Module 15. Logging
About logs
Log aggregation tools
Cloud tools

Module 16. Kubernetes basics
K8s basics
K8s features

Module 17. Secrets management
Ansible Vault
AWS Parameter Store
AWS Secret Manager
Hashicorp Vault

Module 18. Infrastructure as a Code
Terraform
Terraform commands
State and configuration drift
Terraform modules

Module 19. Cost Optimiztion
Cost Optimization tools and strategies

Module 20. Helm introduction
Helm overview

Module 21. Course outro
Course review
What we didn't cover
Future steps