DevOps Foundation® Training Course

OVERVIEW

As organizations face increasing competition from new market entrants, maintaining competitiveness requires a shift away from annual or bi-annual release cycles. Instead, businesses must prioritize the consistent delivery of new and updated products to meet market demands.

The DevOps Foundation course establishes a shared vocabulary by covering essential DevOps terminology, ensuring alignment across teams while emphasizing how DevOps practices drive organizational success.

This training integrates the latest principles and insights from the DevOps community, featuring real-world case studies from high-performing entities such as ING Bank, Ticketmaster, Capital One, Alaska Air, Target, Fannie Mae, Societe Generale, and Disney. Through multimedia and interactive exercises, the course brings concepts to life, including the 'Three Ways' popularized by Gene Kim in *The Phoenix Project*, alongside recent findings from the State of DevOps and DevOps Institute Upskilling reports.

Participants will develop a comprehensive understanding of DevOps as both a cultural and professional movement. This approach prioritizes communication, collaboration, integration, and automation to enhance the workflow between software developers and IT operations professionals.

Designed for a broad audience, the course bridges the gap between business and technical teams. It helps business stakeholders grasp concepts like microservices and containers, while enabling technical professionals to appreciate the business value of DevOps. This includes achieving a 15-25% reduction in overall IT costs, a 50-70% decrease in change failure rates, and up to a 90% reduction in provisioning and deployment times, all of which support digital transformation objectives.

To reinforce learning, the course incorporates unique exercises that apply covered concepts, accompanied by sample documents, templates, tools, and techniques for practical use beyond the classroom.

Completion of this certification prepares learners to successfully pass the DevOps Foundation examination.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of the DevOps Foundation course, learners will have an understanding of:

• DevOps objectives and standard terminology
• Business and IT benefits
• Core principles and practices, including Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, testing, security, and the Three Ways
• The interplay between DevOps, Agile, Lean, and ITSM
• Enhanced workflows, communication strategies, and feedback loops
• Automation practices, specifically deployment pipelines and DevOps toolchains
• Strategies for scaling DevOps across the enterprise
• Critical success factors and key performance indicators
• Practical examples and measurable outcomes

LEARNER MATERIALS

• Two days of instructor-led training and facilitated exercises
• Learner Manual (a valuable post-class reference guide)
• Engagement in distinctive exercises designed to apply theoretical concepts
• Access to sample documents, templates, tools, and techniques
• Enrollment in additional value-added resources and professional communities

CERTIFICATION EXAM

Achieving a score of 65% on the 60-minute examination, which comprises 40 multiple-choice questions, results in the issuance of the DevOps Foundation Certificate. This certification is administered and maintained by the DevOps Institute.