Online DevOps Certification Training in US Empire

The SRE Practitioner Certification Preparation is a comprehensive training program designed to cover advanced Site Reliability Engineering practices aligned with the official DevOps Institute syllabus. This program prepares participants for certification success and enhances their capabilities in the field of site reliability engineering for government operations.

This instructor-led, live training (available online or onsite) is targeted at experienced DevOps and SRE professionals who wish to master advanced SRE practices and prepare for the DevOps Institute SRE Practitioner certification exam. The training aligns with public sector workflows, governance, and accountability standards.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Identify and rectify common SRE anti-patterns effectively.
• Establish and manage Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets with precision.
• Create secure, fault-tolerant, and highly reliable systems for government operations.
• Deploy advanced observability, automation, and incident response strategies to enhance system reliability and performance.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lectures and discussions.
• Extensive exercises and practice sessions.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This course provides the knowledge and skills necessary to design and implement DevOps processes and practices for government. Participants will learn how to plan for DevOps, use source control, scale Git for an enterprise, consolidate artifacts, develop a dependency management strategy, manage secrets, implement continuous integration, establish a container build strategy, design a release strategy, set up a release management workflow, implement deployment patterns, and optimize feedback mechanisms.

Audience Profile

This course is designed for individuals interested in designing and implementing DevOps processes or preparing to pass the Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam.

Job Role: DevOps Engineer

Preparation for Exam: AZ-400

Skills Gained

• Plan for transformation with shared goals and timelines
• Select a project and identify project metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Create a team and an agile organizational structure
• Design a tool integration strategy
• Develop a license management strategy (e.g., Azure DevOps and GitHub users)
• Design a strategy for end-to-end traceability from work items to working software
• Develop an authentication and access strategy
• Design a strategy for integrating on-premises and cloud resources
• Describe the benefits of using Source Control
• Explain Azure Repos and GitHub
• Migrate from TFVC to Git
• Manage code quality, including technical debt with tools like SonarCloud
• Build organizational knowledge on code quality
• Explain how to structure Git repositories
• Describe Git branching workflows
• Leverage pull requests for collaboration and code reviews
• Leverage Git hooks for automation
• Use Git to foster inner source across the organization
• Explain the role of Azure Pipelines and its components
• Configure agents for use in Azure Pipelines
• Explain the importance of continuous integration
• Implement continuous integration using Azure Pipelines
• Define Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• Design processes to measure end-user satisfaction and analyze user feedback
• Design processes to automate application analytics
• Manage alerts and reduce meaningless and non-actionable alerts
• Conduct blameless retrospectives and create a just culture
• Define an infrastructure and configuration strategy and appropriate toolset for a release pipeline and application infrastructure
• Implement compliance and security in your application infrastructure
• Describe the potential challenges with integrating open-source software
• Inspect open-source software packages for security and license compliance
• Manage organizational security and compliance policies
• Integrate license and vulnerability scans into build and deployment pipelines
• Configure build pipelines to access package security and license ratings

Enhance your DevOps capabilities for government. Build more effective teams.
Implementing DevOps and fostering an agile culture enhances customer value and drives superior organizational performance in a rapidly evolving, disruptive environment.

This course is designed for government participants who are engaged in the design, implementation, and management of DevOps deployment pipelines and toolchains that support Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Testing, and potentially Continuous Deployment. The course emphasizes foundational processes, metrics, APIs, and cultural considerations essential for effective Continuous Delivery for government operations.

Discover best practices for optimizing testing processes to achieve faster results while maintaining high-quality standards and consistent stability. These methods are designed to enhance efficiency and reliability, ensuring they align with the rigorous requirements for government operations.

Understand the fundamentals of DevOps Engineering, the significance of DevOps for government operations, and how to engineer DevOps for optimal success.

This course begins with a concise overview of DevOps foundational principles before transitioning into practical implementation. Designed from an engineering perspective, it covers topics such as the relationship between DevOps and other frameworks, technologies, application design practices, continuous integration, continuous delivery and deployment, continuous testing, scalable infrastructures, monitoring, metrics, observability, governance, human factors, and emerging trends in DevOps engineering.

The DevOps Foundation course offers a foundational understanding of essential DevOps terminology, ensuring that all participants are using consistent language. It also emphasizes the advantages of DevOps in supporting organizational success, particularly for government agencies looking to enhance their operational efficiency and service delivery.

This course emphasizes the human aspects of cultural transformation and provides participants with practical methods, techniques, and tools to engage individuals across the DevOps spectrum. Utilizing real-life scenarios and case studies, the training equips attendees with actionable insights that can be immediately applied in their work environments. Upon completion, participants will have concrete takeaways, including a deeper understanding of Value Stream Mapping, which can be effectively utilized for government operations.

An introduction to value stream management principles, practices, and tools designed to optimize value flow and realization in digital value streams for government. This training aims to enhance individuals’ skills in managing these streams, which encompass software applications and services as well as the supporting platforms such as cloud infrastructure or DevOps toolchains.

The course topics cover how DevSecOps provides business value, enhances mission success, and improves organizational effectiveness. The core DevSecOps principles taught can support a transformative approach for government, increasing productivity, reducing risk, and optimizing resource utilization.

The DevSecOps Practitioner course introduces a variety of practices aimed at deepening the understanding of DevSecOps methodologies. This training explores practical outcomes by identifying the optimal combination of personnel, developing processes to expedite value delivery, and evaluating the technological options currently available. Designed for recently transformed organizations looking to enhance their DevSecOps skills and awareness, this program is tailored specifically for government entities seeking to align with public sector workflows, governance, and accountability.

The SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) Foundation course provides an introduction to the principles and practices that enable organizations to reliably and economically scale critical services. Implementing site reliability requires organizational realignment, a renewed focus on engineering and automation, and the adoption of new working paradigms, all tailored for government operations.