The DevOps Foundation course provides a baseline understanding of key DevOps terminology to ensure everyone is talking the same language and highlights the benefits of DevOps to support organizational success. 


The course includes the latest thinking, principles and practices from the DevOps community including real-world case studies from high performing organizations that engage and inspire learners. Learners will gain an understanding of DevOps, the cultural and professional movement that stresses communication, collaboration, integration, and automation to improve the flow of work between software developers and IT operations professionals. 


The course is designed for a broad audience, enabling those on the business side to obtain an understanding of Kubernetes and Containers. Those on the technical side will obtain an understanding as to the business value of DevOps to reduce cost (15-25% overall IT cost reduction) with increased quality (50-70% reduction in change failure rate) and agility (up to 90% reduction in provision and deployment time) to support business objectives in support of digital transformation initiatives

The learning objectives for DevOps Foundation include an understanding of:

• DevOps objectives and vocabulary
• Benefits to the business and IT
• Principles and practices including Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, testing, security and the Three Ways
• DevOps relationship to Agile, Lean and ITSM
• Improved workflows, communication and feedback loops
• Automation practices including deployment pipelines and DevOps toolchains
• Scaling DevOps for the enterprise
• Critical success factors and key performance indicators
• Real-life examples and results

The target audience for the DevOps Foundation course includes Management, Operations, Developers, QA and Testing professionals such as:

• IT operations
• IT professionals working within, or about to enter, an Agile Service Design Environment
• Application Developers
• Business Analysts
• Business Managers
• Business Stakeholders
• Change Agents
• Consultants
• DevOps Engineers
• Infrastructure Architect
• Integration Specialists
• IT Directors
• IT Managers
• IT Operations
• IT Team Leaders
• Network Administrators
• Operations Managers
• Project Managers
• Release Engineers
• Software Developers
• Software Tester/QA
• System Administrators
• Systems Engineers

Familiarity with IT terminology and IT related work experience are recommended.

Successfully passing (65%) the 60-minute examination, consisting of 40 multiple-choice questions, leads to the DevOps Foundation Certificate. The certification is governed and maintained by the DevOps Institute.