ADVANCED CERTIFICATE

PROGRAMME IN
DEVOPS
ABOUT
UPGRAD

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enables individuals to develop their
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In the last 10 years, digital technology has

had a profound impact on billions of lives and
thousands of businesses in India and abroad.
The pace of growth is only expected to
Ronnie Screwvala increase further, as the $150 billion Indian IT
Co-founder & Executive
the industry is set to double its revenue in the
Chairman
next 10 years. This growth will be driven by
new age digital products and services, which
will create millions of new developer jobs.
The program will prepare our learners to excel in this rapidly evolving technology
landscape, by strengthening their core concepts.

“Our aim is simple: We strive to create high-impact, on-campus

hands-on experiences that prepare students for meaningful and
productive careers”.
Advanced Certificate Programme in
DevOps with IIITB
As an independent institution and a deemed university, IIITB collaborates with the IT
industry, leading academic institutions abroad, eminent scientists and industry lead-
ers to offer students the best possible education. Our outstanding faculty, curriculum
and pedagogy ensures that our graduate programs are ranked among the best in the
country. Our students have been well received by industry, and have been placed
with some of the leading companies in the IT industry.

We have partnered with upGrad to offer a rigorous program with a unique and excit-
ing of development principles and industry-led hands-on experience.Learners will get
opportunities to work on industry-relevant projects and interact with industry experts
through upGrad’s strong industry network. The program has been designed keeping
in mind that the future belongs to the professionals who can think and implement
end-to-end.

Prof. Debabrata Das

Director - IIIT Bangalore
upGrad as a thought leader in
emerging technologies

We have trained:

10K+ 2K+
Data Scientists
Full Stack Developers

5K+
Machine Learning
Engineers

1.5K+ 1K+
Big Data Analysts
Blockchain Developers
 Dr B. Thangaraju Vaishali Nankani
Professor, IIITB DevOps Architect, Oracle

Harish Padmanaban Tayyab Khan

Sr Associate (AVP) - Platform | SRE | Ops, Senior SRE / DevOps,
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Atlassian Full-time

Prasanna Lohar Aayush Khator

Head-Technology & Innovation, DCB Bank Cloud Engineer, Zynga
Program
Highlights
360 Degree Career Assistance
Receive 360 degree career support from
access to upGrad’s job opportunities portal,
1:1 profile reviews, career mentorship from
industry experts and much more.

Unparalleled Learning Experience

Learn the concepts from experienced IIITB
faculty & understand the applications from
Industry experts to get a blend of theoretical
knowledge and practical-hands
on experience.

For the Industry, by the Industry

Learn and apply concepts on industry projects
along with personalised industry mentorship.

Personalised Mentorship
Dedicated Student Support Get unparalleled personalised
Team & upGrad Buddy mentorship and doubt resolution
To help resolve your non-academic from IIITB faculty and our panel
queries and to ensure you are on of industry experts.
track with upcoming deadlines.

Advanced Certificate
Programme from IIITB
Differentiate yourself from your
peers by earning the industry
recognised Advanced Certificate
Programme from IIIT Bangalore.
upGrad Learning
Experience

Industry-relevant Curriculum Blended Learning

Designed and taught by best in class Learn with the ease and flexibility
industry experts and IIIT Bangalore's of recorded sessions as well as live
faculty. sessions, designed to ensure a
wholesome learning experience

Discussion Forums Career Assistance

Learn from your peers and teaching Access to upGrad’s job opportunities portal,
assistants, and for timely doubt resolution. career mentorship, profile review and more.

Re-learn the Concepts Hands-On Projects

Get program access for upto 3 years to Multiple case studies & assignments
refresh your concepts a mini capstone project to choose
from and apply learnings to it.

*Terms and conditions apply

 Industry
Projects

Continuous Testing Continuous Monitoring

Project revolving around the Project revolving around the
Continuous Testing aspect of DevOps Continuous Monitoring aspect
of DevOps

Fully Automated Deployment CICD Pipeline

Project revolving around the Fully Automated Project revolving around the
Deployment aspect of DevOps CICD Pipeline aspect of DevOps

*projects are subject to updation upon university approval

Curriculum
PREPARATORY COURSE
FUNDAMENTALS OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE WITH 2 WEEKS
BASIC DATA STRUCTURES (JAVA)
Learning the fundamentals of Java and its basic building blocks. Start with writing basic
Java programs. Also explore arrays & array lists.

C1. DEVOPS ESSENTIALS

FUNDAMENTALS OF LINUX & SCRIPTING 1 WEEK
Learn the Common linux commands and bash scripting which are frequently used by DevOps
engineers in their day to day activities

FUNDAMENTALS OF NETWORKING 1 WEEK

Learn the concepts of public/private network, internet protocols, DNS, IP address, OSI model,
VPN, tunelling, 3 way handshake, internet protocols such as HTTP and HTTPs, Subnetting -
public, private subnets, Nating(Network Address Translation), different security protocols and
best practices and SSH

INTRODUCTION TO DEVOPS 1 WEEK

Learn about the phases of Software Lifecycle. Get familiar with the concept of Minimum Viable
Product (MVP) & Cross-functional Teams. Understand why DevOps evolved as a prominent culture
in most of the modern day startups to achieve agility in the software development process

GIT AND VERSION CONTROL 1 WEEK

Learn different braching Strategies- Efficient strategies/disciplines for code promotion
and code reviews

WEB APPLICATION ON CLOUD 1 WEEK

Learn the different architecture patterns of a web application and the ways to deploy it on
AWS EC2 instance

AWS SERVICES 1 WEEK

Learn deployment of a simple monolithic application on AWS VM using AWS services such as
VPC, RDS, S3, CLBs/ALBs. Learn sizing strategies-How to decide the config of the instances
for any particular web application?

COURSE ASSIGNMENT 1 WEEK

Automating tasks using bash scripting
C2. WEB APPLICATIONS AT SCALE (DELIVERED LIVE)
CONTAINERIZATION 1 WEEK
Learn the concepts of docker and the difference between docker and VM. Learn the common
commands in docker and deployment of a monolithic application using Docker first on local
host and later on AWS VM using AWS ECS service

CONTAINERIZATION AT SCALE 2 WEEKS

Using ECS, how to containerise applications at scale. Handling scalability issues with web
applications by configuring load balancers, deciding server's geograpghical location, etc

CONTINUOUS MONITORING AND LOGGING 2 WEEKS

Learn about what Continuous Monitoring is, its role, impact and the tools & techniques
associated with it. Explore and know about Site Reliability Engineering. Aslo, learn about
Application Monitoring using Kibana/ELK cluster

INTRODUCTION TO CICD AND JENKINS 1 WEEK

Learn about CICD pipleline and get introduced to Jenkins- a tool to create CICD pipelines.
Also, learn to setup and configure jobs on Jenkins

COURSE ASSIGNMENT 1 WEEK

Deployment of dockerised web application

Exam Week: Exam 1 WEEK

Buffer Week 1 WEEK

C3. CICD PIPELINE, SYSTEM PROVISIONING AND

DEVOPS ADVANCED CONCEPTS
CONTINOUS INTEGRATION 1 WEEK
Learn about build process, continuous integration and automating component assembly.
Explore and solve hands-on problems using tools Maven/Gradle and SonarQube

CONTINOUS DEPLOYMENT 2 WEEKS

Learn about fully automated deployment and real-time continuous deployment on the Cloud.
Practice hands-on cloud deployment on AWS. Learn how fully automated deployment works.
(Exercise using shippable.com.) Real-time Continuous Deployment on the Cloud (Amazon Web
Services - Exercise and Case Study)

SYSTEM PROVISIONING AND CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT 2 WEEKS

Learn about Configuration Management via tools like Ansible and Terraform

ORCHESTRATION USING KUBERNETTES 2 WEEKS

Learn the ways to orchestrate multiple docker containers using an orchestration tool like
Kubernetes. Learn installation, component, architecutre, creating deployment, volumes,
secret and creation of CICD pipeline involving Kubernettes
 COURSE ASSIGNMENT 1 WEEK

Exam Week: Exam 1 WEEK

Buffer Week 1 WEEK

C4. CAPSTONE
CAPSTONE PROJECT 4 WEEKS
The capstone project will stitch all the concepts learnt during the program

TOOLS AND LIBRARIES

Java11, IntelliJ, Junit, Git and Github, Linux, Bash, Git and Github, AWS, ECS , "Prometheus/Nagios,
Grafana, ELK/Cloudwatch, Elastic APM/Dynatrace", Jenkins, Selenium, , Maven/Gradle, SonarQube,
Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernettes,
Meet the
Class
4 to 7 years
16%

7 to 10 years
11%
0 to 4 years
48%
Years of
work experience

10+ years
11%

Opportunity to network
with our international learners
Europe
China 3.57%
3.57%
Africa
5.36%
UAE
26.79%
South East Asia
7.14%

Australia
7.14%

UK US
19.64% 26.79%
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our learners
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Zoreum Blockchain Labs

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Software Engineer,
Ministry of Defence

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easily understandable and have added value to my resume and helped me
bag a 125% salary hike. The curriculum is very relevant to today’s market
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Software Technologist,
Philips

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and every problem that I have faced. It has been a great experience for me, I
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SDET - II,
Blackbuck

“With upGrad, my experience has been wonderful. Managing work and

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seemed difficult in the beginning, my student mentor helped me plan my
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 Program Details &
Admission Process

PROGRAM DURATION AND FORMAT PROGRAM FEE

7.5 months | Online INR 99,000 (Incl. of all taxes)

PROGRAM START DATES ELIGIBILITY

https://www.upgrad.com/devops-certification-pgc-iiitb Bachelor’s Degree with 50% or equivalent passing
marks. No coding experience required.

WEEKLY COMMITMENT (12-15 hours/week)

6-7 HOURS 6-7 HOURS

Asynchronous learning time. Assignments and projects.

SELECTION PROCESS

STEP 1: Selection Test STEP 2: Review and Shortlisting STEP 3: Enrollment for Access
of Suitable Candidates to Prep Content
Fill out an application and take Our faculty will review all applications, Make a quick block payment
a short 20-minute online test consider the educational and with assistance from our loan
with questions professional background of an partners where required,
applicant and review the test scores receive immediate access to
wherever applicable. Following this, the prep content and begin
offer letters will be rolled out so you are your upGrad journey.
assured a great peer group to learn
and network with.

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