Understanding DevOps culture, history, DevOps lifecycle, development vs operations, collaboration practices, SDLC vs DevOps, Agile & DevOps relationship, key DevOps terminologies.

Understanding version control, Git setup and configuration, repositories, staging & committing, branching & merging strategies, resolving merge conflicts, pull requests, GitHub workflows, GitHub Actions basics.

Concept of CI/CD pipelines, build automation, testing automation, pipeline stages, YAML pipelines, GitHub Actions CI/CD, Jenkins introduction, creating CI/CD pipelines for sample applications.

Linux fundamentals for DevOps, file system navigation, permissions & ownership, process management, shell commands, bash scripting basics, writing automation scripts for deployments.

What are containers, Docker installation, images vs containers, Dockerfile creation, building & running containers, Docker Hub, volumes, networks, multi-container workflows, containerizing applications.

What is Kubernetes, cluster components, pods, deployments, services, config maps, secrets, scaling & self-healing, kubectl commands, deploying containerized apps on Kubernetes.

Introduction to AWS/Azure/GCP in DevOps, compute services (EC2/VMs), cloud storage, IAM roles, deploying Docker containers to cloud, using cloud CI/CD tools.

Concept of IaC, Terraform basics, writing Terraform configuration files, provisioning cloud resources, managing multi-environment deployments.

Importance of monitoring, Prometheus basics, Grafana dashboards, log management tools, alerting systems, application performance monitoring.

Introduction to Ansible, configuration management basics, continuous testing tools, container orchestration automation, integration of tools in workflow.

Securing CI/CD pipelines, vulnerability scanning, secrets management, secure coding practices, compliance basics, automated security testing tools.

Building an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline, deploying Docker applications, Kubernetes deployment, Terraform cloud provisioning, monitoring setup, final project documentation and presentation.