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2025/2026

Introduction to DevOps

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BIK-IDO.21 Z,ZK 5 14KP+4KC Czech
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Department of Software Engineering
Synopsis:

The course deals with the topic of DevOps and prepares future developers and administrators for a modern culture of development and operation of systems and services. The course covers the tools to support software development, testing and compilation. It also focuses on tools for automating infrastructure management and building and deploying software to the Cloud. It is an introduction to technologies that will then be discussed in more detail in related follow-up courses. The student will also get acquainted with modern technologies used in practice.

Requirements:
Syllabus of lectures:

1. Introduction to DevOps, Team collaboration.

2. Continuous Integration, Pipelines.

3. Software testing - unit tests, tests with user interaction simulation.

4. Code quality testing in CI, DevSecOps.

5. Release and deployment

6. Containerization, Building an image for container.

7. Manual use of the Cloud, use of cloud services - PaaS.

8. Server management automation.

9. Application architectures for scaling in the cloud.

10. Alert, metric, and log monitoring

11. Cloud infrastructure scripting techniques, Infrastructure in Code - IaC

12. How it works in practice.

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Team collaboration tools.

2. Basics of pipelines - CI.

3. Application build in CI.

4. Static code analysis.

5. Classified task - Dev.

6. Container build.

7. Using Cloud in command line.

8. Using configuration management for server maintenance automation.

9. Container deployment to Paas.

10. Classified task - Ops

11. Terraform

12. Automatic scaling and load testing

Study Objective:
Study materials:

1. Kim G., Debois P., Willis J., Humble J. : The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations. IT Revolution Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1942788003.

2. Forsgren N., Humble J., Kim G. : Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations. IT Revolution Press, 2018. ISBN 978-1942788331.

3. Davis J. : Effective DevOps: Building a Culture of Collaboration, Affinity, and Tooling at Scale. O'Reilly Media, 2016. ISBN 978-1491926307.

4. Hochstein L., Moser R. : Ansible: Up and Running: Automating Configuration Management and Deploy-ment the Easy Way (2nd Edition). O'Reilly Media, 2017. ISBN B0743VR1MC.

Note:

The course is presented in Czech.

Further information:
https://courses.fit.cvut.cz/BI-IDO/
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