Introduction to DevOps

The aim of the course is to introduce a student to combination of software development and IT operations.

Course contents

• Distributed version control systems (DVCS)
• Modern repository hosting platforms, such as GitHub and GitLab
• Repository best practices, management and administration
• Solving repository errors
• Continuous deployment processes
• Executing tests
• Basics of container platforms, such as Docker
• Deploying basic applications from source control systems

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student will be able to

• design and implement repositories for software engineering projects
• understand how the evolution of development practices led to DVCS and DevOps
• understand and solve issues related to versioning and deployment
• set up continuous deployment pipeline
• implement testing and other deployment processes as a part of a DevOps process

Course material

Materials presented in the course (Moodle), also available in YouTube. The course utilizes only free-to-use tools.

Completion methods

• Online lectures and exercises 14 h in Moodle, independent reading 14 h, projects 38 h, Wikipedia task and exam 12h. Total 78 h.
• Grading 0-5: project 30%, weekly assignments 30%, Wikipedia tasks 10% and exam 30%.

More information in the LUT University study guide.

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