Continuous integration and delivery
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Builds reliable pipelines for validation, packaging, and deployment.
Course coverage
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Infrastructure and operations
DevOps Engineer
Automates the path from source control to production and improves collaboration, feedback, and delivery safety.
Skill coverage
100%
Course coverage
97%
Skill coverage shows how much of the role's capability map already has a published course. Course coverage shows how much of the mapped course pipeline for this role has shipped.
- Role skills
- 7
- Published coverage
- 7
- Relevant courses
- 72
Capability map
Skills
Importance describes how central each capability is to the role. Course coverage shows where you can build the skill in the current OpenSkills catalog.
01
Software delivery
4 capabilities
Source control
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Uses collaborative version-control practices as the basis of delivery automation.
Release engineering
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Makes releases repeatable, traceable, and safe to promote or roll back.
AI-assisted development
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Uses AI coding assistants and agentic tools to accelerate development while verifying and owning their output.
02
Infrastructure automation
3 capabilities
Infrastructure as code
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Defines infrastructure through reviewed, reproducible configuration.
Course coverage
- Infrastructure as Code Fundamentals
- Ansible Fundamentals
- Apache HTTP Server
- Bash
- Caddy Fundamentals
- Chef Fundamentals
- Crossplane Fundamentals
- Immutable Infrastructure
- NGINX Fundamentals
- OpenTofu Fundamentals
- Pulumi Fundamentals
- Puppet Fundamentals
- Salt Fundamentals
- Terraform Fundamentals
- Puppet Enterprise
- Puppet Language
- Puppet Module Design
- Web Server Fundamentals (planned)
Container orchestration
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Integrates orchestrated workloads into delivery and operational workflows.
Observability
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Closes delivery feedback loops with production telemetry.
Learning path
Relevant courses
Core foundations
The concepts this role is built on.
Supporting knowledge
Adjacent knowledge that improves day-to-day judgment.
- Advanced Git Workflows
- Ansible Fundamentals
- Apache HTTP Server
- Application Performance Monitoring
- Argo
- Argo Rollouts
- Argo Workflows
- Artifact Management
- Artifact Signing
- Bash
- Build Pipeline Security
- Build Systems
- Caddy Fundamentals
- Chef Fundamentals
- Claude Code
- Container Image Security
- Container Images
- Container Networking
- Container Security
- containerd
- Crossplane Fundamentals
- Cursor
- DevSecOps Fundamentals
- Distributed Tracing
- Docker Fundamentals
- Feature Flags
- Flux CD
- GitHub Copilot
- GitOps Fundamentals
- Goose
- Grafana Fundamentals
- Helm
- Immutable Infrastructure
- Introduction to SwampFree
- Kubernetes FundamentalsFree
- Kubernetes Workloads
- Logging Fundamentals
- Metrics Fundamentals
- NGINX Fundamentals
- Observability FundamentalsFree
- OpenAI Codex CLI
- OpenTelemetry
- OpenTofu Fundamentals
- Package Registry Security
- Prometheus Fundamentals
- Pulumi Fundamentals
- Puppet Fundamentals
- Salt Fundamentals
- Sigstore Fundamentals
- SLSA Framework
- Software Bills of Materials
- Software Release Versioning
- Software Supply Chain Security
- Tekton Fundamentals
- Terraform Fundamentals
- Trunk-Based Development
- Windsurf
- CI/CD for Machine Learning, Web Server Fundamentals (planned)
Specializations
Deeper paths for particular environments or directions.
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