Need for container orchestration Introduction to Kubernetes architecture Pods, Deployments, Services, and Namespaces Scaling and load balancing ConfigMaps and Secrets Rolling updates and rollbacks Hands-on: Deploying applications on Kubernetes cluster

Introduction to Continuous Integration (CI) Build tools and dependency management Setting up CI pipelines using Jenkins Automating build and test processes Integration with GitHub repositories Introduction to GitHub Actions Hands-on: Creating and running CI pipelines

Introduction to containerization and virtualization Installing and working with Docker Docker architecture and components Creating Docker images and containers Writing Dockerfiles Docker networking and volumes Docker Compose for multi-container applications Hands-on: Containerizing a web application

Overview of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and its importance in DevOps Traditional infrastructure management vs automated provisioning Basic concepts of provisioning, scalability, and repeatability Introduction to Terraform Understanding Terraform architecture and workflow Writing simple configuration files (providers, resources) Basic commands: init, plan, apply, destroy Managing infrastructure using Terraform scripts (basic examples) Hands-on: Creating and managing simple cloud/local resources using Terraform

Introduction to cloud platforms: Amazon Web Services / Microsoft Azure Deploying applications on cloud infrastructure Monitoring and logging using Prometheus and Grafana Basics of security in DevOps End-to-end DevOps pipeline (Code ? Build ? Test ? Deploy ? Monitor) Mini Project: CI/CD pipeline with Docker + Kubernetes Major Project: Cloud-based DevOps deployment