DevOps is now one of the most important skill areas for modern software teams.
The IBM Applied DevOps Engineering Professional Certificate Guide is designed for software developers, IT professionals, and technical learners who want to build practical skills in Agile, cloud-native development, automation, testing, CI/CD, containers, security, and monitoring.
You can begin by opening one of the individual courses and checking whether preview lessons are available before choosing complete enrollment.
What Will You Learn?
This professional certificate helps you build practical DevOps skills in:
- DevOps culture and shared responsibility
- Agile development and Scrum
- User stories, sprint planning, and Kanban
- Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and containers
- Microservices and REST APIs
- Serverless application development
- Test-driven development and unit testing
- CI/CD pipelines and automation
- Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Tekton
- Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
- Application security and OWASP principles
- Monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
- DevOps capstone project experience
The program focuses on hands-on labs and real-world projects that help learners build a DevOps portfolio.
Courses Included in the Program
This learning path includes 9 courses:
- Introduction to DevOps
- Introduction to Agile Development and Scrum
- Introduction to Containers with Docker, Kubernetes and OpenShift
- Application Development using Microservices and Serverless
- Introduction to Test and Behavior Driven Development
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
- Application Security for Developers and DevOps Professionals
- Monitoring and Observability for Development and DevOps
- DevOps Capstone Project
Together, these courses help learners move from DevOps foundations to practical cloud-native deployment, automation, testing, security, monitoring, and final project delivery.
Who Should Take This Program?
This certificate is suitable for:
- Software developers
- IT professionals
- DevOps beginners with technical experience
- Cloud learners
- Backend developers
- System administrators
- Automation learners
- Professionals who want to move into DevOps engineering
Basic knowledge of at least one programming language, Linux or Unix commands, shell scripting, and Git or GitHub is recommended.
How to Start Learning Free
Follow these steps to check for available preview lessons:
- Open the program link below.
- Scroll down and select one of the individual courses.
- Open the course you want to explore.
- Click Enroll.
- After signing in, choose Preview instead of Start Free Trial.
- You can now watch the available preview videos and start learning.
Preview availability may vary. Complete lessons, labs, projects, assessments, and certificates may require paid enrollment. If preview access is unavailable, check whether financial aid is offered.
Build Practical DevOps Engineering Skills
DevOps combines development, operations, automation, testing, security, deployment, and monitoring into one modern software delivery workflow.
This program gives learners a structured path to practise the tools and methods used by DevOps teams, including containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, application security, observability, and cloud-native delivery.
Start Learning IBM Applied DevOps Engineering
Explore Agile, Scrum, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, microservices, TDD, CI/CD, application security, monitoring, and DevOps capstone projects.
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