DevOps with AWS

Skill Goal:

Develop foundational understanding of DevOps practices and the AWS cloud environment.

Skills Developed:

• Explain DevOps culture, collaboration, and automation principles

• Understand the benefits of DevOps in cloud-native environments

• Identify core AWS services and global infrastructure components

• Apply the AWS Shared Responsibility Model

• Align DevOps workflows with AWS-native services

Sprint Outcome:

Ability to explain DevOps fundamentals and position AWS services within modern DevOps practices.

Skill Goal:

Manage source control and versioning using AWS-native repositories.

Skills Developed:

• Apply Git fundamentals and version control workflows

• Create and manage AWS CodeCommit repositories

• Implement branching strategies for team collaboration

• Secure and manage repository access

Sprint Outcome:

Ability to manage secure, collaborative source control workflows using AWS CodeCommit.

Skill Goal:

Automate application builds and testing using AWS CodeBuild.

Skills Developed:

• Understand Continuous Integration (CI) concepts

• Configure and manage CodeBuild projects

• Automate build processes and execute unit tests

• Manage build artifacts and pipeline outputs

Sprint Outcome:

Ability to implement automated CI pipelines using AWS CodeBuild.

Skill Goal:

Deploy applications using automated and scalable deployment strategies.

Skills Developed:

• Understand Continuous Deployment (CD) models

• Configure CodeDeploy deployment groups

• Implement blue/green and rolling deployment strategies

• Monitor deployment lifecycle events

Sprint Outcome:

Ability to deploy applications using secure and automated deployment strategies on AWS.

Skill Goal:

Design and manage complete CI/CD workflows using AWS CodePipeline.

Skills Developed:

• Design multi-stage CI/CD pipelines

• Integrate CodeCommit, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy

• Configure approval gates and rollback mechanisms

• Optimize pipeline performance and reliability

Sprint Outcome:

Ability to design and manage scalable end-to-end CI/CD pipelines on AWS.

Skill Goal:

Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code principles.

Skills Developed:

• Explain Infrastructure as Code concepts

• Deploy infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation

• Manage stack updates and lifecycle changes

• Compare CloudFormation and Terraform use cases

Sprint Outcome:

Ability to provision and manage AWS infrastructure programmatically using IaC tools.

Skill Goal:

Monitor applications and infrastructure for performance, reliability, and visibility.

Skills Developed:

• Monitor workloads using AWS CloudWatch

• Implement centralized logging and metrics collection

• Use AWS X-Ray for application tracing

• Create dashboards, alerts, and performance reports

Sprint Outcome:

Ability to monitor, analyze, and optimize AWS-based DevOps environments.

Skill Goal:

Integrate security best practices into DevOps pipelines.

Skills Developed:

• Implement identity and access management using AWS IAM

• Secure pipelines with Secrets Manager and Parameter Store

• Embed security validation into CI/CD workflows

• Apply DevSecOps principles to AWS deployments

Sprint Outcome:

Ability to implement secure and compliant DevOps pipelines using AWS services.

Skill Goal:

Automate operational tasks and configuration management across environments.

Skills Developed:

• Automate tasks using AWS Systems Manager

• Manage configurations with Parameter Store and State Manager

• Standardize environment configuration practices

• Improve operational efficiency through automation

Sprint Outcome:

Ability to automate infrastructure and operational workflows in AWS environments.

Project Goal:

Design, implement, and present a fully automated CI/CD pipeline on AWS that supports secure, scalable, and production-ready application delivery.

Skills Demonstrated:

• Analyze application delivery requirements and DevOps workflow needs

• Design an end-to-end CI/CD architecture using AWS services

• Implement source control, build, and deployment stages

• Provision infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code

• Apply IAM policies and DevSecOps security controls

• Integrate monitoring, logging, and alerting mechanisms

• Automate configuration and operational processes

• Optimize pipeline performance and reliability

• Present a secure, scalable, and business-aligned DevOps solution