DevOps & Cloud Engineering Bootcamp Certificate

Checkpoint 1: Create a production-style repo with branching/PR workflow, Linux setup notes, network map and a small service with health endpoint.
Checkpoint 2: Containerize the service with a reproducible Docker build, non-root runtime, environment configuration and local health/failure tests.
Checkpoint 3: Deploy to Kubernetes with Deployment, Service, ConfigMap/Secret handling, probes, resource limits and a controlled rolling update.
Checkpoint 4: Build a GitHub Actions pipeline that tests, builds, scans/publishes an image and promotes a version through a repeatable deployment path.
Checkpoint 5: Add Argo CD GitOps and Terraform-managed infrastructure; demonstrate drift detection, reconciliation, state discipline and rollback.
Checkpoint 6: Instrument Prometheus metrics and an SLO/alert; inject a deployment or service failure, diagnose from telemetry, recover and document the incident.

Day 1: Define a real service, users, architecture, environments, SLOs and failure budget; create repo, branching policy and network/data-flow diagram.
Day 2: Build the service and Docker image; add tests, health checks, configuration, secret strategy and local failure cases.
Day 3: Create Kubernetes manifests/Helm-equivalent, probes, limits and rollout strategy; demonstrate upgrade and rollback.
Day 4: Implement CI/CD in GitHub Actions with test/build/image/publish gates and one security or quality control before deployment.
Day 5: Provision an environment with Terraform; document variables, state, modules/resources, destroy/recreate behavior and cost assumptions.
Day 6: Add Argo CD plus Prometheus dashboards/alerts; inject a bad release or outage and prove detection, diagnosis, rollback and recovery.
Day 7: Publish repo, architecture, pipeline evidence, IaC, dashboard/alerts, incident timeline, runbook, demo video and tradeoff/cost memo.