🧭DevOps & Platform
DevOps Architecture: full course guide
Designing the path to production: platform architecture, pipeline topology, GitOps, SLOs and error budgets, supply chain security and the economics of delivery.
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01The Architect's Remit: Delivery as a System
- What a DevOps Architect Owns That an Engineer Does Not
- Modelling Delivery as a Flow System: Batch Size, WIP and Lead Time
- DORA Metrics: What They Measure and How They Are Gamed
- Designing the Path to Production as a Product
- Target Operating Models: Centralised, Embedded and Platform Teams
02Platform Architecture and the Golden Path
- Internal Developer Platforms: Scope, Boundaries and Anti-Patterns
- Golden Paths, Paved Roads and the Cost of Divergence
- Service Templates, Scaffolding and Repository Topology
- Self-Service Interfaces: Portals, CLIs and Control Planes
- Platform as a Product: Adoption, Funding and Deprecation
03Delivery Pipeline Architecture at Scale
- Pipeline Topologies: Monorepo, Polyrepo and Trunk-Based Delivery
- Artefact Identity, Promotion and Immutability
- Build Reproducibility, Caching and Remote Execution
- Deployment Strategies: Blue-Green, Canary and Progressive Delivery
- Pipeline Flakiness, Queue Contention and Delivery Throughput
04Infrastructure, Environments and State
- Infrastructure as Code at Organisation Scale: Modules, Layers and Blast Radius
- Environment Strategy: Ephemeral, Shared and Production-Like
- GitOps and Reconciliation: Desired State as the Interface
- Multi-Cluster and Multi-Region Topology Decisions
- Capacity, Requests, Limits and Real Cluster Headroom
05Reliability Architecture: SLOs and Error Budgets
- Choosing Service Level Indicators That Reflect User Experience
- Setting Objectives: Composite SLOs and Dependency Budgets
- Error Budget Policy: Turning a Number Into a Decision
- Incident Architecture: Detection, Escalation and Restoration
- Learning Systems: Postmortems, MTTR and Reopened Incidents
06Security, Compliance and the Economics of Delivery
- Supply Chain Security: Provenance, SBOMs and Artefact Signing
- Secrets Architecture: Workload Identity, Federation and Rotation
- Policy as Code and Continuous Compliance Evidence
- FinOps for Delivery: Attribution, Showback and Unit Cost
- Architecture Decision Records and Governing Without Blocking
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