Live Class 1: Overview of the course curriculum | On boarding people with Cloud, git repos | Onboarding students to whatsapp, facebook and discord channels | Running DevOps Demo application locally and exposing with ngrok

Live Class 2: DevOps Engineering | SDLC and DevOps  | What values does a DevOps Engineer brings in the plate | Pros and Cons of becoming a DevOps Engineer | Prerequisities | SWE Experience | Networking Knowledge | Soft Skills | Trouble shooting | Patience

Goal: Setting up the project in local and expose it over ngrok and get reponse

Live Class 1: Introduction to AWS EC2 | Security Groups & Key Pairs | Basic Linux Commands | Package Manager (apt) | Process Manager (systemctl)

Live Class 2: Nginx Installation & Configuration | Route53 and DNS Setup | SSL with Certbot | Automating with Cronjobs

Goal: Installing nginx and exposing nginx | AWS - EC2, security group, Route53, DNS Entries | Linux - Package manager ( apt ) , Process Manager (systemctl) , generating SSL certificate with certbot, and adding cronjobs | Nginx installation

Live Class 1: Other version control system | Git branching | Repository roles | Restricting branch deletion, history deletion 

Live Class 2: Forking workflow | Remote upstream setup | Pull requests | Deploying repo to Heroku/Render

Goal: Forking the repo and deploying it in heroku / render or similar platform

Live Class 1: Three-Tier Architecture & Application Setup
Topics: Technology Stack Overview | Database Deep Dive | Backend Architecture | Implement Database and required tools and apps | Implement Backend and related tools and apps

Live Class 2: Frontend Development & AWS Deployment
Topics: Frontend Architecture | AWS Deployment Walkthrough | How to update the Application and the depployment | Run the application and get full view of the Architecture | Guideline how to automate !


Goal: Learn to deploy, manage and udpate a production-ready three-tier application on AWS using industry-standard DevOps tools (Nginx, PM2, PostgreSQL, shell scripts) while understanding infrastructure configuration, monitoring, and the complete journey from localhost to cloud.

Live Class 1: GitHub Actions Fundamentals
Topic: Understand CI/CD concepts and benefits | Know GitHub Actions architecture (workflows, jobs, steps, runners) | Create and run their first pipeline | Understand YAML syntax basics | Debug pipeline failures


Live Class 2: Automate Full Module 4 Three-Tier App Deployment
Topic: Automate deployment of three-tier application | Use SSH actions to deploy to EC2 | Configure secrets securely | Implement zero-downtime deployments | Monitor deployment logs | Handle rollbacks


Goal: Can set up CI/CD for any web application | Understand how modern DevOps teams work | Portfolio-ready project with automated deployment | Reduced deployment time from 10 minutes to 3 minutes | Secure, reliable, repeatable deployment process

Live Class 1: Monitoring Fundamentals & Prometheus
Topics: Why Monitoring Matters | Introduction to Prometheus | Setting Up Prometheus | Hands-on: Install on EC2 | Node Exporter Deep Dive | Configure Prometheus to scrape Node Exporter | PromQL (Prometheus Query Language)

Live Class 2: Visualization, Alerting & Production Monitoring
Topics: Introduction to Grafana | Setting Up Grafana | Hands-on: Deploy Grafana | Add Prometheus Data Source | Creating Your First Dashboard | Use Community Dashboards

Goal: Monitoring Fundamentals, Prometheus Mastery, Grafana Proficiency, Application Monitoring, Alerting & Incident Response