Live Class 01: Course Overview & Setup
Topics: 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 02: DevOps Fundamentals
Topics: 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: AWS EC2 & Linux Fundamentals

Topics: Introduction to AWS EC2 | Launching an EC2 Instance |Security Groups & Key Pairs | SSH Connection | Basic Linux Commands | Package Manager (apt) | Process Manager (systemctl) | Linux Administration | File Permissions & Ownership | Environment Variables | Logs & Monitoring | Firewall with UFW | Cronjobs & Task Scheduling

Troubleshooting Basics

Live Class 2: IAM & AWS CLI

Topics: IAM Users & Groups | IAM Roles & Policies | IAM Best Practices | AWS CLI Setup & Configuration | Web Server & Security | Nginx Installation & Configuration | Hosting a Static Website | Reverse Proxy Setup | Route53 & DNS | Domain Mapping | SSL with Certbot (Let's Encrypt) |

Mini Project — Production Deployment |
End-to-end deployment: EC2 → UFW → Nginx → Route53 → HTTPS

Live Class 01: Git Advanced Concepts
Topics: Other version control system | Git branching | Repository roles | Restricting branch deletion, history deletion 

Live Class 02: Collaborative Workflows & Deployment
Topics: 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: Deploy and manage a production-ready three-tier application on AWS using standard DevOps tools.

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: Build a secure, automated CI/CD pipeline for real-world web applications with fast, reliable deployments.

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 | Create Module 4 Three-Tier Application Dashboard in Grafana | Monitoring Application Metrics (Backend API, Frontend, Database) | Setting Up Alerts for Application Health

Goal: Set up monitoring and alerting for a three-tier application using Prometheus and Grafana.