Everything You Learn at Cloudadhar
DevOps · DevSecOps · AWS · Azure · Kubernetes · Terraform · Vault · DevSecOps · Observability · Agentic AI. Built and taught by Gangadhar Ure — Lead DevSecOps with 12+ yrs of enterprise cloud experience.
First Batch Live
AWS Professional Weekend Cohort — SAP-C02 + DOP-C02
Starts Saturday 27-Jun-2026 & Sunday 28-Jun-2026. Sat 9–12 IST + Sun 9–12 IST. ~14 weekends. Recordings + GitHub labs + cheat-sheets.
SAP-C02
AWS Solutions Architect — Professional
DOP-C02
AWS DevOps Engineer — Professional
The Full DevOps Curriculum
16 modules covering everything from Linux fundamentals to Agentic AI DevOps. Practical, hands-on, taught by someone who builds this for a living.
Week 1–2 · Module 1
Foundations · Linux · Networking · SSH
- DevOps culture, CALMS, DORA metrics, MTTR, change failure rate
- Linux distros: Ubuntu, RHEL/Rocky, Amazon Linux, Azure Linux, Alpine — when to use which
- Package management: apt / dnf / apk / zypper — install, upgrade, lock versions
- systemd deep dive: units, targets, journalctl, timers vs cron
- Networking: OSI/TCP-IP, DNS, HTTPS, curl, ss, tcpdump
- SSH: keys, jump hosts, ~/.ssh/config, scp/rsync
Outcomes
- ✓ Pick the right distro for any workload
- ✓ Manage services, logs, schedules in production
- ✓ Debug a server you've never seen in <15 minutes
Week 3–4 · Module 2
Scripting — Bash + Python for DevOps
- Bash: set -euo pipefail, traps, functions, arrays, cleanup/backup scripts
- Python: venv, requests, boto3, argparse/click, pytest
- Text tooling: grep / sed / awk / jq / yq / ripgrep
- Build a CLI that talks to AWS & Azure APIs
Outcomes
- ✓ Automate any repetitive ops task in <50 lines
- ✓ Read & write Python that calls cloud APIs
- ✓ Parse logs and JSON like a pro
Week 5 · Module 3
Version Control — Git · GitHub · GitLab
- Git fundamentals + advanced (rebase, cherry-pick, reflog, bisect)
- GitHub: PRs, code owners, branch protection, Actions
- GitLab: MRs, environments, Auto DevOps
- Bitbucket + Atlassian stack overview
Outcomes
- ✓ Recover from any Git disaster
- ✓ Set up secure branching for a 30-engineer team
- ✓ Write GitHub Actions / GitLab CI from scratch
Week 6–7 · Module 4
Containers · Docker · Kubernetes deep dive
- Docker: multi-stage, distroless, BuildKit, rootless
- Kubernetes architecture, Pods, Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets
- Services, Ingress, Gateway API, NetworkPolicy
- Storage: PV/PVC/StorageClass; Config: ConfigMap, Secret
- RBAC, ServiceAccounts, PodSecurity, OPA / Kyverno
- Helm + Kustomize; EKS / AKS / GKE; Karpenter, IRSA, Pod Identity
Outcomes
- ✓ Ship hardened images under 100 MB
- ✓ Run multi-tenant K8s with RBAC and NetworkPolicy
- ✓ Operate managed K8s on any of the 3 big clouds
Week 8–9 · Module 5
CI/CD — Jenkins · GitHub Actions · GitLab · ArgoCD
- Jenkins declarative pipelines + shared libraries
- GitHub Actions: workflow_call, OIDC → AWS/Azure, matrix, reusable workflows
- GitLab CI: rules, includes, child pipelines, environments
- Azure DevOps Pipelines: YAML, service connections, approvals
- ArgoCD: App-of-Apps, sync waves, Rollouts (canary / blue-green)
Outcomes
- ✓ Design a multi-account CI/CD for 30+ microservices
- ✓ Eliminate long-lived cloud credentials via OIDC
- ✓ Run GitOps with ArgoCD App-of-Apps
Week 10–11 · Module 6
Infrastructure as Code — Terraform · Ansible · CDK · Bicep
- Terraform: state, workspaces, modules, for_each, dynamic, moved/imported
- Terragrunt for DRY multi-account / multi-region
- Testing: Terratest, tfsec, Checkov, KICS, OPA conftest
- Ansible: inventory, playbooks, roles, vault, idempotency
- Pulumi, AWS CDK, Azure Bicep — comparison & decision tree
Outcomes
- ✓ Refactor a 10k-line Terraform monolith into modules
- ✓ Detect & remediate drift safely
- ✓ Pick the right IaC tool for any team / language
Week 12 · Module 7
Secrets — HashiCorp Vault · Cloud-native Vaults
- Vault: KV v2, AppRole, dynamic DB creds, transit & PKI engines, K8s auth
- AWS Secrets Manager, SSM Parameter Store, Azure Key Vault, GCP Secret Manager
- External Secrets Operator → K8s Secrets sync
- SOPS + age for encrypted YAML in Git
Outcomes
- ✓ Replace all static creds with dynamic, short-lived ones
- ✓ Issue internal TLS certs at scale via Vault PKI
Week 13 · Module 8
DevSecOps — Shift-Left + Supply Chain Security
- SAST: SonarQube quality gates, Semgrep, Snyk Code
- SCA: Snyk, npm/pip audit, Renovate
- Container scanning: Trivy, Grype, Syft, Docker Scout
- IaC scanning: tfsec, Checkov, KICS
- Supply chain: SLSA, sigstore (cosign, fulcio, rekor), in-toto, SBOM (CycloneDX/SPDX)
- Runtime security: Falco, Kubescape, kube-bench, eBPF (Tetragon/Cilium)
- Policy as Code: OPA / Gatekeeper, Kyverno, Conftest
Outcomes
- ✓ Block insecure code, images, and Terraform at PR time
- ✓ Achieve SLSA Level 3 with signed + attested images
- ✓ Pass a real enterprise security audit
Week 14 · Module 9
Artifacts · Registries · API Gateways
- Sonatype Nexus, JFrog Artifactory, Harbor — repo strategy
- OCI registries: ECR, ACR, GAR, GHCR
- API gateways: Kong, NGINX, Envoy, AWS API Gateway, Azure APIM
- Rate-limit, OAuth/OIDC, mTLS, service mesh basics
Outcomes
- ✓ Run a proxy + cleanup-policied artifact stack for the org
- ✓ Front 50+ services through a single, secure API gateway
Week 15–16 · Module 10
Observability — Prometheus · Grafana · Loki · OpenTelemetry · Datadog · Dynatrace
- Prometheus: exporters, PromQL, recording/alerting rules, Thanos/Cortex/Mimir
- Grafana: dashboards, variables, multi-source alerts
- Logs: Loki + Promtail, ELK / OpenSearch, Fluent Bit, Vector
- Tracing: OpenTelemetry SDK + Collector, Tempo, Jaeger
- Commercial APM: Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk
- Alerting + on-call: Alertmanager, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Slack/Teams
- SLO / SLI / error budget engineering
Outcomes
- ✓ Build a full open-source observability stack on K8s
- ✓ Define SLOs and burn-rate alerts that wake the right person
- ✓ Cut alert noise by 70%+
Week 17 · Module 11
Databases · Caching · Vector DBs
- Relational: PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server — replication, pooling (pgbouncer), pgvector
- NoSQL: MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cassandra, Cosmos DB — pick the right model
- Cache + search: Redis, Memcached, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch
- Vector DBs: pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus, Qdrant
Outcomes
- ✓ Choose & operate the right DB for any workload
- ✓ Run vector search for RAG / Agentic AI use cases
Week 18–19 · Module 12
Cloud — AWS + Azure deep dive
- AWS: IAM, VPC, EC2, ECS/EKS, ECR, CodePipeline, CloudWatch, SSM, TGW
- AWS: Route 53, ALB/NLB, CloudFront, WAF, Shield
- Azure: Entra ID, VNet, VMSS, AKS, ACR, Azure Pipelines, App Service, Functions
- Azure: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Defender for Cloud
Outcomes
- ✓ Design landing zones on both AWS and Azure
- ✓ Operate cross-cloud workloads with central observability
Week 20 · Module 13
Agentic AI for DevOps
- LLMs + prompt engineering + RAG + vector DBs
- Frameworks: LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, Strands
- AWS Bedrock Agents + Knowledge Bases + Guardrails
- Azure AI Foundry / OpenAI / Prompt Flow
- Local LLMs with Ollama
Outcomes
- ✓ Build a DevOps Copilot agent that triages CI failures
- ✓ Ship a RAG pipeline over your runbooks and Confluence
Week 21 · Module 14
Agile · Jira · Confluence · ChatOps
- Scrum + Kanban + SAFe overview, story-point estimation
- Jira: workflows, JQL, automations, release versions
- Confluence: docs-as-code, decision records (ADRs)
- Slack / Teams: bots, webhooks, ChatOps, incident channels
Outcomes
- ✓ Run a real sprint cycle for a platform team
- ✓ Drive on-call from chat with bots and runbooks
Week 22–23 · Module 15
Real-Time Mega Projects
- P3 — Self-service GitOps platform on EKS (Terraform + ArgoCD + Vault + Prom/Grafana/Loki)
- P9 — End-to-end DevSecOps pipeline with SLSA L3 (SAST + SCA + container + IaC + cosign + OPA)
- P7 — Active-active multi-cloud (AWS EKS + Azure AKS) with central observability
- P10 — Agentic AI DevOps Copilot (Bedrock + LangGraph + Slack + Jira + pgvector)
Outcomes
- ✓ Build 3 portfolio repos that interviewers ask about
- ✓ Demonstrable code in your GitHub, not slides
Week 24 · Module 16
Resume · ATS · Interview Prep · Mock Rounds
- ATS-friendly resume rewrite + scoring rubric (/100)
- LinkedIn banner, headline, About, Featured
- Topic-wise interview prep: Linux, Networking, K8s, IaC, Cloud, DevSecOps, System Design
- Mock interviews: technical deep + scenario + behavioural (STAR)
Outcomes
- ✓ Crack 8–50 LPA DevOps / DevSecOps / SRE roles in India
- ✓ Or 90–200k USD globally
20+ Azure Certifications Covered
Fundamentals
- AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals
- AI-900 AI Fundamentals
- DP-900 Data Fundamentals
- SC-900 Security/Compliance/Identity
Associate
- AZ-104 Azure Administrator
- AZ-204 Azure Developer
- AZ-500 Azure Security Engineer
- AZ-700 Azure Network Engineer
- AI-102 AI Engineer
- DP-100 Data Scientist
- DP-300 Database Administrator
- DP-700 Fabric Data Engineer
- SC-200 Security Operations Analyst
- SC-300 Identity & Access Administrator
- SC-401 Information Protection Administrator
Expert
- AZ-305 Solutions Architect Expert
- AZ-400 DevOps Engineer Expert
- SC-100 Cybersecurity Architect Expert
90+ Tools Across 16 Categories
Every tool you'll see in a real enterprise — grouped, with install commands and decision guides included in the workbook.
Version Control
Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
CI/CD
Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure Pipelines, CircleCI, TeamCity
GitOps
ArgoCD, Flux
Containers
Docker, Podman, containerd, BuildKit
Kubernetes
EKS, AKS, GKE, Minikube, Kind, K3s, Helm, Kustomize, Karpenter, Istio, Linkerd, Cilium
IaC
Terraform, Terragrunt, OpenTofu, Pulumi, AWS CDK, Azure Bicep, Ansible
Secrets
HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, SSM, Azure Key Vault, External Secrets, SOPS+age
Artifacts
Sonatype Nexus, JFrog Artifactory, Harbor, ECR / ACR / GAR
DevSecOps
SonarQube, Snyk, Semgrep, Trivy, Grype, Syft, tfsec, Checkov, OPA, Kyverno, Falco, cosign, sigstore
API Gateway / Proxy
NGINX, Kong, Envoy, AWS API Gateway, Azure APIM
Observability
Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk, ELK/OpenSearch
Alerting / Chat
Alertmanager, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Slack, MS Teams
Databases
PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Cosmos DB, Redis, Elasticsearch
Vector DBs (AI)
pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus, Qdrant
Agile / Docs
Jira, Confluence, Notion, Azure Boards
Agentic AI
LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, Strands, AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, Ollama
🏗️ 10 Real-Time Projects
From a 3-tier AWS app to an end-to-end Agentic AI DevOps Copilot. Every project ships as a GitHub repo you can show in interviews.
🎙 Interview Prep
Topic-wise question bank + killer scenarios for Linux, K8s, CI/CD, IaC, Cloud, DevSecOps, System Design, Incident Response, and Behavioural rounds.
📄 Resume & ATS
ATS scoring rubric out of 100, keyword maps per role, bullet rewrites, and a LinkedIn optimisation checklist.
Ready to Become the Shaktimaan of Cloud?
Join the first live cohort — AWS Professional weekend batch starts 27 June 2026. Seats are limited.