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Feature flagging with OpenFeature is a must-have skill for modern DevOps and platform teams. Designed for software and platform engineers ready to move beyond basic deployments, this hands-on course teaches you to evaluate flags, run experiments, and manage safer rollouts (including canary and dark launches) using OpenFeature—while integrating with any flag management system and instrumenting flags for observability to deliver software faster and more reliably.
Difficulty: Beginner
Length: Online, Self Paced
Who It’s For: Software and platform engineers ready to move beyond basic deployments and take on higher-impact release roles. Ideal for those aiming to lead safer rollouts, faster experimentation, and stronger DevOps collaboration.
Learn Istio essentials such as: explaining the basic building blocks of Envoy proxy and how it fits within Istio; using IstioOperator API to install, configure; and secure the mesh; manage traffic using Istio CRDs and Gateway API; and create policies to install Istio across multiple clusters.
This course, along with real-world experience and additional study, will provide the skills and knowledge tested by the Istio Certified Associate (ICA) exam.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Length: Online, Self Paced
Who It’s For: Application developers, DevOps engineers and security professionals, familiar with Kubernetes, who need a service mesh layer to effectively operate their containerized systems.
Learn how to deploy serverless applications using Knative on Kubernetes, manage event-driven workloads, and implement autoscaling strategies. You’ll also configure Knative Serving and Eventing, handle traffic management, and set up monitoring and observability with tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
You’ll be ready to take on cloud native projects, lead serverless application development, and implement modern deployment strategies, positioning yourself for opportunities in the fast-growing cloud native ecosystem.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Length: Online, Self Paced
Who It’s For: Software engineers, DevOps professionals, system administrators, and architects who want to expand their knowledge of serverless technologies, cloud native development, and event-driven architecture.
This course teaches you essential Kubernetes tools, which, together with complex observability solutions, help you achieve faster and more accurate resolutions.You will build hands-on expertise in diagnosing and resolving Kubernetes issues in pods, services, networking, storage, and nodes using labs and simulations.
Increase your ability to tackle Kubernetes related issues and make yourself a vital member of any cloud native team while enabling you to use your new skills to open doors to advanced roles including Kubernetes Administrator, DevOps Engineer, or Cloud Infrastructure Architect.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Length: 1 day of Instructor-led class time
Who It’s For: DevOps and SRE engineers, cloud engineers, Kubernetes administrators, and anyone managing and monitoring clusters who wants to deepen their troubleshooting knowledge.
Understand the basics of OpenTelemetry, including how to instrument code for traces, metrics, and logs; and use manual and automatic instrumentation to enhance observability in modern applications.
You’ll be prepared to enhance application observability using OpenTelemetry, implement instrumentation, and operate the OpenTelemetry Collector, opening doors to roles requiring high-demand cloud and distributed system observability skills.
Difficulty: Beginner
Length: Online, Self Paced
Who It’s For: Software developers, DevOps engineers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and full-stack or backend developers looking to implement telemetry solutions across various applications and environments.
Create inclusive documentation for new users and foster engagement, while leveraging specific skills to meet the unique API documentation requirements of your product.
You will learn the essentials of effective API documentation, including different document types, API elements, code-based reference improvement, technical communication skills, planning for documentation in software development, and collaboration with writers and editors to enhance technical documentation.
This course prepares you to create, enhance, and evaluate product documentation. You’ll be able to plan for quality documentation, convey information effectively, and collaborate with writers as a subject matter expert to transfer technical knowledge efficiently to users.
Difficulty: Beginner
Length: Online, Self Paced
Who It’s For: Open source developers, project managers, and engineers, catering to different writing skills. Also beneficial for tech writers with basic programming knowledge.
Get started with creating and executing a documentation plan for your open source, developer-oriented project.
Learn the importance of dedicating resources to documentation for open source, cloud-native products. Discover how to identify your audience, evaluate existing content, balance conceptual and detailed information, define effective API docs, and prepare for a quality content production.
By the end of this course, you will be able to plan, create, evaluate, enhance, and seamlessly integrate high-quality documentation into open source projects.
Difficulty: Beginner
Length: Online, Self Paced
Who It’s For: Open source developers, project managers, and engineers, catering to different writing skills. Also beneficial for tech writers with basic programming knowledge.
This course, hosted on the edX platform, was developed for developers, engineers, data scientists, or any