Peter Nkemelu
The rollback drill is the most useful hour in any course I have taken. We now rehearse it monthly because of this. Aisha treats deployment as a design problem and it completely reframed it for me.
DevOpsIntermediate
From Laptop to Load Balancer
Containers, pipelines and the deploy you can undo — delivery for people who build the product.
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Includes
- 10 hours of video
- 7 hands-on projects
- Pipeline templates
- Lifetime access
- Certificate of completion
42% of the running time is hands-on — projects and quizzes rather than video.
What you'll learn
Build images in seconds
Multi-stage builds and correct layer ordering turn a six-minute build into a forty-second one.
Design a pipeline people trust
A red build should mean something. Stages, gates and quarantined flaky tests are how you get there.
Deploy behind a load balancer
Health checks that report readiness honestly, and migrations ordered so a deploy cannot half-apply.
Roll back in under a minute
Rehearse the rollback before you need it, because 3am is the wrong time to discover it does not work.
Instrument for the next incident
Logs, metrics and traces that produce evidence rather than a room full of theories.
What’s inside
Every figure below is summed from the lesson list, not estimated — so the chart and the curriculum can never disagree.
| Content type | Minutes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Video lessons | 364 | 57.7% |
| Hands-on projects | 255 | 40.4% |
| Quizzes | 12 | 1.9% |
42% of this course is hands-on.
Curriculum
4 sections · 18 lessons · 11h total
Layer caching is most of the win.
- VideoWhat an image actually is
- VideoMulti-stage builds and the 40MB image
- VideoCache layers, and the line order that breaks them
- ProjectProject: a 6-minute build in 40 seconds
Fast, honest feedback — and nothing that everybody learns to ignore.
- VideoStages, gates and what blocks a merge
- VideoParallelism and test sharding
- VideoFlaky tests: quarantine, then fix
- VideoSecrets in CI without leaking them into logs
- QuizPipeline quiz
Rolling, blue-green and the rollback you rehearsed.
- VideoHealth checks that are not just 200 OK
- VideoRolling versus blue-green, with numbers
- VideoMigrations and deploys in the right order
- VideoFeature flags as a deploy strategy
- ProjectProject: ship, break it, roll back in 60 seconds
Logs, metrics and traces that answer a question.
- VideoStructured logs worth grepping
- VideoThe four signals, and alerting on symptoms
- VideoTracing one slow request end to end
- ProjectCapstone: run an incident, write the post-mortem
Your instructor
Aisha Benali
Site reliability engineer · platform and delivery
Aisha runs the pipeline that runs everything else. She teaches deployment as a design problem rather than a checklist, starting from the question most tutorials skip: what does rolling this back actually look like at 3am?
SRE at Halcyon Media
CompletedCut deploy time from 40 minutes to 4.
Incident command
CompletedWrote the on-call handbook now used company-wide.
Teaching
In progressDelivery workshops for 30 engineering orgs.
Reviews
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Mei Ling Tan
Our CI went from 22 minutes to 5 following module 1 and 2. That is a real, measurable return on a $95 course.
Andreas Vogel
Solid and vendor-neutral, which I liked. If you specifically need Kubernetes depth this is not that course — it is deliberately one level below it.
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