A comprehensive 6-week DevSecOps bootcamp with step-by-step instructions, hands-on projects, and real-world simulations. This bootcamp blends foundational learning with chaos engineering, gamification, and practical implementation to prepare intermediate AWS DevOps and Cloud Engineers for real-world challenges.
- Prerequisites Overview - Complete prerequisite learning path
- Cloud Computing Basics - AWS and cloud fundamentals
- Linux & Command Line - Essential terminal skills
- Networking Fundamentals - Network concepts and protocols
- Programming & Scripting - Coding and automation basics
- DevOps Fundamentals - DevOps principles and practices
- Security Basics - Security concepts and best practices
- Data & AI/ML Concepts - Data science and AI fundamentals
- Testing & Quality Assurance - Testing methodologies and tools
- Tools & Technologies - Essential tools overview
Goal: Build AWS basics with controlled chaos to spark engagement and resilience.
- Duration: 4-5 hours
- Objective: Set up foundational AWS resources and recover from simulated failures
- Tools: AWS Console, AWS CLI
- Activities: VPC creation, EC2 deployment, web server setup, chaos recovery
- Chaos Twist: "Power Outage" - subnet termination and recovery
- Resources: Day 1 Guide
- Duration: 4-5 hours
- Objective: Deploy S3 and RDS with competitive gamification
- Tools: AWS Console, MySQL Workbench
- Activities: S3 static site, RDS MySQL, database operations
- Gamified Twist: Speed race for fastest deployment
- Resources: Day 2 Guide
- Duration: 4-5 hours
- Objective: Build multi-tier VPC and handle simulated attacks
- Tools: AWS Console
- Activities: Multi-tier VPC, NAT Gateways, route tables
- Chaos Twist: "DDoS" - security group modifications
- Resources: Day 3 Guide
- Duration: 4-5 hours
- Objective: Automate EC2 setup with scripted failures
- Tools: AWS CLI, Bash
- Activities: AWS CLI automation, EC2 provisioning scripts
- Chaos Twist: Script failures and debugging
- Resources: Day 4 Guide
- Duration: 5-6 hours
- Objective: Deploy web app with last-minute requirements
- Tools: AWS Console, AWS CLI
- Activities: Web application deployment, S3 integration
- Chaos Twist: "CEO Tweet" - emergency status page
- Resources: Day 5 Guide
Week 1 Resources: Overview | Topics
Goal: Master IaC tools and containerization with competitive challenges.
- Duration: 4-5 hours
- Objective: Write templates, deploy EC2 + RDS, fix random errors
- Tools: AWS CloudFormation, AWS Console
- Activities: Template creation, stack deployment, error resolution
- Chaos Twist: Random template errors and fixes
- Resources: Day 1 Guide
- Duration: 4-5 hours
- Objective: Rebuild Day 1 stack, race against peers
- Tools: Terraform, AWS CLI
- Activities: Terraform configuration, state management
- Gamified Twist: Speed competition for fastest deployment
- Resources: Day 2 Guide
- Duration: 4-5 hours
- Objective: Build/run containers, solve escape room challenges
- Tools: Docker, Docker Compose
- Activities: Container creation, image management, networking
- Chaos Twist: Container escape room challenges
- Resources: Day 3 Guide
- Duration: 4-5 hours
- Objective: Deploy to Fargate, scale after traffic spikes
- Tools: AWS ECS, Fargate
- Activities: ECS cluster setup, service deployment, auto-scaling
- Chaos Twist: Traffic spike simulation
- Resources: Day 4 Guide
- Duration: 5-6 hours
- Objective: IaC + ECS app, recover from Chaos Monkey
- Tools: Terraform, ECS, AWS CLI
- Activities: Complete application deployment, chaos testing
- Chaos Twist: Chaos Monkey attacks
- Resources: Day 5 Guide
Week 2 Resources: Overview | Topics
Goal: Master CI/CD pipelines and serverless with real incident scenarios.
- Duration: 4-5 hours
- Objective: GitHub Actions pipeline, rollback bad commits
- Tools: GitHub Actions, Git
- Activities: Pipeline creation, automated testing, rollback procedures
- Chaos Twist: Bad commit deployment and recovery
- Resources: Day 1 Guide
- Duration: 4-5 hours
- Objective: CodePipeline for ECS, fix production outages
- Tools: AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy
- Activities: Multi-stage pipeline, ECS deployment
- Chaos Twist: Production outage simulation
- Resources: Day 2 Guide
- Duration: 4-5 hours
- Objective: Lambda API, secure from rival "hacks"
- Tools: AWS Lambda, API Gateway
- Activities: Serverless function creation, API development
- Chaos Twist: Security breach simulation
- Resources: Day 3 Guide
- Duration: 4-5 hours
- Objective: Multi-stage deploy, add features mid-build
- Tools: Jenkins, GitOps
- Activities: Advanced pipeline configuration, GitOps implementation
- Chaos Twist: Mid-build requirement changes
- Resources: Day 4 Guide
- Duration: 5-6 hours
- Objective: Fix cascading failures, write post-mortems
- Tools: Jenkins, AWS CLI
- Activities: Incident response, failure recovery, documentation
- Chaos Twist: Cascading system failures
- Resources: Day 5 Guide
Week 3 Resources: Overview | Topics
Goal: Build scalable systems with comprehensive monitoring and chaos testing.
- Duration: 4-5 hours
- Objective: ALB setup, tune for traffic surges
- Tools: AWS ALB, EC2, Terraform
- Activities: Load balancer configuration, health checks, traffic distribution
- Chaos Twist: Traffic surge simulation
- Resources: Day 1 Guide
- Duration: 4-5 hours
- Objective: Add autoscaling, recover terminated instances
- Tools: AWS Auto Scaling, CloudWatch
- Activities: Auto-scaling group configuration, policy management
- Chaos Twist: Instance termination and recovery
- Resources: Day 2 Guide
- Duration: 4-5 hours
- Objective: Monitor ECS, solve performance mysteries
- Tools: CloudWatch, X-Ray, ECS
- Activities: Metric collection, alarm configuration, performance analysis
- Chaos Twist: Performance mystery investigation
- Resources: Day 3 Guide
- Duration: 4-5 hours
- Objective: Deploy to EKS, heal crashed pods
- Tools: AWS EKS, kubectl
- Activities: EKS cluster setup, pod deployment, troubleshooting
- Chaos Twist: Pod crash simulation
- Resources: Day 4 Guide
- Duration: 5-6 hours
- Objective: Scalable app, survive chaos tests
- Tools: EKS, Terraform, Jenkins
- Activities: Complete application deployment, chaos engineering
- Chaos Twist: Multi-system failure simulation
- Resources: Day 5 Guide
Week 4 Resources: Overview | Topics
Goal: Master security practices, cost optimization, and advanced troubleshooting.
- Duration: 4-5 hours
- Objective: Encrypt S3/RDS, fix exposed buckets
- Tools: AWS KMS, IAM, Security Hub
- Activities: Data encryption, access control, security assessment
- Chaos Twist: Security breach simulation
- Resources: Day 1 Guide
- Duration: 4-5 hours
- Objective: Multi-AZ RDS, failover after outages
- Tools: AWS RDS, Route 53, CloudFormation
- Activities: DR strategy implementation, failover testing
- Chaos Twist: Availability zone failure simulation
- Resources: Day 2 Guide
- Duration: 4-5 hours
- Objective: Cut costs, avoid overspending penalties
- Tools: AWS Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor
- Activities: Cost analysis, optimization strategies, budget management
- Chaos Twist: Budget constraint challenges
- Resources: Day 3 Guide
- Duration: 4-5 hours
- Objective: Debug with X-Ray, solve complex issues
- Tools: AWS X-Ray, CloudWatch Logs, Systems Manager
- Activities: Distributed tracing, log analysis, system diagnostics
- Chaos Twist: Complex failure scenarios
- Resources: Day 4 Guide
- Duration: 5-6 hours
- Objective: Secure app with DR, pass peer audit
- Tools: All Week 5 tools
- Activities: Complete secure application, security audit
- Chaos Twist: Peer security review
- Resources: Day 5 Guide
Week 5 Resources: Overview
Goal: Synthesize all learning into a comprehensive capstone project.
- Duration: 7-8 hours
- Objective: Plan microservices, adapt to tool changes
- Tools: Architecture planning, EKS, CI/CD tools
- Activities: Microservices design, tool selection, adaptation
- Chaos Twist: Mid-plan tool swapping
- Resources: Day 1 Guide
- Duration: 7-8 hours
- Objective: CI/CD + EKS, scale for DDoS attacks
- Tools: EKS, GitHub Actions, AWS Shield
- Activities: Platform deployment, automation, scaling
- Chaos Twist: DDoS attack simulation
- Resources: Day 2 Guide
- Duration: 7-8 hours
- Objective: Add encryption/alarms, pass penetration tests
- Tools: AWS KMS, CloudWatch, OWASP ZAP
- Activities: Security implementation, monitoring setup, security testing
- Chaos Twist: Penetration testing challenges
- Resources: Day 3 Guide
- Duration: 7-8 hours
- Objective: Survive outages/spikes, write runbooks
- Tools: Chaos engineering tools, monitoring systems
- Activities: Chaos testing, incident response, documentation
- Chaos Twist: Multi-system failure simulation
- Resources: Day 4 Guide
- Duration: 7-8 hours
- Objective: Deploy to production, present to executives
- Tools: All learned tools and techniques
- Activities: Production deployment, presentation, evaluation
- Chaos Twist: Executive review pressure
- Resources: Day 5 Guide
Week 6 Resources: Overview | Plan | Kubernetes Plan | Best Practices
- DevSecOps Tools - Comprehensive tooling guide
- DevSecOps Trivy Tutorial - Complete Trivy security scanning guide
- DevSecOps Automation - Kubernetes and Istio automation scripts
- AWS DevOps Boilerplates - Production-ready templates
- CloudFormation, Terraform, Docker, ECS, Lambda, EKS
- IAM, CloudWatch, Secrets Management
- AWS Testing Boilerplates - Testing frameworks
- AWS Security Testing - Security testing templates
- AWS Cost Audit - Cost optimization tools
- EKS Status Scanner - EKS monitoring tools
- Enterprise AI-Data Platform - Comprehensive AI/ML platform guide
- Foundation & Architecture
- Foundation Project - Complete enterprise AI-Data platform implementation
- Data Engineering
- MLOps
- Infrastructure & DevOps
- Security & Compliance
- Tools & Technologies
- Implementation Examples
- Best Practices
- Foundation & Architecture
- SQA Knowledge Hub - Comprehensive QA learning resources
- SQA Manual Testing - Manual testing methodologies
- SQA Automation Testing - Automated testing frameworks
- Foundation Project - Complete production-ready enterprise AI-Data platform
- Features: FastAPI backend, PostgreSQL database, Redis caching, ML pipeline integration
- Architecture: Microservices, containerized deployment, monitoring, security
- Documentation: Project Structure | Deployment Guide
- Getting Started: Quick Start Guide
- S3 Management Scripts - S3 bucket management and cleanup
- ✅ Design and deploy scalable microservices architectures
- ✅ Implement comprehensive CI/CD pipelines with multiple tools
- ✅ Secure applications using industry best practices
- ✅ Monitor and troubleshoot complex distributed systems
- ✅ Handle real-world incidents and chaos scenarios
- ✅ Optimize costs and implement disaster recovery
- ✅ Present technical solutions to stakeholders
- ✅ Work effectively in DevSecOps teams
- AWS Services: EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, ECS, EKS, Lambda, CloudWatch
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation
- Containerization: Docker, ECS, EKS, Istio
- CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodeSuite
- Security: IAM, KMS, Security Hub, penetration testing
- Monitoring: CloudWatch, X-Ray, logging, alerting
- Chaos Engineering: Failure simulation, incident response
- Cost Optimization: Budget management, resource optimization
- Basic understanding of cloud computing concepts
- Familiarity with Linux command line
- AWS account (free tier recommended)
- Local development environment setup
- Complete Prerequisites - Review essential concepts and tools
- Start with Week 1 - Build AWS foundations
- Progress sequentially through each week
- Complete all hands-on projects in each day
- Practice chaos scenarios to build resilience
- Document your learning and create a portfolio
- Participate in peer reviews and discussions
- Prerequisites: 7-10 hours (essential foundation)
- Per Day: 4-8 hours (depending on week)
- Per Week: 20-40 hours
- Total Bootcamp: 120-240 hours over 6 weeks
- Total Learning Path: 127-250 hours (including prerequisites)
- Daily war rooms and mentor hotlines
- Peer collaboration and code reviews
- Real-world scenario simulations
- Comprehensive documentation and examples
- All necessary tools provided or guided installation
- Cloud-based development environments available
- Comprehensive boilerplates and templates
- Security testing and monitoring tools
- Chaos Engineering: Controlled failure simulation to build resilience
- Gamification: Competitive elements to enhance engagement
- Real-World Focus: Practical scenarios and industry best practices
- Hands-On Learning: 60% practical implementation, 40% theory
- Continuous Improvement: Regular updates and community contributions
Prepared by Partha Sarathi Kundu for the DevSecOps Bootcamp project - A comprehensive journey from AWS basics to enterprise DevSecOps mastery.
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.