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Continuous Delivery Ecosystem Foundation (CDEF)℠
What You'll Learn
Continuous Delivery Concepts
Continuous Delivery Culture
Design Practices for Continuous Delivery
Continuous Integration
Continuous Testing
Continuous Delivery and Deployment
Continuous Monitoring
Infrastructure and Tools
Security Assurance
Benefits for Organizations
Well architect-ed continuous delivery pipelines yielding better business results
More mature and faster software release processes
Better alignment of leaders and practitioners accelerating digital transformation progress
Benefits for Individuals
Continuous Delivery Architects are in demand by all companies implementing a digital transformation
Highly visible and influential role in organization positions you for career advancement
Being at the forefront of technologies and architectures provides deep learning and skill advancement
Certification Details
Earn a credential that can lead to jobs in high growth fields
Certification Validity: 2 Years
Learn more about our Continuing Education Program and recertification requirements to help you stay current with your skills and certifications.
Preparation: Instructor-Led Training, Online Learning, Self-Study
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“The end game of every DevOps practice is continuous delivery: building, testing, and releasing far more frequently, and ensuring that you can release reliably at any time. My favorite part: it means that operations and support teams (like my Tech Comms team) use many of the same processes and tools as our developers do – so we all speak a similar language, follow similar workflows (like agile development processes), and work very closely together. It’s far more efficient.”
-Michael Kren, DevOps Manager, JAMF Software
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DevOps Institute Certification Pathways
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DevOps Leader
DevOps leaders sponsor, educate, motivate and monitor their DevOps teams.

IT Operations Professional
IT Operations Professional supports software reliability, automation, and more.
SRE Leader
SRE leaders sponsor, educate, motivate and
monitor their SRE teams.

Developer
Developers design, implement, package, test and deploy software.

DevOps Engineer
DevOps engineers automate processes and collaborate with others.
SRE Engineer
SREs use engineering practices to assures services reliability at scale.

DevOps Tester
Testers plan, create, execute, report and
analyze software tests.

Security Engineer
Security engineers collaborate to inform
security practices.

DevOps Consultant
DevOps consultants advise DevOps and SRE strategies and practices.