Nine scenario-based tracks that follow one company — Acme Corporation — as it transforms delivery: architect the system, secure it, automate it with pipelines, and run it on the cloud with Kubernetes.
Scenario-driven. Trade-off aware. Simplified — because we are StackSimplified.
Think, decide, and design like a DevOps Architect: CALMS & DORA, CI/CD platform, branching, deployments, observability, and platform engineering.
Bake security into the same pipeline: shift-left (SAST/SCA/secrets), supply-chain (signing, SBOM, SLSA), runtime, and govern-detect-respond.
Git as the source of truth, reconciled continuously. Argo CD & Flux, drift detection, progressive delivery, secrets, and multi-cluster.
Workflows, jobs, steps, runners; CI/CD, reusable workflows, OIDC; and security — Dependabot, CodeQL, secret scanning, DAST & GHAS.
One .gitlab-ci.yml, end to end: pipelines, stages, jobs, runners, environments, Auto DevOps, and built-in SAST/DAST security scanning.
Azure Pipelines (YAML): stages, jobs, agents & pools, environments & approvals, service connections, and secure deploys to Azure via OIDC.
Native CI/CD with the Code* suite: CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodeArtifact, ECR, IAM/OIDC, IaC, and safe deployment strategies.
Managed Kubernetes on Azure: cluster architecture, node pools, networking, autoscaling, Entra/Workload Identity, ACR, GitOps, security & cost.
Managed Kubernetes on AWS: control plane, node groups & Fargate, VPC CNI, IRSA/Pod Identity, Karpenter autoscaling, GitOps, security & cost.
Every track follows the same Acme Corporation journey, so the learning connects. Architect the delivery system, secure it, adopt GitOps, automate it with your CI/CD platform of choice, then run it on managed Kubernetes in the cloud — the way it happens in a real company.