Hands-On DevOps Course - EKS AutoMode, OIDC, EKS Blueprints

This course is a hands-on, project-driven DevOps course designed to teach you how modern DevOps is practiced in real production environments.

Rather than focusing on theory, you will build, deploy, and manage real applications end-to-end using industry-standard tools such as GitLab CI/CD, Docker, Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes (EKS Auto Mode), and ArgoCD.

You will start by setting up a secure GitLab workflow, including SSH authentication, GitLab runners, and OIDC-based authentication with AWS, eliminating long-lived access keys and aligning with modern cloud security best practices.

From there, you will work on real-world projects, including deploying a three-tier Moodle LMS application on EC2 using Docker, Docker Compose, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines. You will also learn how to deploy applications to EC2 instances directly from GitLab CI/CD using AWS Systems Manager (SSM), enabling secure, keyless access to servers without relying on SSH.

Next, you’ll take things further by deploying workloads to Kubernetes on AWS using EKS Auto Mode. You’ll learn how to:

• Provision EKS using Terraform modules

• Work with NodeClasses, NodePools, StorageClasses, and Ingress

• Implement AWS Pod Identity for secure, least-privilege pod-to-AWS access

• Build container images, push them to Amazon ECR, and deploy them via CI/CD

• Expose applications securely using AWS Load Balancers and Route53

Finally, you’ll implement GitOps using ArgoCD, where Git becomes the single source of truth for your Kubernetes deployments. You’ll install and configure ArgoCD with Terraform, secure access with TLS, and deploy applications declaratively using GitOps workflows.

By the end of this course, you won’t just understand DevOps concepts — you’ll have practical, production-ready experience designing, building, and operating CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and Kubernetes platforms the way they are implemented in real organizations.