Module 1 – Introduction to DevSecOps

Duration: 3 hours

1. Overview of DevSecOps and its importance

2. Security challenges in DevOps environments

3. Security in CI/CD pipelines

4. Threat modeling for microservices and containerized applications

5. Introduction to tools: Trivy, SonarQube, Aqua Security

Module 2 – Secure CI/CD Pipelines

Duration: 8 hours

1. Implementing security in Jenkins pipelines

2. GitLab CI/CD security integration

3. GitHub Actions security workflows

4. Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

5. Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)

6. Container image scanning and vulnerability assessment

7. Secret management in CI/CD

8. Policy as Code and automated security gates

Module 3 – Prometheus Monitoring

Duration: 7 hours

1. Introduction to Prometheus and metrics monitoring

2. Prometheus architecture and components

3. Installing Prometheus on Kubernetes

4. Configuring Prometheus scrape targets

5. Custom metrics collection from applications

6. Writing Prometheus queries using PromQL

7. Alerting rules and integration with Alertmanager

8. Hands-on: Monitoring a Kubernetes cluster

Module 4 – Grafana Visualization

Duration: 5 hours

1. Introduction to Grafana and dashboards

2. Connecting Grafana to Prometheus and other data sources

3. Building real-time dashboards

4. Visualization techniques for system metrics

5. Setting up alerts and notifications

6. Hands-on: Creating a production-grade monitoring dashboard

Module 5 – ELK Stack Logging

Duration: 7 hours

1. Introduction to ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)

2. Log collection from applications and containers

3. Parsing and transforming logs using Logstash

4. Indexing and querying logs in Elasticsearch

5. Visualizing logs in Kibana

6. Centralized logging architecture for Kubernetes

7. Hands-on: Full log pipeline from application to Kibana

Module 6 – Observability and Incident Response

Duration: 5 hours

1. Observability principles in DevOps

2. Combining metrics, logs, and traces

3. Alerting and incident response strategies

4. Hands-on: Integrating Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK for full observability

5. Incident response simulations

Module 7 – Final Project

Duration: 5 hours

• Build a secure CI/CD pipeline for a microservices application

• Implement vulnerability scanning and secret management

• Set up Prometheus monitoring with Grafana dashboards

• Collect logs using ELK Stack and create alerts

• Deliver a full observability and DevSecOps solution