A BITS Pilani Alumnus Initiative
Python for DevOps & Cloud Automation
Master Python concepts specific to DevOps. Build your Python automation skills from scratch to expert level. Best Python course for beginners and professionals.
90 hours
Duration
Beginner
Level
Live
sessions
₹29,999
Price
Beginner to Advanced Level
Professional Skills
Course Overview
What You'll Learn
- Data types, variables, and operators
- Control structures and loops
- Functions and modular programming
- File handling and data manipulation
- Errors and exceptions handling, Regular Expression in Python
- Python modules for DevOps
- Interacting with APIs using requests
- Cloud automation
Prerequisites
- No prior programming experience required
- Basic Linux/system admin skills
- Willingness to learn and practice
Career Opportunities
- DevOps Engineer
- Python Developer
- Automation Engineer
Why choose us?
Continuous Assignments
1:1 doubt clearing sessions
Mock interviews
Real life projects
Post training mentorship and support
Small batch size for personalised attention
Course Curriculum
Week 1-2
Python Fundamentals & Setup
- Why Python for DevOps and IDE setup
- Basic syntax and indentation
- Writing your first script
- Variables, data types, and operators
- Input/output operations
- Hands-on: Automate system information (hostname, OS, uptime)
Week 3
Control Structures
- Conditional statements (if, elif, else)
- Loops (for, while)
- Break and continue statements
- Nested loops and conditions
- Hands-on: Number guessing game
Week 4
Data Structures
- String manipulation and methods
- Lists and Tuples
- Dictionaries, Sets and their operations
- List & Dictionary comprehensions
- Shallow copy and deep copy
- Hands-on: Storing multiple users in lists and user details in a dictionary
Week 5
Functions and Modules
- Function definition and calling
- Parameters and return values
- Recursive functions
- Lambda functions
- Iterators, Generators & Decorators
- Inbuilt and user-defined modules
- Hands-on: Creating a function based script
Week 6
File handling, Exception handling and Regular Expressions
- File handling operations - .txt, .conf, .env, .log files
- Exception handling techniques
- Custom exceptions
- Regular expressions basics - parsing files
- Working with json, yaml and csv files
- Hands-on: Reading and updating config files
Week 7
Python modules for DevOps
- os, sys, pathlib, shutil, psutil, subprocess
- System automation and logging
- Sending emails using smtplib
- Hands-on: Automating disk, cpu, memory usage, services, etc.
Week 8
Object-Oriented Programming
- Classes and objects fundamentals
- Inheritance and polymorphism
- Encapsulation and abstraction
- Magic methods and operator overloading
- Abstract classes and interfaces
- Hands-on: Build a ServerMonitor class and extend it monitor multiple servers
Week 9-10
Working with APIs & Cloud Automation
- Requests, urllib: interacting with REST APIs
- Automating HTTP requests, authentication
- Network monitoring (ping, hostname resolution)
- Intro to cloud SDKs (boto3 for AWS, az for Azure, google-cloud for GCP)
- Creating/deleting cloud resources (VMs, volumes) via scripts
- Upload/download files, tagging, automated termination
- Hands-on: Automate DNS updates or SSL certificate expiry checks
- Hands-on: Spin up test EC2 instances and cleanup old resources
Week 11
Revision & Project work
- Recap of important topics
- Project - Log analysis & alerting for abnormal events
- Project - Automated Environment Health (CPU, disk, memory, logs)
- Project - Cloud Resource Lifecycle Automation
Free Learning Resources
Get started with our free video tutorials and learn the basics before enrolling in our comprehensive courses.
06:41
Python Basics
Learn Python fundamental concept - Variables & Memory Management
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10:09
Advanced concepts in Python
Shallow copy & Deep copy
YouTube
06:43
Loops in Python
for loop
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