Level 2 · M.Sc
MSc Automation
Automation · Live · v0
Automation engineering — scripting, orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and reliable infrastructure workflows.
- Path type
- Automation
- Requirements
- Open entry
- Enrollment
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€9.95
- Deadline
- Next cohort starts 2027-09-06 (AY 2027/28)
- Length
- ~1 year · 42 phases
- Language
- English · Español
- Content freshness
- Curriculum updated 2026-08-22 · content rev 8e005a9b
- Cortex Credits (CC)
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126 CC
What are Cortex Credits? - Syllabus
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View the phase syllabus
- Foundations
- Automation Philosophy
- The Target Service shipd
- Git in depth
- Branching strategies & merge/rebase
- Git hooks, Conventional Commits & pre-commit automation
- Build systems & task runners
- Dependency management, lockfiles & reproducible builds
- Artifacts: building, versioning & storing
- Test theory
- Unit testing
- Mocks, stubs, fakes & dependency injection
- Property-based testing
- Integration testing
- Contract testing
- Black-box / functional testing
- End-to-end & browser testing
- Load & performance testing
- Mutation testing & coverage as a signal
- CI concepts & pipeline-as-code
- The CI pipeline for shipd
- Matrix builds, caching & parallelism
- Ephemeral CI environments & service containers
- Quality gates
- Packaging & containerizing shipd
- Registries, provenance & SBOM
- Deployment strategies
- Feature flags & progressive delivery
- Release versioning, changelogs & automated releases
- Rollback, Hotfix & Forward-Fix Automation
- Infrastructure as Code
- Configuration management & immutable infrastructure
- Environments, promotion & GitOps
- Secrets Management & Secure Pipeline Credentials
- Monitoring, Metrics, Logs & Traces
- Alerting, SLOs & Error Budgets
- Auto-remediation, self-healing & ChatOps
- Security automation (DevSecOps)
- Pipeline reliability
- Capstone
- Hardening, postmortem & "What's Next"
- Portal integration
- Enrolment prerequisites
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- A verified account and admissions-committee approval.
What changed
Every release of this programme, newest first.
- v0 Pilot Wave A backfill: v0 pilot baseline
Professor: Vacancy available
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