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Discipline herald — Automation
Discipline herald

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

€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)
126 CC
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Syllabus
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  1. Foundations
  2. Automation Philosophy
  3. The Target Service shipd
  4. Git in depth
  5. Branching strategies & merge/rebase
  6. Git hooks, Conventional Commits & pre-commit automation
  7. Build systems & task runners
  8. Dependency management, lockfiles & reproducible builds
  9. Artifacts: building, versioning & storing
  10. Test theory
  11. Unit testing
  12. Mocks, stubs, fakes & dependency injection
  13. Property-based testing
  14. Integration testing
  15. Contract testing
  16. Black-box / functional testing
  17. End-to-end & browser testing
  18. Load & performance testing
  19. Mutation testing & coverage as a signal
  20. CI concepts & pipeline-as-code
  21. The CI pipeline for shipd
  22. Matrix builds, caching & parallelism
  23. Ephemeral CI environments & service containers
  24. Quality gates
  25. Packaging & containerizing shipd
  26. Registries, provenance & SBOM
  27. Deployment strategies
  28. Feature flags & progressive delivery
  29. Release versioning, changelogs & automated releases
  30. Rollback, Hotfix & Forward-Fix Automation
  31. Infrastructure as Code
  32. Configuration management & immutable infrastructure
  33. Environments, promotion & GitOps
  34. Secrets Management & Secure Pipeline Credentials
  35. Monitoring, Metrics, Logs & Traces
  36. Alerting, SLOs & Error Budgets
  37. Auto-remediation, self-healing & ChatOps
  38. Security automation (DevSecOps)
  39. Pipeline reliability
  40. Capstone
  41. Hardening, postmortem & "What's Next"
  42. Portal integration
Enrolment prerequisites
  • A verified account and admissions-committee approval.

What changed

Every release of this programme, newest first.

  1. v0 Pilot Wave A backfill: v0 pilot baseline

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