Level 2 · M.Sc

Automation

Syllabus · 42 phases · ~1 year

Every unit this programme teaches, in the order it is taught. Headlines only — the material itself opens once you are enrolled.

Dates, price and prerequisites

Phase 0 Foundations
Phase 1 Automation Philosophy
Phase 2 The Target Service shipd
Phase 3 Git in depth
Phase 4 Branching strategies & merge/rebase
Phase 5 Git hooks, Conventional Commits & pre-commit automation
Phase 6 Build systems & task runners
Phase 7 Dependency management, lockfiles & reproducible builds
Phase 8 Artifacts: building, versioning & storing
Phase 9 Test theory
Phase 10 Unit testing
Phase 11 Mocks, stubs, fakes & dependency injection
Phase 12 Property-based testing
Phase 13 Integration testing
Phase 14 Contract testing
Phase 15 Black-box / functional testing
Phase 16 End-to-end & browser testing
Phase 17 Load & performance testing
Phase 18 Mutation testing & coverage as a signal
Phase 19 CI concepts & pipeline-as-code
Phase 20 The CI pipeline for shipd
Phase 21 Matrix builds, caching & parallelism
Phase 22 Ephemeral CI environments & service containers
Phase 23 Quality gates
Phase 24 Packaging & containerizing shipd
Phase 25 Registries, provenance & SBOM
Phase 26 Deployment strategies
Phase 27 Feature flags & progressive delivery
Phase 28 Release versioning, changelogs & automated releases
Phase 29 Rollback, Hotfix & Forward-Fix Automation
Phase 30 Infrastructure as Code
Phase 31 Configuration management & immutable infrastructure
Phase 32 Environments, promotion & GitOps
Phase 33 Secrets Management & Secure Pipeline Credentials
Phase 34 Monitoring, Metrics, Logs & Traces
Phase 35 Alerting, SLOs & Error Budgets
Phase 36 Auto-remediation, self-healing & ChatOps
Phase 37 Security automation (DevSecOps)
Phase 38 Pipeline reliability
Phase 39 Capstone
Phase 40 Hardening, postmortem & "What's Next"
Phase 41 Portal integration