Course manual 2024/2025

Objectives

Students will become familiar with the concept of DevOps and related technologies, their benefits for organisational IT infrastructure and services management; understand organisational aspects of DevOps, describe relation of DevOps to other technologies
Students will understand how to build cloud-based applications and utilize cloud automation tools within the DevOps process, applying these skills to various software development scenarios and processes.
Students can analyze practical cloud application problems, apply agile and DevOps practices in teamwork, and develop solutions using cloud computing and automation techniques.

Teaching methods

Lecture
Seminar
Computer lab session/practical training
Presentation/symposium
Self-study

Learning activities

Activity	Hours
Hoorcollege	28
Laptopcollege	56
Self study	84
Total	168	(6 EC x 28 uur)

Attendance

Requirements concerning attendance (TER-B).

Participation in practical exercises, tutorials and study group sessions is obligatory. Detailed rules are laid out in the study guide and/or the course catalogue for each unit of study.

Assessment

Item and weight	Details
Final grade
2 (20%) Basic Cloud and DevOps skills	Mandatory
5 (50%) Group assignment: Project report	Mandatory
1 (10%) Group assignment: Project presentations	Mandatory
1.5 (15%) Group assignment: SOTA report	Mandatory
0.5 (5%) Group assignment: State Of The Art (SOTA) study presentation	Mandatory

Fraud and plagiarism

The 'Regulations governing fraud and plagiarism for UvA students' applies to this course. This will be monitored carefully. Upon suspicion of fraud or plagiarism the Examinations Board of the programme will be informed. For the 'Regulations governing fraud and plagiarism for UvA students' see: www.student.uva.nl

Course structure

Weeks	Topics	Lab
Week 1 05/02/2025 06/02/2025	Motivation and course organization Pre-course survey Discussion	Set up the lab environment Set up a project group Set up the SOTA team Individual assignment released
	DevOps and Service Why DevOps and Key Technologies
Week 2 12/02/2025 13/02/2025	Cloud computing foundations	SOTA Course project Individual assignment
	System and software engineering architecture design principles
Week 3 19/02/2025 20/02/2025	Quality-critical cloud computing
	Project pitch
Week 4 26/02/2025 27/02/2025	Cloud deployment and cloud monitoring (SUE)
	DevSecOps, Cloud security, and compliance
Week 5 05/03/2025 06/03/2025	Guest lecture -1 (industrial practices on cloud service and technologies- LifeWatch VLIC)
	Guest lecture -2 (industrial practices on DevOps- SUE)
Week 6 12/03/2025 13/03/2025	SOTA presentation -1	SOTA and reporting
	SOTA presentation -2
Week 7 19/03/2025 20/04/2025	Project presentation-1	Course projects reporting
	Project presentation -2

Contact information

Coordinator

dr. Zhiming Zhao

Staff

Yuri Demchenko
Koen Greuell MSc
dr. N.T. Islam
S. Koulouzis
G. Pelouze
Georgia Samaritaki
N. Soveizi
Paul Daniëlse

Owner	Master Software Engineering
Coordinator	dr. Zhiming Zhao
Part of	Master Software Engineering, year 1

DevOps and Cloud-based Software