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Python Basics for SRE, DevOps & Cloud
Video → labs → code → quiz — the Python every ops engineer actually uses
Beginner 11 lessons ~1.9 hr video article lab challenge quiz
About this course
Python is the duct tape of modern operations: it parses logs, calls cloud APIs, glues CI pipelines together, and powers half the tooling you already run. This course teaches exactly the slice of Python an SRE, DevOps, or cloud engineer needs — no web frameworks, no academic detours. No installs required: practice in the in-page shell, and the graded code challenges run right in your browser. Free to enroll · about 2–2.5 hours end to end · certificate when you finish every step.
Course content
4 modules · 11 lessons1. Foundations
- Why Python runs modern operations
- Running Python like an engineer
- Variables, strings & f-strings for ops output
- Lab: Python in the sandbox
2. Working with data
- Lists & dicts: inventories and configs
- Code: extract the log level
3. Automation practice
- Control flow & functions: retries and thresholds
- Code: count the ERROR lines
- Files & JSON: reading real configs
4. Assess yourself
- Quiz: Python for ops
- Where Python takes you next