DevSecOps training is a practical, course designed to integrate security into your DevOps pipeline. It focuses on real-world scenarios and tools like GitLab CI/Actions/Jenkins, Kafka, Grafana, Terraform, and Kubernetes to highlight vulnerabilities and best practices.

Securing the DevOps Pipeline: A Practical Guide to DevSecOps

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, delivering software rapidly and securely is no longer a luxury it’s a necessity. Organizations are under increasing pressure to push features and updates while ensuring that security is baked into every part of the development process. This 14-hour, hands-on DevSecOps training is designed to help you integrate security practices into your DevOps pipeline, enhancing your ability to detect and mitigate vulnerabilities without slowing down development.

This course is not a theoretical deep dive; it’s an immersive, practical experience where you’ll configure and secure real-world environments using popular tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, Kafka, Grafana, Terraform, Kubernetes, and more. Throughout the course, you will encounter common vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, learn to identify them, and implement security solutions in real time.

Introduction and Environment Setup
DevSecOps Overview and Key Concepts

• Introduction to DevSecOps and its importance in modern development pipelines
  
• DevOps vs DevSecOps: The shift-left approach
  
• Security as Code: Embedding security throughout the CI/CD pipeline
  
• Compliance, governance, and security controls

CI/CD Pipeline Setup
Hands-on setup of a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins/GitLab CI/ArgoCD:

• Install and configure Jenkins/GitLab/ArgoCD
• Build a basic pipeline
• Integrating version control (Git)

Secure CI/CD practices:

• Hardening Jenkins and GitLab CI
• Secrets management with Vault/KMS
• Configuring role-based access control (RBAC)

Secure Build and Deployment
Implement static code analysis tools (SonarQube, OWASP):

• Integrating with the pipeline for security analysis
• Custom rules to detect security misconfigurations

Container security scanning:

• Using Trivy to scan Docker images for vulnerabilities
• Automating scans as part of the pipeline

Messaging Queue (Kafka/RabbitMQ) Security and Integration
Hands-on setup of Kafka or RabbitMQ:

• Deploy Kafka/RabbitMQ in a Kubernetes cluster
• Securing Kafka brokers, Zookeeper, and communications (TLS, ACLs)

Misconfigurations in message queues:

• Identifying common Kafka/RabbitMQ security risks (e.g., open brokers, no encryption)
• Using Kafka to send/receive logs for monitoring

Integrating Kafka with Grafana for monitoring:

• Setting up a dashboard to visualize Kafka metrics
• Identifying Kafka-related security incidents via Grafana

Advanced Topics and Hands-on Labs
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security

Introduction to Terraform/Ansible/Pulumi:

• How IaC fits into the DevSecOps pipeline
• Writing and deploying secure infrastructure code

Hands-on demo:

• Deploying infrastructure using Terraform
• Validating security posture with tools like Checkov, TFLint, or Terrascan

CI/CD pipeline integration for IaC security checks

Runtime Security
Security at runtime with Kubernetes:

• Implementing network policies, pod security policies, and RBAC in Kubernetes
• Best practices for securing Kubernetes deployments
• Monitoring runtime security using Falco

Hands-on demo:

• Deploying and securing Kubernetes workloads with Pod Security Standards (PSS)
• Detecting security violations and misconfigurations in real-time with Falco

Incident Detection and Response

Introduction to monitoring and alerting in DevSecOps:

• Setting up monitoring tools (Grafana, Prometheus)
• Alerting with Alertmanager and PagerDuty

Detecting and responding to incidents:

• Configuring security alerts for real-time threat detection
• Correlating Kafka logs with security incidents
• Incident response workflow in a DevSecOps pipeline
• Hands-on lab: Set up a secure monitoring and alerting solution

Advanced DevSecOps Best Practices

Hardening and securing microservices:

• Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd) for security and observability
• Enforcing zero-trust policies across services
• Managing secrets securely (HashiCorp Vault)

Misconfiguration detection using Grafana:

• Setting up real-time dashboards to visualize security misconfigurations
• Automated alerts for detecting configuration drifts

Hands-on lab:

• Simulating security misconfigurations in Kafka/RabbitMQ and Kubernetes
• Detecting and visualizing issues with Grafana dashboards

• Build and secure CI/CD pipelines with static code analysis and container scanning.
• Secure message queues (Kafka/RabbitMQ) and monitor them using Grafana.
• Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) security using Terraform and automate checks.
• Harden Kubernetes deployments and detect runtime security issues.
• Set up incident detection, monitoring, and alerting systems for proactive security.

Theory and practical