Teaching Practices for DevOps Concepts

DevOps represents a set of practices that integrate software development and IT operation, now widely adopted in the software industry. It involves implementing various vital concepts, such as a culture of collaboration, continuous delivery, and infrastructure as code. From an educational perspective, it is essential to understand if existing courses teach DevOps fundamental concepts. This work presents a study that analyzes how DevOps courses address DevOps concepts in their teaching methodologies. We analyzed 15 courses available on GitHub by 38 DevOps concepts (e.g., continuous delivery) from Leite et al. Our results show a panorama of teaching over DevOps concepts. The analyses also identified teaching activities like lectures and projects. These results can guide educators as a reference for course improvements. The results also suggest several opportunities for researchers to improve DevOps teaching.<br>