The DevOps Foundation certification from DevOps Institute, delivered through PeopleCert, provides professionals with a globally recognized credential that validates core knowledge of DevOps concepts, principles, and practices. Designed as the essential entry point into the DevOps certification path, this program equips learners with a thorough understanding of why DevOps matters and how it drives faster, higher-quality software delivery.

Topics covered include core DevOps principles such as the Three Ways, Theory of Constraints, Chaos Engineering, and Learning Organisations, as well as key practices including Continuous Testing, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Deployment, Site Reliability Engineering, Resilience Engineering, DevSecOps, ChatOps, Monitoring, Observability, Value Stream Management, and Platform Engineering. The certification also explores business and technology frameworks such as Agile, Lean, ITSM, Safety Culture, and Continuous Funding, while building practical knowledge of automation, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, cloud technologies, containers, microservices, machine learning, DevOps toolchains, and Generative AI use cases.

Learners additionally develop expertise in organizational culture, behavioral and maturity models, DevOps metrics and dashboards, AIOps, and enterprise DevOps leadership including common challenges, critical success factors, and implementation strategies. The exam consists of 40 multiple-choice questions, is open book, lasts 60 minutes, requires a minimum passing score of 65%, and is available in 8 languages. Certification renewal is required every 3 years.