DevOps, Software Evolution and Software Maintenance (BSc)

Content

This page contains information on the schedule, material, exam, etc. for the BSc elective "DevOps, Software Evolution and Software Maintenance Content" at IT University of Copenhagen, spring 2026 (Course description on LearnIT.

Schedule

Lectures are on Tuesdays from 8:00 to 10:00 in rooms 2A12-14 and exercises are on Tuesdays from 10:00 to 12:00 in rooms 2A12-14.

OBS: We expect you to be present during the entire time, not only the lecture hours.

Table 1. Course schedule Note: While times are locked, the topics are subject to change.

#	Date	Time	Preparation	Topic	Exercises	Project Work
1	27/1	8:00 - 12:00	Prep. material	Project start, forming groups, SSH, SCP, and Bash		Refactor ITU-MiniTwit to work on modern system
2	3/2	8:00 - 12:00	Prep. material	Packaging applications, Containerization with Docker	Using Docker	Refactor ITU-MiniTwit in another programming language and tech. stack
3	10/2	8:00 - 12:00	Prep. material	Provision of local and remote virtual machines	Using Vagrant, VirtualBox, and DigitalOcean	Continue refactoring, deployment of your ITU-MiniTwit to a remote server.
4	17/2	8:00 - 12:00	Prep. material	Guest Lecture: What is DevOps? (Eficode); Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), and Continuous Deployment	Using GitHub Actions CI (Simulator test)	Continue refactoring, Setup CI & CD for reproducible builds, tests, delivery, and deployment
5	24/2	8:00 - 12:00	Prep. material	What is DevOps and configuration management	(Simulator starts)	Cleaning and polishing of your ITU-MiniTwit, introduction of DB abstraction layer, and entering maintenance
6	3/3	8:00 - 12:00	Prep. material	Monitoring	Using Prometheus and Grafana	Add monitoring to your ITU-MiniTwit and peer-review
7	10/3	8:00 - 12:00	Prep. material	Software Quality, Maintainability & Technical Debt	Understand tests and SonarQube Quality Model.	Enhancing CI/CD setup with test suite and static code analysis
8	17/3	8:00 - 12:00	Prep. material	Logging, and Log Analysis	A Basic EFK Stack	Add logging to your ITU-MiniTwit and UI Testing Each Others Systems
9	24/3	8:00 - 12:00	Prep. material	Availability	A Basic Swarm	Isolate components into services/containers/VMs
–	31/4	-	-	Easter Break	-	Operations & maintenance still reacting on issue reports and fixing of errors :)
10	7/4	8:00 - 12:00	-	TLS Tutorial		Continue isolation of components into services/containers/VMs and Fix reported problems
11	14/4	8:00 - 12:00		Security	Pentesting	Security Hardening
12	21/4	8:00 - 12:00		Infrastructure as Code	MiniTwit Infrastructure as Code	Encode your infrastructure setup
13	28/5	8:00 - 12:00		Guest Lecture: DevOps@NetCompany by Tarik, Documentation of Systems and Projects		Simulator stops. Write report.
14	5/5	8:00 - 12:00		Exam prep., Thesis topics, Evaluation, Cookies :)		Write report.

• Exam submission: Latest Friday 22/5/2026 14:00 via WISEflow

TA Supervision

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Dashboards

Activity Dashboard

Simulator Status Dashboard

Recordings

This is not a distance course. This term, we will not record the lectures. You will have access to all written lecture material through this repository though.

Recommendation

All examples in class target Pop!_OS 22.04. Essentially, this is an Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish) Linux distribution. There are many more such Ubuntu derivatives, choose one of your liking: Linux Mint, Elementary OS, KDE Neon, etc.

Since all sessions contain hands-on exercises, we recommend that you have such a Linux version installed on a computer. (In case you decide to run another operating system, we cannot provide too much support for these during class.) The recommended setup is to have such a Linux installed natively on your machine.

Find installation instructions session_00/README.adoc.

Note, we do not have any experiences with M1/M2-based Macs. Neither do we have access to one of these. Consequently, likely many of the technologies that we demonstrate will have issues on these computers and we won’t be able to support you much.

Team

• Teachers: Helge, Mircea

• TAs: David, Patrick, Rasmus

Communication

Outside teaching sessions you can communicate with each other, and with the teachers via the the course’s Teams channel.

Groups

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Ungrouped yet

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Re-exam Schedule

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Attributions

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