DevOps, Software Evolution and Software Maintenance (MSc)

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

Schedule

Lectures are on Fridays from 12:00 to 14:00 in Auditorium 2 (0A35) and exercises are on Fridays from 14:00 to 16:00 in rooms 3A12-14.

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	Lecturer	Preparation	Topic	Exercises	Project Work
1	30/1	12:00 - 16:00	Helge	Prep. material	Project start, forming groups, SSH, SCP, and Bash		Refactor ITU-MiniTwit to work on modern system
2	6/2	12:00 - 16:00	Helge	Prep. material	Packaging applications, Containerization with Docker	Using Docker	Refactor ITU-MiniTwit in another programming language and tech. stack
3	13/2	12:00 - 16:00	Helge	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	20/2	12:00 - 16:00	Helge	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	27/2	12:00 - 16:00	Helge	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	6/3	12:00 - 16:00	Helge	Prep. material	Monitoring	Using Prometheus and Grafana	Add monitoring to your ITU-MiniTwit and peer-review
7	13/3	12:00 - 16:00	Helge	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	20/3	12:00 - 16:00	Mircea	Prep. material	Logging, and Log Analysis	A Basic EFK Stack	Add logging to your ITU-MiniTwit and UI Testing Each Others Systems
9	27/3	12:00 - 16:00	Mircea	Prep. material	Availability	A Basic Swarm	Isolate components into services/containers/VMs
–	3/4	-	-	-	Easter Break	-	Operations & maintenance still reacting on issue reports and fixing of errors :)
10	10/4	12:00 - 16:00	Mircea	-	TLS Tutorial		Continue isolation of components into services/containers/VMs and Fix reported problems
11	17/4	12:00 - 16:00	Mircea		Security	Pentesting	Security Hardening
12	24/4	12:00 - 16:00	Mircea		Infrastructure as Code	MiniTwit Infrastructure as Code	Encode your infrastructure setup
13	1/5	12:00 - 16:00	Helge		Guest Lecture: DevOps@NetCompany by Tarik, Documentation of Systems and Projects		Simulator stops. Write report.
14	8/5	12:00 - 16:00	Helge		Exam prep., Thesis topics, Evaluation, Cookies :)		Write report.

• Exam submission: Latest Friday 18/5/2026 14:00 via WISEflow

• Exam period: 1/6/2026 to 4/6/2026

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.

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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Exam Schedule

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Re-exam Schedule

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Attributions

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