AI Deployment & Operations
MLOps and LLMOps
O02 · Specialist
Entry requirements
O01 and M01; G01 for the LLM branch
What 48 hours means
- Lessons
- 36 h
- Capstone
- 8 h
- Assessment
- 2 h
- Remediation
- 2 h
Syllabus
Four modules, twelve lessons. Every lesson states what it covers and the evidence you produce for it.
1Lineage3 lessons · 9 h
- O02.01
Lifecycle and ownership
180 minMap data, code, model, prompts and evaluation responsibilities.
Evidence: A lifecycle register names an owner for each artefact.
- O02.02
Experiment tracking
180 minRecord configurations, metrics and artefact hashes.
Evidence: A chosen experiment can be reproduced from its record.
- O02.03
Data and feature versions
180 minPin training or retrieval datasets and validate contracts.
Evidence: A change in schema triggers a controlled failure.
2Validation3 lessons · 9 h
- O02.04
Model and prompt registry
180 minRegister candidate versions with approval and dependency metadata.
Evidence: Each candidate points to immutable inputs and evaluation results.
- O02.05
Offline evaluation gates
180 minDefine critical checks and quality thresholds before release.
Evidence: A failing candidate cannot advance to the approved state.
- O02.06
Packaging compatibility
180 minBundle runtime dependencies and check loading compatibility.
Evidence: A clean runtime loads the exact approved artefact.
3Release3 lessons · 9 h
- O02.07
Staged release
180 minCompare shadow, canary and full rollout approaches.
Evidence: A staged deployment limits exposure and records rollback thresholds.
- O02.08
Drift and quality monitoring
180 minSeparate input shift, service faults and outcome degradation.
Evidence: Monitoring examples correctly identify each problem class.
- O02.09
Feedback and labels
180 minCollect reviewed outcomes and handle delayed ground truth.
Evidence: Feedback records preserve provenance and access permissions.
4Monitoring3 lessons · 9 h
- O02.10
Retraining and reindexing
180 minTrigger a controlled update with regression checks.
Evidence: An update passes the same release criteria as the original.
- O02.11
Incident response
180 minDiagnose a degraded model or retrieval service and roll back.
Evidence: A timeline links symptom, diagnosis, action and recovery verification.
- O02.12
Governance evidence
180 minAssemble a versioned release record for technical review.
Evidence: A reviewer can trace production output to approved components.
Capstone
Build a versioned delivery pipeline for either an ML model or a RAG service. Include lineage, offline gates, staged rollout, monitoring and rollback.
Lab environment
Developer sandbox plus AI API access
Lab infrastructure is not yet provisioned, so this describes the environment the course is designed for rather than one you can launch today.