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+# CI Curriculum - Community Outreach Program
+
+These are the essential skills that every participant attending the Community Outreach Program must be familiar with. 
+We have built up this resource library by creating our own internal content and by curating our favorite blog posts, documentation sites and courses 
+from around the Harness Ecosystem.
+
+Here, you have access to resources which will help you understand the general concepts as well as the specifics of the Harness Architechture 
+in depth.
+
+### Harness Product Overview
+
+Harness Product(s): Use-cases, going through Harness Documentation, Tech Boot Camp Sessions.
+
+- Most common Use cases for Harness
+- Failure Strategies 
+- Overview of Application Objects
+- Walking through UI for each application object (service, workflow etc)
+
+We recommend that you get familiar with the following concepts alongside learning Harness
+to get acquainted with the Software Delivery Ecosystem in general.
+
+#### Base knowledge:
+
+Fundamental understanding of and experience configuring and deploying
+workloads in cloud environments such as:
+
+- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
+- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
+- Azure
+- 
+Fundamental understanding of the Linux Operating System and the capability to
+configure and deploy workloads using command-line interfaces including, but not
+limited to:
+
+- aws cli
+- gcp sdk
+- az cli
+- ssh
+- git
+
+Fundamental understanding of and/or experience configuring and deploying
+workloads in one or more of the following:
+
+- Kubernetes (k8s) using ‘ kubectl ‘
+- Kubernetes Distributions
+- Upstream:
+- Open Source Kubernetes (k8s)
+
+**Cloud Vendor:**
+- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
+- Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
+- Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
+
+**ISVs:**
+- Pivotal/VMware Enterprise Kubernetes Service ( PKS )
+- Red Hat OpenShift ( OCP / OKD ) using ‘ kubectl ’ and/or ‘ oc ‘
+- Rancher Kubernetes Engine ( RKE)
+
+
+### SDLC Learning Objectives:
+
+We recommend that you get familiar with the following concepts:
+
+- Describe the Software Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC)
+- Describe common elements of software delivery (release, scrum, standup, sprints, CI, CD)
+- Explain the common roles in software delivery (DevOps, sre, etc.)
+- Identify the top challenges facing customers
+- Describe how DevOps impacts business
+- Describe the importance of metrics
+- Describe the competing forces that drive DevOps
+
+
+### Harness NextGen 
+
+- Delegate
+- Git experience 
+
+
+### Harness CI
+
+- Reviewing a Pipeline and all the steps associated with it 
+- UI walkthrough (CI)
+- InputSets
+- Test Intelligence (Overview)
+- Test Intelligence with Parallelisim
+
+
+### CI - Learning Checklist (Udemy or Google)
+
+- [ ] Kubernetes
+- [ ] Docker
+- [ ] Running queries on Google Stackdriver
+
+### CI - Backend Checklist
+
+- [ ] Golang
+- [ ] Java
+- [ ] Redis
+
+
+### CI - Learning Checklist (Harness Specific)
+
+- [ ] How to setup PR env (Personal environment to test everything end to end) 
+
+- [ ] How deployment happens in Harness.
+
+- [ ] How to update configuration for deployment in QA.
+
+- [ ] How to create feature build Artifact.
+
+
+## Resources 
+
+- Getting Started with Harness CI : [Click Here](https://harness-community.github.io/blog/harness-getting-started)
+- Harness University : [Click Here](https://university.harness.io/)
+- Harness NG Documentation : [Click Here](https://docs.harness.io/article/hv2758ro4e-learn-harness-key-concepts)
+
+| Course Name | URL | 
+| --- | --- |
+| egghead.io | https://egghead.io |
+| Orielly | https://learning.oreilly.com/home/
+| educative.io | educative.io |
+| Multiple courses on JavaScript, React, UI tech etc | https://frontendmasters.com/courses/javascript-basics/ |
+| SkillShare | https://www.skillshare.com/ |
+| PluralSight | https://app.pluralsight.com/id |
+
+
+| Book Name | URL | 
+| --- | --- |
+| Microservices Patterns | [Click Here](https://www.manning.com/books/microservices-patterns) |
+| Release it! Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software | [Click Here](https://www.amazon.in/gp/product/1680502395/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)
+| DESIGNING DATA INTENSIVE APPLICATIONS: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems | [Click Here](https://www.amazon.in/gp/product/9352135245/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) |