Today's organizations need to deliver applications and services by automating processes that develop and deploy software and manage scalable computing infrastructures. Students will learn how to integrate development, operations, and cloud computing and gain experience with design approaches, version control, continuous integration, cloud-based APIs, and monitoring metrics. Key to systems software tools and automation processes are increased communication and collaboration practiced in the course team projects. Students who took COMP 698 Sp/Topic Systems Software cannot repeat for credit. Prereq: COMP 530.