DevOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
Release cycles measured in months leave organisations slow to fix defects and respond to customers, while manual deployments invite outages. The opening sessions cover DevOps principles, the delivery value stream and the cultural shifts behind shared ownership of software in production. Source control foundations cover Git branching strategies, pull requests and trunk-based development as the base for continuous integration. You then build a first pipeline that compiles, tests and packages code on every commit, adding unit, integration and security tests inside the workflow.
Containerisation sessions package applications with Docker for consistent builds, and infrastructure as code with tools such as Terraform provisions repeatable pipeline environments. Later topics extend the pipeline to continuous deployment, release strategies such as blue-green and canary, secrets management, monitoring and DORA metrics. Labs build a working pipeline from repository to running service. Developers, system administrators, release engineers, QA engineers and IT operations staff moving towards DevOps roles will find it practical. Afterwards you can design and run a pipeline that ships changes frequently and safely.
About this course
Organizations that release software slowly and unreliably are losing ground to competitors who ship continuously. This course teaches development and operations professionals the practices, culture, and tooling behind DevOps — and gives them hands-on experience building automated CI/CD pipelines from source control through to production deployment.
Participants build a working pipeline step by step, covering automated testing, artifact management, and deployment strategies they can adapt directly to their own engineering environment.
Throughout the programme, participants work through realistic scenarios drawn from technology organizations, digital transformation programmes, data-driven enterprises, and public sector IT environments, examining how devops and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) is applied in practice and where it most often breaks down. Delegates will develop practical skill in designing appropriate frameworks, selecting and applying the right tools for continuous deployment and release automation, interpreting findings, and communicating conclusions clearly to colleagues, management and external stakeholders. Sessions move deliberately from principles to application, so that each technique introduced is practised against a realistic problem before the programme moves on — strengthening both individual effectiveness and the wider capability of the organizations delegates return to.
Training Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Develop robust devops and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) frameworks that support successful implementation and measurable outcomes.
- Analyze performance using recognized evaluation methods drawn from continuous deployment and release automation.
- Design practical systems that strengthen accountability, transparency and evidence generation.
- Evaluate outcomes and assess longer-term impact across a range of operating contexts.
- Apply relevant tools, frameworks and analytical methodologies confidently and appropriately.
- Integrate collaboration, governance and pipeline roadmap into existing organizational processes and reporting structures.
- Strengthen decision-making and operational effectiveness through evidence-based professional practice.
What you'll learn
Key Takeaways
By the end of the DevOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), participants will leave with:
- A comprehensive working understanding of devops and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) principles and performance-measurement methodology.
- Enhanced ability to design practical systems and evaluate outcomes reliably.
- Improved competency in devops and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), reporting structures and analytical interpretation.
- Practical techniques for translating findings into strategic insight and clear recommendations.
- Greater confidence in applying devops and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) and assessing measurable results.
- Stronger capability to support organizational learning and continuous performance improvement.
- Improved approaches to strengthening sustainability, accountability and operational effectiveness.
Training Methodology
This training course adopts a practical, participant-centered learning approach that builds devops and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) expertise, strengthens analytical capability and develops confident professional judgement. The methodology combines specialist facilitation, applied hands-on experience and globally recognized professional practice, so that delegates return able to apply what they have learned immediately rather than in theory only.
Methodology includes:
- Expert-led sessions facilitated by experienced devops and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) practitioners and subject-matter specialists.
- Practical application of the frameworks, tools and techniques used in devops and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD).
- Real-world case studies drawn from technology organizations, digital transformation programmes, data-driven enterprises, and public sector IT environments.
- Tool-based demonstrations of the systems, templates and reporting applications used in current practice.
- Interactive discussion and scenario-based learning focused on realistic challenges and decision points.
- Structured group exercises with facilitator feedback, reinforcing learning through practice rather than lecture alone.
Day 1: DevOps Principles and the Delivery Value Stream
- What DevOps changes about handoffs, ownership and release cadence
- Mapping the current value stream from commit to production release
- Identifying manual gates, queue time and rework loops that slow delivery
- Deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate and restore time as working measures
- Why siloed development and operations teams increase release risk
- Resourcing, cost and capacity considerations
- Regulatory, ethical and compliance dimensions of devops principles and the delivery value stream
Day 2: Source Control Foundations for Continuous Integration
- Branching models: trunk-based development, GitFlow and feature branching trade-offs
- Merge strategies, rebasing and keeping integration branches releasable
- Pull request workflows, code review gates and protected branches
- Commit hygiene, semantic versioning and tagging release candidates
- Repository structure choices: monorepo versus multi-repo for pipeline design
- Planning and sequencing source control foundations for continuous integration within the wider workflow
- Data, evidence and information requirements for source control foundations for continuous integration
Day 3: Building the First Continuous Integration Pipeline
- Anatomy of a CI pipeline: trigger, checkout, build, test, publish
- Writing pipeline-as-code configuration files and stage definitions
- Build agents, runners and executor capacity planning
- Dependency caching and build artefact management
- Failing fast: ordering stages to surface defects early
- Standards, frameworks and good practice governing building the first continuous integration pipeline
- Practical tools, templates and techniques for building the first continuous integration pipeline
Day 4: Automated Testing Inside the Integration Workflow
- Structuring the test pyramid across unit, integration and end-to-end layers
- Gating merges on test results and enforcing coverage thresholds
- Static analysis, linting and dependency vulnerability scanning in the pipeline
- Handling flaky tests, quarantines and parallel test execution
- Managing test data and ephemeral test databases
- Reviewing outcomes and capturing lessons learned
- Practical exercise and facilitated review
Day 5: Containerising Applications for Consistent Builds
- Writing container images that build reproducibly across environments
- Multi-stage builds, layer caching and image size reduction
- Image registries, tagging conventions and promotion between environments
- Container image scanning and signing as a pipeline stage
- Running containerised build and test steps inside CI
- Worked example: applying containerising applications for consistent builds in a live devops and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) context
- Planning and sequencing containerising applications for consistent builds within the wider workflow
Day 6: Infrastructure as Code for Pipeline Environments
- Declarative infrastructure definitions and state management
- Provisioning build, staging and production environments from version-controlled code
- Modules, variables and environment-specific configuration separation
- Plan, review and apply workflows executed through the pipeline
- Configuration drift detection and environment teardown for ephemeral stacks
- Common challenges, risks and failure points in infrastructure as code for pipeline environments
- Documentation, record-keeping and reporting requirements
Day 7: Continuous Deployment and Release Automation
- Distinguishing continuous delivery from continuous deployment in practice
- Promoting a single build artefact through environment stages
- Approval gates, change records and automated rollback triggers
- Secrets management and credential injection at deploy time
- Database migration handling within automated releases
- Technology and automation supporting continuous deployment and release automation
- Reviewing outcomes and capturing lessons learned
Day 8: Blue-Green, Canary and Progressive Delivery Strategies
- Designing blue-green environments and cutover mechanics
- Canary releases: traffic splitting, cohort selection and promotion criteria
- Rolling updates, health checks and surge configuration
- Feature flags to decouple deployment from feature release
- Automated rollback on error-rate and latency thresholds
- Decision points and escalation routes in blue-green, canary and progressive delivery strategies
- Resourcing, cost and capacity considerations
Day 9: Monitoring Pipelines and Troubleshooting Build Failures
- Instrumenting pipelines: build duration, queue time and success rate
- Diagnosing failure classes — environment, dependency, test and infrastructure
- Reading build logs and reproducing failures locally
- Application observability: logs, metrics, traces and deployment markers
- Alerting, on-call handover and post-incident review of failed releases
- Roles, responsibilities and stakeholder coordination in monitoring pipelines and troubleshooting build failures
- Common challenges, risks and failure points in monitoring pipelines and troubleshooting build failures
Day 10: Collaboration, Governance and Pipeline Roadmap
- Shared ownership models and blameless post-mortems across dev and ops
- Embedding security and compliance checks without blocking flow
- Documenting pipeline standards and reusable templates for other teams
- Building the improvement backlog from delivery metrics
- Capstone: design and present an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline for a delegate's own application
- Core principles and terminology underpinning collaboration, governance and pipeline roadmap
- Standards, frameworks and good practice governing collaboration, governance and pipeline roadmap
Anyone responsible for getting code from a developer's branch into production safely will find this DevOps and CI/CD programme directly applicable, whether they write the code, run the infrastructure, or own the release calendar.
- Software Engineers and Backend Developers moving toward automated release workflows
- DevOps Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers building or maintaining delivery pipelines
- Build and Release Engineers managing artefact promotion and deployment windows
- Systems and Infrastructure Administrators adopting infrastructure-as-code
- QA and Test Automation Engineers embedding test suites into continuous integration
- Cloud Platform Engineers provisioning environments for build and deployment stages
- Technical Leads and Engineering Managers accountable for release frequency and change failure rate
Delegates finishing all ten days receive a Certificate of Completion from Vision Reach Global Consultancy, evidencing their ability to build automated CI/CD pipelines, apply infrastructure-as-code to pipeline environments, and execute blue-green and canary deployment strategies.
The certificate confirms attendance and successful participation, is recognized by employers across the public, private and development sectors, and can be verified directly with Vision Reach Global Consultancy on request.
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KenyaMombasaNext Nov 2· 13 dates$3,200- KenyaNaivashaNext Nov 9· 13 dates$3,000
- KenyaNairobiNext Nov 16· 13 dates$3,000
- KenyaKisumuNext Nov 2· 13 dates$3,000
- KenyaMachakosNext Nov 9· 13 dates$3,200
UgandaKampalaNext Nov 9· 13 dates$3,800
RwandaKigaliNext Nov 2· 13 dates$3,800
South AfricaCape TownNext Nov 2· 13 dates$7,600
TanzaniaZanzibarNext Nov 23· 13 dates$5,200
UAEDubaiNext Nov 2· 13 dates$7,600- South AfricaPretoriaNext Nov 9· 13 dates$6,400
- South AfricaJohannesburgNext Nov 9· 13 dates$6,800
- TanzaniaDodomaNext Nov 2· 13 dates$3,600
- TanzaniaDar es SalaamNext Nov 2· 13 dates$4,000
- TanzaniaArushaNext Nov 16· 13 dates$3,800
NigeriaAbujaNext Nov 16· 13 dates$5,600- NigeriaLagosNext Nov 23· 13 dates$5,600
GhanaAccraNext Nov 23· 13 dates$9,000
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Frequently Asked Questions About DevOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
Everything you need to know about this course before you register.
By the end of the DevOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) programme, you'll be able to explain core devops principles and how they change software delivery, build an automated ci/cd pipeline from source control to deployment, implement automated testing within a continuous integration workflow, and apply infrastructure-as-code principles to pipeline environments. The full breakdown of topics is covered session by session in the Course Outline tab above.
Anyone responsible for getting code from a developer's branch into production safely will find this DevOps and CI/CD programme directly applicable, whether they write the code, run the infrastructure, or own the release calendar. Typical delegates include Software Engineers and Backend Developers moving toward automated release workflows, DevOps Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers building or maintaining delivery pipelines, Build and Release Engineers managing artefact promotion and deployment windows, Systems and Infrastructure Administrators adopting infrastructure-as-code, QA and Test Automation Engineers embedding test suites into continuous integration, Cloud Platform Engineers provisioning environments for build and deployment stages, and Technical Leads and Engineering Managers accountable for release frequency and change failure rate.
DevOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) typically runs as 10 Days. It's available as classroom, live virtual, and in-house training — every course can also be delivered on-site for your team on dates that suit you.
DevOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) is scheduled in-classroom in Mombasa, Kenya, Naivasha, Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya, and Kisumu, Kenya, and 14 other locations, plus a live interactive virtual classroom you can join from anywhere. Check the schedule panel above for exact upcoming dates and fees in each location.
The next live virtual cohort of DevOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) starts November 9, 2026, with new classroom cohorts also running on a rolling basis. Pick a date and location in the schedule panel above, then click "Register for the Course" — it takes a few minutes and your seat is confirmed once payment or a signed purchase order is received.
Yes — delegates who meet the attendance requirement receive a Certificate of Completion for DevOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) from Vision Reach Global Consultancy, issued in the name you register with, so double-check the spelling at checkout.
DevOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) is pitched at intermediate professionals. If you're unsure whether it's the right fit for your current role or background, message our training advisors before you register and they'll help you confirm.
Fees for DevOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) vary by delivery location and format and are shown in real time in the schedule panel above once you pick a date. Register 3 or more delegates on the same course together and a 5% team discount is applied automatically — larger cohorts can request a custom corporate quote.
Yes — DevOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) can be delivered on-site at your offices (or virtually for distributed teams), with case studies and examples tailored to your industry and the specific challenges your team is working through. Switch to the "In-House" tab in the schedule panel above to request a proposal.
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- DevOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) in GhanaGHClassroom in Accra
- DevOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) in KenyaKEClassroom in Mombasa, Naivasha, Nairobi, Kisumu, Machakos
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