Planning and Implementation of Cloud, DevOps, FinOps & Platform Engineering Training Course in Pretoria, South Africa
Classroom training in Pretoria · next cohort Nov 2, 2026 · from USD 6,400
Moving to the cloud does not by itself deliver speed or savings. Without sound architecture, automated delivery and cost discipline, organisations end up with sprawling accounts, slow releases and bills nobody can explain. This ten-day programme gives engineers and technology leaders an end-to-end route from planning to operation. Early days cover cloud adoption strategy, the shared responsibility model, landing zones, identity and network design, and migration approaches across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
Labs then build continuous integration and delivery with Git workflows, containers, Docker and Kubernetes, infrastructure as code with Terraform, secrets management, observability, site reliability practice and DevSecOps. The closing days introduce FinOps, covering tagging, cost allocation, rightsizing, commitments and unit economics, and platform engineering, where golden paths, self-service portals and internal developer platforms reduce friction for product teams. Cloud engineers, DevOps and site reliability engineers, solution architects, software team leads, IT managers and technology officers in banks, telecoms, government and start-ups will benefit. Classroom, online and in-house formats are offered with a CPD-accredited certificate. Afterwards you can present a cloud and platform roadmap and run a working pipeline for a real service.
At a Glance
Training in Pretoria, South Africa
Pretoria is South Africa's administrative capital, home to the Union Buildings, the Reserve Bank and most embassies.
More about training in Pretoria →- Format
- Classroom, in Pretoria
- Duration
- Mon - Fri (10 Days)
- Fee
- USD 6,400
- Next start dates
- Nov 2, 2026, Nov 30, 2026, Dec 28, 2026
- Certificate
- Certificate of Completion
- Airport
- O.R. Tambo International (JNB), connected by the Gautrain
- Time zone
- South Africa Standard Time (UTC+2)
- Currency
- South African rand (ZAR). Fees are listed in USD.
- Business districts
- Hatfield, Brooklyn, Menlyn and Centurion
About this course
Cloud services are now the default place to run new applications, and the expectations on engineering teams have risen with them. Releases are expected weekly or daily, systems must stay available, security findings must be fixed before launch and finance departments want to know why the monthly invoice keeps growing. Organisations that treat these as separate problems often end up with tool sprawl and friction between development, operations and finance.
This programme joins the disciplines into one practical path. Participants begin with cloud strategy and foundational architecture, then automate how software is built, tested, secured and deployed. They provision environments as code, run containerised workloads on Kubernetes, and instrument systems so incidents are detected and learned from. A dedicated block introduces FinOps practice so engineering choices carry visible cost, and platform engineering principles so shared capability is packaged as a product for internal teams.
Work is dominated by laboratories on a shared cloud sandbox, with a continuous case project that grows from a simple application into a governed, observable and cost-managed service. Participants close the programme by presenting a roadmap tailored to their own organisation and receiving feedback from facilitators and peers.
Training Objectives
By the end of the programme, participants will be able to:
- Develop a cloud adoption and migration plan with governance, security and cost considerations.
- Design a landing zone with identity, networking, account structure and policy guardrails.
- Build automated CI/CD pipelines with testing, artefact management and controlled releases.
- Provision and manage infrastructure using Terraform and version-controlled configuration.
- Deploy, scale and operate containerised applications on Kubernetes.
- Implement observability, alerting and incident practices based on service level objectives.
- Embed security checks in pipelines and manage secrets and access appropriately.
- Apply FinOps methods and design a self-service internal developer platform.
What you'll learn
Key Takeaways
Participants leave with:
- A working CI/CD pipeline and Terraform codebase from the case project.
- A landing zone design and cloud adoption roadmap for their organisation.
- A Kubernetes deployment manifest set with monitoring and alerts.
- A tagging and cost allocation scheme with a cost review routine.
- A blueprint for a golden path and developer self-service portal.
- A set of service level objectives and runbook templates.
Training Methodology
The programme is delivered as a sequence of engineering labs. Participants experience:
- Short architecture briefings followed by guided hands-on work
- A cloud sandbox with cloud credits provided for each participant
- One case application taken from repository to governed production service
- Cost review sessions using sample billing data
- Design reviews and roadmap presentations with expert feedback
Day 1: Cloud Strategy and Foundations
- Cloud service and deployment models
- Business drivers, adoption stages and the shared responsibility model
- Comparing AWS, Azure and Google Cloud services
- Well-architected framework principles
- Data residency, regulation and risk considerations
- Workshop: assessing an adoption case
Day 2: Landing Zones, Identity and Networking
- Account, subscription and project structures
- Identity and access management and least privilege
- Virtual networks, subnets, routing and connectivity
- Policy guardrails and baseline controls
- Logging and audit trails
- Lab: building a secure landing zone
Day 3: Migration and Modernisation
- Discovery and application portfolio assessment
- Rehost, replatform, refactor and retire decisions
- Data and database migration approaches
- Cutover planning and rollback
- Serverless and managed services
- Exercise: migration wave plan
Day 4: DevOps Culture and Source Control
- DevOps principles, flow and feedback
- Git branching strategies and code review
- Trunk-based development and feature flags
- Automated testing strategy
- DORA metrics for delivery performance
- Lab: a repository and review workflow
Day 5: Continuous Integration and Delivery
- Pipeline stages with build, test and package
- Artefact registries and versioning
- Deployment strategies: rolling, blue-green and canary
- Approvals and environment promotion
- Pipeline as code on a CI/CD platform
- Lab: end-to-end pipeline for the case application
Day 6: Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
- Declarative infrastructure, providers and state
- Modules, variables and reusable patterns
- Remote state, locking and workspaces
- Testing and reviewing infrastructure changes
- Drift detection and policy as code
- Lab: provisioning environments with Terraform modules
Day 7: Containers and Kubernetes
- Building efficient Docker images
- Kubernetes architecture, pods, services and ingress
- Configuration, secrets and persistent storage
- Autoscaling, resource requests and limits
- Helm and GitOps deployment
- Lab: deploying the case service to a cluster
Day 8: Observability, Reliability and DevSecOps
- Metrics, logs and traces
- Service level indicators, objectives and error budgets
- Alerting, on-call and incident response
- Blameless post-incident reviews
- Dependency, container and code scanning in pipelines
- Secrets management and supply chain security
Day 9: FinOps and Cloud Cost Management
- FinOps principles: inform, optimise and operate
- Tagging, allocation, showback and chargeback
- Rightsizing, scheduling and storage tiering
- Reserved capacity, savings plans and spot options
- Forecasting, budgets and anomaly alerts
- Unit economics and cost-aware engineering
Day 10: Platform Engineering and Integrated Roadmap
- Platform as a product and team topologies
- Golden paths, templates and self-service portals
- Internal developer platform architecture
- Measuring developer experience and platform adoption
- Governance at scale across teams
- Roadmap presentations and course review
The programme is intended for technical practitioners and leaders responsible for building and running cloud-based services, such as:
- Cloud and infrastructure engineers
- DevOps and site reliability engineers
- Solution and enterprise architects
- Software development team leads and senior developers
- IT operations and service delivery managers
- Security engineers working on cloud and pipeline controls
- Finance and procurement analysts supporting cloud spend
- CTOs and heads of technology in banks, telecoms, government and start-ups
Participants who attend the ten days and complete the laboratories receive a CPD-accredited Certificate of Completion from Vision Reach Global Consultancy. The certificate is not a vendor credential from any cloud provider.
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Planning and Implementation of Cloud, DevOps, FinOps & Platform Engineering Training Course Venues
South AfricaPretoriaNext Nov 2· 13 dates$6,400Viewing- South AfricaJohannesburgNext Nov 2· 13 dates$6,800
- South AfricaCape TownNext Oct 26· 13 dates$7,600
KenyaNairobiNext Nov 9· 13 dates$3,000- KenyaMombasaNext Oct 26· 13 dates$3,200
- KenyaNaivashaNext Nov 2· 13 dates$3,000
- KenyaKisumuNext Oct 26· 13 dates$3,000
- KenyaMachakosNext Nov 2· 13 dates$3,200
UgandaKampalaNext Nov 2· 13 dates$3,800
RwandaKigaliNext Oct 26· 13 dates$3,800
TanzaniaArushaNext Nov 9· 13 dates$3,800- TanzaniaDodomaNext Oct 26· 13 dates$3,600
- TanzaniaDar es SalaamNext Oct 26· 13 dates$4,000
- TanzaniaZanzibarNext Nov 16· 13 dates$5,200
NigeriaLagosNext Nov 16· 13 dates$5,600- NigeriaAbujaNext Nov 9· 13 dates$5,600
UAEDubaiNext Oct 26· 13 dates$7,600
GhanaAccraNext Nov 16· 13 dates$9,000
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Frequently Asked Questions About Planning and Implementation of Cloud, DevOps, FinOps & Platform Engineering Training Course in Pretoria
Everything you need to know about this course before you register.
Planning and Implementation of Cloud, DevOps, FinOps & Platform Engineering Training Course runs as classroom training in Pretoria, South Africa, in Monday-to-Friday cohorts that start every four weeks. The venue, daily timings and joining details are sent in your Joining Instructions email ahead of the start date.
The next Pretoria cohort starts on November 2, 2026, and a new intake follows every four weeks. Pick a date under "Upcoming sessions in Pretoria" above and click Register; your seat is confirmed once payment or a signed purchase order is received.
The classroom fee for Planning and Implementation of Cloud, DevOps, FinOps & Platform Engineering Training Course in Pretoria is USD 6,400 per delegate, covering tuition and course materials. Register 3 or more delegates together and a 5% team discount is applied automatically.
Yes. Besides Pretoria, Planning and Implementation of Cloud, DevOps, FinOps & Platform Engineering Training Course runs as classroom training in Johannesburg and Cape Town. It also runs as live online training you can join from anywhere in South Africa, and in-house at your organisation's own premises.
Yes — Planning and Implementation of Cloud, DevOps, FinOps & Platform Engineering Training Course can be delivered at your offices in Pretoria or at a venue you choose, on dates that suit your team, with case studies tailored to your sector. Message our training advisors to request a proposal.
By the end of the Planning and Implementation of Cloud, DevOps, FinOps & Platform Engineering programme, you'll be able to develop a cloud adoption and migration plan with governance, security and cost considerations, design a landing zone with identity, networking, account structure and policy guardrails, build automated ci/cd pipelines with testing, artefact management and controlled releases, and provision and manage infrastructure using terraform and version-controlled configuration. The full breakdown of topics is covered session by session in the Course Outline tab above.
The programme is intended for technical practitioners and leaders responsible for building and running cloud-based services, such as: Cloud and infrastructure engineers, DevOps and site reliability engineers, Solution and enterprise architects, Software development team leads and senior developers, IT operations and service delivery managers, Security engineers working on cloud and pipeline controls, Finance and procurement analysts supporting cloud spend, and CTOs and heads of technology in banks, telecoms, government and start-ups.
Planning and Implementation of Cloud, DevOps, FinOps & Platform Engineering Training Course typically runs as 10 Days. It's available as in-person classroom, live virtual, and in-house corporate training — every course can also be delivered on-site for your team on dates that suit you.
Yes — delegates who meet the attendance requirement receive a Certificate of Completion for Planning and Implementation of Cloud, DevOps, FinOps & Platform Engineering Training Course from Vision Reach Global Consultancy, issued in the name you register with, so double-check the spelling at checkout.
Planning and Implementation of Cloud, DevOps, FinOps & Platform Engineering Training Course is pitched at advanced 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.
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