Live Online Professional Cloud, DevOps, FinOps & Platform Engineering Training Course
Live online, instructor-led · next cohort Oct 26, 2026 · from USD 1,700
Moving to the cloud promised speed, yet many teams find themselves with fragile deployments, manual changes nobody can trace, runaway bills and developers waiting weeks for environments. Ten laboratory days show engineers how to run cloud delivery as a disciplined, automated and affordable service. The first week builds foundations: cloud architecture on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, Linux and networking, Git workflows, Terraform infrastructure as code, pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI, and Docker containers.
The second week goes deeper with Kubernetes, Helm and GitOps, monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana, logging and tracing, site reliability practice, DevSecOps scanning and secrets management, then FinOps cost allocation, rightsizing and budgets. It ends with platform engineering: golden paths, self-service templates and an internal developer platform built as a team project. Delivery is in the classroom, online or in-house. Software developers, system administrators, cloud and DevOps engineers, SREs, technical leads and IT managers will find it directly applicable. Afterwards you can design, automate, secure and cost-govern a cloud platform, and you receive a CPD-accredited certificate.
At a Glance
How Live Online Training Works
Live online training, led by a trainer in real time, for participants anywhere.
More about live online training →- Format
- Live online, instructor-led
- Duration
- Mon - Fri (10 Days)
- Fee
- USD 1,700 (KES 160,000)
- Next start dates
- Oct 26, 2026, Nov 23, 2026, Dec 21, 2026
- Certificate
- Certificate of Completion
- What you need
- A computer with a reliable internet connection, a webcam and a headset
About this course
Organisations in banking, telecoms, government and technology are shifting workloads to public cloud, but the benefits only arrive when delivery is automated and costs are governed. Teams that provision resources by hand and deploy on Fridays by copying files cannot meet expectations for reliability, security or speed, and cloud invoices that nobody owns soon become a board-level concern.
The Professional Cloud, DevOps, FinOps & Platform Engineering Training Course is a ten-day, laboratory-based programme covering the whole discipline. The first five days lay the engineering foundations: cloud services and architecture, version control, infrastructure as code, continuous integration and delivery, and containerisation. The second five days apply those foundations at scale, with container orchestration, GitOps, observability, reliability engineering, security integrated into pipelines, financial operations and, finally, the design of internal platforms that let product teams self-serve safely.
Participants work in a real cloud account throughout. They write Terraform modules, build pipelines, deploy to Kubernetes, instrument services, break and repair systems, tag and analyse spend, and assemble a working platform prototype in a closing project. The approach suits practitioners who want transferable method instead of dependence on any single vendor console, and every participant leaves with working code repositories and runbooks.
Training Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Design cloud architectures that balance availability, security, performance and cost.
- Provision and manage environments with Terraform and version-controlled infrastructure as code.
- Build automated build, test and deployment pipelines for applications and infrastructure.
- Package applications in containers and run them reliably on Kubernetes.
- Implement monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting based on service level objectives.
- Integrate security scanning, secrets management and policy controls into delivery pipelines.
- Apply FinOps practices to allocate, forecast and reduce cloud spending.
- Design an internal developer platform with self-service golden paths for product teams.
What you'll learn
Key Takeaways
Participants complete the programme with working assets and a clear operating approach:
- A Git repository of reusable Terraform modules for a secure baseline environment.
- A complete CI/CD pipeline that tests, scans and deploys a containerised application.
- A Kubernetes deployment managed through Helm and a GitOps workflow.
- Dashboards, alerts and service level objectives for a sample service.
- A cloud cost allocation model with tagging standards and savings actions.
- A platform engineering blueprint with golden path templates for their own organisation.
Training Methodology
Roughly two thirds of the ten days are spent in guided laboratories in a live cloud account. The approach includes:
- Short concept briefings followed directly by command-line and code practice
- A continuing sample application that is built, deployed, secured and monitored across the programme
- Fault-injection exercises where participants diagnose and repair broken systems
- Code review and architecture critiques in small teams
- A capstone project presented to peers on the final day
Day 1: Cloud Architecture and Core Services
- Cloud service models, regions, availability zones and shared responsibility
- Compute, storage, networking and identity building blocks
- Virtual networks, subnets, security groups and load balancing
- Well-architected principles for reliability, security and cost
- Linux command line essentials for cloud work
- Lab: deploying a three-tier application manually, then listing its weaknesses
Day 2: Version Control and DevOps Culture
- DevOps principles, flow, feedback and the delivery metrics teams track
- Git branching strategies and trunk-based development
- Pull requests, code review and protected branches
- Automated testing layers and quality gates
- Configuration management and environment strategy
- Lab: setting up a repository with review rules and basic tests
Day 3: Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
- Declarative infrastructure, providers, resources and state
- Variables, outputs, modules and workspaces
- Remote state, locking and drift detection
- Policy checks and review of plans before apply
- Importing existing resources safely
- Lab: writing a reusable network and compute module
Day 4: Continuous Integration and Delivery
- Pipeline design in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
- Build artefacts, caching and parallel stages
- Deployment strategies: rolling, blue-green and canary
- Pipelines for infrastructure changes
- Managing secrets and environment promotion
- Lab: building a pipeline from commit to staging
Day 5: Containers and Image Management
- Container fundamentals and Docker image construction
- Multi-stage builds, small images and good Dockerfile habits
- Container registries and image tagging policy
- Container networking and persistent storage
- Vulnerability scanning of images
- Lab: containerising a sample application and publishing the image
Day 6: Kubernetes and GitOps
- Kubernetes architecture: pods, deployments, services and ingress
- ConfigMaps, secrets, resource requests and limits
- Autoscaling and rolling updates
- Packaging with Helm charts
- GitOps with Argo CD or Flux
- Lab: deploying and updating an application through a GitOps repository
Day 7: Observability and Reliability Engineering
- Metrics, logs and traces and the questions each answers
- Prometheus, Grafana and centralised logging
- Service level indicators, objectives and error budgets
- Alert design that avoids noise
- Incident response, on-call and blameless post-incident reviews
- Lab: instrumenting a service and rehearsing an incident
Day 8: DevSecOps and Cloud Security
- Threat modelling for cloud applications
- Identity and access management with least privilege
- Static and dependency scanning in pipelines
- Secrets vaults and key management
- Policy as code and Kubernetes admission controls
- Lab: adding security gates to the pipeline built earlier
Day 9: FinOps and Cloud Cost Governance
- FinOps principles: inform, optimise and operate
- Tagging standards, cost allocation and showback or chargeback
- Rightsizing, reserved capacity, savings plans and spot instances
- Budgets, anomaly alerts and forecasting
- Unit economics: cost per transaction or per customer
- Lab: analysing a billing export and proposing savings
Day 10: Platform Engineering and Capstone
- Platform as a product: users, roadmap and measurement
- Golden paths, service catalogues and developer portals
- Self-service environment provisioning with guardrails
- Team topologies and platform team operating models
- Capstone: assembling a platform prototype with templates, pipeline and dashboards
- Presentations, review and personal action plan
The programme is intended for technical professionals who build, run or manage cloud-based systems, including:
- DevOps and cloud engineers
- Software developers moving into delivery automation
- Systems and network administrators
- Site reliability and operations engineers
- Solution architects and technical leads
- Security engineers working on cloud environments
- IT managers and heads of infrastructure
- Finance and procurement analysts managing cloud budgets
- Data and platform team members supporting analytics workloads
Participants who attend the ten days and complete the laboratories and capstone receive a CPD-accredited Certificate of Completion issued by Vision Reach Global Consultancy. The programme is vendor-neutral practice and does not replace cloud provider certification exams.
Choose Where You Want to Learn
Professional Cloud, DevOps, FinOps & Platform Engineering Training Course Venues
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
South AfricaPretoriaNext Nov 2· 13 dates$6,400- South AfricaJohannesburgNext Nov 2· 13 dates$6,800
- South AfricaCape TownNext Oct 26· 13 dates$7,600
UAEDubaiNext Oct 26· 13 dates$7,600
GhanaAccraNext Nov 16· 13 dates$9,000
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Frequently Asked Questions About Live Online Professional Cloud, DevOps, FinOps & Platform Engineering Training Course
Everything you need to know about this course before you register.
By the end of the Professional Cloud, DevOps, FinOps & Platform Engineering programme, you'll be able to design cloud architectures that balance availability, security, performance and cost, provision and manage environments with terraform and version-controlled infrastructure as code, build automated build, test and deployment pipelines for applications and infrastructure, and package applications in containers and run them reliably on kubernetes. The full breakdown of topics is covered session by session in the Course Outline tab above.
The programme is intended for technical professionals who build, run or manage cloud-based systems, including: DevOps and cloud engineers, Software developers moving into delivery automation, Systems and network administrators, Site reliability and operations engineers, Solution architects and technical leads, Security engineers working on cloud environments, IT managers and heads of infrastructure, Finance and procurement analysts managing cloud budgets, and Data and platform team members supporting analytics workloads.
Professional 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.
Professional Cloud, DevOps, FinOps & Platform Engineering Training Course is scheduled in-classroom in Nairobi, Kenya, Mombasa, Kenya, Naivasha, 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 Professional Cloud, DevOps, FinOps & Platform Engineering starts October 26, 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 Professional 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.
Professional 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.
Fees for Professional Cloud, DevOps, FinOps & Platform Engineering Training Course 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 — Professional Cloud, DevOps, FinOps & Platform Engineering Training Course 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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