DevOps / Platform Engineering
Apply delivery culture practices that reduce risk without slowing learning
DevOps / Platform Engineering teaches builders how to deliver software safely and repeatedly: delivery culture, Git workflows, CI, artefacts, containers, orchestration concepts, infrastructure as code, environments, secrets in pipelines, observability and SRE basics, and incident response—tuned for African product teams with limited ops headcount.
This is an Africoders Academy course. Completing it earns a Certificate of Completion for DevOps / Platform Engineering. Prepare for Africoders Certified DevOps Engineer — this course is not itself the professional certification, and it does not claim Kubernetes, Docker, HashiCorp, AWS, or other vendor accreditation.
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What you will learn
- Apply delivery culture practices that reduce risk without slowing learning
- Design Git workflows with protected branches and reviewable changes
- Build CI pipelines with meaningful checks and clear failure signals
- Manage artefacts, versioning, and promotion between environments
- Package services with containers and decide when orchestration is warranted
- Introduce infrastructure as code with reviewable, repeatable changes
Prerequisites
- Comfort with Git basics and a programming or scripting language
- Familiarity with deploying or operating a simple web service
- Willingness to document pipelines, ownership, and failure handling
- No prior DevOps job title required
Prerequisites
- Comfort with Git basics and a programming or scripting language
- Familiarity with deploying or operating a simple web service
- Willingness to document pipelines, ownership, and failure handling
- No prior DevOps job title required
What you will build and prove
- Project: Capstone: Portfolio Delivery Pipeline Pack
- Final assessment: DevOps / Platform Engineering assessment (pass 70%)
Course journey
How this free course is structured — watch, practise, and progress module by module.
- Delivery Culture
- Git Workflows
- CI Pipelines
- Artefacts and Provenance
- Containers in Delivery
- Orchestration Concepts
- Infrastructure as Code Intro
- Environments
- Secrets in Pipelines
- Observability and SRE Basics
- Incident Response
- Portfolio Pipeline Studio
Assessment
- DevOps / Platform Engineering assessment · pass mark 70%
Prove
Course completion means finishing required lessons , required assignments , the course project , and the course assessment . That grants a certificate of completion — not a professional certification.
Curriculum
Week 1: Delivery Culture
- Flow, feedback, and learning Preview 30min
- You build it, you run it—within reason 30min
- Change risk and batch size 30min
Week 2: Git Workflows
- Branching strategies that fit team size 30min
- Code review as quality and knowledge transfer 30min
- Protected branches and signed history habits 30min
Week 3: CI Pipelines
- Pipeline stages and fast feedback 30min
- Caching, matrices, and cost 30min
- Required checks and merge policy 30min
Week 4: Artefacts and Provenance
- Versioning and immutability 30min
- Promotion across environments 30min
- SBOMs and supply-chain hygiene basics 30min
Week 5: Containers in Delivery
- Build once, configure at runtime 30min
- Base images and patch cadence 30min
- Local parity and smoke tests 30min
Week 6: Orchestration Concepts
- Declarative desired state 30min
- Networking and service discovery basics 30min
- Choosing a runtime platform 30min
Week 7: Infrastructure as Code Intro
- Why IaC beats click-ops 30min
- State, plans, and apply discipline 30min
- Modules and drift detection 30min
Week 8: Environments
- Environment purpose and data rules 30min
- Parity vs cost 30min
- Ephemeral previews 30min
Week 9: Secrets in Pipelines
- Secret stores and injection 30min
- OIDC and short-lived credentials 30min
- Preventing secret leakage 30min
Week 10: Observability and SRE Basics
- SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets 30min
- On-call that a small team can survive 30min
- Toil reduction backlog 30min
Week 11: Incident Response
- Roles and first hour 30min
- Communication templates 30min
- Post-incident improvements 30min
Week 12: Portfolio Pipeline Studio
- End-to-end delivery map 30min
- Runbooks and evidence 30min
- Residual risk and roadmap 30min
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Instructor: Africoders
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