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Automation and infrastructure as code

Describe infrastructure in files, and stop configuring it by hand.

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The format

Three months, two hours a day.

  • Certificate programme · 128 h
  • Two hours a day
  • 250,000 F — the same fee for all sixty
  • All in the same format, at the same fee.
The qualification

A CQP under MINEFOP accreditation.

  • Leads to the CQP — Certificat de Qualification Professionnelle, which the ministry used to call the AQP.
  • Awarded under MINEFOP accreditation.
  • The full programme for the same profession remains open to anyone aiming for the complete qualification.
Sessions

A new session opens every quarter.

Next intake: Monday 5 October, with enrolment open until 2 October. The following one starts on 4 January 2027.

  • First-quarter intake — enrolment closes on 2 October5 Oct.
  • Second-quarter intake — 20274 Jan.
Objectives

What you will be able to do.

  • Automate a recurring administration task and make it re-runnable without side effects

  • Apply an identical configuration to an entire fleet of machines

  • Create and evolve an infrastructure from a versioned description

  • Work as a team on the same infrastructure state without treading on each other's toes

  • Deploy, scale and update an application on an orchestrator

  • Instrument a service and set achievable service level objectives

  • Run a blameless incident post-mortem

Programme

Four modules.

  1. Module 0132 h

    Operations scripting and configuration management

  2. Module 0232 h

    Infrastructure described in files

  3. Module 0332 h

    Container orchestration

  4. Module 0432 h

    Observability and reliability

Who it is for

Who it is aimed at.

  • Technicians and administrators who have already administered servers and a network — in practice, those who have completed Network administrator or Cloud and backup technician. Ease with the command line is essential; no programming experience is required.
Afterwards

Where it leads.

  • Automated infrastructure administrator, operations engineer, first DevOps-oriented role. This is the block that takes you from repeated manual work to reproducible infrastructure.
Method

How it works.

  • Systematic alternation between short theory sessions and practical work, with most of the time spent on practice

  • Progression from simple to complex: each module builds on what was learnt in the previous one

  • Realistic role-plays drawn from Cameroonian business cases

  • Considered use of generative AI as a working tool, in line with the common core

  • Regular formative assessments and a final integrative project drawing on all four modules

Assessment

How you are assessed.

  • Formative assessment at the end of each module (graded role-play and practical exercises)

  • Practical work assessed against competency sheets

  • Final integrative project, presented and defended before the trainer

  • One graded assignment per module in the online course space

Tools

What you work with.

  • Git — versioning of tooling and infrastructure descriptions

  • Ansible — agentless configuration management

  • Terraform — infrastructure description and state management

  • Kubernetes (local k3s- or kind-type cluster) — container orchestration

  • Prometheus and Grafana — metrics, dashboards and alerts

  • PowerShell and Bash for operations scripts

Join the next session

Ready to get started?

Sessions open every quarter. Apply now or request the detailed brochure — our advisers will get back to you.