The DevOps essential. Build, test, scan, ship — automated. From first pipeline to multi-stage GitLab CI / Jenkins workflow with security gates, signed artefacts and zero-touch deploys.
⏱Duration: 4 days / 32 hrs
💻Format: Instructor-Led + Live Pipelines
🌐Delivery: On-site · Virtual · Hybrid
✅Pass rate: 93%
📅Next intake: 19 May 2026
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Pipelines as code
Jenkinsfile + .gitlab-ci.yml from first commit to production deploy
Build, sign, push, scan, promote across environments
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Zero-touch deploy
GitOps and rollback strategies for safe production releases
What this course is
Where 'click here to deploy' stops being acceptable.
CI/CD is the backbone of modern software delivery. Every modern engineering team runs builds, tests, scans and deploys through a pipeline — not a person clicking buttons. This course turns CI/CD from black-box magic into something you architect, write, harden and own.
At Nexperts, CI/CD is delivered as a 4-day intensive across 32 hours of live pipeline-writing time. We give you live Jenkins + GitLab CI environments. By day 4 you've built two end-to-end pipelines: a Jenkins pipeline for a Java app and a GitLab CI pipeline for a Node.js + React app, both with security gates, signed artefacts and zero-touch deploy.
Every engineering org has CI/CD already, and most of it is a mess. The course is not about installing Jenkins. It's about writing pipelines that other engineers can read, debug and trust. That's the actual unlock.
We cover Jenkins (the legacy + still-dominant standard) and GitLab CI (the modern + GitOps-native standard). Both are mainstream in MY enterprises. We touch GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps Pipelines as comparison points.
Who should take this course
👨💻
Senior developers
Owning the build process for your team. CI/CD is no longer optional.
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DevOps engineers
Building the pipeline backbone for engineering organisations.
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Security engineers
Embedding security into pipelines (SAST / DAST / SCA / signed artefacts).
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Cloud engineers
CI/CD is how cloud workloads ship. Pipeline fluency matters.
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SREs
Owning the deploy + rollback workflow at production scale.
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Tech leads
Architecting pipelines for a squad of 5–20 engineers.
Prerequisites
✓ Basic Linux command line literacy
✓ Comfortable with Git (clone, commit, push, branch, merge)
✓ Some prior coding (any language)
✓ Familiarity with Docker is helpful (we recommend our Docker course first)
→ No Docker yet? You can take this course but Docker fluency would 2x the value. Ask about the Docker → CI/CD bundle.
Course Curriculum
Four days. Jenkins + GitLab CI in production form.
We cover CI/CD across 8 modules in 4 days. Every module is 70% hands-on writing pipelines on live Jenkins + GitLab. By day 4 you have two production-grade pipelines.
Hands-On Labs
10 + capstone. Real Jenkins + GitLab.
Every lab runs on a live Jenkins controller and GitLab instance with K8s deploy targets. By day 4 you ship two production-grade pipelines.
01
Architecture
Walk through 4 real-world pipeline architectures.
Foundation
02
First Jenkinsfile
Java + Maven build pipeline.
Jenkins
03
Shared Library
Build a Jenkins shared library used across 3 apps.
Jenkins
04
First .gitlab-ci
Node.js + React build pipeline.
GitLab
05
Dynamic Pipelines
Child pipelines + review apps in GitLab.
GitLab
06
GitOps
GitLab → ArgoCD → K8s GitOps deploy.
GitOps
07
Security
SAST + DAST + SCA gates wired into a pipeline.
Security
08
IaC Scan
tfsec + Checkov scan on a Terraform module.
Security
09
Signed Promotion
Signed-image promotion flow dev → stg → prd.
Artefacts
10
Canary
Argo Rollouts canary deploy with auto-rollback.
Production
11
Capstone
End-to-end pipeline for a multi-service app.
Capstone
+ 10 take-home pipeline challenges with reference walkthroughs.
Skill Assessment
Practical project. Build a hardened pipeline.
Day 4 ends with a 3-hour practical: take a sample app and ship a production-grade CI/CD pipeline with security gates and zero-touch deploy. Pass = working pipeline meeting an 18-point rubric.
Practical CI/CD Assessment
FormatBuild hardened pipeline for sample app
Duration3 hours
Passing score15 / 18 rubric points
Re-testOpen invitation to a future intake
Cohort avg pass rate93% first attempt
Our Practice Programme
01
Day 2 Project
60-minute Jenkins pipeline build.
02
Day 3 Project
60-minute GitLab CI pipeline build.
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Day 4 Capstone
3-hour final practical with rubric grading.
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Pass Rate
93% of our CI/CD graduates ship a hardened pipeline on day 4.
Most CI/CD courses are tool-tour only. We architect pipelines, then write them, then harden them. By day 4 you can defend a pipeline architecture decision — not just paste from documentation.
Jenkins + GitLabSecurity gates93% first passGitOps-nativeLive mentor
Why our pass rate is 93%
Self-study average: ~40% completion
Self-study CI/CD often plateaus at 'I got a build to pass'. The architectural and security-gate sides usually get skipped.
Nexperts: 93%
We architect first, write second. By day 4 you have two production-grade pipelines and can defend the design choices.
Your DevOps Path
CI/CD pairs with Docker, K8s and AZ-400.
CI/CD is the operational core of DevOps. Stack with Docker / Kubernetes for the runtime, or AZ-400 / AWS DevOps for cloud-vendor-specific depth.
