DevOps: From Fundamentals to Practice- SomNOG9 Tutorials

by Omar Adan Hassan (NIRA)

Tuesday 22 Sept 2026, 10:00 → 12:00 Africa/Mogadishu

Room 16 (SNU)

This session introduces participants to DevOps from a beginner level and gradually 
progresses toward intermediate concepts and practical workflows. The goal is to help 
participants understand what DevOps means, why it is important, and how modern 
development and operations teams use automation, collaboration, and continuous delivery 
to build and deploy applications efficiently.

The session will combine conceptual explanations with practical examples, giving 
participants a clear understanding of the DevOps lifecycle and the technologies commonly 
used throughout it.

Main Topics

• Introduction to DevOpsWhat is DevOps?
  DevOps culture and principles
  Development vs. Operations
  DevOps lifecycle

 

• Version Control with GitGit fundamentals
  Repositories, commits, branches, and merging
  Basic Git workflow

 

• Automation
  Why automation matters
  Bash and scripting fundamentals
  Automating repetitive tasks

 

• CI/CD Fundamentals
  Continuous Integration
  Continuous Delivery and Deployment
  Understanding CI/CD pipelines
  Introduction to GitHub Actions/GitLab CI

 

• Containers with Docker
  Containers vs. virtual machines
  Images, containers, and Dockerfiles
  Building and running applications in containers

 

• Configuration Management
  Why configuration management is important
  Introduction to Ansible
  Automated server configuration

 

• Infrastructure as Code
  IaC concepts
  Managing infrastructure through code
  Introduction to tools such as Terraform

 

• Monitoring and Observability
  Logs, metrics, and monitoring
  Introduction to Prometheus and Grafana
  Understanding application and infrastructure health

 

• DevSecOps Fundamentals
  Integrating security into the DevOps lifecycle
  Secrets, dependencies, and secure deployments

 

Practical Component

Participants will also see how these concepts fit together in a simplified real-world 
workflow:

Code → Git → CI/CD → Build → Container → Deploy → Monitor

The session is designed to give participants a solid foundation in DevOps and a practical 
roadmap for progressing toward more advanced topics such as cloud platforms, 
Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, and advanced CI/CD.