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Specialist Certificate · Bachelor's level · CPS-05

Web Hosting and Deployment

For: Developers, integrators and administrators who put web applications online and run them.

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Organisation over 20 weeks

Four 5-week blocks (4 weeks of classes, 1 week of assessment). The two course units are taken unchanged from the original degree: same content, same assessments.

  • Blocks 1 and 2 (weeks 1 to 10): HEB 351 — Cloud Hosting and Deployment
  • Blocks 3 and 4 (weeks 11 to 20): DVO 352 — Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and Service Continuity

HEB 351 - Cloud Hosting and Deployment

To enable the learner to put an application online and keep it running there, both on a server they administer and on cloud infrastructure.

Learning outcomes

  • Configure and administer a hosting solution suited to the needs, taking its environmental impact into account.
  • Deploy applications on different architectures (cloud).
  • Containerise an application and its dependencies.
  • Compare hosting offers in terms of cost, data location and sobriety.

Content

  • Web server and application server; reverse proxy; domain names, DNS and TLS certificates.
  • Hardening a Linux server: accounts, key-based SSH access, firewall, updates.
  • Containers: images, containers, volumes, networks; multi-container application; open image format of the Open Container Initiative.
  • Cloud architectures: infrastructure, platform and functions on demand; infrastructure described as code.
  • Selection criteria: cost in FCFA (CFA francs), data hosting location and rules applicable to transfers abroad (loi n°2008-12 du 25 janvier 2008 (Personal Data Protection Act), provisions to be studied from the text), latency, energy consumption.
  • Basic monitoring: availability, resources, alerts.

Assessment: Continuous assessment (40%): marked practical work. Practical examination (60%): deployment of a containerised application over HTTPS and a note justifying the hosting choice.

DVO 352 - Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and Service Continuity

To automate the chain that runs from commit to production, and to ensure that an outage never results in data loss.

Learning outcomes

  • Continuously integrate and deploy applications (DevOps).
  • Ensure data security and integrity (backup, restoration, recovery after failure).
  • Regularly test restoration and verify the recovery objectives.
  • Evaluate a deployment pipeline and propose improvements.

Content

  • DevOps approach: bringing development and operations together, automation, measurement.
  • Continuous integration: build, tests, static analysis, dependency analysis, image production.
  • Continuous deployment: environments, progressive deployment, rollback.
  • Backup: 3-2-1 rule, database backup, encryption, off-site copies.
  • Recovery plan: maximum tolerable downtime, maximum tolerable data loss, procedures, restoration drills.
  • Controls in Annex A of ISO/IEC 27001:2022 relating to backup and continuity, detailed in ISO/IEC 27002:2022.

Assessment: Continuous assessment (40%): continuous integration and deployment pipeline for a project, with an evaluation note and improvement proposals. Practical examination (60%): timed restoration and recovery-after-failure exercise, with a report verifying that the recovery objectives have been met.

Career opportunities

Developer in charge of deployment, web hosting administrator, application operations technician.

At your own pace: the self-paced pathway

In a class, this certificate takes 20 weeks, on the cohort's dates. On the self-paced pathway, you start whenever you like, online, and progress at your own pace. The price is the same.

Estimate how long my pathway will take

12 h / week · 240 hours in total
Duration
about 20 weeks
Estimated end
20 weeks after you start
Examination
Online, subject to available slots, no earlier than 20 weeks after you start
Payment
In 1 to 5 monthly instalments, as you choose

An indicative estimate, for a start today and 240 hours of work. You can change your pace along the way; the pathway must be completed within 60 weeks (about 14 months) of your start. Your e-Campus access opens with your first payment.

Admission

Experience of web programming and of a Linux system (level of the second year of a Bachelor's degree in computing, or equivalent experience assessed on application). Admission based on application; detailed requirements set by the school.

The credits you earn are recognised without further assessment if you later join the programme they come from, Professional Bachelor's degree in Web Application Development, within a period set by the certificate regulations.