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Cloud & DevOps Foundations

Intermediate14-18 hours4 modules17 lessons

Cloud concepts that transfer between providers, plus the automated pipeline that gets your code from commit to running system.

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Prerequisites

  • Docker basics
  • An application you can deploy

Technologies

About this course

Cloud platforms differ in naming far more than in concepts. This course teaches the concepts — compute, storage, networking, identity, managed data, observability — and then shows how they appear in both Azure and AWS, so you are not locked into one vendor's vocabulary.

The DevOps half is about making releases boring. A pipeline that builds, tests, packages and deploys on every change turns deployment from an event into a routine, and makes rolling back a decision rather than a scramble.

Secrets, environments and approvals are covered explicitly, since those are where well-intentioned pipelines most often become unsafe.

Course roadmap

All 17 lessons are written and available.

Module 01

Cloud Foundations

Concepts that hold regardless of which provider you use.

4/4 ready
  1. 01What Cloud Computing Actually MeansExplain what you stop being responsible for, and what you do not.14 min
  2. 02Service ModelsDistinguish infrastructure, platform and software services by responsibility.14 min
  3. 03Regions and AvailabilityChoose where workloads run, and why location matters legally and technically.13 min
  4. 04Identity and PermissionsGrant least-privilege access to people and services.16 min

Module 02

Core Services

Compute, storage, data and secrets, mapped across Azure and AWS.

5/5 ready
  1. 01Compute OptionsChoose between virtual machines, containers and functions.16 min
  2. 02StorageUse object and file storage appropriately.15 min
  3. 03Managed DatabasesRun a database without operating the server yourself.16 min
  4. 04Secrets and ConfigurationStore credentials in a secret service and read them at run time.15 min
  5. 05Monitoring and LogsCollect logs and metrics you can actually act on.16 min

Module 03

Pipelines

Automate build, test, package and deploy so releases stop being events.

4/4 ready
  1. 01Continuous Integration and DeliveryExplain what each term means and what it requires of your codebase.15 min
  2. 02Build and Test StagesRun builds and tests automatically on every change.16 min
  3. 03Artifacts and VersioningProduce versioned outputs you can trace back to a commit.15 min
  4. 04DeploymentDeploy automatically and safely to a target environment.17 min

Module 04

Operating What You Ship

Environments, approvals, monitoring and having a rollback ready before you need one.

4/4 ready
  1. 01Environments and ApprovalsPromote a build through environments with appropriate gates.16 min
  2. 02Secrets in PipelinesUse credentials in automation without exposing them in logs.16 min
  3. 03Monitoring and AlertingDetect problems before users report them.17 min
  4. 04RollbackHave a rehearsed way back before you need it.17 min

On completion

What you should take away

  • Cloud concepts transfer between providers even when the product names do not
  • Managed services trade some control for a large reduction in operational work
  • A pipeline is the documented, repeatable definition of how your software ships
  • Monitoring and a rehearsed rollback are what make frequent deployment safe

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