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Cloud and DevOps Basics

4 mini courses, 15 lessons: cloud building blocks, shipping code, running production, and cost and security

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15 lessons · ~3 hours · 30-question final exam · pass mark 70%

About the course

What you’ll learn

How real software gets built, shipped and kept running. Learn the cloud's building blocks (compute, storage, databases and networking), then Git workflows, Docker, CI/CD pipelines and configuration, then scaling, monitoring, incidents and reliability, and finally cloud costs, security and infrastructure as code. Concepts apply to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Indian providers alike. Pass every lesson quiz and the final exam to earn a verifiable certificate.

Cloud computingDevOpsDockerCI/CDMonitoringCloud security

Part of the career tracks: Web Developer, GenAI and LLM Builder, Cybersecurity and Connected Systems

How the certificate works

  1. Read each lesson’s study guide, then the full lesson and any notebooks or exercises.
  2. Pass every lesson quiz with 70% or more.
  3. Pass the final exam: 30 questions in 45 minutes.
  4. Get a certificate with a public verification link, and add it to LinkedIn.

Syllabus

15 lessons in 4 mini courses

Each mini course takes about an hour. Already know one? Test out in the app and skip it.

1. Cloud building blocks

Choose compute, storage, database and networking services for an app.

1
What the Cloud Is
10 min · The cloud is rented computing, paid for by use.
2
Compute: VMs, Containers and Serverless
10 min · VMs: rented servers with full control; you manage them.
3
Storage and Databases
10 min · Object storage holds files cheaply by key: uploads, images, backups.
4
Networking in the Cloud
12 min · A VPC is your private network, split into public and private subnets.

2. Shipping code

Use Git workflows, Docker and CI/CD to ship code safely.

5
Git Workflows for Teams
10 min · Main stays deployable; work happens on short-lived branches.
6
Containers with Docker
12 min · Docker packages an app with its dependencies into an image.
7
CI/CD Pipelines
12 min · CI builds and tests every change automatically.
8
Environments, Config and Secrets
10 min · Development, staging and production run the same code with different config.

3. Running in production

Scale, monitor and recover a running service.

9
Scaling and Kubernetes Basics
12 min · Scale up (bigger machine) or out (more machines).
10
Monitoring, Logs and Alerts
12 min · Metrics, logs and traces are the three pillars of observability.
11
Incidents and Postmortems
10 min · An incident is anything that hurts users.
12
Reliability: SLOs, Backups and Failure
12 min · SLI: the measurement; SLO: the target; error budget: allowed failure.

4. Cost, security and automation

Control cloud costs, secure access and automate infrastructure.

13
Cloud Costs
10 min · Everything is metered, including data transfer out.
14
Cloud Security and IAM
12 min · Shared responsibility: provider secures infrastructure; you secure your setup.
15
Infrastructure as Code
10 min · IaC describes infrastructure in files that tools apply.

Written by Vikosha. Lessons, questions and exercises are original. Licence: Original Vikosha course..