Cloud Computing
Design, deploy and operate cloud systems with cost, security and reliability in mind.
- Mode
- Online
- Level
- Intermediate
- Certificate
- Verifiable
- Stack
- 6+ tools
Cloud and DevOps roles are among the highest-paying entry points in tech, and the bar is simple: can you actually deploy, secure and operate a real system? This program builds exactly that muscle, hands-on, from day one.
What this program actually does.
Spinning up a server is easy. Running infrastructure that's secure, cost-efficient and doesn't page you at 3am is the actual job. This program treats the cloud as a system to be designed, not a console to click around in.
You'll containerise real applications, automate their deployment, and put monitoring and cost controls around them — the full loop a cloud or DevOps engineer owns in a real team.
Who should join
- Students targeting cloud and DevOps roles
- Developers owning deployments
- IT professionals modernising stacks
- Backend engineers moving closer to infrastructure
Roles this prepares you for
Structured phases, built to compound. Here's exactly what you'll learn.
Cloud fundamentals
Compute, storage, networking and identity.
- Choose the right compute and storage option for a given workload
- Design a network layout with public and private subnets that makes sense
- Set up identity and access management the way real teams do
Containers
Docker, orchestration basics and service design.
- Containerise an application with a lean, production-shaped Dockerfile
- Understand orchestration basics well enough to reason about Kubernetes
- Design services that are stateless and easy to scale horizontally
Automation
Infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines.
- Define infrastructure as code instead of clicking through a console
- Build a CI/CD pipeline that tests before it deploys
- Manage multiple environments without config drift between them
Security
IAM policies, network isolation and secrets management.
- Write least-privilege IAM policies instead of defaulting to admin
- Isolate networks properly so a breach in one place doesn't spread
- Manage secrets without ever committing them to source control
Operations
Monitoring, incident response and cost governance.
- Set up monitoring and alerts that catch real problems, not noise
- Follow an incident response process from alert to postmortem
- Track cloud spend and catch runaway costs before the invoice does
Scaling
Load balancing, autoscaling and multi-environment design.
- Put a load balancer in front of a service the right way
- Configure autoscaling rules that respond to real load, not guesswork
- Design dev, staging and production environments that stay in sync
Technology stack
Projects
- Containerised app with automated pipeline
- Infrastructure-as-code environment
- Monitoring and alerting setup
- Autoscaling deployment under simulated load
Learning outcomes
- Deploy production-shaped environments
- Automate infrastructure safely
- Secure cloud resources by default
- Reason about reliability and cost
Online · Live mentorship · Intermediate
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