Cloud Computing 101: Master the Fundamentals

Course Overview

This course is a 101 on cloud computing, it takes you through the fundamentals of the cloud you need to know to develop and deploy applications for the cloud. The course is platform-agnostic, and the concepts discussed apply to all cloud platforms: AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, IBM Cloud,... See More

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Faster than videos

Videos are holding you back. The average video tutorial is spoken at 150 words per minute, while you can read at 250. That‘s why our courses are text-based.

Progress you can show

Built in assessments let you test your skills. Completion certificates let you show them off.

Course Contents

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1. Introduction

About This Course

Introduction to Cloud Computing - Part 1

Introduction to Cloud Computing – Part 2

Why Use Cloud? – Part 1

Why Use Cloud? – Part 2

Cloud Deployment Models – Part 1

Cloud Deployment Models – Part 2

Cloud Service Models - Part 1

Cloud Service Models - Part 2

Introduction to Cloud - Quiz 1

Functions as a Service (FaaS) – Part 1

Functions as a Service FaaS - Part 2

Functions as a Service FaaS - Part 3

Serverless

Cloud Workload

Cloud Instances and Auto-Scaling - Part 1

Cloud Instances and Auto-Scaling - Part 2

Cloud Instances and Auto-Scaling - Part 3

Introduction to Cloud - Quiz 2

2. Clustering

Clusters and High Availability - Part 1

Clusters and High Availability - Part 2

Redundancy

Replication

Clustering – Quiz 1

How Nodes Work Together in a Cluster? - Part 1

How Nodes Work Together in a Cluster? - Part 2

Achieving Consensus in a Cluster – Part 1

Achieving Consensus in a Cluster – Part 2

Clustering – Quiz 2

3. Global Deployment

How Cloud Deploys our Application Across the Globe? – Part 1

How Cloud Deploys our Application Across the Globe? – Part 2

How Cloud Deploys our Application Across the Globe? – Part 3

Scaling with Commodity off the Shelf Hardware

Edge Network

Global Deployment Quiz

4. Deployment Infrastructure and Technologies

Cloud Infrastructure Stack

Multitenancy and the Noisy Neighbor Problem

Bare Metal, Hypervisor, and VMs

Introduction to Containers

Containers and VMs – Picking the Right Technology

Deployment Infrastructure – Quiz 1

Microservices Deployment with Containers – Part 1

Microservices Deployment with Containers – Part 2

Container Orchestration – Part 1

Container Orchestration – Part 2

Cloud-Native and Infrastructure as Code

Deployment Infrastructure – Quiz 2

5. Deployment Workflow

Continuous Delivery and Deployment – Part 1

Continuous Delivery and Deployment – Part 2

CI/CD Deployment Pipeline – Part 1

CI/CD Deployment Pipeline – Part 2

Continuous Monitoring – Part 1

Continuous Monitoring – Part 2

Continuous Monitoring – Part 3

DevOps

Deployment Workflow Quiz

6. Cloud Storage

Data Storage Infrastructure – Part 1

Data Storage Infrastructure – Part 2

Data Storage Infrastructure – Part 3

Cloud Storage – Quiz 1

File Storage

Block Storage

Object Storage – Part 1

Object Storage – Part 2

Object Storage – Part 3

Cloud Storage – Quiz 2

7. More on Cloud

Picking the Right Cloud Provider for Your Application - Part 1

Picking the Right Cloud Provider for Your Application - Part 2

Picking the Right Cloud Provider for Your Application - Part 3

Epilogue