Cloud

Where infrastructure is heading. Cloud skills sit on top of everything in the other tracks — Linux, networking, and virtualization — and they're some of the most in-demand in the industry. This track is concept-first so the knowledge transfers across any provider.

Guides

1. What Is Cloud Computing? — IaaS/PaaS/SaaS, deployment models, the shared-responsibility model
2. Virtualization and Hypervisors — the technology cloud is built on
3. AWS, Azure & GCP: The Big Three — the core services compared, and which to learn first
4. Cloud Storage and Networking — object/block/file storage and the virtual private cloud
5. Containers and Kubernetes — containers vs VMs, Docker, and Kubernetes basics
6. OpenStack and Private Cloud — building your own cloud with open-source IaaS

Build on the foundations

Cloud makes much more sense once you know virtualization, networking, and Terraform for provisioning it as code.