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Skill · Cloud · Build a cloud infrastructure, Scaleway or Outscale

Size, create and destroy cloud instances, GPUs included

Choose the right instance type on OUTSCALE or Scaleway, GPUs included, create it, size it to the need and destroy it to stop paying for it.

Start lesson 1The Cloud domain

• 3 lessons
• ~2 h 40 of reading
• 3 quizzes
• 0 proof lab

The path

Where it comes from, where it leads

What you need to know first, where you stand on this skill, and what it opens next. Your status is computed in your browser, from what you have read and passed.

Before · 1 prerequisite

• Access your cloud account and drive it from the command line

Depending on the chosen tool, you also need:

• Scaleway (default)

  nothing more

• Outscale

  • Build a multi-zone private cloud network and filter its traffic

Recommended before · 1

• Access a machine over SSH

This skill, for you

Size, create and destroy cloud instances, GPUs included

Computing

It unlocks · 5 skills

• Configure a cloud fleet with Ansible through a dynamic inventory, idempotently
• Build a hardened machine image with Packer and clean up its build leftovers
• Expose a Scaleway service: Public Gateway, bastion and Load Balancer
• Choose and operate cloud storage, block and object, up to a restored backup
• Provision a cloud infrastructure in Terraform, with state on the provider's object storage

Lessons

How to learn it

This skill is learned with the tool of your choice; your preferences decide the path followed in your journey. Each path lists its lessons in program order.

With Outscale

2 lessons · ~50 min

1. 1Calcul : instances TINA et sizing (in French)· 25 min
2. 2fGPU : GPU NVIDIA à la demande (in French)· 25 min

With Scaleway

3 lessons · ~2 h 40 default

Part 1 · Prendre en main Scaleway (in French) 1 lesson · ~1 h 00

1. 1Créer votre première Instance et s'y connecter en SSH (in French)· 60 min

Part 2 · Fondations : gouvernance, compute et stockage (in French) 2 lessons · ~1 h 40

1. 2Images, cloud-init et snapshots : personnaliser et cloner (in French)· 65 min
2. 3GPU Instances et Elastic Metal : IA, calcul et bare metal (in French)· 35 min

Beyond the lessons

Assess, practise, pass the proof

Reading a lesson confirms nothing. A skill is confirmed by a passed quiz, practised in a guided lab, and put to the test by a challenge or a mission; an imported lab result is not verified by the site.

Assess yourself

3 quizzes

At the end of the lessons: passed at 70%, they confirm the skill.

Practice

No guided lab

No guided lab practices it yet.

Proof

No proof

Neither a challenge nor a mission with a proof yet.

Around it

Who requires it, who teaches it

Required by

• Cloud Engineer

Taught by

• Outscale (in French)
• Scaleway (in French)

Tool of your choice: Outscale or Scaleway.

Same block · Build a cloud infrastructure, Scaleway or Outscale

• Access your cloud account and drive it from the command line
• Build a multi-zone private cloud network and filter its traffic
• Choose and operate cloud storage, block and object, up to a restored backup

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