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45 skills in 17 steps, from “Build a cloud infrastructure, Scaleway or Outscale” to “Test cloud code on an emulator”.

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1. 1

   Build a cloud infrastructure, Scaleway or Outscale

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   • Access your cloud account and drive it from the command line 4 lessons · ~2 h 45 · then its quiz
   • Build a multi-zone private cloud network and filter its traffic 4 lessons · ~3 h 20 · then its quiz
   • Size, create and destroy cloud instances, GPUs included 3 lessons · ~2 h 40 · then its quiz
   • Choose and operate cloud storage, block and object, up to a restored backup 5 lessons · ~4 h 45 · then its quiz
2. 2

   Industrialize the cloud as code: Terraform, Packer, Ansible

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   • Provision a cloud infrastructure in Terraform, with state on the provider's object storage 4 lessons · ~3 h 10 · then its quiz
   • Build a hardened machine image with Packer and clean up its build leftovers 1 lesson · ~1 h 00 · then its quiz
   • Configure a cloud fleet with Ansible through a dynamic inventory, idempotently 1 lesson · ~35 min · then its quiz
3. 3

   Run a managed Kubernetes in the cloud

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   • Create a managed Kubernetes cluster, size its node pools and access it with kubectl 5 lessons · ~4 h 50 · then its quiz
4. 4

   Govern and secure a Scaleway account

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   • Partition by project and keep Scaleway costs under control 2 lessons · ~1 h 10 · then its quiz
   • Give a Scaleway identity the least privilege and prove it 3 lessons · ~2 h 30 · then its quiz
   • Entrust secrets and encryption keys to Scaleway, rotate and revoke them 4 lessons · ~3 h 15 · then its quiz
5. 5

   Operate Scaleway managed services

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   • Expose a Scaleway service: Public Gateway, bastion and Load Balancer 4 lessons · ~3 h 35 · then its quiz
   • Deliver an application on Kapsule: private registry, Ingress or Load Balancer, persistent volumes 4 lessons · ~3 h 40 · then its quiz
   • Operate a managed Scaleway PostgreSQL database on a private network, back it up and restore it 2 lessons · ~2 h 10 · then its quiz
   • Observe your Scaleway resources with Cockpit and find a past incident 2 lessons · ~1 h 45 · then its quiz
6. 6

   Make Outscale reliable, audit and extend it: high availability, Well-Architected, Talos

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   • Make a service highly available across Outscale subregions: LBU and DNS, or HAProxy and a floating EIP 3 lessons · ~3 h 00
   • Assess an Outscale architecture pillar by pillar with the Well-Architected grid 8 lessons · ~5 h 35
   • Integrate a self-managed Talos Kubernetes cluster with Outscale: OMI, CCM, CSI and fGPU 2 lessons · ~2 h 00
   • Choose your Outscale region, API and qualification level 5 lessons · ~1 h 45
   • Structure Outscale identities, permissions and accounts with EIM 2 lessons · ~1 h 00
7. 7

   Design a cloud environment without depending on the provider

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   • Choose a workload's service and deployment model and split responsibilities 5 lessons · ~2 h 10 · then its quiz
   • Estimate a cloud architecture's monthly cost from dated price lists 4 lessons · ~1 h 55 · then its quiz · a lab
   • Design a cloud environment's private network: addressing, a regional network attached in several zones, routing and default-deny filtering 4 lessons · ~3 h 25 · then its quiz
   • Choose a workload's compute model and size it from measurements 5 lessons · ~1 h 50 · then its quiz
   • Choose a workload's storage family and class from access, measured performance, durability and cost 4 lessons · ~1 h 45 · then its quiz
   • Choose a data service, managed or self-managed, and connect it privately, replication and failover included 4 lessons · ~1 h 40 · then its quiz
   • Choose the interconnection and network pattern of a hybrid environment: VPN, dedicated link, BGP, DMZ and hub-spoke 2 lessons · ~40 min · then its quiz
8. 8

   Grant minimal cloud access, to humans and workloads alike

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   • Grant a human identity minimal, temporary and audited cloud permissions 5 lessons · ~2 h 25 · then its quiz
   • Let a workload reach a cloud service with no long-lived credential on disk 2 lessons · ~55 min · then its quiz
9. 9

   Expose a cloud workload and make it withstand failures

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   • Expose a private application through load balancer, health check, DNS, TLS and edge 5 lessons · ~2 h 15 · then its quiz
   • Make a workload elastic: no local state, scalable by adding instances, tolerant to losing one 2 lessons · ~55 min · then its quiz
   • Place a workload across zones and regions to meet availability, RTO and RPO targets, and prove it 4 lessons · ~2 h 00 · then its quiz
10. 10

    Rebuild and run a cloud environment

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    • Rebuild a cloud environment from code, instances bootstrapped unattended, then destroy it with nothing left 6 lessons · ~3 h 00 · then its quiz
    • Run a cloud environment: telemetry, alerts, quotas, imposed events and incidents 3 lessons · ~1 h 10 · then its quiz
11. 11

    Govern cloud usage: guardrails, costs and sovereignty

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    • Design a multi-team cloud environment's organisation: account boundaries, hierarchy and landing zone 2 lessons · ~35 min · then its quiz
    • Organize a multi-team cloud environment: separate accounts, guardrails as code and tagging 3 lessons · ~1 h 00 · then its quiz
    • Cut a cloud architecture's bill without degrading the required resilience 1 lesson · ~20 min · then its quiz
    • Assess a cloud provider on jurisdiction, dependencies, key custody and reversibility, and cost its exit 2 lessons · ~50 min · then its quiz
12. 12

    Plan the migration of an application estate to the cloud

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    • Classify an application estate with the 7Rs and sequence its migration 2 lessons · ~55 min · then its quiz
13. 13

    Defend a cloud architecture in review

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    • Defend a cloud architecture in review, with written decisions and measurements 2 lessons · ~55 min · then its quiz
14. 14

    Decide on a target cloud architecture

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    • Decide on a target cloud architecture: compare at least two complete options on six axes and write the decision as an ADR 1 lesson · ~50 min · then its quiz
15. 15

    Recommend the evolution of a cloud architecture

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    • Recommend an architecture's evolution: verifiable actions, prioritised by severity, likelihood and effort, and a plan the team can carry 1 lesson · ~50 min · then its quiz
16. 16

    Design a cloud environment's identity and access model

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    • Design a cloud environment's identity and access model with no imposed provider: federation, separation of duties, access lifecycle and traceability requirements 2 lessons · ~1 h 05 · then its quiz
17. 17

    Test cloud code on an emulator

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    • Install, declare and troubleshoot a local cloud emulator, and point the official clients at it 8 lessons · ~3 h 15 · then its quiz
    • Check that a cloud client survives API failures: 503 and 429 errors, timeouts and truncated responses 1 lesson · ~30 min · then its quiz

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