Cloud & Deployment
The orientation course before you specialize: 25 lessons on how code becomes a live, production website -- deployment fundamentals, domains and DNS, HTTPS, hosting categories, environment variables and secrets, cloud service models, serverless and CDN, production databases, scaling, monitoring, security, and disaster recovery -- with a deployment decision guide, a troubleshooting flow, and a production checklist, closing with real architecture design projects. Points to this site's dedicated Docker, Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes, Networking, and CI/CD tutorials for hands-on depth rather than repeating them.
25 Lessons · 720 min · Learning Platform Editorial Team
What you need on the desk
- A web browser -- most of this course is conceptual
- Optionally a code editor and terminal for the hands-on project lessons
- No cloud account is strictly required to follow the concepts, though having one helps for the projects
Know this much before you start
- Basic computer and web literacy -- what a website, a file, and a browser are. Full beginner sections assume no DevOps or infrastructure background.
- Helpful but not required: HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Git basics, and a terminal -- this course explains what it means when it uses them, but doesn't teach them from scratch (this site's own Git and Bash tutorials cover those).
- This course is deliberately the CONCEPTUAL layer, not the hands-on execution layer -- for real practice with any one piece, it points to this site's dedicated Docker, Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes, Networking, and CI/CD tutorials rather than re-teaching their mechanics.
By the end, you can
- Explain the full path a request takes from typing a domain to a rendered page -- DNS, HTTPS, server/CDN, response
- Choose confidently between static hosting, a managed platform, a VPS, serverless, and containers for a given project
- Configure environment variables and secrets safely, and explain why they must never reach frontend code
- Design a production architecture diagram for a real SaaS-shaped app, naming what each component does
- Use a systematic troubleshooting method (domain -> HTTPS -> server -> application) to diagnose a broken deployment
- Explain what production readiness actually requires beyond a successful deploy: monitoring, backups, rollback, security
- Identify the specific review a vibe-coded or AI-generated app needs before it's safe in front of real users