Cloud Infrastructure Management Courses and Certifications

CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]

Stormdriver: Clouddriver Aggregation for Spinnaker - One Year Later

Explore Stormdriver's evolution, deployment experiences, and architectural insights for enhanced reliability, scalability, and team isolation in large-scale Spinnaker implementations.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Amazon Web Services;  Amazon

Secure your account during an active event

Learn to secure AWS accounts during active events, using CloudTrail logs, EC2 protection features, EventBridge with SNS for notifications, and Instance Scheduler for automated instance management.

• AWS Skill Builder
• 1-2 hours
• On-Demand
• Paid Course

Ubuntu OnAir

Juju Charm School - Creating Your Own Juju Plugins

Learn to create custom Juju plugins, enhancing your cloud orchestration capabilities and extending Juju's functionality for more efficient and tailored infrastructure management.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]

Deep Dive into Autoscaling

Explore HPA, VPA, and Cluster Autoscaler internals to optimize autoscaling, reduce costs, and improve availability. Learn debugging techniques and fine-tuning strategies for Kubernetes autoscalers.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]

Deja Vu - Let's Think About Security Again

Explore cloud-native security transformations, DevSecOps, and Zero Trust in Crossplane. Discuss potential gaps, new tools, and best practices for developers and security experts in cloud infrastructure management.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]

Crossplane: Cloud Native Control Plane Framework - Introduction and Deep Dive

Explore Crossplane, a CNCF project for composing cloud infrastructure into custom platform APIs. Learn key features, use cases, and how to build your own control plane.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]

Ephemeral Clusters as a Service with ClusterAPI and GitOps

Explore GitOps, ClusterAPI, and open-source tools for managing multiple Kubernetes clusters across cloud providers, addressing observability and security challenges at scale.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

EuroPython Conference

Snakes on a Cloud - The OpenStack Project

Explore OpenStack, an open-source cloud computing platform. Learn about its architecture, components, and how it's revolutionizing cloud infrastructure deployment and management.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Building Open Cloud Native Storage Observability with Delfin - Lecture

Explore cloud-native storage observability with Delfin, focusing on container deployments, heterogeneous storage monitoring, and Kubernetes integration for comprehensive data insights across hybrid environments.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Simplifying Cloud Operations with Microsoft Copilot for Azure

Discover how Microsoft Copilot for Azure leverages LLMs to enhance productivity, generate insights, and simplify operations across your Azure portfolio, bringing a new level of efficiency to cloud infrastructure management.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Black Hat

OpenStack Cloud at Yahoo Scale - How to Avoid Disaster

Learn strategies to secure large-scale OpenStack deployments, including hardening techniques, compromise mitigation, and network architecture considerations, based on Yahoo's experience managing massive cloud infrastructure.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Oracle

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution - Sizing and Scaling

Explore Oracle Cloud VMware Solution sizing, scaling, and performance factors. Learn how OCVS differentiates from on-premises solutions and discover sizing strategies for various workloads.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Terraform Fundamentals

In this hands-on-lab you will create infrastructure, a virtual machine, using Terraform in the cloud environment.

• Google Cloud Skills Boost
• On-Demand
• Paid Course

USENIX

Untangling the Tangled Cloud

Strategies for organizing cloud resources into logical groups, focusing on high cohesion and low coupling. Introduces Ferent, an open-source tool for measuring inter-project dependencies in Google Cloud.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

The Only Constant Is Change - Lessons from a 25 Year SRE Career

Explore the evolution of SRE over 25 years, gaining insights on essential career skills and future trends in tech infrastructure management from an industry veteran's perspective.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk