--- title: Cloud DevOps description: Cloud DevOps combines software development and IT operations within cloud environments to accelerate software delivery. Learners will understand cloud infrastructure provisioning, automated deployment pipelines, monitoring, and how to manage scalable applications on platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP. category: programming-tech subcategory: devops difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/cloud-devops --- # Cloud DevOps Cloud DevOps combines software development and IT operations within cloud environments to accelerate software delivery. Learners will understand cloud infrastructure provisioning, automated deployment pipelines, monitoring, and how to manage scalable applications on platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP. ## Available Resources 2 Videos • 4 Books • 3 Courses • 3 Websites ## Videos ### 1. Kubernetes Course - Full Beginners Tutorial (Container Fundamentals) Four-hour course covering Kubernetes architecture, pods, deployments, services, ConfigMaps, secrets, volumes, StatefulSets, and Helm, with hands-on Minikube demos. Viewers finish able to write manifests and deploy a multi-container application to a cluster. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X48VuDVv0do **Tags:** kubernetes, minikube, helm, containers, devops ### 2. Docker Tutorial for Beginners Nana Janashia's three-hour walkthrough of Docker for developers: container versus image, Dockerfiles, volumes, Docker Compose, and a private registry, built around one demo application. Ends with deploying that app as containers on a server. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c-iBn73dDE **Tags:** docker, containers, docker-compose, dockerfile, devops ## Courses ### 1. Kubernetes for the Absolute Beginners - Hands-on Learn Kubernetes from scratch with hands-on labs! Taught by Mumshad Mannambeth, master containerization and deployment today. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.udemy.com/course/learn-kubernetes/ **Tags:** kubernetes, containers, hands-on-labs, yaml, deployment ### 2. Docker and Kubernetes: The Complete Guide Master Docker & Kubernetes with Stephen Grider's complete course! Learn containerization from development to deployment. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.udemy.com/course/docker-and-kubernetes-the-complete-guide/ **Tags:** docker, kubernetes, ci-cd, containers, deployment ### 3. AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional AWS's own exam-preparation material for the Certified DevOps Engineer Professional credential, covering CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, monitoring and logging, incident response, and security and compliance controls on AWS. Assumes prior hands-on experience administering AWS environments. **Difficulty:** Advanced | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://aws.amazon.com/training/digital/aws-certified-devops-engineer-professional/ **Tags:** aws, ci-cd, infrastructure-as-code, certification, devops ## Websites ### 1. roadmap.sh/devops An interactive step-by-step path through DevOps skills, from operating systems and scripting to containers, CI/CD, infrastructure as code and observability. Each node links to vetted free material, and progress can be tracked node by node. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://roadmap.sh/devops **Tags:** devops, learning-roadmap, ci-cd, containers, observability ### 2. learn.microsoft.com/azure/devops Microsoft Learn’s Azure DevOps section provides official documentation, tutorials, and learning paths for using Azure DevOps Services (Boards, Repos, Pipelines, Artifacts, and Test Plans) to plan, build, test, and deploy software. It includes hands-on labs and practical guidance to help developers adopt DevOps practices in the cloud. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/devops **Tags:** websites, technology-computer-science, devops--cloud ### 3. cloud.google.com/devops Official Google Cloud hub for DevOps on Google Cloud, offering docs, tutorials, and best practices to plan, build, test, and deploy applications. Find guides on CI/CD pipelines, tooling (Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, Kubernetes), architectures, and real-world case studies. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://cloud.google.com/devops **Tags:** websites, technology-computer-science, devops--cloud ## Podcasts ### 1. The Cloud Pod **Author:** Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matthew Kohn Weekly news podcast in which four cloud practitioners review announcements from AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, discussing Kubernetes, serverless, infrastructure as code and AI services. Listeners stay current on cloud platform changes and what they mean for engineering and operations teams. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** en-US | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.thecloudpod.net/series/the-cloud-pod/ **Tags:** cloud-computing, cloud-news, aws, azure, google-cloud, devops ### 2. Arrested DevOps **Author:** Matt Stratton, Trevor Hess, Jessica Kerr, and Bridget Kromhout Arrested DevOps is the podcast that helps you achieve understanding, develop good practices, and operate your team and organization for maximum DevOps awesomeness. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en-us | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.arresteddevops.com/ **Tags:** devops-culture, podcast, engineering-teams, continuous-delivery ### 3. DevOps Cafe **Author:** John Willis & Damon Edwards In this interview driven show, John Willis and Damon Edwards take a pragmatic look at the technology, tools, and business developments behind the emerging DevOps movement. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://devopscafe.org **Tags:** devops-culture, podcast, interviews, continuous-delivery ## Books ### 1. Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes **Author:** John Arundel, Justin Domingus An operations-focused guide to running Kubernetes in production: cluster architecture, deployments, configuration and secrets, resource limits, observability, and cost control. Written for engineers who already know containers and now have to operate a cluster. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1492040762?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, technology-computer-science, devops--cloud ### 2. The DevOps Handbook **Author:** Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis The practical companion to The Phoenix Project, laying out the Three Ways: flow, feedback, and continual learning. Covers deployment pipelines, telemetry, low-risk releases and organizational change, with case studies from Etsy, Google and Amazon. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1942788002?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, technology-computer-science, cloud-computing ### 3. Site Reliability Engineering **Author:** Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, Niall Richard Murphy Google's account of how it runs production systems: service level objectives, error budgets, eliminating toil, monitoring, release engineering and postmortem culture. Essays by practicing SREs rather than a manual, so expect principles plus internal case studies. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/149192912X?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, technology-computer-science, cloud-computing ### 4. Accelerate **Author:** Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim Reports four years of survey research identifying which practices actually predict software delivery performance, defining the four DORA metrics and linking them to organizational outcomes. Half the book is the statistical methodology behind those claims. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1942788339?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, technology-computer-science, cloud-computing --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/cloud-devops