Following its first certification Cloud Concepts 101, Advanced Deployments is aimed at developers, technical partners and DevOps teams who want to go further in their use of Clever Cloud: understanding the build / run cycle, configuring their environments, managing persistence, and making deployments more reproducible with Terraform.
With this second certification, Clever Cloud continues its educational path around cloud computing and its platform, with a concrete, progressive and directly applicable approach.
Understanding advanced deployments on Clever Cloud
The Advanced Deployments certification is built around five main modules:
- Systems integrated into deployments: understand the full deployment cycle, from build to run, including logs, isolation, immutability, scaling, and the differences between build flavour and run flavour.
- Advanced configuration through environment variables: learn how to interact properly with the platform, contextualise instances, organise environments, and use variables as a central configuration mechanism.
- Language-specific environment variables: understand how Clever Cloud configures runtimes across ecosystems such as Node.js, PHP, Python, Java or Docker, and how to adjust versions, build behaviour, execution, memory and performance.
- Storage and persistence management: distinguish between stateless and stateful approaches, choose the right storage add-ons, manage persistence in a distributed environment, and anticipate concurrency, backup and high-availability challenges.
- Deploying with Terraform: discover Infrastructure as Code in a PaaS context, configure the Clever Cloud provider, describe applications, databases and storage in HCL files, and build reproducible, versionable environments.
A certification designed for real-world environments
In the life of a project, needs evolve quickly. One application becomes several environments. A simple configuration becomes a set of variables to organise. A database, a cache or object storage may become part of the architecture. And when infrastructure needs to be reproduced, audited or shared, Terraform becomes a valuable ally.
Advanced Deployments supports this gradual increase in complexity. It helps users better understand the platform’s mechanisms, diagnose build or runtime errors more quickly, configure environments properly, and manage deployments in a more reliable and reproducible way.
Showcasing your progress
As with Cloud Concepts 101, people who validate the Advanced Deployments certification can showcase this new step in their learning path.
They receive a digital badge, which they can add to their LinkedIn profile to highlight their growing expertise on Clever Cloud and advanced deployments.
The Cloud Concepts 101 certification worked very well because it answered a simple need: understanding Clever Cloud without having to learn everything at once. With Advanced Deployments, we wanted to keep this progressive approach while applying it to topics that are closer to the everyday work of technical teams: variables, runtimes, persistence and Terraform. Most of the work was about making these concepts readable, without oversimplifying them.
Clément Nivolle
Chief of Support Experience at Clever Cloud
Take Advanced Deployments now
The Advanced Deployments certification is now available on the Clever Cloud Academy.
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