Certificate on Cloud Operations

Automating Cloud Infrastructure: When there are no physical servers left in the building, what do you do everyday? When users complain of performance issues with your services, how do you solve the problem? How do you scale infrastructure up and down? How do you move from expensive computers to commodity computers?

While building fault tolerance in an inherently fractured chain (the Internet)? This module helps you study the management of cloud operations, addressing the application need for compute power, managing CPU scaling, and meeting structured/unstructured storage requirements.

The module introduces the modern concept of cloud devops and delves deeper into using open source automated cloud configuration and deployment management tools. Using chef, knife, cookbooks and recipes, you will learn how to painlessly deploy fairly complex applications that scale across multiple instances in the Amazon Web Services cloud.

There are numerous exercises using open source tools such as Chef. The final exam builds on this. As an example, some past participants finished launching WordPress on Digital Ocean and some others installed Wikipedia on AWS in under 35 minutes.

On successful completion, you get the Cloud Operations certificate from NJIT.