Skill
CI/CD & cloud basics
Pipelines that test and deploy on every push, plus the small slice of cloud and infrastructure-as-code that a solo developer actually uses.
Do these first
What you will be able to do
- Build a CI pipeline with tests, lint and build gates
- Deploy automatically on merge with a rollback path
- Describe what your cloud provider is doing under the console
Curated resources
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Complete GitHub Actions Course - From BEGINNER to PRO
DevOps Directive3h 43m
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Score 86
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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Certification Course 2026 (CLF-C02) - Pass the Exam!
freeCodeCamp.org13h 46m
A thirteen-and-a-half-hour 2026 course aligned to the current CLF-C02 exam, covering IAM, compute, storage, networking, billing and architecture. Even if you skip the exam, it is the most systematic tour of what cloud providers actually offer.
Score 83
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2h 21mMore curatedyoutube courseintermediate
Terraform Course - Automate your AWS cloud infrastructure
freeCodeCamp.org2h 21m
Two and a half hours provisioning real AWS infrastructure with Terraform — providers, variables, state, modules — ending with a reproducible environment. The best free introduction to treating infrastructure as code.
Score 81
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20h 3mMore curatedyoutube coursebeginner
Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer Course - Pass the Exam!
freeCodeCamp.org20h 3m
Twenty hours of guided Google Cloud labs covering compute, storage, networking, IAM, containers and monitoring — the multi-cloud counterweight to the AWS course in this category. The console walkthroughs and quiz-style pacing make it the most practical free route into a second cloud.
Score 76
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