Cloud Fundamentals — Mandragore Academy

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Cloud Fundamentals — Catalog

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Each course brings together 8 interactive lessons in a Learning Workspace designed to turn knowledge into operational skills. Guided lessons, practical cases, dynamic quizzes, conversational support, and progress tracking let you learn effectively, at your own pace. The 15 courses follow a level-by-level progression, from Cloud Computing fundamentals to designing and deploying a complete, resilient and cost-optimized Cloud architecture.

🎓 15 courses • 📘 120 interactive lessons • ⏱️ 45 to 75 hours of conversational training

5 levels: Level 1 — 9,90 € excl. VAT Level 2 — 12,90 € excl. VAT Level 3 — 15,90 € excl. VAT Level 4 — 18,90 € excl. VAT Level 5 — 24,90 € excl. VAT

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Complete Pack — Cloud Fundamentals

🎓 Certificate : "Professional Cloud" 247,50 €

📚 15 courses 📖 120 lessons ⏱ 45 to 75 h ⚡ 1800 credits included

142,90 € excl. VAT

Savings : 104,60 €

Cloud Foundations Pack 3 courses

🎓 Certificate : Cloud — Cloud Foundations

📚 3 courses 📖 24 lessons ⏱ 9 to 15 h ⚡ 240 credits included

29,70 €

22,90 excl. VAT

Savings : 6,80 €

01 Level 1

Understand Cloud Computing and its models

understand Cloud principles and choose between service and deployment models based on the need

Understand what truly characterizes Cloud Computing Compare traditional infrastructure and Cloud resources Distinguish IaaS, PaaS and SaaS Compare public, private and hybrid Cloud Understand elasticity, resource pooling and on-demand service Understand regions, zones and resource location Identify managed services and associated responsibilities Workshop: choose a Cloud model for three business needs

📚 8 lessons ⏱ 3 to 5 h 🎯 Quiz included ⚡ 80 credits included

02 Level 1

Understand the fundamental building blocks of the Cloud

identify the compute, network, storage and data building blocks that make up a Cloud architecture

Understand Cloud compute resources Size CPU, memory and capacity Understand storage, network and IP addresses Place DNS and load balancing within an architecture Understand data service families Distinguish dedicated resources from managed services Read a Cloud architecture diagram Workshop: map the resources of an application

📚 8 lessons ⏱ 3 to 5 h 🎯 Quiz included ⚡ 80 credits included

03 Level 1

Secure identities, access and data in the Cloud

apply fundamental protections to identities, secrets, data and Cloud responsibilities

Understand the shared responsibility model Organize accounts, users, roles and service identities Apply least privilege and separation of duties Strengthen access with MFA and contextual controls Protect secrets, keys and configuration information Encrypt data at rest and in transit Log actions and introduce Zero Trust principles Workshop: build the access matrix of a Cloud environment

📚 8 lessons ⏱ 3 to 5 h 🎯 Quiz included ⚡ 80 credits included

Infrastructure and Cloud Services Pack 3 courses

🎓 Certificate : Cloud — Infrastructure and Cloud Services

📚 3 courses 📖 24 lessons ⏱ 9 to 15 h ⚡ 300 credits included

38,70 €

28,90 excl. VAT

Savings : 9,80 €

04 Level 2

Design a Cloud network

organize the flows of a Cloud architecture with subnets, routing, filtering and controlled exposure

Understand virtual networks and the Cloud network perimeter Design public and private subnets Master IP addresses, routes and gateways Understand NAT and outbound access Filter traffic with firewalls and security rules Publish a service with a load balancer and DNS Understand CDN and content distribution Workshop: design the network of a three-tier application

📚 8 lessons ⏱ 3 to 5 h 🎯 Quiz included ⚡ 100 credits included

05 Level 2

Choose and deploy the right compute model

choose between virtual machine, container, managed platform and serverless based on workload constraints

Understand the virtual machine model Understand the container model Discover managed application platforms Understand serverless functions and services Compare control, portability and operational overhead Compare scalability, startup time and cost models Choose a compute model based on the workload Workshop: deploy and justify the compute for a business service

📚 8 lessons ⏱ 3 to 5 h 🎯 Quiz included ⚡ 100 credits included

06 Level 2

Store and manage data in the Cloud

choose storage and data services suited to performance, volume, durability and use cases

Compare object, block and file storage Choose storage based on performance and access Understand managed SQL databases and associated responsibilities Understand NoSQL and main use cases Use a cache to reduce latency and load Manage replication, durability and availability Organize backups, restoration and lifecycle Workshop: design the data strategy of an application

📚 8 lessons ⏱ 3 to 5 h 🎯 Quiz included ⚡ 100 credits included

Cloud Native and Automation Pack 3 courses

🎓 Certificate : Cloud — Cloud Native and Automation

📚 3 courses 📖 24 lessons ⏱ 9 to 15 h ⚡ 360 credits included

47,70 €

35,90 excl. VAT

Savings : 11,80 €

07 Level 3

Build and run containers

package an application into a portable image and run it in a reproducible way

Understand image, container and runtime Understand image layers and registries Build a first application image Configure environment variables and ports Manage volumes and persistent data Understand container networking and communication Reduce the size, privileges and attack surface of an image Workshop: build, publish and run a container

📚 8 lessons ⏱ 3 to 5 h 🎯 Quiz included ⚡ 120 credits included

08 Level 3

Understand orchestration with Kubernetes

understand how Kubernetes deploys, exposes, configures and scales containerized applications

Understand the cluster, control plane and worker nodes Understand the Pod as the deployment unit Deploy an application with a Deployment Expose an application with a Service Manage configuration with ConfigMap and Secret Define resources, probes and health behavior Understand scaling and rolling updates Workshop: read and deploy a simple Kubernetes application

📚 8 lessons ⏱ 3 to 5 h 🎯 Quiz included ⚡ 120 credits included

09 Level 3

Automate infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code

describe, version, preview and deploy infrastructure in a reproducible way

Understand Infrastructure as Code and its benefits Install and initialize an OpenTofu project Declare a provider and first resources Configure with variables and outputs Understand infrastructure state Preview changes with plan Apply, modify and destroy in a controlled way Workshop: version and provision reproducible infrastructure

📚 8 lessons ⏱ 3 to 5 h 🎯 Quiz included ⚡ 120 credits included

Operations, Resilience and Costs Pack 3 courses

🎓 Certificate : Cloud — Operations, Resilience and Costs

📚 3 courses 📖 24 lessons ⏱ 9 to 15 h ⚡ 420 credits included

56,70 €

42,90 excl. VAT

Savings : 13,80 €

10 Level 4

Monitor and observe Cloud services

use metrics, logs and traces to understand the health, performance and errors of a service

Understand monitoring, observability and telemetry Use health and performance metrics Structure and centralize logs Understand distributed traces and correlation Create useful dashboards and visualizations Design actionable alerts and reduce noise Introduce SLIs, SLOs and reliability targets Workshop: diagnose an incident from metrics, logs and traces

📚 8 lessons ⏱ 3 to 5 h 🎯 Quiz included ⚡ 140 credits included

11 Level 4

Design availability, scalability and resilience

design services able to withstand failures, load and continuity objectives

Distinguish availability, reliability and resilience Compare vertical and horizontal scaling Distribute load and use health checks Build a multi-zone architecture Understand replication and fault tolerance Define RPO and RTO based on business needs Design backup, restoration and disaster recovery Workshop: improve the resilience of a fragile architecture

📚 8 lessons ⏱ 3 to 5 h 🎯 Quiz included ⚡ 140 credits included

12 Level 4

Master Cloud capacity, consumption and costs

manage Cloud resources based on their value, usage and cost rather than simple oversizing

Understand consumption units and the Cloud bill Analyze compute, storage, network and managed services Size and remove unused resources Use autoscaling and capacity planning Structure tags, budgets and cost allocation Forecast spending and detect drifts Apply a FinOps approach to value optimization Workshop: reduce the cost of an architecture without degrading the service

📚 8 lessons ⏱ 3 to 5 h 🎯 Quiz included ⚡ 140 credits included

Professional Cloud Mastery Pack 3 courses

🎓 Certificate : Cloud — Professional Cloud Mastery

📚 3 courses 📖 24 lessons ⏱ 9 to 15 h ⚡ 480 credits included

74,70 €

48,90 excl. VAT

Savings : 25,80 €

13 Level 5

Design a modern Cloud architecture

turn business and technical needs into a coherent, secure and operable Cloud architecture

Turn business needs into architecture requirements Choose the boundaries between frontend, API and services Design network, exposure and trust flows Choose compute, containers and managed services Choose storage, database and cache Integrate IAM, secrets and security controls Integrate observability, resilience and cost constraints Workshop: produce and defend a target Cloud architecture

📚 8 lessons ⏱ 3 to 5 h 🎯 Quiz included ⚡ 160 credits included

14 Level 5

Deploy a complete application in the Cloud

deploy a containerized application connected to a SQL database with configuration, security and monitoring

Prepare a FastAPI application for the Cloud Containerize the application and manage its configuration Provision network and resources with IaC Deploy a managed SQL database Deploy the API and connect the services Configure identities, secrets and access rules Add health checks, logs, metrics and alerts Workshop: validate the full deployment and its operation

📚 8 lessons ⏱ 3 to 5 h 🎯 Quiz included ⚡ 160 credits included

15 Level 5

Full professional Cloud project

design and defend the architecture and Cloud deployment of a business application end to end

Scope the need, users and constraints Design the architecture and network Choose compute, storage and data services Define identities, secrets and essential protections Automate infrastructure and deployment Design observability, availability and recovery Evaluate consumption, costs and optimizations Final workshop: present and defend the complete Cloud solution

📚 8 lessons ⏱ 3 to 5 h 🎯 Quiz included ⚡ 160 credits included