Cloud Migration Fundamentals

By Tia Williams

Learn about cloud migrations, with topics ranging from the initial planning, to the frameworks themselves, to optimization.

3 hours
  • 26 Lessons

About the course

This course covers the fundamentals of cloud migrations. We guide the student through lessons covering legacy infrastructure and applications architectures, as well as advanced cloud computing architectures. This course provides best-practices for governance and frameworks for accelerating the adoption of public, private, and hybrid cloud.

  • Chapter 1 4 Lessons Introduction 13:11

    An Important Note About A Cloud Guru and Linux Academy Courses

    1:19

    Introduction to This Course

    7:17

    Introduction to the Author

    0:36

    The State of the Cloud Report

    3:59
  • Chapter 2 4 Lessons Cloud Migration Prerequisites 33:26

    Cloud Computing Definitions and Use Cases

    8:41

    Cloud Computing Constraints

    6:55

    Legacy Infrastructure and Application Architectures

    7:43

    Decoupling, State Management, and Data Residency

    10:07
  • Chapter 3 4 Lessons Migration Planning and Discovery 32:37

    Identifying and Mitigating Risks

    6:59

    The "6 R's" of Cloud Migration

    7:08

    Asset and Application Discovery

    8:54

    Licensing, Data Sovereignty, and Governance

    9:36
  • Chapter 4 6 Lessons Cloud Migration Frameworks 47:05

    The Benefits of an Agile Approach to Migrations

    9:04

    Using a Cloud Migration Framework

    7:07

    Cloud Architectures

    6:18

    Cloud Formation Approaches

    8:13

    Migrating Data to the Cloud

    10:12

    Migrating Application Workloads

    6:11
  • Chapter 5 5 Lessons DevOps and Automated Software Deployment 38:35

    DevSecOps Pipelines

    5:24

    Elasticity and Scaling Cloud Architectures

    10:40

    The Automation Imperative

    5:06

    Containers and Cloud Orchestration

    8:05

    Monitoring and Auditing Cloud Environments

    9:20
  • Chapter 6 2 Lessons Optimizing Cloud Systems 16:04

    The Twelve-Factor App

    7:08

    The Cloud Transformation Journey

    8:56
  • Chapter 7 1 Lesson Conclusion 3:22

    Course Summary and Next Steps

    3:22

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