Module 2 of 4

DevOps & Cloud

Take the deployment skills from the MERN core into cloud production: containers and Kubernetes, a small AWS footprint, infrastructure as code, secrets, and incident response.

3 lessons

~12 hours

120 XP

Lesson 1advanced

Kubernetes for MERN Teams

Move from a single container to a scheduler: Deployments, Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets, probes, and the operational rules that keep a Node API healthy.

240 min40 XP4 resources

Lesson 2advanced

AWS for MERN: VPC, ECS, RDS & S3

Design a small production footprint on AWS: a VPC with public and private subnets, ECS Fargate for the API, RDS for PostgreSQL, S3 and CloudFront for assets, and IAM roles wired in safely.

270 min45 XP4 resources

Lesson 3advanced

Infrastructure as Code, Secrets & Incident Response

Make cloud infrastructure reproducible with Terraform, rotate secrets safely, define SLOs and actionable alerts, and run an incident without improvising.

210 min35 XP3 resources