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Cloud & DevOps

Cloud and DevOps skills have the highest employer demand and lowest campus coverage in India. Every member leaves able to deploy a production-grade application on real cloud infrastructure — independently, not just by following a tutorial.

This is the planned activity framework for a full academic year. It describes what each chapter is set up to run, not a record of events already delivered.

All four domains and the annual calendar

activities / year
12
certs targeted
3
live infra projects
2
hands-on labs
Monthly

The year, quarter by quarter

11 planned entries across the academic year.

  1. Jan — Mar

    1. Linux for cloud admins

      Workshop

    2. First AWS deploy

      Hands-on lab

    3. AWS CCP prep start

      Cert prep

  2. Apr — Jun

    1. Docker containerization

      Workshop

    2. CI/CD with GitHub Actions

      Build challenge

    3. AWS certification exam

      Target milestone

  3. Jul — Sep

    1. Kubernetes 2-day workshop

      Intensive

    2. Terraform IaC lab

      Lab session

    3. SRE & monitoring setup

      Workshop

  4. Oct — Dec

    1. Cloud infrastructure hackathon

      24-hour event

    2. Architecture showcase day

      Flagship

Flagship event

Flagship — Annual

Multi-team Cloud Infrastructure Hackathon

24-hour event where teams build and deploy a complete cloud-native application — frontend, backend, database, CI/CD pipeline, and monitoring — all on real cloud. Judged on uptime, architecture decisions, and cost optimization. Cloud sponsors provide free credits.

  • Architecture quality
  • Uptime and reliability
  • CI/CD implementation
  • Cost optimization
  • Security posture

Activities

Monthly workshops

  • Cloud fundamentals workshop

    Monthly

    Hands-on labs using AWS Free Tier. Students deploy, not watch. Each month covers one service: EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, IAM. Every session ends with a running app on real infrastructure.

    • AWS Free Tier
    • GCP
    • Azure for Students
    • EC2

  • DevOps engineer guest sessions

    Monthly

    Working DevOps/SRE/Cloud engineers share what their day looks like, incidents they've handled, and tools they actually use. Guests bring real architecture diagrams (anonymized).

    • Production incidents
    • Architecture deep-dives
    • Career paths

Quarterly intensives

  • CI/CD pipeline build challenge

    Quarterly

    Teams build a complete CI/CD pipeline — commit triggers tests, build, Docker image, and cloud deploy. Uses GitHub Actions (free). The single most in-demand DevOps skill in hiring.

    • GitHub Actions
    • Docker
    • Automated testing

  • Docker and Kubernetes deep dive

    Quarterly

    Day 1: containerize and push to Docker Hub. Day 2: deploy on Kubernetes with Minikube. Students leave with a container-native project. K8s is the #1 cloud skill gap in Indian fresher hiring.

    • Docker
    • Kubernetes
    • Minikube

  • Infrastructure as Code lab

    Twice/year

    Students provision full cloud environments with Terraform — VPC, subnets, EC2, security groups — then tear it down with one command. The leap from "I use cloud" to "I build cloud infrastructure."

    • Terraform
    • Ansible
    • CloudFormation

  • SRE and monitoring workshop

    Twice/year

    Set up Prometheus and Grafana to monitor a live app. Define SLOs, create dashboards, configure alerts. Teaches what "keeping production running" actually means in practice.

    • Prometheus
    • Grafana
    • SLOs
    • Alerting

Skill progression

  1. Level 01

    Cloud basics

    Months 1 – 3

    • Linux for cloud admins
    • First AWS Free Tier deploy
    • S3 static site hosting
    • EC2 management basics

  2. Level 02

    DevOps practitioner

    Months 4 – 8

    • Docker containers
    • GitHub Actions CI/CD
    • AWS Solutions Architect prep
    • Terraform basics

  3. Level 03

    Cloud engineer

    Months 9 – 12

    • Kubernetes in production
    • Multi-cloud architecture
    • SRE practices
    • Cost optimization strategies

Tools used

Target outcomes