Intro to Cloud & IaaS

Throughout the DevOps Bootcamp, we will install and configure :

We don't install it locally on our laptop!

💡 Realistic way: Install them on remote dedicated servers in cloud Jenkins Build Automation Deploy own Applications on Servers & more

What is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)?

Offers compute, storage and networking resources on demand

What is Cloud Computing?

Cloud Computing is the delivery of computing services – including servers, storage, databases, networking, software over the internet (“the cloud”)

IaaS is 1 of 4 types of cloud services. Others: Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Serverless

Infrastructure as a Service Providers

  • Most used IaaS Providers

AWS most used one: Powerful, but complex (learn in later module)

DigitalOcean: Easier to start

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