Skip to main content

Choosing "Small Enough" Cloud

This generated surface maps a learner-facing curriculum unit to its canonical source routes.

Curriculum surface​

  • Open learner-facing unit
  • Curriculum path: content/curriculum/production/semester-10-capstone/module-03-cloud-deployment-ci-cd/concepts/cluster-01-a-minimal-deployable-capstone/01-choosing-small-enough-cloud-primary.md
  • App: production
  • Semester: semester-10-capstone
  • Module: module-03-cloud-deployment-ci-cd
  • Unit kind: concept
  • Curation level: module_curated

Learning objectives​

  • Explain Choosing "Small Enough" Cloud as operationalizing the capstone system for repeatable delivery, not as one-off hosting or deployment scripting.
  • Use Choosing "Small Enough" Cloud to reason about environment promotion, pipeline safety, deployment rollback, and operational confidence.
  • Use building-secure-and-reliable-systems, github-actions-in-action, pro-git, the-linux-command-line to connect the learner explanation to release flow, deployment automation, and production-facing delivery habits.

Prerequisites​

  • Comfort with a working implementation, version control discipline, and the need to deploy changes repeatably and safely.

Source books​

  • building-secure-and-reliable-systems
  • github-actions-in-action
  • pro-git
  • the-linux-command-line

Source routes​

Building Secure And Reliable Systems​

Github Actions In Action​

Pro Git​

The Linux Command Line​

Supporting curriculum routes​

No supporting curriculum routes linked yet.

External enrichment​

  • Google SRE Workbook: Canarying Releases (read_if_stuck) - Grounds release-engineering choices in risk-managed deployment practice instead of one-shot launch thinking.
  • DORA DevOps Research (official_docs_companion) - Helps learners connect deployment discipline to observable engineering performance and delivery quality.

AI companion modes​

  • Explain simply
  • Socratic tutor
  • Challenge my understanding
  • Diagnose my confusion
  • Connect forward / backward

Source-of-truth note​

This teaching unit is learner-facing guidance assembled from multiple canonical book routes. Use the listed source books as the primary conceptual spine for Choosing "Small Enough" Cloud, and treat outside material as supporting enrichment only.