01. Nanodegree Introduction

Welcome to Udacity Cloud DevOps Nanodegree Program

Companies, big and small, are rapidly adopting cloud computing to enable their digital transformation. According to the latest Gartner report, the cloud tech services market is projected to grow 17.3% in 2019, totaling $206 billion. This growth is due to the desirability of cloud computing, as it allows companies to innovate at a faster pace and reduce operational costs.

IT organizations that adopt DevOps perform better

• They experience 1/60th of the service failures
• They recover from failure 168 times faster than their lower-performing peers
• They deploy 30 times more frequently with 1/200th of the lead time

The Cloud DevOps Engineer Nanodegree program is geared towards operations and software engineering professionals who want to build infrastructure that delivers product and services at both speed and scale. The program includes projects that teach you how to create continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, deploy massive infrastructure securely using code, and operationalize microservices using Kubernetes. These projects will prepare you to become a successful DevOps engineer.