Overview

Ready to demonstrate you can design and deliver a production-ready solution? In this capstone, you’ll create a portfolio-ready cloud computing project based on a realistic business scenario. You’ll gather requirements, model processes, and translate them into hybrid cloud architecture, cloud setup, and cloud deployment decisions to build scalable cloud infrastructure. You’ll design microservices-based applications using REST APIs, package them through a Docker Cloud project, and manage deployments in a Kubernetes project. You’ll also define CI/CD pipelines and apply cloud automation to enable faster, reliable delivery across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Then you’ll reinforce your operational expertise by implementing cloud security, cloud monitoring, and cloud backup and recovery to ensure resilience, compliance, and performance. By the end, you’ll have a portfolio-ready project you can talk about in cloud engineering and cloud architect interviews. Enroll today and get ready to showcase your ability to design and deliver real-world hybrid cloud solutions!

Syllabus

Project Initiation and Requirements Gathering

In this module, you'll get oriented with the capstone project's structure, tools, and expectations. You'll explore how the project mirrors a real-world system architecture workflow, leading the early planning phases by creating foundational documents. You’ll identify key stakeholder groups across departments and define architectural goals in alignment with business objectives and regulatory mandates. Further, you'll collect and validate both functional and non-functional enterprise-level requirements, capturing critical factors. You will also analyze business processes and workflows to identify system needs and document requirements to support architecture decisions. This foundation for scalable architectural design prepares you to navigate current and future-state processes using tools such as business requirements documents (BRDs) and software requirements specifications (SRSs).

Application Design and Deployment Strategy in Hybrid Cloud Environments

In this module, you will learn about REST API design and microservices architecture, containerization essentials, and DevOps CI/CD practices that support scalable cloud-native application delivery. You will explore how microservices enable scalable solutions and how clearly defined service boundaries and APIs support communication between services. You will also examine how containers improve application portability and deployment consistency across environments. Finally, you will apply these concepts through containerization and CI/CD practices that automate application build, testing, and deployment in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Hybrid Cloud Architecture, Disaster Recovery, and Compliance

In this module, you will design and document a hybrid cloud architecture that spans on-premises infrastructure and cloud environments. You will explore networking and storage considerations that enable secure and reliable connectivity across distributed systems, while identifying common design risks and resilience strategies. The module also examines disaster recovery and high availability approaches that align with defined recovery objectives. In addition, you will consider how security controls and regulatory requirements influence architectural decisions in hybrid cloud deployments.

Cloud Operations, Monitoring, Security, and Reliability

In this module, you will focus on operating and sustaining a hybrid cloud system after deployment. You will examine infrastructure automation practices, design monitoring and observability strategies, and define operational metrics and thresholds for distributed environments. You will also plan secure and compliant operations and manage failure scenarios, including rollback and recovery strategies in cross-cloud deployments. Emphasis is placed on reliability, coordinated operations, and risk-aware decision-making rather than specific tools or platforms.