Earners of the Clever Cloud Deployment Essentials: Cloud Concepts 101 certification have demonstrated a solid understanding of the Clever Cloud Platform and its ecosystem. They are able to deploy, configure, and manage applications efficiently using Clever Cloud’s PaaS model, applying cloud-native design principles such as immutability, zero-downtime deployment, and the 12-Factor methodology.

Cloud Concepts 101 - Deployments Essentials

Earners of the Clever Cloud Advanced Operations certification have demonstrated deep expertise in deploying and operating production applications on the Clever Cloud Platform. They understand the platform's internal architecture—including the deployment cycle, CCAPI, hypervisors, load balancers, and build cache—and can leverage environment variables and hooks to fine-tune application behavior across all supported runtimes.