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CL-310 Cloud & Platform

Autoscaling & Capacity Engineering (HPA · Karpenter · Spot)

Engineer elasticity that survives a 5× surge and a spot reclamation in the same hour: HPA tuning, Karpenter node provisioning, spot-first strategies with graceful interruption handling, capacity planning maths, and a graded live load-storm where pods must scale from baseline to peak on evidence.

B4Professional
5modules
35skill atoms
3role journeys
Curriculum

What this course covers.

5 modules, 35 named skill atoms. Expand any module to see them.

1Scaling Signals7 skill atoms
metrics selectionHPA behaviour tuningCPU vs custom vs external metricsKEDA queue-depth scalingstabilization windows & scale-down policyflapping and thrash avoidancePrometheus adapter wiring
2Karpenter Provisioning7 skill atoms
provisioner designconsolidationNodePool requirements & instance flexibilitybin-packing vs reserved headroomconsolidation policy tuningdisruption budgets & do-not-disruptHPA vs Karpenter responsibilities
3Spot Economics & Safety7 skill atoms
interruption handlingfallback poolstwo-minute interruption notice handlingcapacity-optimized allocationinstance diversification across AZson-demand base with spot surgecheckpointing long-running jobs
4Capacity Planning7 skill atoms
headroom mathsurge modelinglimitsrequests vs limits overcommitpod startup latency in the scale pathnode provisioning time budgetaccount quota & instance limits
5Graded Load Storm7 skill atoms
k6 5× surgescale evidencecost readoutbaseline-to-peak replica timelinep95 latency during scale-uperror-rate threshold as pass/failspot reclaim injected mid-test
Where it fits

CL-310 in the role journeys.

This course appears in 3 of our 45 role journeys. Here is what a learner takes immediately before and after it in each.

Platform / DevOps Engineer

Professional stage
CL-309CL-310CL-319

FinOps Analyst

Professional stage
AI-309CL-310CL-317

AI Infrastructure Engineer

Professional stage
CL-306CL-310AI-401

Roles this course serves

The capability ladder

This course is authored to band B4.

Every course we run is written to one rung of the CASI ladder, so a plan can be assembled to take a team from where they are to where they need to be.

What do B1–B6 mean?The CASI Capability Ladder — click to expand

Every course targets a band on the CASI Capability Ladder — our six-band proficiency scale, anchored to open standards (O*NET, ESCO, NICE, NIST AI RMF, Bloom's). A band tells you how deep a course goes, and what evidence proves it.

What the learner can doTypical evidence
B1
AwareUnderstands concepts and vocabulary; uses tools with guidance
Knowledge checks
B2
FoundationPerforms standard tasks correctly in familiar contexts
Guided labs, autograded exercises
B3
PractitionerDelivers complete pieces of work independently
Scenario labs, proctored hands-on exams
B4
ProfessionalHandles production-grade complexity, trade-offs and failure modes
Break-fix drills, design defenses
B5
AdvancedEngineers systems end-to-end under constraints; leads others
Rubric-scored capstones, vivas
B6
ExpertSets direction; recognised authority across teams
Portfolio + panel evaluation

A note on B6. Courses in this catalog target B1–B5. B6 is not taught — it is recognised, through a portfolio and a panel, once someone is setting direction for others. Every journey here is built to land a learner at B5.

Next step

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