Learn what you need to know, practise real systems problems with an AI guide beside you, then take on a fresh scenario with the guide switched off.
Foundations is free for everyone and will never sit behind a paywall.
During the beta, every open part of CloudCaive is free. After the beta, Foundations stays free and later phases are priced separately.
Current guided service incident · browser-based simulation · no real system involved
BETA: Free for all until public release
00:00 GMT
The full public release is scheduled for Monday 2 November 2026 at 00:00 GMT.
CloudCaive is live
These are curriculum tools, not partner endorsements. The detailed free and paid boundaries live in availability and pricing.
Technical work is more than remembering a command. Read the evidence, choose between plausible next moves, then prove the system changed in the way you intended.
A tutorial can show a clean path. A real incident rarely does. CloudCaive records the move you choose, then explains what that evidence would—and would not—tell you.
You still get teaching. You do some thinking first.
Prompt, system context and the next safe action stay visible together. Inspect the dependency path, repair PostgreSQL and verify the user-facing result.
Browser-based simulation · no real or production system involved
You have seen the work. Where should you start?
Everyone follows the same progression. Begin at Foundations or use a short route check to start near useful practice.
Foundations · free forever
Build the concepts and working habits behind systems, networking, identity and telemetry, then bring them together in a guided challenge.
Start FoundationsRoute orientation · available now
Use a short adaptive check to move your route nearer the right practice. Placement changes where you begin; it does not award capability evidence.
Find my starting pointBuild and Operate · formative beta practice
Short drills, terminal practice and browser-based incidents. See access and pricing.
Design and Improve · coming later
Scaling decisions, multi-stage delivery, data work and platform improvement will appear when their criteria and scenarios are ready.
Whichever route you choose, what does practice actually look like?
The practice loop changes what happens next. It is not a playlist that continues whether you understood the decision or not.
A symptom leaves several explanations open.
Inspect evidence or take an action before seeing the answer.
Learn what the move reveals and what it cannot prove.
Short practice returns on a spaced schedule.
Reviewed programmes use a new incident mapped to the same objectives.
Each module advances the loop: capture evidence, target the uncertainty, then reassess the same objectives under changed conditions.
01 · Find the gaps
An unfamiliar incident, investigated your way. Your choices are the evidence, sampled and reviewed against a published, versioned rubric. Gaps are named, not hidden.
02 · Practice those exact gaps
Drills and incident practice pointed at the gaps your session found — not a generic course.
03 · Sit an unseen reassessment
Same objectives, same standard, different conditions — so the change is measured, not assumed.
The loop produces evidence. How is that evidence judged?
CloudCaive publishes its practice and assessment rules. It does not yet publish learner outcome claims, so testimonials or improvement charts are not used as proof.
Live product
Make decisions, take hints and receive answer-specific feedback.
Open Labs →Published standard
See what a reviewed session samples and the outcome language it permits.
Read the current rubric →Method in context
Follow one action from observed evidence to targeted practice and reassessment.
See how assessment works →Claims boundary
Reviewed reports describe only the evidence demonstrated in the sampled session.
Academy · planned · not for sale
Academy is intended to map learning to named blueprint versions using published certification requirements. There is no catalogue, launch date, waiting list or checkout.
It will not claim certification-owner affiliation or endorsement unless one genuinely exists, guarantee a pass, or treat certification as proof of production competence.
Read the Academy plan →The boundaries are explicit. What is available now, and what does it cost?
This is the canonical commercial record for the beta, permanent free access, planned membership and Academy status.
Public beta · free for everyone
£0
31 August – 1 November 2026
Every open part of CloudCaive, free for anyone with a verified profile. No payment, no card, nothing to cancel.
What you get
All it needs is a free profile with a verified email address. No application, no waiting list, no card.
What happens commercially
Where to start
If you already investigate infrastructure, use the route check to move nearer connected Build and Operate practice.
Still building those foundations? Start at Understand or Apply and move through the same clear progression.
Open your learning path →Other ways to use CloudCaive
Each option has a different status. These modules are the source of truth for what each one costs after the beta.
Live now · no card
£0
Understand, Apply, Connect and Challenge. Short drills, browser terminal practice, guided incidents and 5 CLIVE responses per rolling 24 hours, open now and permanently free.
Sign up for freeOpens after the beta · checkout not open
£49 monthly
or £350 annually
Build and Operate, then Design and Improve. Priced practice, simulations, primer articles and a higher CLIVE allowance (20 responses per rolling 24 hours). Founder review and private reports are not included.
Explore current practicePlanned · not for sale
No checkout
Not on sale. Certification learning is in development. There is no catalogue, date or payment route yet.
Read the Academy planOperational experience shapes the incidents. Teaching experience shapes the feedback.
I’m Naqeeb Ghazi, a practising Senior DevOps Engineer and former secondary-school science teacher. Engineering taught me how failures unfold. Teaching taught me that useful feedback has to be specific.
Where a session is reviewed, I schedule it, grade sampled evidence against the published rubric and write the report myself. Reviewed sessions are not part of the free beta, which opens the Labs surface to everyone.
Bounded results from named cohorts—not testimonials presented as proof.
No. Foundations begins with clear system concepts and builds toward connected practice. If you already have experience, a route check helps you start further ahead. See the progression.
The complete dates, prices, access terms and post-beta choices are stated in one place: availability and pricing.
No. The simulations and report boundaries are stated in the honest boundary above.
Design and Improve and Academy are still in development and not for sale. Unavailable work is labelled as coming later or planned.
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