Craig Golightly

Pluralsight Author

Cloud Architect & Technical Trainer - I help engineering teams adopt modern AI and cloud practices through courses, corporate workshops, and hands-on training. With 20+ years of software development experience across large enterprises and startups (from search engines to fighter jets), I focus on practical, real-world approaches that help teams solve problems faster.

Topics Authored

Software Development

IT Ops

Business Professional

Data Professional

Courses Authored

Total Ratings

1315

Avg Course Ratings

4.5

Courses by Craig

All Courses Labs

Course

Foundations of Claude

Beginner

13m

Nov 13, 2025

Course

Foundations of xAI Grok

Beginner

26m

Oct 20, 2025

Course

Introduction to ChatGPT

Beginner

28m

Jul 24, 2025

Course

Basics of LangGraph Workflows

Intermediate

16m

Apr 21, 2025

Course

Introduction to LangGraph

Advanced

14m

Mar 01, 2025

(11)

Course

Grafana Concepts and Basic Configuration

Beginner

25m

Nov 01, 2024

(12)

Course

Debugging Java

Beginner

1h 14m

Jul 09, 2024

(49)

Course

Kubernetes for Developers: Moving to the Cloud

Intermediate

1h 24m

Oct 25, 2023

(15)

Course

Git Branching and Merging

Intermediate

2h 22m

May 09, 2023

(46)

Course

Excel Statistics and Finance Function Playbook

Intermediate

1h 25m

Feb 08, 2023

Course

Excel Logic Function Playbook

Intermediate

36m

Jan 26, 2023

Course

Working with Git Branches

Intermediate

2h 25m

Sep 17, 2021

(153)

Course

Alerting on Issues with Prometheus Alertmanager

Intermediate

1h 5m

Feb 25, 2021

(24)

Course

Monitoring Key Systems with Prometheus Exporters

Intermediate

45m

Aug 13, 2020

(25)

Course

Spring Framework: Documenting Spring Data Rest APIs with Swagger and Springfox

Advanced

29m

Aug 07, 2020

(83)

Course

Monitoring AWS CloudFormation with CloudTrail

Beginner

28m

Jun 10, 2020

Course

Spring Framework: Versioning Spring Data REST APIs

Advanced

40m

Feb 28, 2020

(56)

Course

Getting Started with EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)RETIRED

Beginner

2h 21m

Oct 13, 2025

(55)

Course

Build Your First Dashboard with SplunkRETIRED

Beginner

32m

Sep 12, 2025

(21)

Course

GitOps Automations for Multiple EKS EnvironmentsRETIRED

Intermediate

1h 40m

Jun 02, 2025

Course

AWS Networking and the API GatewayRETIRED

Intermediate

43m

Apr 15, 2025

(62)

Course

AWS Network Design: Getting StartedRETIRED

Beginner

46m

Apr 15, 2025

(115)

Course

AWS Databases: The Big PictureRETIRED

Beginner

1h 49m

Apr 15, 2025

(56)

Course

Monitoring Container Operations in Oracle Cloud Container Engine for KubernetesRETIRED

Beginner

23m

Dec 05, 2024

Course

Deploying a Java App with Oracle Cloud Container Engine for KubernetesRETIRED

Beginner

33m

Dec 05, 2024

Course

Deploying a Python App with Oracle Cloud Container Engine for KubernetesRETIRED

Beginner

32m

Dec 05, 2024

Course

Implementing AWS Networking Security GroupsRETIRED

Intermediate

40m

Aug 01, 2024

(57)

Course

Kubernetes for Developers: Moving to the CloudRETIRED

Intermediate

1h 3m

Oct 26, 2023

(83)

Course

Excel Logic Function PlaybookRETIRED

Intermediate

36m

Sep 28, 2023

(36)

Course

Excel Statistics and Finance Function PlaybookRETIRED

Intermediate

1h 26m

Sep 28, 2023

(31)

Course

Designing for Advanced Security within AWSRETIRED

Advanced

1h 10m

Aug 28, 2023

(16)

Course

Designing for Complexity on AWSRETIRED

Advanced

2h 12m

Aug 28, 2023

(50)

Course

AWS Compute Deep DiveRETIRED

Advanced

1h 46m

Aug 28, 2023

(22)

Course

Chatbots in the Call Center: AWS Lex and ConnectRETIRED

Beginner

26m

Dec 12, 2022

(20)

Course

Build a Chatbot with Amazon Lex for Facebook: Big PictureRETIRED

Beginner

27m

Dec 12, 2022

(47)

Course

Working with Git BranchesRETIRED

Intermediate

1h 18m

Sep 17, 2021

(170)