Course Description
This course focuses on taking real applications from on-premises, and then leveraging AWS technology in the code itself and also then leveraging AWS technology to automate the deployment process, whilst taking into account security, AWS platform features, and tools to facilitate the automation of build and deployment of your infrastructure. The course looks at how you can use S3, EC2, Docker and ECS, RDS, Dynamo DB, but in the context of some real-world problems. The course also can help prepare you for the AWS System Operations, Architecting, and Developing Associate Exams.
This session takes the form of some lectures along with demonstrations and exercises to consolidate the content being taught. It also involves a substantial workshop component where students deploy an application to the cloud.
Who it is for
Developers, DevOps engineers, cloud architects, and anyone who needs to know how to actually get applications successfully running in the cloud.
Prerequisites
- Basic Development Skills would be beneficial
- Basic understanding of deployment practices would be beneficial
Course Outline
Chapter 1: What is the Cloud
- Fundamentals of cloud computing
- Benefits of cloud computing
- AWS, Azure, Pivotal, Google and the Cloud Computing Landscape
Chapter 2: Introduction to Servers and EC2
- Setting up Servers in the Cloud
- Configuration options for servers
- Autoscaling, Load balancing and Elasticity
Chapter 3: Introduction to Storage
- Storage options
- Relational Databases as a Service
- NoSQL Databases as a service
- Object Stores and Archiving
- Caching options
Chapter 4: Security and the Cloud
- Security Overview
- Responsibilities of AWS
- Responsibilities of the customer
- Securing your infrastructure
- Managing team access to your AWS Account
Chapter 5: The Paradigm Shift for Traditional Infrastructure
- Infrastructure as code
- Serverless architectures with AWS Lambda
- Single click deployment and continuous delivery
Chapter 6: Developing applications for the cloud
- Forklifting existing applications
- Leveraging the cloud platform
Chapter 7: Leveraging Messaging
- The importance of decoupling
- SQS based messaging services
- Benefits of SQS
- Implementing messaging
Chapter 8: Microservice Implementation
- Deploying Microservices
- Creating a Microservice
- Introduction to containers
- Docker on AWS with EC2 Container Service
Chapter 9: Automation of Deployment
- The Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery Paradigm
- Automation of the delivery of server architecture
- Automation of the deployment of applications
- Automating deployment with Elastic Beanstalk
- Automating deployment with CloudFormation
Chapter 10: Real World Deployment Example
- Take an existing application and review code
- Consider various deployment / rearchitecting options
- Create an automation pipeline for the deployment of infrastructure and application
