Course Outline
Introduction to Microservices Architecture
- Defining microservices
- Advantages and challenges associated with microservices
- Contrasting microservices with monolithic architectures
Setting Up AWS Cloud9 for Microservices Development — Quick setup
- Provisioning an AWS Cloud9 environment
- Configuring the development workspace
- Linking AWS services to Cloud9
Building Microservices with Docker
- Fundamentals of Docker and containerisation
- Constructing and testing Docker containers
- Leveraging Docker Compose for multi-container applications
- Practical exercise: developing a multi-container application locally
Event Driven Architecture and Asynchronous Messaging
- Core principles of event-driven architecture and the distinction between synchronous and asynchronous communication
- Utilising Amazon SQS for queue-based messaging
- Employing Amazon SNS for publish-subscribe messaging
- Using Amazon EventBridge for event routing and dispatch
- Overview of Kafka and Amazon MSK for high-volume streaming — Optional, overview only
- Practical exercise: establishing asynchronous communication between two services using SQS and SNS, followed by extending the setup with EventBridge routing
Deploying Microservices on AWS (ECS, Lambda, and EKS)
- Configuring Amazon ECS for container orchestration
- Deploying microservices via AWS Lambda
- Introduction to Kubernetes and Amazon EKS as an alternative orchestration platform — Overview only, comparative analysis with ECS
- Service discovery mechanisms within microservices architectures
- Scaling microservices on AWS
- Practical exercise: deploying on ECS and comparing the outcome with an EKS configuration
Managing APIs with AWS API Gateway
- Creating and administering RESTful APIs
- Linking APIs to backend microservices
- API versioning and throttling strategies
- Practical exercise: exposing microservices through API Gateway with versioning enabled
Observability, Monitoring, Logging, and Distributed Tracing
- Leveraging AWS CloudWatch for monitoring purposes
- Configuring logging via Amazon CloudWatch Logs
- Implementing alarm configurations and notifications
- Concepts of distributed tracing
- Using AWS X-Ray for request tracing
- Applying OpenTelemetry for vendor-neutral instrumentation
- Practical exercise: instrumenting microservices with X-Ray and OpenTelemetry to trace a request across multiple services
CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code
- CI/CD pipeline principles tailored for microservices
- Overview of Terraform for infrastructure provisioning
Microservices Security Best Practices
- Implementing IAM roles and policies
- Securing microservices via API Gateway
- Encrypting data both in transit and at rest
Requirements
Learners are expected to possess:
- A basic to intermediate proficiency in Python.
- A fundamental grasp of REST APIs, HTTP, and web application concepts.
- Basic familiarity with Linux command-line utilities and Git.
- A foundational understanding of Docker and containerisation concepts is advised, though not strictly required.
- Basic knowledge of cloud computing principles and AWS services would be beneficial.
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- Customized Content: We adapt the syllabus and practical exercises to the real goals and needs of your project.
- Flexible Schedule: Dates and times adapted to your team's agenda.
- Format: Online (live), In-company (at your offices), or Hybrid.
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Testimonials (4)
The instructor was knowledgeable about the course topic and also other related topics, and was able to answer our questions, or even make a note of questions he didn't immediately know the answer to and got back to use later.
Abe Sabbagh - Enbridge
Course - Advanced RabbitMQ - 2 Days
Possibility to perform independent exercises in the training environment.
Tomasz - PKO Zycie Towarzystwo Ubezpieczen S.A.
Course - Kafka for Administrators
the technical preparation of teachers
Giorgio - Asystel-BDF S.p.A.
Course - Creating a Service Mesh with Istio and Kubernetes
Very practical examples. The trainer has tried to keep a pace where everybody is able to go with even though the group was quite inhomogeneous regarding the knowhow. He has provided a lot of support to basically everybody who asked for it :)
