Course Outline
Introduction to Microservices Architecture
- Defining microservices
- Advantages and complexities of microservices
- Contrast with monolithic architectures
Configuring AWS Cloud9 for Microservices Development — Rapid setup
- Provisioning an AWS Cloud9 environment
- Tailoring the development workspace
- Integrating AWS services with Cloud9
Developing Microservices with Docker
- Fundamentals of Docker and containerisation
- Constructing and validating Docker containers
- Leveraging Docker Compose for multi-container stacks
- Practical task: assembling a multi-container application locally
Event-Driven Architecture and Asynchronous Messaging
- Core tenets of event-driven design and synchronous versus asynchronous interactions
- Amazon SQS for queue-based messaging
- Amazon SNS for publish-subscribe models
- Amazon EventBridge for event routing and dispatch
- Overview of Kafka and Amazon MSK as high-volume streaming alternatives — Optional, overview only
- Practical task: establishing asynchronous communication between two services via SQS and SNS, followed by EventBridge routing
Deploying Microservices on AWS (ECS, Lambda, and EKS)
- Initialising Amazon ECS for container orchestration
- Deploying microservices via AWS Lambda
- Introduction to Kubernetes and Amazon EKS as an alternative orchestration platform — Overview only, compared with ECS
- Service discovery mechanisms in microservices
- Scaling microservices within AWS
- Practical task: deploying on ECS and evaluating against an EKS configuration
API Management with AWS API Gateway
- Creating and maintaining RESTful APIs
- Linking APIs to microservices
- API versioning and rate limiting
- Practical task: exposing microservices through an API Gateway with version control
Observability, Monitoring, Logging, and Distributed Tracing
- Utilising AWS CloudWatch for monitoring
- Configuring logging via Amazon CloudWatch Logs
- Setting up alerts and notifications
- Concepts in distributed tracing
- Request tracing with AWS X-Ray
- Vendor-agnostic instrumentation with OpenTelemetry
- Practical task: instrumenting microservices with X-Ray and OpenTelemetry to trace requests across services
CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code
- CI/CD pipeline principles for microservices
- Introduction to Terraform for infrastructure provisioning
Security Best Practices for Microservices
- Configuring IAM roles and policies
- Enhancing microservices security via API Gateway
- Encrypting data during transit and at rest
Requirements
Participants are expected to possess the following:
- Basic to intermediate proficiency in Python
- A fundamental understanding of REST APIs, HTTP protocols, and web application principles.
- Basic knowledge of Linux command-line utilities and Git.
- A foundational grasp of Docker and containerisation concepts is advisable, though not required.
- Basic familiarity with cloud computing principles and AWS services is 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 :)
