Course Outline
Foundations of Microservices Architecture
- Defining microservices
- Advantages and potential pitfalls of microservices
- Contrast with monolithic architectures
Configuring AWS Cloud9 for Microservices Development — Quick setup
- Establishing an AWS Cloud9 environment
- Setting up the development workspace
- Linking AWS services to Cloud9
Developing Microservices with Docker
- Overview of Docker and containerization
- Creating and validating Docker containers
- Utilizing Docker Compose for multi-container setups
- Practical exercise: developing a multi-container application locally
Event-Driven Architecture and Asynchronous Messaging
- Core tenets of event-driven architecture and synchronous vs. asynchronous communication
- Amazon SQS for queue-based messaging
- Amazon SNS for publish-subscribe messaging
- Amazon EventBridge for event routing and dispatch
- Kafka and Amazon MSK as options for high-volume streaming — Brief overview, optional
- Practical exercise: implementing asynchronous communication between two services using SQS and SNS, followed by extending 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 method — Brief overview, comparative with ECS
- Service discovery within microservices architectures
- Scaling microservices on AWS
- Practical exercise: deploying on ECS and comparing the setup with EKS
API Management via AWS API Gateway
- Building and managing RESTful APIs
- Connecting APIs to microservices
- API versioning and rate limiting
- Practical exercise: exposing microservices through API Gateway with versioning
Observability, Monitoring, Logging, and Distributed Tracing
- Monitoring with AWS CloudWatch
- Configuring logging via Amazon CloudWatch Logs
- Setting up alarms and notifications
- Concepts of distributed tracing
- Request tracing with AWS X-Ray
- Vendor-agnostic instrumentation using OpenTelemetry
- Practical exercise: instrumenting microservices with X-Ray and OpenTelemetry and tracing a request across services
CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code
- CI/CD pipeline principles for microservices
- Overview of Terraform for infrastructure provisioning
Microservices Security Best Practices
- Implementing IAM roles and policies
- Securing microservices via API Gateway
- Encrypting data in transit and at rest
Requirements
Learners are expected to have:
- A foundational to intermediate grasp of Python
- A basic understanding of REST APIs, HTTP, and web application principles.
- Basic knowledge of Linux command-line utilities and Git.
- A preliminary understanding of Docker and containerization concepts is advised, though not strictly required.
- Familiarity with cloud computing concepts and AWS services is beneficial
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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 :)
