Containers for Deploying and Scaling Apps

Overview

In the world of microservices, containers are one of the most favoured way of packaging and delivering services. 

Containers are often deployed onto a container orchestration platform like Kubernetes; the orchestration platform provides management functions, resiliency, security and observability.

By the end of this course, participants will have all the tools they need to build and maintain an entire microservices based on containers running locally or on public cloud provider infrastructure.

Key Takeaways

At the end of this workshop-oriented course, you will be able to:

• apply the 12 Factor App principles to building your application;
• acquire hands on experience in packaging applications as container images, deploying the images and diagnosing containers;
• deploy self-healing service mesh with Kubernetes container orchestration platform
• Perform application upgrades without down time;
• maintain application service level by automatically scaling deployments based on predetermined metrics;
• use Helm package manager to simplify application configuration, deployment, and upgrades;
• use Kubernetes operators to deploy complex applications like MySQL clusters;
• use kustomize to speed up application development and deployment cycle.

Who Should Attend

• Please refer to job roles on the left.
• ICT&SS Professional in a Developer, Systems Engineer, System Administrator or and Infrastructure specialists/members from Enterprise IT role.
• Startup tech members who desire to take on lead roles in deployment, growth and scale of their products.
• Scrum team members responsible for DevOps.

Prerequisites

• hands-on experience in developing CRUD application (Java, Node, Python, etc); 
• basic command line skills.

You will be required to pass a pre-course assessment to ensure that you have the requisite background knowledge to learn the material.

What To Bring

You must bring your internet-enabled computing devices (laptops, tablet etc) with power chargers to access and download programme materials. No printed copies of programme materials are issued. Please refer to the full tech specifications here.