Microservices, Serverless, OpenShift

Description

In this course, you will :

• Summarize the fundamentals of microservices, their benefits, and their differences from monolithic architectures.
• Explain the capabilities of service mesh, including Istio, why it is useful, and how it alleviates Microservices challenges.
• Explain how to deploy Microservices on OpenShift.
• Describe the capabilities and benefits of Function as a Service.
• Describe Serverless Computing and its growing importance for Cloud Native developers.
• Determine the characteristics of serverless.
• Create a serverless web application and deploy it as a microservice on Red Hat OpenShift as well as as static files on Cloud Object Storage.

Syllabus :

1. Introduction to Microservices

• Twelve-Factor App

• What are Microservices

• Advantages of Microservices

• Microservices and IBM Cloud

• Lab: Modernize App Using Microservices

 

2. Introduction to Serverless

• What is Serverless?

• Serverless Pros and Cons

• What is Function as a Service?

• The Serverless Stack

• Comparing the FaaS Model

• Use Cases and Reference Architecture

• Serverless and IBM Cloud

• Lab: Hello World with Serverless

 

3. ORM: Microservices w/ Serverless

• Create and Invoke Actions

• Manage Action with Packages

• Connect Actions to Event Sources

• Expose Actions as APIs

• IBM Cloud Code Engine

• Lab: Serverless Web Application and API

 

4. OpenShift Essentials/Working with OpenShift and Istio

• OpenShift Recap

• Service Mesh and Istio

• Istio and Microservices

• How to Create and Deploy Microservices w/ OpenShift and Istio

• Red Hat Marketplace

• Lab: Deploying Microservices w/ OpenShift and Istio

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