Course Outline
Foundations of Microservices Architecture
- Defining microservices
- Advantages and complexities of microservices
- Contrasting with monolithic structures
Preparing AWS Cloud9 for Microservices Development — Rapid setup
- Establishing an AWS Cloud9 environment
- Configuring the development workspace
- Linking AWS services to Cloud9
Constructing Microservices with Docker
- Overview of Docker and containerization
- Creating and testing Docker containers
- Leveraging Docker Compose for multi-container setups
- Practical task: constructing 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 for high-volume streaming — Overview only, optional
- Practical task: enabling 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 choice — Overview only, comparative with ECS
- Service discovery within microservices architecture
- Scaling microservices on AWS
- Practical task: deploying on ECS and contrasting with an EKS configuration
Managing APIs with AWS API Gateway
- Creating and administering RESTful APIs
- Connecting APIs to microservices
- API versioning and throttling
- Practical task: exposing microservices through API Gateway with versioning
Observability, Monitoring, Logging, and Distributed Tracing
- Leveraging AWS CloudWatch for monitoring
- Configuring logging with Amazon CloudWatch Logs
- Implementing alarms and notifications
- Concepts of distributed tracing
- AWS X-Ray for request tracing
- OpenTelemetry for vendor-agnostic instrumentation
- Practical task: instrumenting microservices with X-Ray and OpenTelemetry to trace requests across services
CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code
- CI/CD pipeline concepts for microservices
- Overview of Terraform for infrastructure provisioning
Security Best Practices for Microservices
- Implementing IAM roles and policies
- Securing microservices via API Gateway
- Encrypting data in transit and at rest
Requirements
Participants are expected to have:
- Fundamental to intermediate proficiency in Python
- A basic grasp of REST APIs, HTTP, and web application fundamentals.
- Basic knowledge of Linux command-line utilities and Git.
- A foundational understanding of Docker and containerization principles is suggested, though not required.
- Basic familiarity with cloud computing concepts and AWS services is beneficial
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 :)
