Application Development using Microservices and Serverless

Instructor: Alex Parker

Intermediate Level • 1 hour to complete • Flexible Schedule

What You'll Learn

  • ✓Summarize the fundamentals of Microservices, their advantages, and contrast with monolithic architectures.
  • ✓Create REST API endpoints and invoke them using cURL and Postman; Use SwaggerUI to document and test APIs.
  • ✓Create, and deploy microservices using Docker containers and serverless technologies like IBM Code Engine.
  • ✓Practice hands-on with labs and projects using a no-charge cloud-based environment.

Skills You'll Gain

Restful API
Application Development
Containerization
Scalability
IBM Cloud
API Gateway
Istio
Microservices
Serverless Computing
Kubernetes
Cloud Computing
Software Architecture
Application Deployment
OpenShift
Cloud Applications

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Outcomes

  • Learn new concepts from industry experts
  • Gain a foundational understanding of a subject or tool
  • Develop job-relevant skills with hands-on projects
  • Earn a shareable career certificate from IBM

There are 6 modules in this course

In this module, you will learn methodologies to follow while creating microservices. Learn the best practices for your application’s development, deployment, and operation stages. Also, understand how microservices allow you to independently design, deploy, and scale them while avoiding a single point of failure in your architecture. And finally, get an insight into different anti-patterns to avoid while designing microservices-based applications.

In this module, you will learn about the REST architecture, its key characteristics of flexibility, uniformity, and scalability. Create your very first REST based API using Python and Flask. Use Swagger to document it and test it using cURL, Postman, and a functionality provided by Swagger. Learn the importance of API Gateways, why you need them, their advantages, especially for abstracting your backend and allowing you to plug additional services.

In this module, you will learn the basics of Serverless applications, and compare them with Containers and Traditional computing models while looking at the advantages and disadvantages of each. You will also understand the Function-as-a-Service model and its constraints. Further, get an overview of the Serverless Framework, a reference architecture, and other use cases. And finally, you will learn about the serverless platforms most commonly used these days.

In this module, you will learn about how the IBM Cloud Code Engine builds and deploys your apps in seconds. You will then be introduced to IBM Cloud Code Engine’s use cases: deploy applications, build and deploy applications, and run jobs. Next, you will use a Dockerfile to build a container-based application. You will learn to use the IBM Cloud Console or IBM Cloud CLI to perform the application deployment tasks and then deploy it on the IBM Cloud Code Engine.

Discover how Red Hat® OpenShift®, a container platform for Kubernetes, helps you automate the provisioning, management, and scaling of your Cloud applications. Explore what a service mesh is and how service meshes benefit organizations who are using microservices. Wrap up this module with an understanding of microservices on OpenShift.