About this course:

This course is designed to equip developers with a valuable, marketable skill set across all Cloud Foundry certified platform distributions. You will learn how to use Cloud Foundry to build, deploy and manage a cloud native microservice solution. The course has extensive labs so developers can learn by doing. Some focus areas include:

• Cloud Foundry architecture: what are the major components and how do they fit together so support developers?
• Applications and Services: what are best practices for deploying, scaling and managing applications? How are services made available and used by Cloud Foundry applications?
• Cloud Native design: how does Cloud Foundry enable creation of microservices, and support 12 factor application design principles?
• Troubleshooting & Debugging: Using Cloud Foundry’s features to diagnose and fix issues in applications and environment configuration.

Course Objective:

After completing this course, students will have a working understanding of:

• CF Motivators: Industry changes which have led to the cloud-native movement and the role of Cloud Foundry in the enterprise.
• Logging & Metrics: The logging and metrics system in Cloud Foundry, including: the relevant components, how applications should log and how users interact with the logging system.
• Resiliency: Cloud Foundry’s built in availability and resiliency features.
• Troubleshooting & Debugging: Using Cloud Foundry’s features to diagnose and fix issues in applications and environment configuration.
• Extending the Platform: Extending the capabilities of Cloud Foundry.
• CI/CD & Automation: Best practices in automating the lifecycle of applications.

Audience: 

This course is intended for:

• Developers that are new to Cloud Foundry or who want to broaden their Cloud Foundry skillset and improve their chances of becoming a Cloud Foundry Certified Developer.

Prerequisites:

• Should be an active developer, comfortable using command line tools and familiar with basic cloud computing concepts. Familiarity with Java/Spring, Node.js and/or Ruby is a plus.

Suggested prerequisites courses:

• Node.js for Beginners
• Cloud Computing Fundamentals - MOC On Demand (OD99994)