Businesses around the world need more skilled developers. Update your cloud-native skills with Cloud Foundry training and certification to deliver world-class apps. This course teaches you how to use Cloud Foundry to build, deploy and manage a cloud-native microservices solution. Topics covered directly align with the knowledge domains tested by the Cloud Foundry Certified Developer exam and will substantially increase students’ ability to become certified.
Cloud Foundry for Developers (LFD232)
Course Overview
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.
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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.
You will have access to the course for a full year from the date of purchase, regardless of how quickly you complete the course. You can expect the course to take 40-50 hours to complete (although the course is self-paced, so you can move as quickly or as slowly as you like).
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Course Outline
- CF Motivators: Industry changes which have led to the cloud-native movement and the role of Cloud Foundry in the enterprise.
- Basic Definitions & Core Themes: Established a basic lexicon around simple Cloud Foundry concepts like targets, orgs, spaces, users and roles. Scope is just enough to login and target.
- Technical Overview: The main technical components/areas of Cloud Foundry, from the perspective of a developer interacting with the platform.
- Applications & Routing: How Cloud Foundry stages and runs applications, and how Cloud Foundry routes traffic to those applications. The routing topic will cover both HTTP(s) and TCP routing.
- 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.
- Services: How Cloud Foundry works with backing services, including: the marketplace, services, service instances and service bindings.
- 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.
- Cloud Native Best Practices: Best practices for designing, deploying and managing applications, including the 12 factors.
- Security: Using Cloud Foundry to secure applications and endpoints.
- CI/CD & Automation: Best practices in automating the lifecycle of applications.
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. Our free Introduction to LFS132 Cloud Foundry and Cloud Native Software Architecture course is useful preparation for this course.
At a Glance
Delivery Method
Online Self-Paced
Includes
- 50 hours of Course Material
- Hands-on Labs & Assignments
- Video Content
- 12 Months of Access to Online Course
- Discussion Forums
Experience Level
Beginner
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