Learning Path

Introduction to Building Cloud Native Applications

3 Courses

2:36:49

This Learning Path covers the basics for developers that are new to building cloud native applications. The path prepares learners for cloud native application development, starting with setting up a local Kubernetes environment and optimizing developer workflow, followed by approaches to containerizing applications and, finally, gaining observability into applications deployed to Kubernetes.

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Building Applications for Kubernetes

8 Lessons

54:45

This course is for developers that are new to building applications to run on Kubernetes. It covers how to build container images, run your app locally on Kubernetes, tools you can use to improve your workflow, and how to manage manifests for deployment.

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8 Lessons

Introduction to the Course 2:45 Setting Up Your Workstation 8:22 Building Container Images 6:54 Running Kubernetes Locally 8:56 Deploying Your Application 10:03 Packaging Your Application 11:24 Improving Developer Workflow 5:13 The Top Takeaways From the Course 1:08

Building Images

8 Lessons

1:03:13

This course covers different approaches for building images. By the end of this course, you'll be well positioned to start building images easily and maintain them over time.

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8 Lessons

Introduction to Containerization 3:19 Building Images with Dockerfile: Basic Syntax, App Launch, Tags, and Build Context 10:05 Building Images with Dockerfile: App Shutdown, Image Layers, and Caching 9:38 Building Images with Dockerfile: Runtime User, Multi-Stage Builds, Inspecting Images 7:48 Building Images for Java Applications with JIB 8:22 Building Images with Buildpacks: The Cloud Native Buildpacks Project 10:54 Building Images with Buildpacks: pack, Spring Boot, kpack, and Paketo Buildpacks 10:10 Top Takeaways from the Building Images Course 2:57

Introduction to Observability

8 Lessons

38:51

When developing applications for Kubernetes, a distributed system, Developers and Platform Engineers need to know how to monitor these applications and know how their services impact their business. This course walks through several options for getting observability into your applications and systems, including short demonstrations of how these systems work in a Kubernetes cluster.

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8 Lessons

Intro: What is Observability? 3:31 Logging in Kubernetes 6:17 Demo: Logs with EFK 5:16 Metric Collection with Prometheus 4:03 Demo: Prometheus & Grafana 8:36 OpenTracing 4:06 Demo: OpenTracing with CNCF Jaeger 5:56 Review: What did we learn here? 1:06

Introduction to Building Cloud Native Applications

Building Applications for Kubernetes

8 Lessons

Building Images

8 Lessons

Introduction to Observability

8 Lessons

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