Course Outline
Introduction to Microservices Architecture
- What are microservices?
- Advantages and challenges of the microservices approach
- Comparing microservices with monolithic architectures
Setting Up AWS Cloud9 for Microservices Development — Quick setup
- Provisioning an AWS Cloud9 environment
- Configuring the development workspace
- Linking AWS services to Cloud9
Building Microservices with Docker
- Overview of Docker and containerization
- Creating and testing Docker containers
- Leveraging Docker Compose for multi-container applications
- Practical exercise: developing a multi-container application locally
Event Driven Architecture and Asynchronous Messaging
- Core principles of event-driven architecture and synchronous versus asynchronous communication
- Amazon SQS for queue-based messaging
- Amazon SNS for publish-subscribe messaging
- Amazon EventBridge for event routing and dispatching
- Kafka and Amazon MSK as an option for high-volume streaming — Overview only, optional
- Practical exercise: enabling asynchronous communication between two services using SQS and SNS, then expanding 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, compared with ECS
- Service discovery in microservices environments
- Scaling microservices on AWS
- Practical exercise: deploying on ECS and benchmarking against an EKS setup
Managing APIs with AWS API Gateway
- Creating and managing RESTful APIs
- Linking APIs to microservices
- API versioning and throttling strategies
- Practical exercise: exposing microservices through API Gateway with versioning
Observability, Monitoring, Logging and Distributed Tracing
- Utilizing AWS CloudWatch for monitoring
- Configuring logging with Amazon CloudWatch Logs
- Setting up alarms and notifications
- Concepts in distributed tracing
- AWS X-Ray for request tracing
- OpenTelemetry for vendor-neutral instrumentation
- Practical exercise: instrumenting microservices with X-Ray and OpenTelemetry to trace requests across services
CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code
- CI/CD pipeline concepts tailored for microservices
- Overview of Terraform for infrastructure provisioning
Microservices Security Best Practices
- Implementing IAM roles and policies
- Securing microservices via API Gateway
- Encrypting data both in transit and at rest
Requirements
Participants are expected to have:
- Basic to intermediate proficiency in Python
- A foundational understanding of REST APIs, HTTP, and web application concepts.
- Basic familiarity with Linux command-line tools and Git.
- A basic grasp of Docker and containerisation concepts is recommended but 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 :)
