This course provides an introduction to Microclimate, an end-to-end development environment that lets you rapidly create, edit, and deploy applications that run in containers. Microclimate can be installed locally, or on IBM Cloud Private, where you can create a pipeline for continuous integration and delivery.
In this course, you learn how to quickly set up a development environment for working with Microclimate, and import a sample application. Using the Integrated Jenkins pipeline and Github, you also learn how to deploy a microservice application to IBM Cloud Private.
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This course is part of the IBM Microservices Specialization
Developing and Deploying Microservices with Microclimate
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Week
16 hours to complete
Course introduction
This module introduces the course and covers the fundamentals of microservices that are prerequisite knowledge for the course. If you completed the course, Microservices - Fundamentals, or you already have a working knowledge of microservices, you can skip the lessons that are labelled "optional." You must complete all graded quizzes in the course.
6 videos (Total 38 min), 7 readings, 6 quizzes
6 videos
What are microservices - Part 18m
What are microservices - Part 25m
Characteristics of a microservices application9m
Microservice communication - Part 17m
Microservice communication - Part 24m
7 readings
Important: course prerequisites5m
Course completion5m
What are microservices - Part 1 40m
What are microservices - Part 230m
Characteristics of a microservices applications
Microservice communication - Part 1s
Microservice Communication - Part 245m
6 practice exercises
What are microservices - 14m
What are microservices - 24m
Characteristics of a microservices application4m
Microservice communication - 14m
Microservice communication - 24m
Unit 1 summative quiz10m
Week
23 hours to complete
Introduction to Microclimate
This unit introduces Microclimate, a Docker-ized, end-to-end development environment that you can use to generate microservices in Java, Node, and Swift.
3 videos (Total 8 min), 6 readings, 3 quizzes
3 videos
Installing and configuring Microclimate1m
Verifying prerequisistes and installing Microclimate (demo)4m
6 readings
What is Microclimate?20m
Verify prerequisites (assignment)20m
Install Microclimate (assignment)30m
Theia - the IDE20m
Using other IDEs with Microclimate10m
Using the Microclimate command-line interface (CLI)10m
3 practice exercises
What is Microclimate?8m
Installing Microclimate6m
Unit 2 summative quiz8m
Week
34 hours to complete
Developing applications with Microclimate
This module covers the basics of developing microservices applications. You also learn how to create, build, and test a simple application in a local environment with Microclimate.
5 videos (Total 27 min), 9 readings, 4 quizzes
5 videos
Examples of microservice architecture4m
Using Microclimate1m
Importing an application into Microclimate (demo)4m
Using Microclimate locally (demo)5m
9 readings
Redbook: Microservices from Theory to Practice10m
Martin Fowler: MonolithFirst10m
IBM Master Data Management10m
Microservices reference architecture10m
Using Microclimate10m
Rogue Cloud30m
Import a sample application (assignment)30m
Code a Rogue Cloud agent (assignment)s
Evolution of Enterprise Java: Microprofile.io (optional)30m
4 practice exercises
Decomposing a monolithic application4m
Example decompositions4m
Unit 3 quiz6m
Unit 3 summative quiz8m
Week
44 hours to complete
Application deployment and DevOps
In this module, you learn how to deploy a Microclimate application on IBM Cloud Private. You also learn about the DevOps capabilities of Microclimate with IBM Cloud Private.
2 videos (Total 22 min), 8 readings, 4 quizzes
8 readings
Installing Microclimate on IBM Cloud Private20m
Setting up persistent storage for Microclimate in IBM Cloud Private20m
Using a pipeline30m
Martin Fowler: DeploymentPipeline10m
IBM DevOps for Dummies V310m
Blue/Green deployments10m
Microclimate and DevOps30m
Course resources10m
4 practice exercises
Deployment8m
Microservices and DevOps6m
Unit 4 summative quiz6m
Final assessment40m
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Top Reviews
By SP•Feb 14th 2019
Course is informative but very short in understanding. However it's good resource to learn quickly.
By AV•Oct 2nd 2018
Lot of focus on MicroClimate on ICP which is not covered till later in the series
Instructors
Karen Durston
Software Engineer
Megan Irvine
Technical Enablement SpecialistIBM Cloud Learning & Skills Development
About IBM
IBM offers a wide range of technology and consulting services; a broad portfolio of middleware for collaboration, predictive analytics, software development and systems management; and the world's most advanced servers and supercomputers. Utilizing its business consulting, technology and R&D expertise, IBM helps clients become "smarter" as the planet becomes more digitally interconnected. IBM invests more than $6 billion a year in R&D, just completing its 21st year of patent leadership. IBM Research has received recognition beyond any commercial technology research organization and is home to 5 Nobel Laureates, 9 US National Medals of Technology, 5 US National Medals of Science, 6 Turing Awards, and 10 Inductees in US Inventors Hall of Fame.
About the IBM Microservices Specialization
This specialization is intended for application developers and network administrators seeking to understand the benefits of microservices architecture and container-based applications. The student learns how to develop and deploy microservices applications with Kubernetes on IBM Cloud and IBM Cloud Private via a continuous release pipeline.
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