About this course: 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. If you choose to take this course and earn the Coursera course certificate, you will also earn an IBM digital badge. To find out more about IBM digital badges follow the link http://ibm.biz/badging.
Who is this class for: This course is for technical professionals and students who have experience developing and deploying applications in traditional environments. The ideal candidate for this course has a basic understanding of cloud computing, and is interested in developing microservices. Some experience with using IBM Cloud is useful, but not required. Some experience with using container technology is also a plus.
Created by: IBM
Taught by: Karen Durston, Software Engineer
Taught by: Megan Irvine, Technical Enablement Specialist
IBM Cloud Learning & Skills Development
Taught by: Steeve Chwojko
| Basic Info | Course 2 of 4 in the IBM Microservices Specialization |
| Level | Intermediate |
| Commitment | 4 weeks of study, 2 -5 hours/week |
| Language | English |
| Hardware Req | You must use your own computing device to do the hands-on assignments in this course. |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
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Syllabus
WEEK 1
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, 7 readings, 5 practice quizzes
- Reading: Important: course prerequisites
- Reading: Course completion
- Video: What are microservices - Part 1
- Reading: What are microservices - Part 1
- Practice Quiz: What are microservices - 1
- Video: What are microservices - Part 2
- Reading: What are microservices - Part 2
- Practice Quiz: What are microservices - 2
- Video: Characteristics of a microservices application
- Reading: Characteristics of a microservices application
- Practice Quiz: Characteristics of a microservices application
- Video: Microservice communication - Part 1
- Reading: Microservice communication - Part 1
- Practice Quiz: Microservice communication - 1
- Video: Microservice communication - Part 2
- Reading: Microservice Communication - Part 2
- Practice Quiz: Microservice communication - 2
Graded: Unit 1 summative quiz
WEEK 2
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, 6 readings, 2 practice quizzes
- Reading: What is Microclimate?
- Discussion Prompt: How does Microclimate help me?
- Practice Quiz: What is Microclimate?
- Video: Installing and configuring Microclimate
- Video: Verifying prerequisistes and installing Microclimate (demo)
- Reading: Verify prerequisites (assignment)
- Reading: Install Microclimate (assignment)
- Reading: Theia - the IDE
- Reading: Using other IDEs with Microclimate
- Reading: Using the Microclimate command-line interface (CLI)
- Practice Quiz: Installing Microclimate
Graded: Unit 2 summative quiz
WEEK 3
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, 9 readings, 3 practice quizzes
- Reading: Redbook: Microservices from Theory to Practice
- Reading: Martin Fowler: MonolithFirst
- Reading: IBM Master Data Management
- Reading: Microservices reference architecture
- Practice Quiz: Decomposing a monolithic application
- Video: Examples of microservice architecture
- Practice Quiz: Example decompositions
- Video: Using Microclimate
- Reading: Using Microclimate
- Video: Importing an application into Microclimate (demo)
- Reading: Rogue Cloud
- Video: Using Microclimate locally (demo)
- Reading: Import a sample application (assignment)
- Reading: Code a Rogue Cloud agent (assignment)
- Discussion Prompt: What did you make your Rogue Cloud agent do?
- Reading: Evolution of Enterprise Java: Microprofile.io (optional)
- Practice Quiz: Unit 3 quiz
Graded: Unit 3 summative quiz
WEEK 4
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, 8 readings, 2 practice quizzes
- Reading: Installing Microclimate on IBM Cloud Private
- Reading: Setting up persistent storage for Microclimate in IBM Cloud Private
- Reading: Using a pipeline
- Practice Quiz: Deployment
- Video: DevOps
- Reading: Martin Fowler: DeploymentPipeline
- Reading: IBM DevOps for Dummies V3
- Reading: Blue/Green deployments
- Reading: Microclimate and DevOps
- Practice Quiz: Microservices and DevOps
- Reading: Course resources
Graded: Unit 4 summative quiz
Graded: Final assessment
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