Cloud Platforms

Course overview

The Cloud Platforms course makes an overview of cloud computing systems and gives basic practical knowledge to hit the ground running:

• The course starts with core concepts, like compute power, storage, networking, and how they are represented in public cloud environments.
• Then it explains how to stitch applications together: resource management, identities, security, and monitoring. cloud economics and how not to get skyrocketed bill.
• The journey ends with a practical project to apply the learned skills.

Course topics

Topic 1: On-premise short description

• What is good, what is bad, risks

Topic 2: Cloud Infrastructure: that’s on-premise, managed by someone else

• Compute resources(On-Premise VS Cloud)
• Storage(On-Premise VS Cloud)
• Network to connect them(On-Premise VS Cloud)

Topic 3: Cloud Services on top of the infrastructure

• Compute: functions, containers, VMs, orchestrators (k8s, elastic-beanstalk/service-fabric)
• Storage: S3/blobs, disks, databases
• Networking: pvc/vnet, sec-groups, load-balancers, etc
• Platform as a Service: streaming, IoT, data-processing, etc

Topic 4: Glue it all together

• Resource management
• IAM
• Monitoring
• Built-in integration of misc services

Topic 5: Pricing

• Traffic price (ingress/egress, cross-zones)
• Pricing tiers
• Autoscaling

Topic 6: Review scale/range “Self-managed Serverless”

• pros/cons
• trade-offs, where learn services stand at this scale

Prerequisites

• Basic Linux shell skills: use terminal, work with files and directories.
• How to use git and GitHub
• Intermediate coding skills: create/consume API, use data-storages, transform, and shape data.