Cloud Foundry Developer

Course Overview

The 3-day Cloud Foundry Developer course provides students with the concepts and experience needed to work with and deploy applications on Cloud Foundry, the foundation of the VMware Tanzu Platform Application Service. Students will gain experience in pushing apps to Cloud Foundry, accessing logs, and scaling. Students will explore topics directly related to the design and running of cloud native applications, including microservice architectures, blue-green deployments, and continuous delivery. This course prepares students for the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Developer certification exam.

Course Objectives

At the end of the training, you should have an understanding of the following:

  • Understand the differences between traditional IT provisioning, Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service
  • Explain organizations, spaces, routes, services (managed, user defined), manifests, buildpacks, applications and droplets
  • Identify Cloud Foundry components: Router, Cloud Controller, Health Manager, Loggregator and Cells
  • Deploy pre-existing applications to Cloud Foundry, obtain logs, debug deployment issues, scale, start, stop, bind to services
  • Use the command-line interface to work with Cloud Foundry
  • Understand the impact of the cloud environment on application architecture
  • Perform zero-downtime deployments
  • Understand the role of services in Cloud Foundry, gain experience using one or more examples
  • Understand the purpose of buildpacks, gain experience specifying buildpacks and making configuration changes
  • Understand and gain experience with 3rd party log management, Application Performance Monitoring, and
  • Continuous Delivery tools that integrate with Cloud Foundry.

Course Modules

  1. An Introduction to Cloud Foundry
    • Evolution of Cloud Architectures
    • Industry Trends
    • Cloud Foundry
  2. Logging, Scale and HA
    • Cloud Native Apps
    • Elastic Runtime Architecture
    • High Availability
  3. Services
    • Cloud Native Apps
    • Managed Services
    • User Provided Service Instances
  4. Manifests
    • Using Manifests
  5. Application Security Groups
    • Managing Application Security Groups
  6. Log Draining
    • Cloud Native Apps
    • Loggregator Review
  7. Blue-Green Deployments
    • Blue-Green Routing
    • Implications App Design
  8. Microservices
    • The Monolith
    • Microservices
  9. Buildpacks
    • Buildpack API
  10. Services Brokers
    • Service Broker API
  11. Continuous Delivery
    • Continuous Delivery Defined
    • How Cloud Foundry Enables Continuous Delivery
  12. Route Service
    • Purpose
    • Request Flow
  13. Advanced Topics
    • TCP Routing
    • Cascading failure
    • Distributed tracing
  14. Security
    • Securing applications with UAA and OAuth2
    • Using route services for authentication