Microservices

Difficulty: Intermediate

Duration: 7 minutes and 48 seconds

Students: 11,899

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This lesson is for anyone with a basic understanding of what containers are, and even why you'd want to use them, but who doesn't understand the nitty-gritty of how they work yet. You should have a basic technical literacy, as well as an understanding of cloud app architecture. In this lesson, you'll learn about the major concepts around containers. You'll learn about different container systems, learn all about orchestration, get a better understanding of how and why to build and run 12-factor apps on containers, container security issues, and you'll even get a quick look at how to get a microservices app up-and-running on your computer in about two minutes with Docker compose.

Lesson Objectives

Understand the options for running containers
Understand the common security concerns
Know why orchestration is important
Understand what types of applications should be containerized
Understand how logging and monitoring works with containers

Intended Audience

Project Manager
Business Manager
Developers

Prerequisites

A good prerequisite for this lesson is to take the Introduction to Containers lesson.

This Lesson Includes

47 minutes of high-definition video
Console demonstrations

What You'll Learn

Lesson Intro: What to expect from this lesson
Microservices: Designing Microservices and 12-factor apps.
Running a Microserve App on Compose: Demo of using Compose.
Container Orchestration: What is orchestration and how does it work?
Container Security: Best practices to make containers more secure.
Container Logging and Monitoring: An overview of tools commonly used for monitoring.
Container Systems and OSs: Different Linux Containers: LXC, Docker, rkt, OCI, and an overview of Windows Containers.
Wrap-Up: Lesson summary