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Cloud Computing Foundations
This course is part of Building Cloud Computing Solutions at Scale Specialization
Instructor: Noah Gift
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Welcome to the first course in the Building Cloud Computing Solutions at Scale Specialization! In this course, you will learn how to build foundational Cloud computing infrastructure, including websites involving serverless technology and virtual machines. You will also learn how to apply Agile software development techniques to projects which will be useful in building portfolio projects and global-scale Cloud infrastructures.
This course is ideal for beginners as well as intermediate students interested in applying Cloud computing to data science, machine learning and data engineering. Students should have beginner level Linux and intermediate level Python skills. For your project in this course, you will build a statically hosted website using the Hugo framework, AWS Code Pipelines, AWS S3 and GitHub.
This week, you will learn how to access the free tiers of three Cloud environments. You will then have an opportunity to review the details of the final project in this course: Building a Hugo Static Website that is Continuously Deployed using AWS Code Build and AWS S3 Static Hosting. Each week, you will learn and build upon key Cloud development skills to prepare you for this final course project.
What's included
5 videos6 readings1 assignment1 discussion prompt
5 videos•Total 9 minutes
- Instructor Introduction•2 minutes
- Course Introduction•2 minutes
- Course Prerequisites•2 minutes
- Lab Onboarding•2 minutes
- Course 1 Project Overview•2 minutes
6 readings•Total 75 minutes
- Course Structure and Discussion Etiquette•10 minutes
- AWS Cloud9 vs AWS CodeCatalyst •10 minutes
- Getting Started and Course Gotchas•10 minutes
- Report a problem with the course•5 minutes
- Create a free account with AWS, Azure and GCP•30 minutes
- Specialization Project Roadmap: Course 1 •10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Confirming Free Tier Cloud Accounts•30 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
- Introductions•10 minutes
Getting started with a good plan is the most challenging part of building software. Before we dive into the technical aspects of Cloud development, let's spend some time discussing strategies for effective technical communication. This week, you will learn strategies for expressing thoughts effectively in a technical forum in a digitally native way, constructing effective technical discussions that enhance discussions and provide reusable documentation and explaining successful techniques for teamwork in technical projects. You will apply this by creating a project plan for the Final Course Project. This project plan includes a spreadsheet, a GitHub project and a Trello board.
What's included
12 videos9 readings4 assignments4 discussion prompts2 ungraded labs
12 videos•Total 51 minutes
- Introduction to Technical Discussions•2 minutes
- Technical Discussions with Markdown, GitHub and Jupyter/Colab•11 minutes
- Creating Technical Demo Videos•2 minutes
- Effective Critical Thinking•5 minutes
- Effective Technical Triple Threat•3 minutes
- Introduction to Effective Technical Teamwork•1 minute
- Effective Technical Teamwork•6 minutes
- Introduction to Technical Project Management•2 minutes
- Effective Technical Project Management•5 minutes
- Ticket Tracking with Trello•5 minutes
- Project Planning with Spreadsheets•5 minutes
- Project Management Anti-Patterns•5 minutes
9 readings•Total 90 minutes
- Key Terms•10 minutes
- Effective Technical Discussions•10 minutes
- Lesson Reflection•10 minutes
- Key Terms•10 minutes
- Lesson Reflections•10 minutes
- Key Terms•10 minutes
- Effective Technical Project Management•10 minutes
- Lesson Reflection•10 minutes
- Project Plan for Course 1 Project•10 minutes
4 assignments•Total 110 minutes
- Effective Technical Communication Quiz•20 minutes
- Quiz-Effective Technical Project Management•30 minutes
- Quiz-Effective Technical Teamwork•30 minutes
- Quiz-Effective Technical Project Management•30 minutes
4 discussion prompts•Total 90 minutes
- Reproducible Technical Discussion•10 minutes
- Team Performance Analysis•10 minutes
- Agile vs. Waterfall Planning•10 minutes
- Course 1 Project Plan•60 minutes
2 ungraded labs•Total 120 minutes
- Create Markdown in Jupyter•60 minutes
- Unit Testing•60 minutes
This week, you will learn how to build continuous delivery pipelines and apply the essential practices of continuous integration in Cloud onboarding. These pipelines use both Cloud-native build servers as well as the popular 3rd party SaaS build server: GitHub Actions. Additionally you build Continuous Delivery Pipelines in multiple Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, and GCP).
What's included
18 videos15 readings4 assignments3 discussion prompts3 ungraded labs
18 videos•Total 119 minutes
- Introduction to AWS Cloud Development•5 minutes
- Introduction to Continuous Integration•4 minutes
- Cloud Development with AWS Cloud9•9 minutes
- Constructing a Python Project Scaffold•19 minutes
- Introduction to GitHub Actions•8 minutes
- Setup Amazon CodeCatalyst•5 minutes
- CodeWhisperer Natural Language to Bash CLI•4 minutes
- Introduction to Azure Cloud Development•2 minutes
- Introduction to Testing•5 minutes
- Cloud Development with Azure Cloud Shell•4 minutes
- Azure Cloud Shell Continuous Integration from Zero•12 minutes
- Introduction to GCP Cloud Development•1 minute
- Development Onboarding with GCP •8 minutes
- Introduction to Continuous Delivery•5 minutes
- Cloud Development with Google Cloud Shell•6 minutes
- GCP Google App Engine Continuous Delivery from Zero•9 minutes
- Microservices with GCP Cloud Run•5 minutes
- Using Google Cloud Functions•7 minutes
15 readings•Total 150 minutes
- Cloud Onboarding with Amazon Web Services (AWS)•10 minutes
- Key Terms•10 minutes
- Review GitHub Actions GitHub Project•10 minutes
- What is Amazon CodeCatalyst•10 minutes
- What is CodeWhisperer?•10 minutes
- Lesson Reflection•10 minutes
- Key Terms•10 minutes
- Cloud Onboarding for Azure•10 minutes
- What is a Makefile and Why Do You Need it?•10 minutes
- Lesson Reflection•10 minutes
- Key Terms•10 minutes
- Cloud Onboarding for GCP•10 minutes
- GAE CD GitHub Source Code Walkthrough•10 minutes
- Lesson Reflection•10 minutes
- Multi-Cloud Continuous Integration•10 minutes
4 assignments•Total 120 minutes
- Cloud Onboarding Quiz•30 minutes
- Quiz-Create an AWS Cloud Development Environment•30 minutes
- Quiz-Create an Azure Cloud Development Environment•30 minutes
- Quiz-Create a GCP Cloud Development Environment •30 minutes
3 discussion prompts•Total 30 minutes
- Pros and Cons of Cloud-based Development Environment•10 minutes
- Strengths and Weaknesses of Testing•10 minutes
- Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD)•10 minutes
3 ungraded labs•Total 180 minutes
- Python Scaffold•60 minutes
- Makefile Hello World•60 minutes
- Python Flask Hello World•60 minutes
This week, you will learn about the different types of Cloud service models. These models include: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Serverless. You will apply this knowledge by building multiple types of websites: Static, serverless, virtualized and PaaS.
What's included
14 videos10 readings4 assignments3 discussion prompts1 ungraded lab
14 videos•Total 71 minutes
- Introduction to Cloud Computing•2 minutes
- What is Cloud Computing?•3 minutes
- Cloud Computing Service Models•5 minutes
- Introduction to Building Multiple Websites•3 minutes
- Building a Static S3 Website on AWS•6 minutes
- Using AWS Lambda Console to Build Python Lambda Function•5 minutes
- Building a Serverless Website on AWS Lambda•6 minutes
- Building a Website on an EC2 Virtual Machine•10 minutes
- Building a Website using PaaS with AWS Beanstalk•12 minutes
- Static Websites with Zola•3 minutes
- Customizing Zola Theme•4 minutes
- Introduction to Cloud Computing Economics•2 minutes
- Cloud Computing Economics: A Story•2 minutes
- Cloud Economics Deep Dive•9 minutes
10 readings•Total 100 minutes
- Key Terms•10 minutes
- Cloud Computing Service Models•10 minutes
- Lesson Reflection•10 minutes
- Key Terms•10 minutes
- AWS Lambda Console Gotchas•10 minutes
- Building Multiple Types of Websites•10 minutes
- Lesson Reflection•10 minutes
- Key Terms•10 minutes
- Lesson Reflection•10 minutes
- Continuous Delivery with AWS Elastic Beanstalk•10 minutes
4 assignments•Total 120 minutes
- Cloud Service Model Quiz•30 minutes
- Quiz-Cloud Computing Service Models•30 minutes
- Quiz-Build Multiple Websites: Static, Serverless, Virtualized, PaaS•30 minutes
- Quiz-Case Studies of Cloud Computing Economics•30 minutes
3 discussion prompts•Total 30 minutes
- Cloud Service Model•10 minutes
- Serverless Web Applications•10 minutes
- Economics of Cloud Computing•10 minutes
1 ungraded lab•Total 60 minutes
- Zola Static Site•60 minutes
This week, you will learn DevOps and how to apply the principles of DevOps to projects you work on. Then, you will examine the shared practices of software development and IT operations using DevOps. Finally, you will utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to manage Cloud Infrastructure and develop continuous delivery pipelines.
What's included
18 videos13 readings2 assignments3 discussion prompts4 ungraded labs
18 videos•Total 93 minutes
- Introduction to DevOps•1 minute
- DevOps in the Real World•1 minute
- Benefits of DevOps•3 minutes
- DevOps Best Practices•4 minutes
- Introduction to Managing Cloud Infrastructure using IaC•2 minutes
- IaC in the Real World•3 minutes
- What is IaC?•2 minutes
- Launching a VM with Terraform on GCP•6 minutes
- Hello World AWS CDK for Python•7 minutes
- Introduction to Continuous Pipelines•2 minutes
- Continuous Delivery Overview•2 minutes
- Continuous Delivery Deep Dive•4 minutes
- Continuously Deploy Flask Machine Learning Application with Azure•4 minutes
- Continuous Delivery Pipeline with a Lint Operation using Azure•4 minutes
- Initial Setup of AWS Cloud9 and GitHub for Hugo•5 minutes
- Build Hugo Directory in AWS Cloud9•20 minutes
- Copy Hugo Data into AWS Cloud9 S3 Bucket•5 minutes
- Automatic Updating of Hugo in AWS Cloud9•19 minutes
13 readings•Total 130 minutes
- Key Terms•10 minutes
- What is DevOps?•10 minutes
- Lesson Reflection•10 minutes
- Key Terms•10 minutes
- What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?•10 minutes
- Create a Linux VM with Infrastructure in Azure using Terraform•10 minutes
- Lesson Reflection•10 minutes
- Key Terms•10 minutes
- Continuous Delivery for Hugo Static Site from Zero•10 minutes
- Lesson Reflection•10 minutes
- Create a Continuous Delivery Pipeline for an AWS Website •10 minutes
- Next Steps•10 minutes
- Share your learning experience•10 minutes
2 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- DevOps Principles Quiz•30 minutes
- Quiz-Develop Continuous Pipelines•30 minutes
3 discussion prompts•Total 30 minutes
- DevOps Core Principles•10 minutes
- Infrastructure as Code•10 minutes
- Continuous Delivery•10 minutes
4 ungraded labs•Total 240 minutes
- Explore Hugo Static Website Builder•60 minutes
- Sandbox Jupyter•60 minutes
- Sandbox VSCode•60 minutes
- Sandbox Linux Desktop•60 minutes
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