Pivotal Cloud Foundry for Administrators Training Course

Cloud Foundry is the industry standard open-source platform as a service (PaaS) that provides you with a choice of clouds, developer frameworks, and application services.

Audience

This course is directed at engineers and developers who want to develop applications to be deployed through Cloud Foundry.

Cloud Foundry is the industry standard open-source platform as a service (PaaS) that provides you with a choice of clouds, developer frameworks, and application services.

Audience

This course is directed at engineers, architects and developers interested in deploying and maintaining Cloud Foundry as cloud infrastructure for their applications.

Pivotal Cloud Foundry is a Pivotal branded installation of Cloud Foundry. It is a PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) that integrates services such as MySQL, Redis, ELK, RabbitMQ, etc. with Cloud Foundry.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to  to deploy, manage, and scale applications on Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand how Pivotal Cloud Foundry's relation to other cloud offerings (SaaS, PaaS to IaaS)
• Deploy, manage and scale cloud native applications and services
• Understand how Cloud Foundry fits into a microservice architecture

Audience

• Developers
• Administrators

Format of the course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

This instructor-led, live training in China (online or onsite) is aimed at IT professionals who wish to learn the fundamentals of Alibaba Cloud and how to use its cloud computing services.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the Alibaba Cloud solution architecture.
• Learn about the Alibaba Cloud core products and services.
• Understand the capabilities of Alibaba Cloud in dealing with big data and databases.

This instructor-led, live training in China (online or onsite) is aimed at developers who wish to use Anthos to build, deploy, and optimize applications running on top of multi-cluster Kubernetes infrastructure.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up Google Anthos on-premise or in the cloud.
• Define, automate, and enforce policies across different environments.
• Manage traffic between services.
• Use Anthos Service Mesh to monitor, troubleshoot, and improve application performance.
• Implement security controls across all deployments.

Data analysis refers to the process of obtaining, cleaning, and analyzing data, often times in a visual manner, to derive insights for better decision making. More and more data is being stored in databases in the cloud so it is important to have a strategy for understanding, managing and accessing such data. One popular tool for accessing and visualizing data is Power Bi.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at technical persons who wish to gain a practical understanding of available cloud solutions, the data analysis processes needed to work with data in the cloud, and the hands-on practice to apply tools such as Power BI to analyze data.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Power BI.
• Evaluate the various data solutions offered by cloud providers such as Azure.
• Gain an understanding of the different structures, modeling approaches, and data warehouse designs used to store, manage and access Big Data.
• Apply tools and techniques to clean data in preparation for analysis.
• Build reporting and analytics solutions based on on-premise as well as cloud data.
• Integrate data analytics solutions with a data warehouse.
• Mitigate data security risks and ensure data privacy.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Audience

Software Engineer/Computer Scientists with adequate concepts of algorithms and
familiarity with at least one programming/scripting language but without any experience of Cloud
Computing

Duration

3 days (7 hours / day)

Day 1 - provides end-to-end coverage of fundamental cloud computing topics as they relate to both technology and business. The module is divided into a series of sections, each of which is accompanied by a hands-on exercise.

Day 2 - explores technology-related topics that relate to cloud computing platforms. It does not get into implementation or programming details, but instead keeps coverage at a conceptual level, focusing on topics that address cloud service architecture, cloud security threats and technologies, virtualization and data processing.

Day 3 - provides a technical insight into foundational cloud computing platforms. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) environments are explored as compound patterns, comprised of unique and shared building blocks. This module is structured as a guided tour through these architectural layers, describing primary components, highlighting shared components and explaining how building blocks can be assembled and implemented via cloud computing mechanisms and practices

Day 4 - builds upon Day 3 to provide a deep dive into elastic, resilient and multitenant technology architectures, as well as specialized solution architectures, such as cloud bursting and cloud balancing. Through the study of architectural mechanisms, industry technologies and design patterns, both core and extended components are described that combine to realize elasticity, resiliency and multitenancy as primary characteristics of cloud platforms. By leveraging these native and enhanced scalability and failover-related feature-sets, specialized solution architectures are described to enable bursting between clouds and on-premise and cloud environments, as well as the balancing of runtime loads across clouds for performance and failover purposes.

Day 5 - presents participants with a series of exercises and problems that are designed to test their ability to apply their knowledge of topics covered previously.

This course has been created for people who want to understand how to benefit from cloud computing. It uses Amazon EC2 example, but can be tailored to other providers.

Audience

IT architects, mid-level IT managers, IT consultants

Format of the course

Currently 100% lectures.

This instructor-led, live training in China (online or onsite) is aimed at technical persons who wish to gain a practical understanding of available cloud solutions, the data analysis processes needed to work with data in the cloud, and the hands-on practice to apply tools such as Power BI to analyze data.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Power BI.
• Evaluate the various data solutions offered by cloud providers such as Azure.
• Gain an understanding of the different structures, modeling approaches, and data warehouse designs used to store, manage and access Big Data.
• Apply tools and techniques to clean data in preparation for analysis.
• Build reporting and analytics solutions based on on-premise as well as cloud data.
• Integrate data analytics solutions with a data warehouse.
• Mitigate data security risks and ensure data privacy.

This course is created for people who face choices which solution to choose for a specific problem. IT Managers, Solution Architects, Test Managers, System Administrators and Developers can benefit from this course by understanding the benefits and costs of available Cloud/SaaS/Iaas solutions.

HashiCorp is an open-source software company that provides tools for provisioning, securing and running infrastructure for distributed applications. Their DevOps suite includes:

• Vault - for securing distributed applications
• Terraform - for provisioning infrastructure and application resources across public cloud, private cloud, and external services
• Nomad - a distributed, highly available, datacenter-aware cluster manager and scheduler for deploying applications on any infrastructure, at any scale.
• Consul - for discovering and configuring services in your infrastructure.

This course focuses on Consul. We go over the Consul's architecture and features and carry out a live implementation and deployment of a Consul server.

Format of the Course

• Part lecture, part discussion, heavy hands-on practice and implementation, occasional quizzing to measure progress

• Gain foundational knowledge of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 
• How to install, configure, and manage a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 site and Cloud connectors
• Identify the considerations between Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops on-premises and the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Service
• How to deliver app and desktop resources

This instructor-led, live training in China (online or onsite) is aimed at cloud administrators, cloud architects, technology heads, and financial analysts who wish to record, manage, monitor, and process financial assets of an organization in the cloud.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to use FinOps practices in an organization to forecast costs, optimize processes, and perform financial management operations in the cloud.