Cloud Computing Technologies - Master's

This course will cover the basic concepts of Cloud Computing and Cloud Native thinking. We will study the five components of Cloud. Topics will focus on application and infrastructure scalability, reliability, and security. Commercial and local cloud architectures are examined. An integration of course topics will result in a project employing various cloud computing technologies.

Background: Assumes you have had basic Networking TCP/IP and an introduction to Linux using the command line and writing shell scripts

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Explain the five core components of cloud computing
• Use and administer industry standard cloud resources
• Correctly identify cloud native operations and development methodologies
• Build and deploy elastic scaling applications on a cloud platform
• Describe and employ web technologies for software deployment
• Working with command line Cloud Tools
• Describe How to Think Cloud Native

Software Requirements: An AWS account – we will make use of the free-tier.

A GitHub account and creation of a private repo

VirtualBox

A laptop that you own or have control to install needed software for the course