Cloud Foundry for Developers

By Richard Seroter
Learn how to build PaaS-friendly applications that can be deployed and managed in a Cloud Foundry environment. See how to use a full range of Cloud Foundry capabilities for modern web applications.
Course info
Level
Beginner
Updated
Jan 7, 2015
Duration
2h 51m
Table of contents
PaaS and Cloud Foundry Introduction
Introduction 2m Cloud Application Delivery Models 3m Why Platform-as-a-Service Matters 4m Deploy an Application 1m DEMO: Deploy an Application 6m Designing for PaaS 23m Designing for PaaS - Additional Considerations 2m PaaS Anti-patterns 2m About Cloud Foundry 1m Cloud Foundry Architecture 5m Cloud Foundry Security 2m Cloud Foundry and Containers 2m Cloud Foundry Community 1m Course Objectives 1m Reference Architecture for This Course 1m Summary 2m
Deploying and Managing Applications (Part I)
Introduction 2m Understanding Orgs, Roles, Spaces, and Permissions 1m How Roles Work 2m Logging into Your Space (CLI) 0m DEMO: Logging into Your Space (CLI) 4m Logging into Your Space (UI) 0m DEMO: Logging into Your Space (UI) 1m About Application Services 5m Creating a Service Instance 0m DEMO: Creating a Service Instance 3m Deploying and Exploring Applications 0m Creating YAML Manifests 2m Exploring Manifests 9m Creating a YML Manifest 0m DEMO: Creating a YAML Manifest 3m What Happens During Deployment? 3m Deploying Applications via the CLI 1m Finish Environment Buildout 1m DEMO: Finish Environment Buildout 7m
Deploying and Managing Applications (Part II)
Deploying Applications via CLI 1m DEMO: Deploying Applications via CLI 6m Exploring Running Applications 1m Scaling and Updating Applications 2m Scaling Application Commands 1m Scaling Applications 0m DEMO: Scaling Applications 2m Deploying Updated Applications 1m DEMO: Deploying Updated Applications 3m Troubleshooting Applications 2m Using Logs 2m DEMO: Using Logs 3m Summary 1m
Cloud Foundry Advanced Topics
Introduction 1m (Updated) Reference Architecture for This Course 1m Using Environment Variables 1m Retrieving and Setting Environment Variables 1m DEMO: Retrieving and Setting Environment Variables 7m Background Applications 2m Building and Deploying Background Apps 2m DEMO: Building and Deploying Background Apps 7m Performing No-downtime Updates 2m Blue-green Deployment Architecture 2m DEMO: Blue-green Deployment 6m Application Crash and Recovery 3m DEMO: Application Crash Recovery 5m Summary 2m
Description
Course info
Level
Beginner
Updated
Jan 7, 2015
Duration
2h 51m
Description

Cloud Foundry is a popular and powerful open-source Platform-as-a-Service for modern web applications. This course describes the best practices for designing PaaS applications, and walks through the deployment and management of a multi-tier web application.

About the author
Richard Seroter
About the author

Richard Seroter is the VP of Product Marketing at Pivotal, with a master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Colorado. He’s also an 11-time Microsoft MVP for cloud, an instructor for Pluralsight, the lead InfoQ.com editor for cloud computing, and author of multiple books. As Vice President at Pivotal, Richard leads product, customer, technical, and partner marketing teams. Richard maintains a regularly updated blog on topics of architecture and solution design and can be found on Twitter as @rseroter.

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