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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

Introduction to Microservices Architecture 

  • Definition and scope of microservices for government applications
  • Advantages and operational challenges associated with microservices
  • Evaluation of microservices versus monolithic architectures

Establishing AWS Cloud9 for Microservices Development — Rapid Configuration

  • Provisioning an AWS Cloud9 environment
  • Configuring the development workspace
  • Integration of AWS services with Cloud9

Constructing Microservices using Docker

  • Fundamentals of Docker and containerization
  • Creation and validation of Docker containers
  • Leveraging Docker Compose for multi-container applications
  • Practical exercise: Local development of a multi-container application

Event-Driven Architecture and Asynchronous Messaging

  • Core principles of event-driven architecture; comparative analysis of synchronous and asynchronous communication
  • Amazon SQS for queue-based message handling
  • Amazon SNS for publish-subscribe messaging patterns
  • Amazon EventBridge for event routing and distribution
  • Overview of Kafka and Amazon MSK for high-volume streaming (Optional component)
  • Practical exercise: Implementing asynchronous communication between two services using SQS and SNS, followed by integration with EventBridge routing

Deploying Microservices on AWS (ECS, Lambda, and EKS)

  • Configuration of Amazon ECS for container orchestration
  • Deployment of microservices via AWS Lambda
  • Overview of Kubernetes and Amazon EKS as an alternative orchestration method (Comparative analysis with ECS)
  • Service discovery mechanisms in microservices environments
  • Scalability strategies for microservices on AWS
  • Practical exercise: Deployment on ECS with comparative analysis against an EKS configuration

API Management with AWS API Gateway

  • Creation and administration of RESTful APIs
  • Integration of APIs with microservices
  • API versioning control and throttling mechanisms
  • Practical exercise: Exposure of microservices via API Gateway with versioning controls

Observability, Monitoring, Logging, and Distributed Tracing

  • Utilization of AWS CloudWatch for system monitoring
  • Configuration of logging via Amazon CloudWatch Logs
  • Implementation of alarm thresholds and notification systems
  • Conceptual framework of distributed tracing
  • Application of AWS X-Ray for request tracing
  • OpenTelemetry for vendor-neutral instrumentation
  • Practical exercise: Instrumentation of microservices using X-Ray and OpenTelemetry to trace requests across service boundaries

CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code 

  • CI/CD pipeline fundamentals for microservices
  • Overview of Terraform for infrastructure provisioning

Microservices Security Best Practices

  • Implementation of IAM roles and policy governance
  • Security hardening of microservices via API Gateway
  • Encryption protocols for data in transit and at rest

Requirements

Participants are expected to possess the following competencies:

  • Foundational to intermediate proficiency in Python
  • Basic comprehension of REST APIs, HTTP protocols, and web application concepts for government integration
  • Basic familiarity with Linux command-line utilities and Git version control
  • Recommended, though not mandatory, basic understanding of Docker and containerization concepts
  • Beneficial basic familiarity with cloud computing principles and AWS services

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