About This Course

This course is designed to teach you serverless computing essentials which include how to develop serverless applications composed of loosely-coupled, microservice-like functions. You will get the opportunity to learn more about serverless programming and deployment models as well as its top use cases and design patterns. Additionally, you will be guided through several labs that demonstrate how to implement essential concepts including how to create, deploy, and invoke cloud-based functions, connect them to event sources for automation and expose them as web-accessible endpoints and APIs.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

After you complete this course, you will be able to:

Course Syllabus

Module 1 - Serverless essentials
How serverless is simplifying the Ops landscape for developers
 Understand the basic serverless programming model and semantics of IBM Cloud Functions
 Differentiate a Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) from a Container-as-a-Service (CaaS)
 Top use cases for serverless
 How IBM Cloud Functions implements serverless

Module 2 - Create and invoke actions (lab)
Install lab prerequisites
 Create and invoke actions
 Use action parameters
 Retrieve action logs
 Asynchronous actions
 Practice action sequences

Module 3 - Manage actions with packages (lab)
Use packaged actions
 Create your own packages

Module 4 - Connect actions to event sources (lab)
Understand the concepts
 Create triggers
 Practice rules
 Connect trigger feeds

Module 5 - Expose APIs from actions (lab)
Understand the concepts
 Create web-enabled actions
 API management of web actions

Module 6 - Use the Web User Interface (Web UI)
create and invoke an action
 create triggers with implicit rules
 expose web actions
 create an API
 explore the monitoring dashboard


General Information

 It is self-paced.
 It can be taken at any time.


RECOMMENDED SKILLS PRIOR TO TAKING THIS COURSE

Basic understanding of Cloud Computing (the concept).  It is also helpful if you know Javascript, but not required