United Kingdom, November 27, 2017
This five-day continuing professional development (CPD) programme will provide you with the knowledge and skills needed to make the best use of modern cloud computing platforms. You will be given the opportunity in lab exercises to develop distributed cloud-enabled applications using industry standard software, and to deploy their applications on an OpenStack-based cloud platform.
Core content:
Introduction to cloud computing, cloud vs cluster vs grid; scalability considerations: horizontal vs vertical scaling; IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS vs XaaS; OpenStack cloud computing platform: introduction, interfaces, and architecture; configuration management for IaaS infrastructures using Ansible; developing cloud-enabled distributed applications; Hadoop and Map-Reduce; non-technical issues in cloud computing (financial, regulatory, software licencing).