Pivotal Cloud Foundry Course Overview:

Pivotal Cloud Foundry, an open-source cloud platform by Pivotal, simplifies cloud application development, deployment, and management as a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). This course equips students and developers with the know-how to employ Pivotal Cloud Foundry for application creation, deployment, and management in the cloud. Covering cloud computing fundamentals, the course delves into Pivotal Cloud Foundry usage, encompassing application workflows, services, scaling, debugging, and monitoring tools. Upon completion, participants will possess the skills to effectively utilize Pivotal Cloud Foundry for their applications.

Intended Audience:

• Software Developers
• Cloud Engineers
• DevOps Professionals
• Senior Administrators
• IT Managers
• System Architects
• Enterprise Architects
• Project Managers
• Container Developers
• Quality Engineers

Learning Objectives of Pivotal Cloud Foundry:

1. Understand the fundamentals of Pivotal Cloud Foundry and its platform services.
2. Learn to deploy applications using both the command line interface and the GUI-based console.
3. Be able to configure applications to use external services such as databases.
4. Understand the concepts of Buildpacks and .cfignore files.
5. Learn about the different orchestration strategies for running tasks and services.
6. Develop a working knowledge of the Cloud Foundry logging and monitoring services.
7. Become familiar with the various applications lifecycle stages and how to manage them within Cloud Foundry.
8. Understand the security aspects of Cloud Foundry such as roles and access control.
9. Understand the concepts of Health Manager and its role in managing cloud application lifecycles.
10. Learn the best practices for developing applications in the Cloud Foundry environment.