Introduction to Cloud Computing

About this Course

This course introduces you to the core ideas of cloud computing. You achieve the foundational data required for understanding cloud computing from a enterprise perspective as additionally for turning into a cloud practitioner. You perceive the definition and important traits of cloud computing, its historical past, the enterprise case for cloud computing, and rising expertise usecases enabled by cloud. We introduce you to among the outstanding service suppliers of our instances (e.g. AWS, Google, IBM, Microsoft, and so on.) the providers they provide, and take a look at some case research of cloud computing throughout business verticals.

You be taught in regards to the numerous cloud service fashions (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and deployment fashions (Public, Non-public, Hybrid) and the important thing elements of a cloud infrastructure (VMs, Networking, Storage – File, Block, Object, CDN). We additionally cowl emergent cloud developments and practices together with – Hybrid Multicloud, Microservices, Serverless, DevOps, Cloud Native and Software Modernization. And we go over the fundamentals of cloud safety, monitoring, and totally different job roles within the cloud business. Though this course doesn’t require any prior cloud computing or programming expertise, by the top of the course, you’ll have created your personal account on IBM Cloud and gained some hands-on expertise by provisioning a cloud service and dealing with it. This course is appropriate for a big number of audiences – whether or not you might be an govt / supervisor / pupil who needs to grow to be conversant in cloud computing terminology and ideas, or somebody who needs foundational grounding in cloud computing to start out a profession on this subject or grow to be a cloud practitioner – resembling a cloud engineer, developer, analyst, and so on. The completion of this course additionally makes you eligible to earn the Cloud Computing Core IBM digital badge. Extra details about the badge may be discovered right here: https://www.youracclaim.com/org/ibm/badge/introduction-to-cloud-computing

This course is a part of a number of applications

This course may be utilized to a number of Specializations or Skilled Certificates applications. Finishing this course will rely in direction of your studying in any of the next applications:

• Data Know-how (IT) and Cloud Fundamentals Specialization
• DevOps, Cloud, and Agile Foundations Specialization

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• Outline cloud computing and clarify important traits, historical past, the enterprise case for cloud, and the rising applied sciences enabled by cloud

• Describe the cloud service fashions Describe cloud service fashions, cloud deployment fashions, and cloud infrastructure

   

• Clarify rising Cloud associated developments together with HybridMulticloud, Microservices, Serverless, Cloud Native, DevOps, and Software Modernization

• Create IBM Cloud account and provision an occasion of cloud object storage service to host a static webpage.

SKILLS YOU WILL GAIN

• Cloud Native
• Devops
• Iaas PaaS Saas
• Hybrid Multicloud
• Cloud Computing

Syllabus – What you’ll be taught from this course

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WEEK

1

3 hours to finish

Overview of Cloud Computing

This week you’ll be taught in regards to the definition and important traits of cloud computing. You’ll be taught in regards to the evolution of cloud computing, the rising applied sciences supported by cloud, and the enterprise case for cloud computing.On this module, you’ll be taught in regards to the definition and important traits of cloud computing. Additionally, you will be taught in regards to the evolution of cloud computing, the enterprise case for cloud adoption, and the way among the rising applied sciences are being supported by cloud computing.

WEEK

2

3 hours to finish

Cloud Computing Fashions

This week you’ll be taught in regards to the several types of service and deployment fashions of cloud computing. On this module, you’ll be taught in regards to the three essential service fashions accessible on the cloud—Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software program-as-a-Service (SaaS). Additionally, you will be taught in regards to the three essential deployment fashions accessible on the cloud—Public, Non-public, and Hybrid. On the finish of the module, you’ll create an account on IBM Cloud.

WEEK

3

2 hours to finish

Parts of Cloud Computing

This week you’ll be taught in regards to the numerous elements of a cloud computing structure, resembling virtualization digital machines, naked metallic servers, and the distinction between digital machines and naked metallic servers. You’ll discover ways to construct a safe cloud networking presence, how container-based applied sciences work, and the advantages of a Content material Supply Community. We may even familiarize you with the 4 essential forms of cloud storage.

WEEK

4

2 hours to finish

Emergent Traits and Practices

This week you’ll study among the emergent developments in cloud computing, resembling Hybrid Multicloud, Serverless Computing, and Microservices. Additionally, you will study how cloud native purposes work, the function of DevOps in addressing among the complexities of cloud computing, and the elements of utility modernization.