1. cloud strategy & basics
- Introduction: Cloud strategy, expectations and goals.
- What is cloud computing? Models & terms.
- Public, private, hybrid & multi-cloud: operating models and fields of application.
- IaaS, PaaS, SaaS: a comparison of the most important service models.
- Opportunities and risks from a management and architecture perspective.
- Cloud use cases & maturity level of your own company.
2. cloud architectures & applications
- Cloud-native applications: What do they look like, what advantages do they offer?
- Journey to Cloud: the 6 Rs of cloud migration for existing applications.
- Develop cloud architecture: structured with cloud computing patterns (Decomposition → Workload → Data → Components → Elasticity & Resiliency).
- Practically develop the architecture of a cloud application.
3. operation & automation in the cloud
- Cloud Data Management - Strategies for data organization and access.
- Data protection & compliance in the cloud.
- Exercise/Discussion: Mini-Case: Cloud Data & Compliance.
- DevOps & CI/CD - principles, culture and processes for fast, secure software delivery.
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) - stability, performance and team responsibility.
- Role and responsibility role play: coordinating a release in the cloud.
4. cloud providers, multi-cloud & portability
- Cloud provider comparison - Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Multi-cloud & hybrid cloud strategies - advantages and challenges for governance, organization and operation.
- Migration between cloud providers - portability of applications, data and processes.
- Plan multi-cloud strategy and portability.
- Conclusion & outlook - Success factors for sustainable cloud use.