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Pivotal CloudFoundry Training Plan (for developers/tech leads)

Goal

The goal is to enable the trainee(developer) to work confidentially with CloudFoundry platform.

In other words, after the training he/she will be able to:

• understand basic CloudFoundry concepts
• develop and deploy PaaS-ready app to the CF platform
• get application feedback metrics(logs, monitor metrics, etc.)
• interact and integrate with external services
• perform basic DevOps activities on CF (i.e. blue/green deployment, scaling, high availability, etc.)

People Involved

Duration	Trainer	Trainee
1st term of Training	TBD	devs who registered
Other terms	Chosen from the previous term's trainees	Selected based on interest & work requirements

Course Structure (Work in progress)

This training course will be held part is still WIP and subject to change.

Part 1 to 3 are basic topics, while Part 4 and Part 5 are intermediate level.

1. Introduction to CloudFoundry
   Description: general information, concepts and architecture of OSS CloudFoundry, proprietary PCF and the difference between them.
   Duration: 45 mins
   Outcome: trainee expected to have PWS account, and have cf CLI tool ready.

2. Deploy app to CF and more concepts
   Description: use cf CLi tool to deploy first app to CF platform and introduction of concepts like application manifests, buildpacks, organzation, spaces and roles, etc.
   Duration: 45 mins
   Outcome: trainee expected to have app deployed to PWS and understand above concepts

3. Scaling, HA and Blue-Green deployment
   Description: learn about scaling, HA and B/G deployment
   Duration: 30 mins
   Outcome: trainee expected to learn how to scale application up or down manually, configure Autoscaler, do blue-green deployment and 4 levels of HA provided by PCF

4. Get deployment feedback, metrics & 12 fators apps
   Description: check app logs, learn the basic usage of PCF metrics, concept of 12 factors apps
   Duration: 30 mins
   Outcome: trainee expected to understand metrics system and how to check app logs. trainee expected to understand the concept & best practices of 12 factors Apps.

5. Integration with external services
   Description: learn about how to use services, service broker and PCF marketplace and why would we use them.
   Duration: 30 mins
   Outcome: trainee expected to how to use services (use RDB service as example), concepts of services broken and PCF marketplace.

Total training time: 3 hrs.