Cloud Virtualization, Containers and APIs

Here is the course structure formatted with bullets for each module:

1\. Getting Started with Cloud Building Blocks (Module 1 - 1 hour)

\- Videos (5 videos, total 10 minutes)

\- Instructor Introduction (1 minute, preview)

\- Course Introduction (2 minutes)

\- Course Prerequisites (2 minutes)

\- Lab Onboarding (1 minute)

\- Course 2 Project Overview (2 minutes)

\- Readings (4 readings, total 60 minutes)

\- Getting Started and Course Gotchas (10 minutes)

\- Course Structure and Discussion Etiquette (10 minutes)

\- Create a free account with AWS, Azure and GCP (30 minutes)

\- Specialization Project Roadmap: Course 2 (10 minutes)

\- Discussion Prompt (1 prompt, total 10 minutes)

\- Introductions (10 minutes)

2\. Virtualization and Containers (Module 2 - 10 hours)

\- Videos (26 videos, total 115 minutes)

\- Introduction to Virtual Machines (2 minutes, preview)

\- Containers vs. Virtual Machines (2 minutes)

\- ...

\- Readings (16 readings, total 190 minutes)

\- Key Terms (10 minutes)

\- Red Hat on Containers vs VMs (10 minutes)

\- ...

\- Quizzes (4 quizzes, total 120 minutes)

\- Week 2 Quiz (30 minutes)

\- Quiz-Virtual Machines (30 minutes)

\- ...

\- Discussion Prompts (4 prompts, total 40 minutes)

\- AWS vCPU (10 minutes)

\- Advantages of Spot Instances (10 minutes)

\- ...

\- Ungraded Labs (3 labs, total 180 minutes)

\- Bash Aliases (60 minutes)

\- Lint Dockerfile (60 minutes)

\- FastAPI Calculator Microservice (60 minutes)

3\. Microservices (Module 3 - 9 hours)

\- Videos (22 videos, total 88 minutes)

\- Introduction to Microservices (1 minute, preview)

\- What is a Microservice? (2 minutes)

\- ...

\- Readings (16 readings, total 160 minutes)

\- Key Terms (10 minutes)

\- How To Transform (10 minutes)

\- ...

\- Quizzes (4 quizzes, total 120 minutes)

\- Week 3 Quiz (30 minutes)

\- Quiz-What is a Microservice? (30 minutes)

\- ...

\- Discussion Prompts (3 prompts, total 30 minutes)

\- Microservices as a DevOps Best Practice (10 minutes)

\- ...

\- Ungraded Labs (3 labs, total 180 minutes)

\- Processing JSON (60 minutes)

\- Flask Change Microservice (60 minutes)

\- Marco Polo Command-line tool (60 minutes)

4\. Operations (Module 4 - 9 hours)

\- Videos (13 videos, total 42 minutes)

\- Introduction to Monitoring and Alerts (1 minute, preview)

\- Effective Monitoring and Alerts (2 minutes)

\- ...

\- Readings (13 readings, total 130 minutes)

\- Key Terms (10 minutes)

\- Scaling and Monitoring (10 minutes)

\- ...

\- Quizzes (4 quizzes, total 120 minutes)

\- Week 4 Quiz (30 minutes)

\- Quiz-Monitoring and Alerts (30 minutes)

\- ...

\- Discussion Prompts (3 prompts, total 30 minutes)

\- Actionable Alerts (10 minutes)

\- Load Testing (10 minutes)

\- The Five Whys (10 minutes)

\- Ungraded Labs (4 labs, total 240 minutes)

\- Load Test a Flask Microservice (60 minutes)

\- VS Code Sandbox (60 minutes)

\- Jupyter Sandbox (60 minutes)

\- Linux Desktop Sandbox (60 minutes)