FinOps Certified Practitioner (FOCP) Preparation Training Course

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at cloud engineers and developers who wish to use CloudFormation to manage infrastructure resources within the AWS ecosystem.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Implement CloudFormation templates to automate infrastructure management.
• Integrate existing AWS resources into CloudFormation.
• Use StackSets to manage stacks across multiple accounts and regions.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at developers who wish to integrate a DynamoDB NoSQL database into a web application hosted on AWS.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up the necessary development environment to start integrating data into DynamoDB.
• Integrate DynamoDB into web applications and mobile applications.
• Move data in AWS with AWS services.
• Implement operations with AWS DAX.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (onsite or remote) is aimed at engineers who wish to deploy and manage IoT devices on AWS.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to build an IoT platform that includes the deployment and management of a backend, gateway, and devices on top of AWS.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at developers who wish to install, configure, and manage AWS IoT Greengrass capabilities to create applications for various devices.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to use AWS IoT Greengrass to build, deploy, manage, secure, and monitor applications on intelligent devices.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (onsite or remote) is aimed at developers who wish to use AWS Lambda to build and deploy services and applications to the cloud, without needing to worry about provisioning the execution environment (servers, VMs and containers, availability, scalability, storage, etc.).

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Configure AWS Lambda to execute a function.
• Understand FaaS (Functions as a Service) and the advantages of serverless development.
• Build, upload and execute AWS Lambda functions.
• Integrate Lambda functions with different event sources.
• Package, deploy, monitor and troubleshoot Lambda based applications.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at developers who wish to learn how to build microservices on Microsoft Azure Service Fabric (ASF).

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Use ASF as a platform for building and managing microservices.
• Understand key microservices programming concepts and models.
• Create a cluster in Azure.
• Deploy microservices on premises or in the cloud.
• Debug and troubleshoot a live microservice application.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at engineers who wish to use AWS CloudFormation to automate the process of managing AWS cloud infrastructure.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Enable AWS services to get started managing infrastructure.
• Understand and apply the principle of "infrastructure as code".
• Improve quality and lower the costs of deploying infrastructure.
• Write AWS CloudFormation Templates using YAML.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level professionals who wish to learn how to effectively build, deploy, and maintain serverless applications on AWS Cloud9 and AWS Lambda.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the fundamentals of serverless architecture.
• Set up AWS Cloud9 for serverless application development.
• Develop, test, and deploy serverless applications using AWS Lambda.
• Integrate AWS Lambda with other AWS services such as API Gateway and S3.
• Optimize serverless applications for performance and cost efficiency.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at programmers and developers who wish to use Fn in creating serverless applications and services.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up Fn to create directories and functions.
• Create applications using different programming languages.
• Monitor functions to resolve issues at the development and deployment stages.

Summery:

• Basics of IoT architecture and functions
• “Things”, “Sensors”, Internet and the mapping between business functions of IoT
• Essential of all IoT software components- hardware, firmware, middleware, cloud and mobile app
• IoT functions- Fleet manager, Data visualization, SaaS based FM and DV, alert/alarm, sensor onboarding, “thing” onboarding, geo-fencing
• Basics of IoT device communication with cloud with MQTT.
• Connecting IoT devices to AWS with MQTT (AWS IoT Core).
• Connecting AWS IoT core with AWS Lambda function for computation and data storage.
• Connecting Raspberry PI with AWS IoT core and simple data communication.
• Alerts and events
• Sensor calibration

Summary:

• Basics of IoT architecture and functions
• “Things”, “Sensors”, Internet and the mapping between business functions of IoT
• Essential of all IoT software components- hardware, firmware, middleware, cloud and mobile app
• IoT functions- Fleet manager, Data visualization, SaaS based FM and DV, alert/alarm, sensor onboarding, “thing” onboarding, geo-fencing
• Basics of IoT device communication with cloud with MQTT.
• Connecting IoT devices to AWS with MQTT (AWS IoT Core).
• Connecting AWS IoT core with AWS Lambda function for computation and data storage using DynamoDB.
• Connecting Raspberry PI with AWS IoT core and simple data communication.
• Hands on with Raspberry PI and AWS IoT Core to build a smart device.
• Sensor data visualization and communication with web interface.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (onsite or remote) is aimed at developers who wish to use OpenFaas to create, build, test, debug and deploy event-driven functions without needing to worry about managing the underlying server infrastructure.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure OpenFaas.
• Package any binary or code as a serverless function without repetitive boiler-plate coding.
• Decouple from AWS Lambda to avoid lock-in.
• Deploy event-driven functions to an on-premise server or to the cloud.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at software engineers who wish to develop parallel applications using OpenMP.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand and use parallel programming with Fortran in OpenMP.
• Calculate fractals in parallel to render multiple pixels and characters.
• Implement vector programming with SIMD extensions for HPC systems.
• Add parallel blocks for specifying shared memory parallelism.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (onsite or remote) is aimed at developers who wish to use Serverless Framework on AWS and other cloud platforms to create and deploy microservice applications.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up Serverless Framework to work with compute services such as AWS Lambda.
• Reduce the complexity and cost of deploying microservices on different cloud platforms.
• Emit and capture events and execute functions automatically.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at developers and DevOps engineers who wish to utilize a serverless approach for building enterprise applications in Kubernetes.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Setup and configure the Kubernetes system to start developing with a serverless architecture.
• Understand the concepts and principles foundational to serverless environments.
• Operate toolchains necessary to serverless development and integrate it with Kubernetes components.
• Practice their skill in Python programming language and apply it to implement  serverless systems.
• Secure enterprise applications that are deployed through a serverless framework on Kubernetes.
• Utilize modern cloud computing methods in optimizing DevOps task processing workflows.