Cloud Computing
Overview
This online course provides an introduction in the techniques and
deployments of the the Cloud infrastructure and platform, and the
fundamentals of distributed systems. The course emphasizes on the
architecture, the deployment and the scalability of microservices.
It consists of independent modules and intensive hands on labs.
Students or attendees learn the fundamentals of Cloud Computing and
the principles of DevOps and building a Cloud native enterprise.
Below, there is a list of some of the modules covered in this
course.
Past offerings: Purdue University (2014 and 2015), North Carolina
State University (2016, 2022-now) and the University of New Mexico
(2017-now)
Instructor: Ioannis Papapanagiotou, PhD
Topics Covered
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Introduction to Cloud Computing (standardization, automation,
rapid elasticity, pricing)
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Architecture (Service and Delivery Models, Virtualization,
Hypervisors)
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IaaS and PaaS Cloud Services and Vendors (Amazon AWS, OpenStack,
Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure etc)
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Anatomy of the Cloud (Cloud tiers, Sharding, CAP Theorem,
ACID/Base, Web Services)
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Replication, Consistency, 2/3 Phase Commits, and Paxos (Vector
Clocks, Byzantine Failures, Chandy/Lamport)
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PaaS Cloud Storage and Case Studies (The Amazon
Dynamo/Cassandra, Google's BigTable and Spanner etc)
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Data Pipeline (Distributed Queues, Message Brokers, Pub/Sub,
Service Decoupling, Exchange Types and Apache Kafka)
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Microservices, Containers, Container Orchestration (Control
Groups, Namespaces, Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Meson with
Marathon)
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Network Virtualization (OpenStack Neutron, Software Defined
Networks, OpenFlow)
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Security (security integration model, threats, Economic Denial
of Sustainability, threat mitigation and case studies)
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Serverless (Function As a Service - FaaS)
Hands on Labs
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OpenStack Deployment
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Docker and Linux Containers
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DevOps and automation on the Cloud
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Big Data on AWS and GCP
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Developing client web services
Guest Speakers
To give a talk or provide feedback about the course please contact:
ipapapa {at} unm {dot} edu
Miscellaneous
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