On-Site Cloud Native & DevOps Training Catalog

RX-M is now offering courses that conclude with attendees taking the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam. The intensive instructor-led programs cover the essential facets of Kubernetes critical to preparing for the exams. Both in-person and virtual options are available.

The Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) programs were created by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), in collaboration with The Linux Foundation (LF), to help develop the Kubernetes ecosystem.

RX-M is a Linux Foundation Authorized Training Partner (ATP), part of the founding class of Kubernetes Certified Service Providers (KCSP) and Kubernetes Training Partners (KTP), and a charter member of the CNCF. We are uniquely positioned as unbiased & market neutral.

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RX-M’s foundational Kubernetes training covers all of the core features of Kubernetes orchestration and is the recommended prerequisite course for the rest of our Kubernetes curriculum. This intensive intro takes attendees from the installation of Kubernetes to Pod deployment and management using Controllers, Services, and mapped Volumes.

This Kubernetes training course is designed to provide technical staff with a comprehensive foundation to Kubernetes. All of the core features of Kubernetes orchestration are covered including, Pods, Labels, Volumes, Controllers, Services and more. The course takes attendees from installation to Pod deployment and management through a combination of lecture, demo and hands-on lab exercises where students will gain experience configuring and managing Kubernetes Pods, Deployments, Replica Sets, and Services. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of Kubernetes, how it operates in a container-based enterprise and will have learned the skills and knowledge necessary to begin using Kubernetes.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

Our advanced Kubernetes training for Ops course is aimed at operations staff, platform managers, and SREs looking for a deep dive into Kubernetes architecture and internals. The course covers the scheduling algorithm, kubelet internals, service meshes and service proxies, software-defined networking, service discovery, cluster security, and observability: monitoring, tracing, and logging.

This Kubernetes Advanced for Operators training course picks up where RX-M's Kubernetes Foundation leaves off and is designed to provide experienced Kubernetes users with a detailed look at the administration and deployment of the Kubernetes platform through a combination of lecture, demonstrations, and hands-on lab exercises. This course will give attendees a better understanding of Kubernetes features including the scheduler, replication controller master, kublet and service proxies.

Attendees will also get a chance to work with Kubernetes add-ons including DNS, container registry, web UIs, and cluster monitoring. Students will gain hands-on experience configuring and managing Kubernetes features and functions in a live Kubernetes lab cluster and will also have a chance to work with Kubernetes in the cloud. Those attending will leave with a clear understanding of the more advanced features of Kubernetes and how they operate in a container-based enterprise.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This intensive three-day hands-on course is designed to provide working developers and other technology professionals with a comprehensive introduction to Kubernetes resource definition. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of Kubernetes application design and specification.

This Kubernetes for Developers course is designed to provide working developers with a comprehensive introduction to Kubernetes resource definition. Students will gain hands-on experience with Kubernetes manifest coding from pod basics all the way through advanced topics such as stateful services, volumes, auto-scaling, configuration, and secret usage. Skills developed include Pod specification and common pod design patterns, various Pod set manager configurations, service configuration, DaemonSet configuration, batch jobs and more. Best practices are covered in class and through the hands-on lab exercises accompanying each module. Upon completion of the course, attendees will have the skills and information necessary to begin coding effective application manifests for sophisticated cloud-native applications.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

Our securing Kubernetes course is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to the processes and practices around securing Kubernetes including application and image security, logging, network policy/segmentation, Kubernetes control plane security and auditing, and RBAC configuration.

This intensive two-day hands-on course is designed to provide working platform operators and other technology professionals with a comprehensive introduction to the processes and practices around securing Kubernetes. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of Kubernetes and container-based security concerns. Day one focuses on foundational security concerns including securing cloud native applications, container isolation, image security, and network policy/segmentation. On day two students will gain hands-on experience with Kubernetes authentication, control plane security, etcd security as well as RBAC configuration and management. The class concludes with a look at key logging and metrics monitoring as well as Kubernetes security auditing features. Upon completion of the course, attendees will have the skills and information necessary to effectively secure a production-grade Kubernetes cluster.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

Click here for more information on the Securing Kubernetes course

The Helm two-day hands-on course is designed to provide working platform operators and other technology professionals with a comprehensive introduction to creating, customizing, deploying, and managing applications as Helm Charts. Upon completion of the course, attendees will have the skills and information necessary to begin using Helm for both standard apps and custom application deployments.

This intensive two-day hands-on course is designed to provide working platform operators and other technology professionals with a comprehensive introduction to creating, customizing, deploying, and managing applications as Helm Charts. Students will work with Helm command-line operations, explore the architecture of both the Helm software and Helm Charts, learn how to deploy and manage private Chart Repositories, discuss extending and securing Helm, and much more. The lecture and extensive hands-on labs will help attendees gain in-depth experience with Helm and its operation.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

Click here for more information about our Kubernetes Helm Foundation course

This intensive two-day hands-on course is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to the Istio service mesh using the Envoy proxy on Kubernetes.

This intensive two-day hands-on course is designed to provide technology professionals with a comprehensive introduction to the Istio service mesh using the Envoy proxy on Kubernetes. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of how Istio and Envoy provide a powerful and resilient integrated Kubernetes service mesh.

Students will gain hands-on experience with Istio, configuring a complete Istio/Envoy/Kubernetes environment on their personal lab system. The course covers key facets of Istio including:

• Traffic management
• Observability
• Policy enforcement
• Service authentication and authorization

Upon completion of the course, attendees will have the skills and information necessary to begin working with Istio and designing practical service mesh-based solutions to solve real-world problems.

This three-day hands-on course is designed to provide Kubernetes operators with a deeper look at the Kubernetes platform and the tasks associated with maintaining and running a production cluster. The course provides attendees with key day two operations knowledge and experience through a combination of lectures, demonstrations and extensive lab work. Topics covered include cluster backup and recovery, upgrades, observability, etcd management, troubleshooting and much more.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

Click here for more information on the Kubernetes Day 2 Operations course.

This two-day hands-on course is designed to provide a deeper look at a range of Kubernetes networking topics, such as Core Kubernetes Network Functionality, DNS, L3, and L4 solutions, and network policy.

This two-day hands-on course is designed to provide Kubernetes operators with a deeper look at networking in the Kubernetes environment, providing attendees with concepts and practical hands-on skills for working with a range of Kubernetes networking solutions. The course covers both L3 and L4 solutions and highlights the pros and cons of each. Core Kubernetes network functionality is also examined in detail, including features such as DNS and network policy. Upon completion, attendees will have the knowledge and skills needed to effectively manage Kubernetes networking solutions in production environments.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This two-day hands-on course is designed to provide students with a detailed introduction to the Istio architecture and operation in multi/hybrid cloud settings, covering topics such as multicluster network requirements and policy enforcement.

This intensive two-day hands-on course is designed to provide technology professionals with a comprehensive introduction to the Istio service mesh in a multicluster setting. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of Istio architecture and operation in multi/hybrid cloud settings. Course lab work includes hands-on experience with Istio, configuring a complete Istio/Envoy/Kubernetes multicluster lab solution. Key facets of multicluster Istio are covered in-depth, including multicluster network requirements and configuration, Istio Remote configuration, traffic management, and policy enforcement. Upon completion of the course, attendees will have the skills and information necessary to begin working with multicluster Istio solutions in production.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

Kubernetes Administration (LFS458) covers the core concepts typically used to build and administer a Kubernetes cluster in production, using vendor-independent tools. We build a cluster, determine network configuration, grow the cluster, deploy applications and configure the storage, security and other objects necessary for typical use. This course offers exposure to the many skills necessary to administer Kubernetes in a production environment and is excellent preparation for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam.

This is a virtual instructor-led training (VILT) class and is available for online delivery.

Click here for more information on the Kubernetes Administration (LFS458) course including upcoming open enrollment dates.

This three-day hands-on course is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to the architecture, APIs and development practices involved in constructing operators to extend Kubernetes functionality.

This intensive three-day hands-on course is designed to provide SREs and software engineers with a comprehensive introduction to the architecture, APIs and development practices involved in constructing Kubernetes operators. Topics covered include operator basics, API and security facets relevant to operators, custom resource definitions (CRD), API aggregation and controllers. Each module is followed by a hands-on lab where attendees build working software components that extend Kubernetes. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of the Kubernetes operator pattern and how to build native and framework based operator solutions.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This two-day hands-on course is designed to provide technical staff with a practical look at best practices for storage and stateful service management on Kubernetes.

This two day hands-on course provides an in-depth and practical look at storage and stateful service management on Kubernetes. The course picks up where Kubernetes Foundation leaves off, digging deeper into configuration resources, persistent volumes, StatefulSets and local volume management. Attendees will learn best practices for state and configuration management on Kubernetes, including proper use of ConfigMaps, Secrets and encryption. The course also covers standard techniques for scheduling stateful workloads, ensuring failure domain diversity and working with local and remote volumes. Upon completion attendees with have the tools and experience necessary to begin designing and managing stateful services on Kubernetes.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This Kubernetes Foundation for EKS course is a three-day introduction to Kubernetes and the EKS Kubernetes as a service environment.

This intensive three-day hands-on course is designed to provide working SREs, developers, IT, DevOps staff and other technology professionals with a comprehensive introduction to Kubernetes. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of Kubernetes and its basic operations. Students will gain hands-on experience with Kubernetes concepts and operations in both stand-alone and EKS environments. Pod operations, manifest construction, and general best practices are covered in class through hands-on lab exercises. The course covers a wide range of Kubernetes controllers, details pod networking and service function, explores configuration and secrets as well as a number of other important foundational topics. Upon completion of the course, attendees will have the skills and information necessary to begin using Kubernetes in standalone and EKS environments.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This one-day course is designed to provide existing users of Docker with a comprehensive look at Docker Compose and container configuration possibilities made available by Compose. Students are introduced to Compose and its purpose; will be exposed to the entire Compose DSL; will have the chance to install Compose and define and build basic Compose applications. This course examines the strengths and weaknesses of Compose when used in a production setting, including its integration with Docker Swarm and its use of the new Distributed Application Bundle (DAB) image format.

Upon completion of this compact, intensive hands-on course, students will have an in-depth understanding of Compose and its use cases, as well as the ability to immediately use Compose in development and testing applications.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This one-day hands-on course is designed to provide Docker users comprehensive coverage of Docker's native orchestration tool, Docker Swarm. The course begins with an introduction to the Docker Swarm architecture followed by a lab which configures a small Swarm cluster. Nodes and node configurations are covered, introducing attendees to managers and workers the Raft and Gossip protocols and various docker commands for working with clusters. The new Distributed Application Bundle (DAB) image format is covered along with stacks, services, tasks, nodes, and other Docker Swarm primitives. Docker services are covered in-depth, including replicated and global service operation, scaling features, tasks, task states, the Docker service routing mesh, services discovery, and failover.

Upon completion of this intensive hands-on course, students will have an in-depth understanding of Swarm and its use cases, as well as the ability to immediately begin using Swarm in development, test and production scenarios.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This intensive two-day hands-on Mesos training course is designed to provide working developers, DevOps staff, sys admins and other technology professionals with a comprehensive introduction to Apache Mesos. During the course, attendees will build and deploy a complete Apache Mesos-based Data Center Operating System (DC/OS) running Apache Mesos, Marathon, Mesos DNS, Chronos, and Docker.

Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of Apache Mesos, its place in the market and how Apache Mesos integrates with higher-level systems like Kubernetes, Spark, and Hadoop, as well as lower-level systems like OpenStack and AWS. Upon completion of the course, attendees will have the skills and information necessary to begin working with Apache Mesos in their own environment.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This intensive three-day hands-on Docker training course is designed to provide working developers, DevOps staff and other technology professionals with a comprehensive introduction to Docker. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of the architectural constructs in the Linux kernel enabling Docker; how containers are used in development, test and production settings; Docker OSS & commercial products and their place in the market; as well as how other players in the container ecosystem fit into various Docker solution stacks.

During the course, students will gain hands-on experience with the Docker command line, Dockerfiles and Docker image architecture. The course covers Container operations in depth and exposes attendees to the full range of Docker subcommands and Dockerfile instructions in their entirety so that, upon completion of the course, attendees will have the skills and information necessary to begin integrating container technology with their development, test and deployment processes. The course wraps with an introduction to advanced topics such as Docker volume, security, networking, and clustering, providing a natural transition when combined with RX-M's advanced Docker training course.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

Click here for more information about our Docker Foundation course.

This two-day hands-on Docker training course is designed to pick up where RX-M's Docker Foundation course leaves off; it provides in-depth coverage of the advanced aspects of Docker and orchestration tools commonly used to deploy and maintain containerized application infrastructures. Attendees will leave with a detailed understanding of container networking internals and multi-host networking, security concerns, cgroup constraints, and namespace isolation mechanisms.

Discussion includes a look at the evolving microservice-based ecosystem and the relationship between Docker and the Open Container Initiative (OCI) standards. Docker architecture is examined at the runC, containerD and Engine levels. Students will gain experience with Docker API operations and distributed Docker configuration. Key orchestration tools used with Docker will also be introduced, including Docker Machine and Docker Swarm.

The skills and knowledge developed in this course will be particularly useful to system designers and architects interested in leveraging the best features of containers and avoiding common pitfalls. Upon completion of the course, attendees will have the skills and information necessary to effectively integrate Docker and containers into sophisticated enterprise environments.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This intensive five-day hands-on course is designed to provide working developers, DevOps staff, and other technology professionals with a comprehensive treatment of Docker. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of Docker and its place in the market; how containers are used in development, test and production settings; container networking internals and multi-host networking; security, cgroups, and namespaces; as well as experience with Docker API operations and distributed Docker configuration. During the course students will gain hands-on experience with the Docker command line, Dockerfiles and the Docker image creation process; the course covers Container operations in depth and introduces attendees to all of the docker command line commands, the entire range of Dockerfile instructions and gives students architectural insights into the Linux kernel technologies enabling Docker.

This intensive one-day hands-on training course is designed to provide working developers, DevOps staff, networking engineers and other technology professionals with an intensive, yet compact introduction to Docker networking. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of software-defined networks in relation to Docker, types of drivers and how they interact with Docker, networking methodologies and Docker's place in the SDN space.

During the course, students will gain hands-on experience with several Docker SDN technologies in a multi-host lab environment. Upon completion of the course, attendees will have the knowledge necessary to begin immediately integrating container networking technology with their container-based workflows.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This intensive one-day hands-on training course is designed to provide working developers, DevOps staff and other technology professionals with an intensive, yet compact introduction to Docker volumes. Attendees learn about Docker volumes and volume plugin technology as well as the application of volumes in an orchestrated environment. During the course, students will gain hands-on experience with several Docker volume technologies in on-prem and cloud environments. Upon completion of the course, attendees will have the knowledge necessary to begin immediately integrating container volume technology with their container-based workflows.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This two-day hands-on course is designed to give attendees a comprehensive introduction to Linux container technology and the key container runtime systems, containerd, rocket, and runC/libcontainer. The course begins with an introduction to the principal Linux container features, CGroups, and Namespaces, as well as a number of other important Linux kernel features used by container runtimes. Hands-on labs reinforce learning with practice sessions that give attendees a deeper understanding of each of the features examined. The course covers the most important container runtime systems in turn, comparing and contrasting the features and architecture of each.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This course takes Prometheus users from first principals through to advanced time-series query development and dashboarding. The course is organized into modules, which include a hands-on lab.

This intensive hands-on course takes Prometheus users from first principals through to advanced time-series query development and dashboarding. The course is organized into modules, each of which includes a hands-on lab, giving attendees practical experience working with Prometheus. The course can be delivered as a one, two or three-day session, with each day building on the skills learned in the previous day.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

Click here for more information on the Prometheus for Users course.

This intensive two-day hands-on Elasticsearch training course is designed to help working technology professionals master the essential aspects and operations of Elasticsearch. The course covers all of the key concepts and administrative tasks necessary to deploy and use a production Elasticsearch system. Attendees will learn how to search, aggregate and analyze large volumes of real-time data using Elasticsearch’s highly available schema-less platform.

The distributed, horizontally-scaled architecture of Elasticsearch is covered along with best-practice deployment and operations patterns. Students will gain familiarity with the Elasticsearch query DSL and various APIs including Document, Search and Indices. Attendees will leave the training with a clear understanding of Elasticsearch and how to use it to extract high-value data insights over large scale streaming datasets in real-time.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This intensive two-day hands-on course is designed to help working technology professionals master the advanced aspects and operations of Elasticsearch. The first part of the course covers deploying a production cluster, sizing, managing nodes and cluster state, shard management, backup and restore, monitoring, and rolling upgrades and restarts.

The second part covers a deeper evaluation of the Lucene backbone for Elasticsearch, CRUD, text analysis, Mappings, and deeper aspects of search and search internals. Attendees will have setup a multi-node cluster, conducted rolling restarts, backup and restore, as well as explore the details of node types, shard awareness, and Lucene management. In addition, labs will also cover using Sense, Marvel, write consistency, search internals, and search best practices. This course is for those who want to understand the challenges of running ES in Production as well as developers and data managers who want to go deeper with search, queries, filters and mappings.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This information-packed MongoDB training is designed to provide DBAs, application developers, DevOps personnel, sysadmins and other technology professionals with a hands-on introduction to MongoDB. Attendees will gain experience with all of the key aspects of the platform from design to deployment and administration. Lecture and lab exercises collaborate to give students experience with the Mongo shell and a number of other tools used to work with and administer MongoDB.

Scalability concerns are addressed with detailed discussions of replication, sharding and MongoDB cluster operations. Performance considerations are covered in the context of queries, proper index design, and data organization. Throughout, attendees will be given a solid foundation for making informed decisions around production MongoDB design, deployment and administration with a focus on best practices. Upon completion of this course, attendees will learn and be ready to immediately begin working with MongoDB in development, test and production environments.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This Redis training course provides experienced development, DevOps and operations staff with a comprehensive introduction to the Redis advanced key/value cache and storage platform. Redis architecture and operations, as well as data structure server features, are examined in detail including a comprehensive examination of the various Redis data types. Because examples and labs make use of Python, Ruby, and JavaScript, it is helpful if students are familiar with at least one of these languages.

Each student will setup and configure their own Redis instance for testing and example Redis clients are constructed in class and lab sessions using several languages, demonstrating a wide range of Redis commands and best practices. Optimal memory use is discussed in the context of key eviction schemes and distribution; transactions, replication, and high availability models are examined along with Redis security features. The course also introduces the Redis Lua scripting interpreter and demonstrates its use and benefits. Attendees will learn Redis at a foundational level.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

RX-M's Couchbase training covers all of the key concepts and administrative tasks necessary to manage a production Couchbase system. The distributed architecture of Couchbase is covered in detail including the various Couchbase usage profiles, from document database to key/value store to distributed cache. The course covers the operational considerations associated with Multi-Dimensional Scaling (MDS) to optimizing query, index, and read-write/storage as well as the essentials of the Couchbase N1QL query language.

Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of Couchbase and its place in the NoSQL market and will gain hands-on experience configuring, managing and using Couchbase Server clusters. Upon completion of the training, attendees will have the knowledge necessary to operate Couchbase Server clusters for real-time OLTP enterprise workloads.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This Cassandra training course provides an architectural introduction to NoSQL systems and the Cassandra database in particular. Students will learn the principles behind the Cassandra-partitioned row store and how its characteristics impact the design and use of Cassandra as a database platform. Students will spend much of the course learning version 3 of the Cassandra Query Language.

The course covers table creation and the significance of keys as well as design best practices. At the core of the course is an iteratively-developed understanding of the vast difference in storage architecture; SQL to CQL are compared and contrasted and exercises are used to solidify the similarities and differences between the two query languages. Training also covers the use of compound keys, clustering, collections, column expiration, counters, indexing and a range of additional CQL topics.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This NoSQL training course provides technical staff with a comprehensive introduction to NoSQL and NewSQL data models, architectures and products. Training begins with a look at the evolution of data storage, highlighting the shortfall presented by ACID type relational systems in an increasingly distributed world. Alternative data models are examined in detail providing an array of alternatives, each solving specific problems.

Data distribution and consistency models are explored in the context of the CAP theorem. The data theory covered on day one is studied in practical terms on day two. The principle NoSQL database systems are examined in turn, including document, key-value, column-family and graph systems. The course also examines the reentrance of SQL as an optional modular layer in several NoSQL systems.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This HBase training course provides a comprehensive hands-on introduction to HBase, from configuration to operation. HBase architecture and design principles are covered in-depth, including best practices for optimal scale-out and performance. Attendees will learn how to administer the HBase system and perform routine tasks through the HBase shell and will build a complete HBase cluster over the course of several labs.

The Java software development API is also covered at a level of detail appropriate for the participants. Students will leave the course ready to begin working with HBase immediately and will be prepared to make decisions as to when HBase may be an appropriate solution and when it may not.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

RX-M's Jenkins course can be delivered in 1, 2 or 3 days depending on whether students require introductory, intermediate or in-depth knowledge of Jenkins and its function in a continuous integration environment. Each day provides discussion and labs giving students practical experience with Jenkins and its integration points.

Introductory topics include an overview of CI, Agile and TDD concepts; Jenkins operations and configuration; and integration with build systems such as Ant, Make and Rake.

Intermediate training covers common Jenkins tools, plugins, and skills required to deploy and operate Jenkins in a production environment, including access control, distributed build architecture and installing and configuring plugins.

Advanced topics covered are common Jenkins integration points and skills needed to maximize the function of Jenkins in a modern enterprise, including using Jenkins with Docker, building automation chains and writing plugins.

Using this platform students will learn and create a variety of Jenkins Jobs working with a wide range of plugins and Jenkins features which will give them confidence to continue using Jenkins in their own environments and workflows.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This Cucumber training course is designed to introduce programmers and testers to Behavior Driven Development and the Cucumber testing framework. Attendees are introduced to BDD concepts and how Cucumber facilitates such development practices, combining Domain Driven Design with Test Driven Development. The course covers general Cucumber philosophy and features but tailors practical examples and labs to the Ruby and Rails development environments.

Participants will learn and become familiar with crafting executable specifications in the form of Cucumber features and step driven tests. Hands-on labs take students through the process of building requirement-driven test suites for new and existing applications using a range of features including data tables and databases. Labs also give participants practical experience installing and configuring Cucumber so that they are prepared to deploy the software at their organization.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This course is designed to give practicing Java programmers and testers a comprehensive introduction to the features of Cucumber in a Java environment. Attendees will learn BDD concepts and how Cucumber facilitates such development practices, combining Domain Driven Design with Test Driven Development. Training covers general Cucumber philosophy and features but tailors practical examples and labs to the Java development environment.

JRuby and Cuke4Duke are used to allow participants to develop Cucumber tests in Java for Java. Participants will become familiar with crafting executable specifications in the form of Cucumber features and step-driven tests. Hands-on labs take students through the process of building requirement-driven test suites for new and existing Java applications using a range of features including data tables and databases. Labs also give participants practical experience installing and configuring Cucumber for Java.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This hands-on training course provides application developers, DevOps personnel, QA/CI staff and other technology professionals with a comprehensive introduction to the Maven build system, its plugins, and ecosystem. Attendees will gain a clear understanding of the architecture of the Maven Build system; plugins and dependencies are covered in depth along with an overview of the Maven repository system.

Project principles and design patterns are presented, taking students from simple POM implementations through to multi-module projects. Attendees will gain a thorough understanding of Maven project lifecycles, directory structure, coordinates, artifacts, packaging, and plugins. Upon completion students will have the practical hands-on experience and conceptual knowledge necessary to use Maven in a range of settings including embedded in an IDE and as a direct build tool at the command line.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This intensive two-day hands-on training course is designed to provide working developers, QE staff and other software professionals with a comprehensive introduction to Test Driven Development. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of the benefits associated with driving the development process with tests and testing.

Students will gain hands-on experience with the principles discussed in each chapter using Java and common testing tools such as JUnit, Cucumber for Java and Jenkins. The course focuses on principles and practices rather than construction, thus students will come to grips with the reasons and motivation for TDD. Lab experiments provide crisp demonstrations of the value proposition associated with driving software design and construction through test.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This course is designed to provide business and technical management with a comprehensive overview of Test Driven Development. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of the principles and practices and tools associated with TDD and gain a concrete understanding of the TDD process through demonstrations using Java and common testing tools, such as JUnit, Cucumber and Jenkins.

The course considers not only the benefits but also the shortcomings and pitfalls associated with driving development with tests and testing, helping managers to identify the right approach and the right goals for their own teams. Throughout, the course includes pragmatic advice targeted at maximizing the value-add of a test-driven program, with perspectives ranging from the foundational views of Beck and XP to the more moderate approaches of Coplien and others.

Upon completion, managers and other stakeholders will learn and have a well-balanced and firmly grounded understanding of TDD and how it can help organizations produce higher quality at a lower cost.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This class presents an overview of the Git DVCS platform. The session begins with a brief history and rationale for Git; the demonstration picks up with installation, user config, help, and other Git basics. The course covers general repository operations including staging, committing, branching and rebasing. Git is examined in a distributed environment with a look at configuring a simple server and using the various tools and techniques for interacting with remote repositories. The seminar wraps up with a look at some common workflows and an exploration of the various tools available for examining and searching repos and commit history.

This training course provides working developers and technology professionals with a guided examination of the Git DVCS platform. The course begins with a brief history and rationale for Git followed by lecture and labs covering installation, user config, help, and other Git basics. General repository operations including staging, committing, branching, tagging, undoing and rebasing are covered. Git server-based operations are examined in detail with a look at the configuration of various servers and protocols, as well as using an assortment of tools and techniques for interacting with remote repositories.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This course provides working developers and technology professionals with comprehensive, hands-on coverage of the Git DVCS platform. The course begins with a brief history and rationale for Git followed by lecture and labs covering installation, user config, help, and other Git basics. General repository operations including staging, committing, branching, tagging, undoing and rebasing are covered. Git server-based operations are examined in detail with a look at the configuration of various servers and protocols, as well as using an assortment of tools and techniques for interacting with remote repositories. Patch submission and project maintenance are examined in detail as well as revision management sub-modules and subtrees. The course concludes with a look at Git customization and configuration, including coverage of client and server-side hooks.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This training course provides coverage of the principles and practices associated with standards-based interoperability testing. Attendees will gain experience with typical objects and targets of testing in an interoperability test environment. The course provides a detailed discussion of the software development lifecycle and interoperability testing. The course will introduce attendees to various techniques and processes for testing products from the same or different suppliers, cross-region testing techniques and other important interoperability factors. Testing standards, tools, and best practices are covered throughout.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This five-day Microservice Application Architecture course is designed to provide working developers, DevOps staff and other technology professionals with a comprehensive introduction to the microservice architecture pattern. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of microservices and their unique benefits, as well as their drawbacks and how to avoid the same. Students will gain hands-on experience working with microservices in several programming languages (Go, Python and NodeJS).

The course covers the benefits of container-based microservice packaging as well as dynamic application management. Attendees will examine various use cases and architecture patterns for microservice-based applications throughout the course, with focused discussion on microservice communications, transactions, and state management. Upon completion of the course, attendees will have the skills and information necessary to begin designing and working with microservice-based applications in a fashion commensurate with industry best practices.

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This intensive three-day hands-on course is designed to provide working developers, DevOps staff and other technology professionals with a comprehensive introduction to microservices and cloud native microservice environments. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of microservices and how to maximize them in the cloud. Students will gain hands-on experience working with microservices in a range of labs covering microservice design, API construction, and state management. The course covers the benefits of container-based microservice packaging and the use of various Registry services. Attendees will examine several use cases and architecture patterns for microservice-based applications throughout the course, with focused discussion on microservice communications, event sourcing and transaction patterns such as choreography and orchestration. Modern tooling and processes are examined, including various agile methodologies, gitops and a range of CI/CD tools. The course also covers migration from monolithic solutions and strategies for brownfield cloud native development. Upon completion of the course, attendees will have the skills and information necessary to begin designing and developing effective microservice-based applications for Kubernetes and other cloud native environments.

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This intensive two-day hands-on course is designed to provide working developers, DevOps staff and other technology professionals with a comprehensive introduction to microservices and the Kubernetes microservice environment. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of microservice deployment, service routing and how to maximize the MSA pattern on Kubernetes. Students will gain hands-on experience working with Kubernetes and microservices in a range of labs covering deployment, service routing, ingress, liveness probes, readiness probes, metrics, logging, and other observability features. Upon completion of the course, attendees will have the skills and information necessary to begin designing and developing effective microservice-based applications on Kubernetes.

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The Python language is popular because its use enhances program correctness and increases programmer efficiency. Because of its clear and elegant syntax, dynamic typing, automatic memory management, and straightforward module architecture, Python is simple to learn and fun to use. Its code is easy to read, write, extend and modify. This lab‐based Python training course offers proficiency in the core concepts of Python and the skills and knowledge for building applications using any of the tens of thousands of task‐specific Python libraries.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This Python training course continues from where RX-M's Python Foundation course leaves off, covering some topics in more detail, and adding many new ones, with a focus on enterprise development. This is a hands-on programming class; all concepts are reinforced by informal practice during the lecture, followed by lab exercises. Many labs build on earlier labs, which help students retain the earlier material.

All attendees will learn to use Python to leverage OS services, create modules, create and run unit tests, define classes, interact with network services, query databases and process XML data.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This intensive four-day hands-on Python training course is designed to help network engineers unlock the power of Python in combination with the programmability of modern networking systems. The class provides a start to finish the introduction to Python application programming for networking and network equipment. Students will learn about Python data types, program structure, functions, classes, and methods; will work with Git and understand distributed code management techniques; and will learn and use Python networking packages such as paramiko, netmiko pysnmp and more.

Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of Python networking features and how to code with a wide range of third party and vendor-specific libraries for controlling networking and network equipment. Students will gain hands-on experience with Python and network systems applications; will work with Cisco IOS, VMware NSX, and Arista EOS; and will learn how to use Ansible to automate network configurations.

Upon completion of the training, attendees will have the skills and information necessary to begin developing purpose-built Python applications to integrate with and control networking systems in an enterprise setting.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

Machine learning is a type of artificial intelligence wherein computer programs learn new capabilities when exposed to data. This 3-day instructor-led training course teaches the basics of machine learning with practical hands-on labs using Python and various support libraries.

Day one introduces the foundational concepts of data science and machine learning. Hands-on labs progressively build a basic collection of tools and experiments reinforcing the concepts covered in the lecture. Attendees will learn how to create a basic Python development environment for machine learning while producing several basic but useful and instructive programs. Basic probability, statistics, and basic data curation skills are developed throughout.

Days two and three build on the foundational skills imparted in day one, introducing a formal classification of the most common machine learning algorithms and their purposes. Modules and labs give attendees experience using the most common algorithms and a chance to create real solutions, such as fraud detection and recommendation engines.

Upon completion attendees will have a broad but practical understanding of machine learning and a base from which to pursue real applications and further study.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This intensive five-day hands-on course is designed to provide technical staff with a start to finish introduction to Python application programming for infrastructure automation. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of Python API features and how to code with a wide range of third party and vendor-specific libraries for controlling cloud and virtualized infrastructure. Students will gain hands-on experience with Python and systems applications in a best-practices microservices/DevOps style environment. Upon completion of the course, attendees will have the skills and information necessary to begin developing purpose-built Python applications to integrate with and control infrastructure systems in an enterprise setting.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This class takes experienced programmers from first principals to advanced topics in Python using a fast-paced, hands-on approach. The course leverages attendees' existing software development experience, bypassing generally understood coding idioms in order to focus on the specific mechanics of Python in an accelerated format. Attendees will learn the Pythonic approach to a range of common problems, gain an understanding of the nuances of Python syntax and become familiar with the vast Python ecosystem. Students will take part in extensive hands-on labs, gaining experience and improving the retention of concepts and processes. By the completion of the course, attendees will feel confident working with the Python programming language and ecosystem in production settings.

This intensive two-day hands-on training course is designed to provide working developers, DevOps staff and other technology professionals with a comprehensive introduction to the gRPC remote procedure call platform and the Protocol Buffers (PB) serialization system. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of gRPC and how to build high-performance microservices using the gRPC tool chain. Lab sessions will give attendees hands-on experience building gRPC based microservices in a polyglot, cross-platform setting. The course covers the API evolution features provided by the IDL based gRPC/PB stack as well as plugin and extension points available. Upon completion of the course, attendees will have the skills and information necessary to begin designing and working with gRPC based microservices in a production setting.

This intensive two-day hands-on training course is designed to provide working developers, DevOps staff and other technology professionals with a comprehensive introduction to the AWS microservice environment. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of microservices and how to maximize them on AWS. Students will gain hands-on experience working with AWS and microservices. The course covers the benefits of container-based microservice packaging as well as dynamic application management using the EC2 Container Service (ECS). Attendees will examine various use cases and architecture patterns for microservice-based applications throughout the course, with focused discussion on microservice communications, transactions and state management. Upon completion of the course attendees will have the skills and information necessary to begin designing and working with microservice based applications on AWS.

This course delves into the conceptual and practical aspects of coding in Go. In this intensive two-day hands-on course, engineers will learn the how's and why's to coding naturally in Go.

The course deals with the most important features of Go programming and discusses best practices throughout, including many external references. Day one begins with Go programming basics and gets developers up and running, covering topics such as program construction, basic syntax, data design and, functions. Interfaces and abstraction are explored at the start of day two, followed by the communicating sequential processes model and discussion around proper concurrency design and the use of Goroutines and channels.

Day two continues with an examination of effective package design and the use of the Go Tool and summary discussion around best practices. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of the Go language and the necessary preparation to begin developing programs in Go.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

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This two-day intensive hands-on course is designed to provide software engineers with a deeper look at the Go programming language and its idioms. This course delves into the conceptual and practical aspects of coding in Go. Engineers will learn the hows and whys to coding naturally in Go. The course deals with the most important advanced features of Go programing and discusses best practices throughout, including many external references. Day one begins with Go idioms and common Go programming constructs, followed by coverage of testing and test tools and advanced function and method usage. The problem fraught area of package management is dealt with as well, including a variety of industry references and best practices. The communicating sequential processes model, goroutines, channels, and concurrency are explored at the start of day two, followed by a look at reflection and C integration with Go. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of the more advanced features of the Go programming language and the necessary preparation to begin developing production Go applications.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This intensive three-day JavaScript training course presents an in-depth survey of the JavaScript language and jQuery. The material quickly reviews the basics of JavaScript while taking time to dig into the more advanced aspects. The benefits and practical applications of object-oriented programming in JavaScript are covered in some detail followed by an investigation of first-class functions and functional programming. Day one culminates in advanced treatment of web-oriented development and DOM manipulation with JavaScript.

Day two embraces jQuery, exploring all of the major parts of the jQuery library. Attendees will learn the core elements of jQuery and be treated to detailed coverage of event handling, Ajax and will receive hands-on practice coding jQuery plugins.

The third day of the course focuses on best practices and tools for JavaScript development. A broad range of critical process components are covered including best practices, test, code quality tools, build automation, debugging and optimization.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This hands-on course gives developers all of the skills they need to get started building applications with Node.js. Training reviews key JavaScript concepts in the context of server-side Node.js development. Attendees will gain experience with Node.js application design, the Node.js library, creating modules, networking and HTTP, and other important topics. The course also examines the Node.js ecosystem, including npm, testing frameworks, web service frameworks, data access, and testing technologies. Attendees will also explore the nature of CommonJS and workflows which allow JavaScript modules to operate in the context of client and server-side applications.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This hands-on course gives practicing JavaScript programmers an understanding of the techniques and best practices for developing secure JavaScript applications for browser and .Net environments.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This training course provides in-depth coverage of the Apache Thrift serialization and RPC platform for polyglot programming. Attendees will learn how to create collaborative RPC servers and clients using Apache Thrift in several languages. Lecture and labs will teach students how to isolate applications from the underlying physical endpoints in serialization and communications scenarios using Thrift transports.

Transport layering, framing and buffering will be covered in detail along with I/O to memory, disk, and networks. The course examines the Thrift plug-in serialization framework, covering binary, compact and JSON protocols as well as serialization techniques for persistent cross-language data storage. The Apache Thrift IDL is covered throughout the course giving students comprehensive experience with the type and service features of the language.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for in-person and virtual delivery.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.

This training course provides a comprehensive introduction to the Apache Thrift cross-language serialization and RPC framework. Attendees will learn how to design robust and extensible services using the flexible Thrift IDL. Type and service design are covered in detail along with the implementation details necessary to bring interfaces to life. Attendees will learn how to use the Thrift IDL compiler to rapidly generate applications in a range of languages.

Prebuilt Apache Thrift RPC servers are described in detail along with Thrift client objects in both synchronous and asynchronous forms. Attendees will learn how to extend Thrift through custom layered and endpoint transports as well as proprietary protocols and servers. Common pitfalls and design best practices are covered in depth. Lab sessions make use of the client’s preferred language suite, ensuring that students walk away from this course with pragmatic cross-language examples and hands-on experience with their actual application development languages.

This is an instructor-led training (ILT) class and is available for onsite and online delivery.