An Introduction to Cloud Computing

SESSION 1 - Web services in the cloud

• What is the Cloud? 

• What is a Virtual Machine? 

• What is Linux?

• What is Docker? 

• What is Git? 

• What is a CI/CD Pipeline?

• Cloud Core Services

• GDPR - where is my data stored? 

• Workshop

  • A crash course in HTML

  • Setting up a website on a Virtual Machine. 

  • Setting up a website as a Container

  • Setting up a Serverless website

SESSION 2 - Data in the cloud

• What is a Relational Database? 

• A crash course in SQL

• Advantages of fully-managed Relational Databases in the cloud

• NoSQL Databases

• Databases, Data Warehouses, Data Lakes and Data Marts

• WORKSHOP

  • Setting up a database in the cloud

  • Setting up a NoSQL Database in the cloud

  • Setting up a Data Lake in the Cloud

  • Comparison of Cloud vs On Premise hosting - which is right for you?