Scholarship
I’m also so excited that I recently was selected for another Udacity Scholarship the SUSE Cloud Native Foundations Program! I was one of 15,000 students worldwide that was selected to participate in phase 1 of the program, which focuses on the first course Cloud Native Fundamentals of 4 courses. The phase 1 of this program starts June 7, 2021 and last about 2 months so ends August 2, 2021.
Then the top 300 performers worldwide will receive a full scholarship for phase 2 of the scholarship program to enroll in the full Nanodegree Cloud Native Application Architecture. This nanodegree was created in partnership with SUSE. So, I hope I get selected for the phase 2 of the scholarship, which will be announced by August 12, 2021.
So far I’m enjoying the Introduction to Cloud Native Foundations. An summary of what I’ll be learning in the Cloud Native Fundamentals course includes the following:
Throughout this course, students will learn how to structure, package, and release an application to a Kubernetes cluster, while using an automated CI/CD pipeline. Students will start by applying a suite of good development practices within an application, package it with Docker and distribute it through DockerHub. This will transition to the exploration of Kubernetes resources and how these can be used to deploy an application. At this stage, students will be comfortable using k3s to bootstrap a lightweight and functional Kubernetes cluster. Next, students will examine template configuration managers, such as Helm, to implement the parameterization of Kubernetes declarative manifests. Towards the end of the course, students will learn the fundamentals of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD and completely automate the release process for an application.
It’s a good feeling that I’m familiar with the major concepts such as applying good development practices and containerizing an application, before it’s released to Kubernetes cluster using an automated CI/CD pipeline. The simplified course outline includes the following:
- Architecture Considerations
- Open Source PaaS
- Container Orchestration
- Cloud Native CI/CD
This scholarship directly aligns with my career aspirations and goal to specialize in DevOps Engineering!
I’ll will post updates as I’m working through phase 1. For more information about the Cloud Native Computing Foundation landscape click here to check it out.
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