Megan A. Irvine

You can now earn a badge for completing each course in the IBM Microservices Specialization on Coursera.org. More information on each badge is here: Microservices Fundamentals Developing and Deploying Microservices with Microclimate Deploying Microservices with Kubernetes IBM Cloud Private: Deploying Microservices with Kubernetes

The  IBM Microservices Specialization just launched on Coursera! This series of self-paced online courses takes you through microservices fundamentals, microservices application development, and deployment of microservices to IBM Cloud and IBM Cloud private. In this course, you get hands-on experience with: Docker and containerized applications Kubernetes - a container orchestrator Helm - the Kubernetes package manager Microclimate - an end-to-end development environment for microservices Jenkins, and other tools used for DevOps IBM Cloud (formerly known as Bluemix), and  IBM Cloud Private - an application platform for developing and managing on-premises, containerized applications.  You can audit this series at no charge, or enroll for a nominal fee and earn a completion certificate. 

I recently developed and launched a new course on Coursera.org - IBM Cloud: Deploying Microservices with Kubernetes About this course: In this course, you learn how to install the Kubernetes command-line interface (CLI), and create a Kubernetes cluster on which to run applications. Hands-on tutorials show you how to deploy microservices to a Kubernetes cluster. You also learn about securing and managing a Kubernetes cluster, and how to plan your Kubernetes cluster for deployment on IBM Cloud. You can audit this course at no charge, or pay a nominal fee to receive the badge/certificate after completing it. This course is part of a specialization on Microservices. If you complete all courses in the specialization, you get a special badge. Another course in the specialization,  Microservices Fundamentals , also recently launched, and two more courses in the specialization are targeted for release later this year. Coursera is a an education-focused technology company that o...