Red Hat Application Development II: Implementing Microservice Architectures

Audience for this course

This course is designed for Java developers.

Prerequisites for this course

• Attend Red Hat Application Development I: Programming in Java EE (JB183) or demonstrate equivalent experience
• Be proficient in using an integrated development environment such as Red Hat® Developer Studio or Eclipse
• Experience with Maven is recommended, but not required

Outline for this course

• Describe microservice architectures

Describe components and patterns of microservice-based application architectures.

• Deploy microservice-based applications

Deploy portions of the course case study applications on an OpenShift cluster.

• Implement a microservice with MicroProfile

Describe the specifications in MicroProfile, implement a microservice with some of the specifications, and deploy it to an OpenShift cluster.

• Test microservices

Implement unit and integration tests for microservices.

• Inject configuration data into a microservice

Inject configuration data from an external source into a microservice.

• Create application health checks

Create a health check for a microservice.

• Implement fault tolerance

Implement fault tolerance in a microservice architecture.

• Develop an API gateway

Describe the API gateway pattern and develop an API gateway for a series of microservices.

• Secure microservices with JWT

Secure a microservice using the JSON Web Token specification.

• Monitor microservices

Monitor the operation of a microservice using metrics, distributed tracing, and log aggregation.