Cloud Native Twelve-Factor and Fifteen-Factor Applications

Course details

The twelve-factor and fifteen-factor methodology helps you build more effective, software-as-a-service apps. It allows for automation, continuous deployment, easy onboarding, and portability between execution environments. By leveraging these methodologies, you can also achieve straightforward deployment on numerous cloud platforms in any language, as well as high scalability without needing to change your tooling, architecture, or team.

In this course, join instructor Frank Moley as he walks through the fifteen most important factors for software developers looking to build agile, scalable, and resilient web apps. Along the way, Frank explains exactly how each factor applies to cloud-native development, sharing key pointers, pro tips, and practical strategies for making a legacy application twelve- or fifteen-factor compatible.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Leverage 15-factor methodologies
02 - What you need to know

1. The 12 Factors

03 - Factor 1 - SCM and revision control
04 - Factor 2 - Managing dependencies
05 - Factor 3 - Application configuration
06 - Factor 4 - Backing services
07 - Factor 5 - CI CD
08 - Factor 6 - Running processes
09 - Factor 7 - Port binding
10 - Factor 8 - Scaling with processes
11 - Factor 9 - Dispose of it all
12 - Factor 10 - Environment uniformity
13 - Factor 11 - Use your logs
14 - Factor 12 - Administering

2. 15-Factor Additions

15 - Factor 13 - API first
16 - Factor 14 - Telemetry
17 - Factor 15 - Authentication and authorization

Conclusion

18 - Cloud-native methodology mindset