In this project, students are challenged to use AWS services to design and build a microservices and continuous integration and continuous development (CI/CD) solution. First, students break a monolith application into separate microservices, based on functionality and API endpoints. Then, they migrate the application to run on a container-based architecture, which provides the ability for the different components of the application to scale independently. Specific sections of the assignment are meant to challenge students on skills that they have acquired throughout the learning process.

Learning objectives

Upon completion of this project, students will be able to do the following:

         Recognize how a Node.js web application is coded and deployed to run and connect to a relational database where the application data is stored.

         Create an AWS Cloud9 integrated development environment (IDE) and a code repository (repo) in which to store the application code.

         Split the functionality of a monolithic application into separate containerized microservices.

         Use a container registry to store and version control containerized microservice Docker images.

         Create a code repository to store microservice source code and CI/CD deployment assets.