Microservices Course Online

SKU: 1078
12 Lesson
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40 Hours
igmGuru's Microservices Certification course prepares developers and architects to design, build, and secure distributed systems using Docker, Kubernetes, and service mesh technology. Through live instructor-led sessions and hands-on labs, learners master modern microservices patterns and earn an industry-recognized certification that validates real, job-ready architecture skills.

Overview

This Microservices Certification training takes you from core architectural principles to production-grade implementation. You'll work with domain-driven design, API gateways, containerization, orchestration, and AI-assisted observability, the same practices enterprise teams use today. The course blends conceptual clarity with practical labs, so by the end, you can independently design, deploy, and troubleshoot a distributed microservices application, and demonstrate that capability through a certification-backed capstone project.

Prerequisites

This course is designed to be accessible to developers from varied backgrounds, though a few foundational skills will help you get the most out of the training:

  • Basic programming knowledge in Java, Python, or Node.js
  • Familiarity with object-oriented programming concepts
  • Understanding of REST APIs and HTTP fundamentals
  • Basic exposure to Linux commands and Git (helpful, not mandatory)
  • No prior Docker or Kubernetes experience is required, these are covered from the ground up

Course Objectives

  • Understand microservices architecture principles and how they differ from monolithic and SOA-based systems
  • Apply domain-driven design to break applications into well-bounded services
  • Build, containerize, and deploy microservices using Docker and Kubernetes
  • Implement service discovery, API gateways, and inter-service communication patterns
  • Configure a service mesh for traffic management, security, and observability
  • Apply data consistency patterns such as Saga, CQRS, and event sourcing
  • Secure microservices using zero-trust principles, mTLS, and API-level access control
  • Set up observability pipelines using OpenTelemetry, metrics, logs, and distributed tracing
  • Build CI/CD pipelines aligned with platform engineering and GitOps practices
  • Complete a certification-aligned capstone project demonstrating end-to-end architecture skills

What You Will Learn

  • Core microservices concepts: bounded contexts, service granularity, and decomposition strategies
  • RESTful API design, gRPC, and event-driven communication using message brokers like Kafka and RabbitMQ
  • Containerization fundamentals with Docker, including multi-stage builds and image optimization
  • Kubernetes orchestration: pods, deployments, services, ConfigMaps, autoscaling, and Helm charts
  • Service mesh implementation with Istio and Linkerd, including newer sidecar-less, eBPF-based patterns
  • API gateway configuration for routing, rate limiting, and authentication
  • Resilience patterns: circuit breakers, retries, timeouts, and bulkheads using Resilience4j
  • Distributed data management with the Saga pattern, CQRS, and event sourcing
  • Observability using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana, plus AI-assisted anomaly detection
  • Security best practices: zero-trust networking, mutual TLS, secrets management, and API security
  • CI/CD automation with GitOps tools and an introduction to platform engineering and internal developer platforms
  • Cost-aware architecture decisions using FinOps principles for cloud-native workloads
  • An overview of serverless and edge microservices, including WASM-based deployment models

Who Should Take This Course?

This microservices certification course is built for professionals who want to design or work confidently within distributed, cloud-native systems:

  • Backend developers moving from monolithic to microservices-based development
  • Software architects and technical leads designing distributed systems
  • DevOps and platform engineers responsible for deployment and orchestration
  • Cloud engineers working with Kubernetes, Docker, or service mesh tools
  • QA and site reliability engineers who need to understand distributed system behavior
  • IT professionals preparing for a microservices architecture or cloud-native certification
  • Engineering managers who need working knowledge of microservices for technical decision-making

Skills You Will Gain

  • Microservices architecture design and service decomposition
  • Docker containerization and image management
  • Kubernetes orchestration and autoscaling
  • Service mesh configuration (Istio, Linkerd)
  • API gateway and inter-service communication design
  • Event-driven architecture with Kafka
  • Distributed data management (Saga, CQRS, event sourcing)
  • Observability and distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana)
  • Zero-trust security and API protection
  • CI/CD pipeline design and GitOps workflows
  • Cloud-native troubleshooting and performance tuning

Tools Covered

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Istio / Linkerd (Service Mesh)
  • Spring Boot & Spring Cloud
  • Apache Kafka / RabbitMQ
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Prometheus & Grafana
  • Resilience4j
  • Jenkins / GitOps (ArgoCD)
  • Postman

Career Outcomes

Microservices skills are consistently ranked among the top requirements for modern backend and cloud-native roles. After completing this course, you'll be positioned for job roles such as:

  • Microservices Developer
  • Software Architect
  • Cloud-Native Application Engineer
  • DevOps Engineer
  • Platform Engineer
  • Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
  • Backend Engineer (Java/Spring Boot, Node.js, or Python)
  • Solutions Architect, Cloud Infrastructure

Why Choose igmGuru?

igmGuru supports learners with a well-rounded certification training experience built around practical outcomes:

  • Live instructor-led online sessions
  • Hands-on labs on Docker, Kubernetes, and service mesh tools
  • Real-world capstone project
  • Industry-experienced trainers
  • Flexible weekday and weekend batches
  • Lifetime access to recorded sessions
  • Course completion certificate
  • Post-training doubt resolution support
  • Resume and interview preparation assistance

Key Features

Course Curriculum

1. What are Microservices?
2. Monolithic vs Microservices
3. Key principles: loose coupling, autonomy, scalability
4. Common challenges and solutions
5. Microservices lifecycle
1. Domain-Driven Design (DDD) basics
2. Bounded contexts and aggregates
3. Service boundaries and responsibilities
4. Common design anti-patterns
5. Database per service strategy
1. RESTful APIs: design and versioning
2. Synchronous vs asynchronous communication
3. Messaging queues (RabbitMQ, Kafka)
4. Event-driven architecture (EDA) and pub/sub models
5. API contract testing (Pact)
1. Client-side vs server-side discovery
2. Service Registry (Eureka, Consul, Kubernetes DNS)
3. API Gateway roles: routing, throttling, transformation
4. Rate limiting, caching, authentication
5. Tools: Spring Cloud Gateway, Kong, Ambassador
1. Why containers? Benefits and concepts
2. Docker images, Dockerfile, volumes, and networks
3. Docker Compose for local orchestration
4. Container best practices and image security
1. Kubernetes architecture and key concepts
2. Pods, Services, Deployments, ReplicaSets
3. Auto-scaling, health checks, rolling updates
4. Helm charts for package management
5. ConfigMaps and Secrets management
6. CI/CD deployment pipelines to Kubernetes
1. Patterns: Circuit Breaker, Retry, Timeout, Bulkhead
2. Service health monitoring and graceful degradation
3. Resilience4j or Hystrix (legacy)
4. Handling partial failures and fallbacks
1. Securing service-to-service communication
2. Authentication & authorization: OAuth2, OpenID Connect, JWT
3. Transport layer security (HTTPS, mTLS)
4. API Gateway security enforcement
5. Rate limiting, token validation
1. Database-per-service pattern
2. Eventual consistency and data replication
3. Saga pattern (orchestration vs choreography)
4. Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS)
5. Managing schema changes
1. Centralized logging (ELK Stack, Fluentd)
2. Distributed tracing (Jaeger, Zipkin, OpenTelemetry)
3. Metrics collection (Prometheus, Grafana)
4. Alerting and dashboards
5. Service-level indicators (SLIs) and objectives (SLOs)
1. CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)
2. GitOps basics (ArgoCD, Flux)
3. Zero-downtime deployments (blue-green, canary)
4. Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
5. Testing and deployment automation
1. Design a complete microservices system
2. Implement service discovery, security, resilience
3. Use Docker and deploy via Kubernetes
4. Enable observability and CI/CD
5. Present architecture and decision rationale
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MicroServices Certification

On completing the training, the labs, and the capstone project, you will receive the igmGuru Microservices Certification, recognized by hiring teams as proof of applied, hands-on architecture skill rather than theoretical knowledge alone. The certification assessment evaluates your ability to design service boundaries, implement containerized deployments, configure a service mesh, and demonstrate observability and security practices, mirroring the expectations of real microservices architect and developer roles. Your certificate includes a unique verification ID that you can share with employers or add to your LinkedIn profile and resume.

MicroServices Certification

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It's a credential that validates your ability to design, build, secure, and monitor distributed applications using current tools like Kubernetes, service mesh, and OpenTelemetry. As over 75% of large enterprises now run microservices in production, employers increasingly look for certified, hands-on proof of these skills rather than general familiarity.

No. Both are taught from fundamentals through hands-on labs. Basic programming knowledge in Java, Python, or Node.js is enough to get started.

It's best suited for developers with some hands-on coding experience. Freshers with strong programming fundamentals and REST API basics can also follow along comfortably.

This program is built specifically around certification outcomes, with a structured capstone project, assessment-based evaluation, and deeper coverage of service mesh, observability, and security than a general training overview.

Docker, Kubernetes, Istio or Linkerd, Spring Boot, Kafka, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and GitOps tools like ArgoCD, all through guided labs.

The course runs across live instructor-led sessions plus self-paced lab and project work; see the Course Duration section above for total hours.

Yes. Each module includes a hands-on lab, and the course concludes with a capstone project where you build, deploy, secure, and monitor a complete microservices application.

Common roles include Microservices Developer, Software Architect, Cloud-Native Application Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, and Site Reliability Engineer.

Yes. The course is delivered live online with weekday and weekend batch options, and you get lifetime access to session recordings.

The certificate includes a unique verification ID and reflects hands-on, project-based evaluation, which hiring managers value as evidence of applied skill, not just course completion.

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