An introduction to cloud-native web applications

Level: Beginner

Presentation: Introduction to Cloud-native Web Applications

Workshop description

During the workshop you will learn "how a website works" in detail, how a simple and modern web application works with the help of cloud computing.

In this workshop, we will go through these topics:

• A brief introduction to cloud computing
• What is a cloud-native web application (and where Python plays a role)
• Front-end
• Back-end
• Cloud Storage
• Message queue
• Microservices architecture

Requirements

In general, this workshop will guide you through the concepts, elements and components in the field of cloud-native web applications. No prior experience with web development is totally fine.

At the end of the workshop, we will give a demo to deploy a Django App to Google Cloud Run, a managed compute platform that lets you run containers directly on Google's infrastructure. If you want to try it yourself, you can register your Google Cloud account at: https://console.cloud.google.com/.

Dependencies:

• Docker 4.10.1
• gcloud CLI

Usage

• Download Dockerfile and requirements.txt to the same directory.
• Use docker build -t app . to build the context in the current diretory with the name app.
• Deploy the Docker image to Google Cloud. This will be given in the demo session in the presentation.

Video record

Re-watch YouTube stream here

Credits

This workshop was set up by @pyladiesams and @xli12.