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Introduction

This is a guide on how to approach learning mu.
If you follow this, you will be a mu master in no time at all!
For any mu-specific technical questions, check out the mu wiki.

The Path to Becoming a mu Master

AWS CloudFormation (cfn)

Get a basic idea of what AWS CloudFormation does by watching the 3 minute long introductory video.
Go through the official AWS CloudFormation Getting Started guide.

Do you understand:

  • What a cfn template does?
  • How to declare resources and their properties within a cfn template?

Are you able to:

  • Create a cfn stack
  • Monitor a cfn stack's progress by viewing the 'Events'
  • Update a cfn stack
  • Delete a cfn stack

mu

  1. Listen to the mu podcast

Can you answer these questions from the podcast:

  • What is mu and what problem does it solve? What are its benefits?
  • How does someone use mu (including prereqs)?
  • What types of programming languages and platforms are supported?
  • What types of AWS architectures does mu support (i.e. traditional EC2, ECS, Serverless, etc.)?
  • Which AWS services are provisioned by mu?
  • Does mu support non-AWS implementations?
  • What does mu install on my AWS account?
  1. Watch the mu video example

Can you answer these questions from the video:

  • What command line command allows you to view and follow along with the logs of the pipeline?
  • What command allows you to view a list of your mu environments?
  • What are the different stages in Casey's CodePipeline pipeline? (Hint: the first one is 'Source')
  • What are some of the cfn stacks that were created by mu? (Hint: one is 'mu-cluster-dev')
  • What AWS service uses buildspec.yml files?
  • What kind of database did Casey add to the mu.yml template?
  • Casey mentions an AWS service that manages secrets. What is it?

Hands-on Practice with mu Blogs

Go through the mu blogs.

  1. Introducing mu: a tool for managing your microservices in AWS
  2. Microservice testing with mu: injecting quality into the pipeline
  3. Microservice databases with mu
  4. Service discovery for microservices with mu
  5. WordPress, Mu, and You

More Hands-on Practice with mu Labs

  1. Lab 1: Run a spring boot microservice on ECS
  2. Lab 2: Add Test Automation (requires Lab 1)
  3. Lab 3: Add Service Discovery (requires Lab 1)

Finished?

If so, you're ready to go out into the world and be a mu master!

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