Lesson 1: Cloud Platform, Services, Identity, and Resource Foundations

This lesson develops practical understanding of cloud platform, services, identity, and resource foundations for the IBM Cloud Application Developer Training.

Topics Covered

• Cloud concepts, regions, resource organization, accounts, subscriptions, and service models
• Identity, access, users, roles, service credentials, and secure resource access
• Compute, storage, networking, databases, integration, and managed service overview
• Console, CLI, APIs, automation tools, and environment setup
• Creating and validating foundational cloud resources

Lesson Outcome

Learners complete this lesson with the ability to explain, apply, validate, and troubleshoot the covered cloud workflow.