Program Overview

Overview of University Programs

The university offers a range of programs designed to build capabilities in infocomm and digital business. These programs are categorized into several disciplines, including:

• Artificial Intelligence
• Cybersecurity
• Data Science
• Digital Agility
• Digital Innovation & Design
• Digital Strategy & Leadership
• Digital Products & Platforms
• Digital Sustainability
• Digital Health
• Software Systems
• StackUp - Startup Tech Talent Development

Executive Education

Executive Education Programmes are designed to build capabilities in infocomm and digital business. The program includes:

• Executive Education Course Planner 2025
• Executive Education Course Planner 2026
• Executive Education Flyer
• Course Finder

Graduate Programmes

The university offers five practice-based graduate programmes focusing on information technology (IT) and data science. These programs include:

• Graduate Diploma in Systems Analysis
• Master of Technology in Artificial Intelligence Systems
• Master of Technology in Digital Leadership
• Master of Technology in Enterprise Business Analytics
• Master of Technology in Software Engineering

Stackable Programmes

Stackable Programmes provide an alternative pathway to continuing education without disrupting one's career. The program includes:

• Graduate Certificates:
  • Data Science
  • Digital Solutions Development
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Smart Systems & Platforms
• Professional Certificates:
  • Digital Leadership
  • Health Service Innovation
• Professional Diploma:
  • Health Service Transformation

Blended Learning

The Blended Learning Programmes provide individuals with the flexibility to learn over their own time and pace while achieving their academic and career goals. The program includes:

• About
• Programmes
• Digitalisation Passport

Corporate Programmes

The university works with organizations to provide contextualized workplace training or customized learning experiences for employees. The program includes:

• Corporate Digitalisation
• Active Learning for Problem Solving
• International Programmes
• Digital Academy Services
• Internship & Job Placements
• Skills For Transformation Programme

Course Details

One of the courses offered is "Containers for Deploying and Scaling Apps." This course is part of the StackUp - Startup Tech Talent Development programme. The course details include:

Overview

The course covers the use of containers for packaging and delivering services in the world of microservices. Containers are often deployed onto a container orchestration platform like Kubernetes.

Key Takeaways

In this workshop-oriented course, participants will learn to:

• Apply the 12 Factor App principles to building their application
• Acquire hands-on experience in packaging applications as container images, deploying the images, and diagnosing containers
• Deploy self-healing service mesh with Kubernetes container orchestration platform
• Perform application upgrades without downtime
• Maintain application service level by automatically scaling deployments based on predetermined metrics
• Use Helm package manager to simplify application configuration, deployment, and upgrades
• Use Kubernetes operators to deploy complex applications like MySQL clusters
• Use skaffold and kustomize to speed up application development and deployment cycle

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for:

• Developers, Software Engineers, Systems Engineers, System Administrators, and Infrastructure specialists/members from Enterprise IT
• Startup Tech members who desire to take on lead roles in deployment, growth, and scale of their products
• Scrum Team members responsible for DevOps

Prerequisite

To benefit from this course, participants should have:

• Hands-on experience in developing CRUD application (Java, Node, Python, etc)
• Basic command line skills
• Participants will be required to pass a pre-course assessment to ensure that they have the requisite background knowledge to learn the material.

What to Bring

No printed copies of course materials are issued. Participants must bring their laptops with power chargers to access and download course materials.

Instructors

The course instructor is Mr. LEE Chuk Munn, Chief of the StackUp Programme.

Certificate

A Certificate of Completion will be issued to participants who meet a minimum attendance rate of 75% and pass the assessment.

Preparing for Your Course

Participants are advised to refer to the acceptance email sent one week prior to the commencement date for course confirmation and other details. All classes are subject to confirmation, and ISS will send an acceptance email to participants one week prior to the commencement date. Confirmed registrants are to attend and complete all lectures, class exercises, workshops, and assessments (where applicable). Additionally, all responses to feedback and surveys conducted by ISS and its partners must be submitted. All training and assessments will be delivered as described in the course webpage.