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+# Hands-On Cloud Workshop
+powered by open knowledge 
+
+## Motivation 
+
+Welcome to the open knowledge hands-on cloud workshop based on AWS and GitHub codespaces. 
+
+During this workshop you will learn step-by-step how to build up and improve a cloud-based application. Starting with a simple lift & shift scenario using plain cloud compute resources, you will get to know and 
+integrate several managed clod platform services to successively improve the solution in this way.
+
+## Agenda 
+
+The workshop is structured as follows:
+
+### Step 0: On-Premise 
+
+Initial setup of the GitHub codespace and get to know the demo application. 
+
+### Step 1: Lift & Shift - part 1
+
+Lift & shift of the demo application without any changes to an in advance provisioned EC2 instance.  
+
+### Step 2: Lift & Shift - part 2
+
+Enhance the previous version of "lift & shift - part 1" by using an EC2 launch template and a load balancer  
+to make the provisioning and application installation reproducible and scalable.
+
+### Step 3: Managed Cloud Services 
+
+Make use of the AWS managed cloud services AppRunner and ECR (Elastic Container Repository), instead of directly 
+provisioning the EC2 instance and installing the application.  
+
+### Step 4: Platform as a Service (PaaS)
+
+Replace proprietary services of the application (repository) with cloud managed platform services (dynamoDB noSQL).   
+
+### Step 5: Serverless Functions (Lambda)
+
+Add a serverless function to the current state of the so far evolved cloud landscape to be able to react on cloud events,
+e.g. changes in the dynamoDB database.