7 Best Microservices Courses for Beginners
We compared 7 Microservices courses currently listed on Coursera, Udemy and edX, priced from $49.00 to $189.00. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 7
- Price range
- $49.00 – $189.00
- Providers
- Coursera, Udemy, edX
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 7 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, Udemy, edX, matched to "microservices" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $49.00 to $189.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Introduction to Microservices with .NET 8 and CQRS
Offered by Packt
This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the co...
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Udemy CertificateDevOps | Agile | Lean | Fundamentals For Beginners
Are you a freelancer, company or an App Developer, Data Analyst, Business Analyst, Web Developer, IT administrator, Data Center Architect, Project Manager, Enterprise Architect, or Programmer? and want to gain...
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Coursera MOOC / Non-creditIntroduction to Tempo for Distributed Tracing
Offered by Coursera
Distributed tracing has become essential for troubleshooting microservices at scale – 73% of organizations struggle with service dependencies visibility. This Short Course was created to help IT Support and Operations pr...
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edX MOOC / Non-creditIntroduction to Istio
Offered by The Linux Foundation
Service meshes are becoming a vital component of a company’s infrastructure. This course teaches you how to monitor, connect, and secure microservices using Istio service mesh, the most widely adopted service mesh in pro...
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edX MOOC / Non-creditIntroduction to Containers, Kubernetes and OpenShift
Offered by IBM
This course introduces you to containers and its emerging ecosystem of related technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Istio. You will not only understand the concepts but also practice hands-on in the cl...
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edX MOOC / Non-creditIntroduction to Cloud Native, DevOps, Agile, and NoSQL
Offered by IBM
Learn to develop cloud-native applications from scratch in this comprehensive course. Covering key cloud concepts, tools, and techniques, you'll also explore DevOps culture, CI/CD practices, and MongoDB principles.
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edX MOOC / Non-creditIntroduction to Kubernetes
Offered by The Linux Foundation
Want to learn Kubernetes? Get an in-depth primer on this powerful system for managing containerized applications.
$189.00listed price
Best Microservices Courses for Beginners compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
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| 1 | Introduction to Microservices with .NET 8 and CQRS | Coursera | Packt | $49.00 | View → |
| 2 | DevOps | Agile | Lean | Fundamentals For Beginners | Udemy | — | $99.99 | View → |
| 3 | Introduction to Tempo for Distributed Tracing | Coursera | Coursera | $49.00 | View → |
| 4 | Introduction to Istio | edX | The Linux Foundation | $189.00 | View → |
| 5 | Introduction to Containers, Kubernetes and OpenShift | edX | IBM | $99.00 | View → |
| 6 | Introduction to Cloud Native, DevOps, Agile, and NoSQL | edX | IBM | $49.00 | View → |
| 7 | Introduction to Kubernetes | edX | The Linux Foundation | $189.00 | View → |
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 7 priced courses on this page run from $49.00 to $189.00, with the middle of the range around $99.00 — a spread of $140.00. That is a wide gap for one subject. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
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