In this course, you'll learn how to create and manage individual containers using the Docker Engine. We'll cover best practices in container image design and container deployment and auditing, as well as an introduction to single-node container networking and storage. This course is best practices focused, and is designed to enable rapid successful adoption of containerization from first principles.
TARGET AUDIENCE:
General technical audiences & IT professionals
COURSE PREREQUISITES:
Attendees should meet the following prerequisites:
• Familiarity with the bash shell
• Filesystem navigation and manipulation
• Command line text editors like vim or nano
• Common tooling like curl, wget and ping
COURSE CONTENT:
Containerization motivations and implementation
• Usecases
• Comparison to virtual machines
Creating, managing and auditing containers
• Container implementation from the Linux kernel
• Container lifecycle details
• Core container creation, auditing and management CLI
Best practices in container image design
• Layered filesystem implementation and performance implications
• Creating images with Dockerfiles
• Optimising image builds with multi-stage builds and image design best practices
Single-host container networking
• Docker native networking model
• Software defined networks for containers
• Docker-native single-host service discovery and routing
Provisioning external storage
• Docker volume creation and management
• Best practices and usecases for container-external storage.
COURSE OBJECTIVE:
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