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.
Benefits
Course Duration: 1 day
Who Should Attend:
Role: general technical audiences & IT professionals
Motivations: begin creating high performance containers for new or existing applications
Course 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
Lab Requirements:
Laptop with WiFi connectivity
Attendees should have the latest Chrome or Firefox installed, and a free account at strigo.io.
Course Outline:
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.