Introduction to containers

Description

Intro to containers training course description

This course looks at the technologies of containers and microservices. The course starts with a look at what containers are, moving onto working with containers. Networking containers and container orchestration is then studied. The course finishes with monitoring containers with Prometheus and other systems. Hands on sessions are used to reinforce the theory rather than teach specific products, although Docker and Kubernetes are used.

What will you learn

• Use containers.
• Build containers.
• Orchestrate containers.
• Evaluate container technologies.

Intro to containers training course details

Intro to containers training course contents

• What are containers?

Virtualization, VMs, What are containers? What are microservices? Machine containers, application containers. Benefits.

• Container runtime tools

Docker, LXC, Windows containers. Architecture, components.
Hands on Installing Docker client and server.

• Working with containers

Docker workflow, Docker images, Docker containers, Dockerfile, Building, running, storing images. Creating containers. Starting, stopping and controlling containers. Public repositories, private registries.
Hands on Exploring containers.

• Microservices

What are microservices? Modular architecture, IPC.
Hands on Persistence and containers.

• Networking containers

Linking, no networking, host, bridge. The container Network Interface.
Hands on Container networking

• Container orchestration engines

Docker swarm: Nodes, services, tasks. Apache Mesos: Mesos master, agents, frameworks. Kubernetes: Kubectl, master node, worker nodes. Openstack: Architecture, containers in OpenStack. Amazon ECS: Architecture, how it works.
Hands on Setup and access a Kubernetes cluster.

• Managing containers

Monitoring, logging, collecting metrics, cluster monitoring tools: Heapster.
Hands on Using Prometheus with Kubernetes.