Introduction to containers

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

Intro to containers training course details

Those wishing to work with containers.

Introduction to virtualization.

2 days

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

Docker, LXC, Windows containers. Architecture, components.

Hands on Installing Docker client and server.

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.

What are microservices? Modular architecture, IPC.

Hands on Persistence and containers.

Linking, no networking, host, bridge. The container Network Interface.

Hands on Container networking

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.

Monitoring, logging, collecting metrics, cluster monitoring tools: Heapster.

Hands on Using Prometheus with Kubernetes.