Container Essentials
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Containers are the next frontier of software delivery—and cyber risk. Become familiar with this critical technology in this hands-on introduction to building, deploying, and securing containers.
What You’ll Learn
Skills
By the end of the course, the learner should be able to:
- Install Docker on a fresh system
- Download images from an image registry
- Run containers
- Build new images from a Dockerfile
- Launch apps with Docker Compose
- Write Compose files to create multi-container applications
- Configure Docker in Swarm Mode
- Apply cgroups, resource constraints, and other security best practices
- Replace Docker with Podman or another container runtime
Concepts
By the end of the course, the learner should understand:
- The difference between containers and virtual machines
- The relationship between images and containers
- How containers and images are layered
- Why containers should be ephemeral, and how to work with that ephemerality
- How data can persist beyond a single container’s lifecycle
- How Docker networking connects and isolates containers
- How Docker Swarm scales containerized applications
Prerequisites
Although this is an introductory course, fluency with the Linux command line is expected. If you need a refresher, we have a course for you!
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