Box Yourself In.

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!