Overview

This course is designed to provide skills enablement for system administrators and product support specialists in the area of operating system-based virtualization provided by Linux containers on IBM Power.

Hands-on exercises reinforce the lecture material, allowing students to install and configure Linux containers.

Audience

Enrollment in this course is not restricted. Typical students may include: Customers Technical IBM personnel  Business Partner technical personnel  IT consultants and architects

Prerequisites

Basic Linux skills

Basic PowerVM skills 

Objective

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Describe Linux containers architecture
• Install and configure Docker onto a Power Systems environment
• Perform Docker administration operations
• Install and configure CRI-O
• Perform basic container orchestration steps

Course Outline

Unit 1 - Introduction to containers    Why containers    Containers and virtualization    Evolution of containers Unit 2 - Implementing containers on IBM Power    Container architecture    Podman installation and basic functionality Unit 3 - Container operations    Images    Containers    Volumes    Networking Unit 4 - Container orchestration    Cloud in context    Orchestration