In this course, you will learn about the concept, features, use cases, and benefits of containers, and the difference between containers and virtual machines. We will introduce you to Docker, some of its more commonly used command line interface (CLI) commands, and how they work. This training will teach you how to build container images using Dockerfiles, and you will also learn about container registries and the functionalities they provide to help developers work more securely and productively.

Furthermore, this course discusses container orchestration and how it helps create and manage the lifecycle of complex container environments. You will gain working knowledge on the most popular container orchestration platform: Kubernetes.

This course will familiarize you with the key architectural components of Kubernetes, such as the control plane components and controllers. You will learn about the basics of Kubernetes objects, and how specific Kubernetes objects such as Pods and Deployments work. We will introduce you to a few basic kubectl commands, some key concepts such as scaling, rolling updates, ConfigMaps, Secrets, and service bindings, and explain the relative benefits and shortcomings of both imperative and declarative commands.