Table of Contents

1. Short Summary
2. Duration
3. Content Description
4. Objectives
5. Agenda
6. Audience
7. Skill Level
8. Labs?
9. Keywords
10. Prerequisites
11. Enrollment
12. Errata
13. Follow-on Courses

Short Summary

This course provides skills enablement for system administrators and product support specialists in the area of operating system based virtualization provided by Linux containers.

Duration in Hours ⌚

8

Content Description

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.

Objectives

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

Agenda

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

Audience

Enrollment in this course is not restricted. Typical students may include: 

Customers  Technical IBM personnel   Business Partner technical personnel   IT consultants and architects

Skill Level

Basic

Labs? 💻

Yes

Keywords

LX063D;LX063;lx071;docker;crio;buildah;podman;ocp;openshift;containers;kubernetes;k8s

Prerequisites

Basic Linux skills

Basic PowerVM skills 

Enrollment

https://www.ibm.com/training/course/LX063DG

Errata

None specified.

Follow-on Courses

LX010G