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.

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

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

Basic Linux skills

Basic PowerVM skills

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