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:CustomersTechnical 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 containersUnit 2 - Implementing containers on IBM Power Container architecture Podman installation and basic functionalityUnit 3 - Container operations Images Containers Volumes NetworkingUnit 4 - Container orchestration Cloud in context Orchestration