DevOps Foundations: Containers

Get an overview of containers and how they can be used for both software development and production deployment.

Introduction

• Enhancing your applications with containers

1. What Are Containers?

• What are containers?
• Why use containers?
• What are microservices?
• Containers vs. VMs

2. When to Use Containers

• Containers for development
• Containers for packaging
• Lightweight dev environments with Docker
• Deploying a dev stack with Docker Compose

3. Using Containers in Prod

• Pros and cons of containers in prod
• Environment integrity and containers
• Securing containers
• CI/CD and the platform mindset

4. How to Manage Containers

• Orchestration
• Docker Swarm
• Kubernetes
• Mesos
• Cloud containers

Conclusion

• Next steps with containers