Docker Containerization Essentials

Master Docker containerization to optimize application performance and management for IT professionals and technical teams looking to harness best practices in image design and deployment.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Understand containerization motivations and implementation.

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Create, manage, and audit containers using Docker Engine.

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Design best practices for container image creation.

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Implement single-host container networking and provisioning external storage.

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 1 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • Technical audiences
  • IT professionals
  • DevOps engineers
  • System administrators

Description

In this course, you’ll learn how to create and manage individual containers using the Docker Engine. We’ll cover best practices in container image design and container deployment and auditing, as well as an introduction to single-node container networking and storage. This course is best practices focused, and is designed to enable rapid successful adoption of containerization from first principles.

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Upcoming Course Dates

August 5-5, 2025

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Virtual: Online - US/Eastern

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$800

August 25-25, 2025

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Virtual: Online - US/Eastern

Enroll

$800

Course Outline

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Lab Requirements

  1. Laptop with WiFi connectivity

  2. Attendees should have the latest Chrome or Firefox installed, and a free account at strigo.io

Containerization motivations and implementation

  1. Usecases

  2. Comparison to virtual machines

Creating, managing and auditing containers

  1. Container implementation from the Linux kernel

  2. Container lifecycle details

  3. Core container creation, auditing and management CLI

Best practices in container image design

  1. Layered filesystem implementation and performance implications

  2. Creating images with Dockerfiles

  3. Optimising image builds with multi-stage builds and image design best practices

Single-host container networking

  1. Docker native networking model

  2. Software defined networks for containers

  3. Docker-native single-host service discovery and routing

Provisioning external storage

  1. Docker volume creation and management

  2. Best practices and usecases for container-external storage.

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