Containers on IBM Power

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.

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 

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

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