What are Containers? Learn the Basics in Online Course from The Linux Foundation

In this series, we’ll provide a preview of the new Containers Fundamentals (LFS253) course from The Linux Foundation. The course is designed for those who are new to container technologies, and it covers container building blocks, container runtimes, container storage and networking, Dockerfiles, Docker APIs, and more. In this installment, we start from the basics. You can also sign up to access all the free sample chapter videos now.

What Are Containers?

In today’s world, developers, quality assurance engineers, and everyone involved in the application lifecycle are listening to customer feedback and striving to implement the requested features as soon as possible.

Containers are an application-centric way to deliver high-performing, scalable applications on the infrastructure of your choice by bundling the application code, the application runtime, and the libraries.

Additionally, using containers with microservices makes a lot of sense, because you can do rapid development and deployment with confidence. With containers, you can also record a deployment by building an immutable infrastructure. If something goes wrong with the new changes, you can simply return to the previously known working state.

This self-paced course — taught by Neependra Khare (@neependra), Founder and Principal Consultant at CloudYuga, former Red Hat engineer, Docker Captain, and author of the Docker Cookbook — is provided almost entirely in video format. This video from chapter 1 gives an overview of containers.

Want to learn more? Access all the free sample chapter videos now!

What are Containers? Learn the Basics in Online Course from The Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation | 09 May 2017