AWS UG Dubai Meetup #10 (virtual): Part 3 - Building Containers Lab

This series of talks and hands-on workshops around the concept of "AWS cloud-native modern applications" introduces AWS cloud platform in that light. Starting with the core building blocks of modernizing traditional applications, and how to capitalize on AWS services and capabilities to build a better resilient, reliable application with cloud-native design in mind.

It's 2021. There is a need to find ways to speed up the process of deploying, scaling, and automating our applications, also enable developers and operations teams "DevOps" to collaborate effectively, work efficiently, save resources, and solve the matrix from Hell problems. The magic word here is Containers. This is a pragmatic hands-on series of workshops to introduce members to AWS container workloads focusing on the fundamentals and where to start, AWS Containers 101 workshop.

📆 Talk and workshop dates:

Part 1- Intro to Containers 101
Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021, at 8:30 PM UTC +4
https://www.meetup.com/AWS-Dubai/events/280711543/

Part 2 - Building Containers 102
Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021, at 8:30 PM UTC +4
https://www.meetup.com/AWS-Dubai/events/280722294

Part 3 - Building Containers 102 Lab
Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021, at 8:30 PM UTC +4

Part 4 - Application Modernization with Amazon EKS
Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021, at 8:30 PM UTC +4

📝 Part 3 - Building Containers Lab

In this hands-on lab you will learn how to build containers for different applications. After a short introduction, each student will open a pre-configured Gitpod workspace and build container images for 3 applications: one Go app, one Python app, and a React app! Once an image is built, we will push the image to Amazon Elastic Container Registry. For extra credit, we will also inspect the image we built. No previous experience with Docker, Go, Python, React, or Javascript is required!

This will be a live and guided workshop, leveraging Zoom, Slack, and Gitpod.

💡 Requirements

• GitHub account
• Gitpod account (can be created instantly)
• An active AWS account (if you don’t have an AWS account, you can do the first half of the workshop)

🗝 Keywords

• AWS, ECR, Amazon Elastic Container Registry, Github Container Registry, Dockerhub, Quay
• Workshop, interactive, live, guided
• Docker, OCI, Containerd, Buildkit, GitHub Actions

🎙 Speakers

Vlad Ionescu:
Vlad is a DevOps Consultant helping companies deliver more reliable software faster and safer. He is focused on observability and reliability, with a passion for rapid deployments and simplicity. He jokingly describes his role as a "professional mistake avoider".

Vlad’s work is predominantly focused on Kubernetes and serverless. After starting with kops, he then moved to EKS which he enjoys pushing as far as possible. He can often be found sharing insights in #eks on the Kubernetes Slack.

He has a passion for Haskell and Ruby, but spends most of his time in Python or Go while grumbling about JavaScript.

https://www.vladionescu.me/

Walid Shaari:
Walid is Analytics Platform Engineer at Saudi Aramco. He is a passionate advocate of HPC, Linux, containers, Kubernetes, the cloud-native ecosystem, and has a keen interest in day-2 operations and security. He is the community lead for Dammam Cloud-native AWS User Group, working closely with some CNCF ambassadors, K8saraby, and AWS MENA community leaders to enable knowledge sharing, collaboration, and networking. He jokingly describes himself as the "Cloud Native Janitor (CNJ)."

His current interests include Gitops, AIOps, Firecracker, Bottlerocket, cloud-native security, and exploring EKS-Distro/Anywhere in hybrid cloud solutions.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/walidshaari/
https://twitter.com/walidshaari

🌍 Venue:

Zoom meeting. The Zoom meeting details will be sent via email on the morning of the meetup to all the members that RSVP yes.

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