Intro to Containers workshop: Kubernetes to Docker & everything in between

We're thrilled to offer this session as a stand-alone workshop, and free of charge to our community. Containers are everywhere today and the need to understand the basics of container software has never been more important. We hope many will take advantage of this tremendous educational opportunity.

What: Introduction to Containers – From Docker to Kubernetes and everything in between | 4 hour workshop

When: Friday, May 22

Start time / duration: 1:00 pm EDT - 5:00 pm EDT
*Note, this is a 4 hour workshop. Also, be sure to download all software prerequisites prior to the session so you can be ready to go. Prerequisites can be found here - https://opensource101.com/sessions/introduction-to-containers-from-docker-to-kubernetes-and-everything-in-between-extended-session

Speaker: Brent Laster - Global trainer, presenter, and author of the books Professional Git and Jenkins 2: Up and Running: Evolve Your Deployment Pipeline for Next Generation Automation. In his day job, he is a Director of software development in SAS’s Research and Development Division, based in Cary, North Carolina, where he manages several groups involved with cloud technology development, security, SaaS, and internal tooling.

Description:
In this workshop, students will get a quick overview of what containers are and why they form the basis for many of the key technologies that we use today in cloud environments.

We’ll explore what makes up a container and how they are managed and leveraged in key industry tooling including Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and Istio. You’ll also learn the basics of these technologies, what they are used for, and see some simple examples of how to use them.

This workshop will include hands-on labs where you will get experience:

-Building container images, running them as containers, and tagging and pushing them into a Docker repository.
-Creating deployments, services, and pods for containers and instantiating and running those in Kubernetes.
-Working with Helm to leverage templates for Kubernetes objects and managing releases in Kubernetes.
-Working with Istio to do traffic shaping between multiple versions of your app, fault and delay injection for testing and validation in Kubernetes.
We’ll also briefly cover GitOps – the recommend Git-based way to manage infrastructure like your Kubernetes cluster.

Students attending this workshop will need to prepare with the following requirements:

-A modern laptop with at least 8G of memory and 15G of free space
-An installed version of the VirtualBox application from http://www.virtualbox.org
-A downloaded copy of the virtual machine image (.ova) file
-The setup doc for the workshop

**All live links to the above resources can be found here - https://opensource101.com/sessions/introduction-to-containers-from-docker-to-kubernetes-and-everything-in-between-extended-session/

Registration IS REQUIRED in advance for this workshop. We're hosting it on Zoom as a webinar. You can register here - https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ryHRR-HrRG-C9IzAxTolOQ. Once registered you will be sent further access information.

We sincerely hope you can make it for an afternoon of learning. Brent is an amazing speaker and instructor.

Questions can be directed to the All Things Open team at info@allthingsopen.org.