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About the Course

Take the next step in your software engineering career by getting skilled in container tools and technologies! The average salary for jobs that require container skills is $137,000 in the US according to salary.com, making Devops professionals and developers with these skills highly in demand. More than 70 percent of Fortune 100 companies are running containerized applications. But why? Using containerization, organizations can move applications quickly and seamlessly among desktop, on-premises, and cloud platforms. In this beginner course on containers, learn how to build cloud native applications using current containerization tools and technologies such as Docker, container registries, Kubernetes, Red Hat, OpenShift, and Istio. Also learn how to deploy and scale your applications in any public, private, or hybrid cloud. By taking this course you will familiarize yourself with: - Docker objects, Dockerfile commands, container image naming, Docker networking, storage, and plugins - Kubernetes command line interface (CLI), or “kubectl” to manipulate objects, manage workloads in a Kubernetes cluster, and apply basic kubectl commands - ReplicaSets, autoscaling, rolling updates, ConfigMaps, Secrets, and service bindings - The similarities and differences between OpenShift and Kubernetes Each week, you will apply what you learn in hands-on, browser-based labs. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to build a container image, then deploy and scale your container. The skills taught in this course are essential to anyone in the fields of software development, back-end & full-stack development, cloud architects, cloud system engineers, devops practitioners, site reliability engineers (SRE), cloud networking specialists and many other roles....

Top reviews

Mar 19, 2025

An excellent course from IBM on Containers (especially for Docker and Kubernetes). The Labs provided by IBM are very helpful and help to gain skills very efficiently. I highly recommend this course.

Oct 7, 2024

The course content is very good. There was one exercise in OpenShift that I could not do in the Lab Environment. Luckily I had access to another environment where I could do it.

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By Sean M

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Mar 28, 2024

Was a lot of rote-stating definition with little context as to what these different functionalities are used for with examples. Instead they only provide context for what they do within Docker and Kubernetes. This is quite confusing as this course is supposedly aimed at people with no experience of either application. Also the final project is a joke and is pretty much a step by step follow along guide with little room for actual learning or attempting to make the student think at all. Half the steps are incomplete in their description causing you to "click to view hint" to see what they are even asking, which just spits out the example code that you can just copy and paste to get the right answer. For example, "autoscale the deployment" and the only way to find out how much the assignment creator wants you to autoscale the deployment by is to view the hint. How that is supposed to test anything, I don't know.

By Lars R

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Sep 22, 2024

Doesn't really seem to add anything you couldn't get from reading documentation. https://docs.docker.com/get-started/docker-overview/ https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/kubernetes-basics/ https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/openshift_container_platform/4.16/html/getting_started/openshift-overview

By Tim R

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Aug 5, 2022

Basically well explained, but the course can not be completed, because div. problems arose. Authorization failed. Routing of the application not accessible. I have now spent 4h + to search forums and still it remains unsuccessful.

By Ionas V

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Oct 8, 2024

Not recommended. It's just generic information you can read anywhere online with a poorly done AI voiceover. Exhausting to watch, good thing I knew these things already because I wouldn't learn them this way.

By Chung, W

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Aug 20, 2023

It is always hard to understand the concepts via very vague slides. Not until later in the code labs can I start to understand few concepts, yet only a FEW.