Containerization motivations and implementation

• • Usecases
• • Comparison to virtual machines

Creating, managing and auditing containers

• • Container implementation from the Linux kernel
• • Container lifecycle details
• • Core container creation, auditing and management CLI

Best practices in container image design

• • Layered filesystem implementation and performance implications
• • Creating images with Dockerfiles
• • Optimising image builds with multi-stage builds and image design best practices

Single-host container networking

• • Docker native networking model
• • Software defined networks for containers
• • Docker-native single-host service discovery and routing

Provisioning external storage

• • Docker volume creation and management
• • Best practices and usecases for container-external storage.