Preparing for Red Hat Openshift: Implementing Containers on IBM Power Systems

This 2 day course is designed to provide skills enablement for system administrators and product support specialists in the area of operating system based virtualization provided by Linux containers.

Topics include introduction to Podman, Buildah, Docker, Kubernetes and CRI-O.

Hands-on exercises reinforce the lecture material, allowing students to install and configure Linux containers.

 Recommended prerequisites:

AN11G - Power Systems for AIX I: LPAR Configuration and Planning

LX071G - Power Systems Running Linux: Server Administration

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Describe Linux containers architecture
• Install and configure Docker onto a Power Systems environment
• Perform Docker administration operations
• Install and configure CRI-O
• Perform basic container orchestration steps

This course is for anyone that needs to build experience with operating system based virtualization using Docker. The audience for this training includes the following:

• Cloud administrators
• POWER technical support individuals
• POWER system administrators
• POWER system engineers
• POWER system architects