DevOps Foundations: Define Your Platform with Containers
In this lab, you’ll practice working with containers. When you’re finished, you’ll have the skills you need to abstract your platforms using containers.
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Challenge
Get Started in the Lab Environment
Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!
Challenge
Run Your First Container
To start the lab, you will create a simple container that has the .NET Core runtime installed on it. Once the container is created, you’ll execute a command to access the container shell, and look at the file system.
Challenge
Understand Networking with Containers
In this challenge, you’ll create a container with a simple web server and use it to illustrate how to forward ports from inside the container to make it accessible to clients outside the container.
Challenge
Script Your Container Configuration with Dockerfiles
To finish this lab, you’ll learn how to specify the structure of your container using a simple config file called a Dockerfile, which allows you to specify a base, and then execute the needed install commands for your application.
Provided environment for hands-on practice
We will provide the credentials and environment necessary for you to practice right within your browser.
Guided walkthrough
Follow along with the author’s guided walkthrough and build something new in your provided environment!
Did you know?
On average, you retain 75% more of your learning if you get time for practice.
Recommended prerequisites
- A general knowledge of software development
- General computer proficiency