Configuration Management for Containerized Delivery

About this course

Containers can run on your local machine but the real power lies in the fact that these exact same containers can also run in production, giving you a very nice and consistent way of bringing software to production.

In production environments containers run on a set of machines managed by cluster orchestration software, and this course will show you how you can create, deploy and configure your containerized applications on Microsoft Azure using Azure Container Service (ACS) and Azure Service Fabric. (ASF)

The course will cover management and operation of your container cluster, teaching how to configure the cluster, and how to manage them so that you have constant insights into how your application is doing in production, and how you can scale up and down based on demand, and deploy containers without having any downtime.

You will learn how a cluster works, how to set it up and how you can manage your production environments. Then you will learn how to deploy your containers in a cluster using continuous delivery infrastructure like Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS).

What you'll learn

Create container images

Manage multiple containers using tools like Docker

How to set up a production cluster to host your containers

Deploy containerized applications to different orchestrators that are available in Azure Container Service (ACS) i.e. DC/OS, Docker swarm and Kubernetes

How to scale up the clusters, manage data and set up monitoring to proactively keep track of the clusters health and its deployed applications

Create, monitor and manage a Service Fabric cluster.

Manage and maintain Azure hosted clusters and containers in a better way.

Deploy containerized applications to one of the available cluster container solutions, using continuous delivery pipelines.

Manage these clusters in production scenarios.

Course Syllabus

Module 0 | Course Introduction

Welcome current section
Course Resources

Module 1 | Containerization

What is Containerization
Containers and Docker
Linux and Windows Containers
Where can you host containers?
DevOps and Containers
Continuous Delivery Pipeline and Containers
Module Summary
Review Questions
Practical Exercises

Module 2 | Azure Container Services

Introduction to Azure Container Services (ACS)
Creating and configuring ACS clusters
Running Multiple Containers
Configuring monitoring and logging
Scaling
Deployment
Module Summary
Review Questions
Practical EXercises

Module 3 | Service Fabric

Introduction to Azure Service Fabric (ASF)
Creating a Cluster
Programming Models
Configure monitoring and logging
Scaling
Deployment
Dealing with Data
Module Summary
Review Questions
Practical Exercises

Module 4 | Cross cutting concerns

Introduction
Patch Management
Security Concerns
Design for Failure
Review Questions
Practical Exercises

Final Exam

Final Exam

Post Course Survey

Post-Course Survey

Meet the instructors

Marcel de Vries

Microsoft MVP in Visual Studio and Development Technologies Regional Director Microsoft CTO Xpirit

Marcel is the co-founder and CTO of Xpirit, a high end consulting firm based in Hilversum, Netherlands. He co-founded Xpirit in 2014 as a spin off from Xebia Netherlands. Together with Xebia he helps customers with Digital Transformation, Agile Consulting and Full Stack development with both Microsoft and open source products. Marcel spends most of his time looking at how new emerging technologies, a shift in mindset and a new way of work, can help organizations get software in production faster. Helping organizations transform towards a high speed, innovative and productive organization has become my passion.

Marcel Loves to learn new technologies and teach others what he has learned. Besides his work as CTO he also work as a consultant in the field of Application Lifecycle Management, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Cloud/Web scale application architectures and Cross platform Enterprise Mobile app development with Xamarin. Marcel is a frequent speaker at leading industry conferences. He has delivered sessions at events like Microsoft TechEd, Microsoft //Build, Microsoft TechDays, Visual Studio Live!, Devintersection, Xebicon, and Techorama. Marcel hosts several meetups in his region on Microsoft Azure, Xamarin and ALM.

In his spare time he is also an author of online courses at Pluralsight. Marcel has been awarded by Microsoft the Microsoft ALM MVP award for 11 consecutive years and he is also a Microsoft Regional Director since 2008.

Loek Duys

Microsoft MVP in Microsoft Azure Microsoft Ethical Hacker, Cloud Solutions Architect and Consultant Xpirit

Loek is a cloud software architect, public speaker and Microsoft Azure MVP who focuses on creating secure, scalable and maintainable systems. He is always looking for ways to leverage the latest additions to Microsoft Azure, to better help companies make the transition into the Cloud. As an active member of open source projects, he likes to share knowledge with other community members.

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