This course will be given by Mincong HUANG for the students of ESIGELEC, a generalist engineering school in Normandy, France.

In modern software development, containers are just everywhere: they are in the continuous integration (CI) system, in the local development environment (devenv), in the production environment with microservices architecture, and in the serverless environment, … Understanding the basics of containers becomes an essential skill for any role related to software development. No matter whether students are going to be developers, DevOps, data scientists, project managers, QA, or any other roles, the knowledge of containers can only help them to better fit into the role. It helps them to better understand the needs, better communicate with other professionals and accelerate the development process.

The course lasts for 20 hours. It is broken down into 3 parts: containerization, CI/CD, and orchestration. Containerization talks about what a container is and its core concepts. The CI/CD talks about how to build and deploy the container into production. In the end, the orchestration talks about how to operate containers using Kubernetes.