Skill · Containers · Build and run containers
Run containers, persist data and connect them
Install Docker, understand images, containers and layers, run containers, persist their data in volumes and connect them over a network.
Start lesson 1The Containers domain
- 5 lessons
- ~3 h 45 of reading
- 6 quizzes
- 0 proof lab
The path
Where it comes from, where it leads
What you need to know first, where you stand on this skill, and what it opens next. Your status is computed in your browser, from what you have read and passed.
Before · 1 prerequisite
Recommended before · 1
This skill, for you
Run containers, persist data and connect them
Computing
It unlocks · 20 skills
- Produce an artifact's SBOM and qualify its vulnerabilities with a VEX
- Write a Chef cookbook and converge it idempotently, in a container then on a VM
- Build an OCI image
- Operate and troubleshoot Docker containers: lifecycle, logs, inspection and daemon
- Group containers into pods and replay a Kubernetes manifest locally
- Set up Forgejo on PostgreSQL behind a TLS proxy, reachable over HTTPS and SSH, then configure mail, LFS and sign-ups
- Have an agent run code in a hardened sandbox
- Operate an LLM gateway: routing, fallback, cache, keys and budgets
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and 12 others
- Trace LLM calls with OpenTelemetry GenAI up to Grafana Tempo
- Secure, test, authenticate and deploy MCP servers
- Run and serve an open source LLM, from the workstation to the GPU
- Embed a corpus and index it in a vector database
- Set up Keycloak on PostgreSQL and administer a realm: users, groups, roles and event logs
- Explain the architecture of a Kubernetes cluster
- Deploy and observe an application on Kubernetes
- Centralize a service's logs and query them
- Collect a service's metrics and check their quality
- Query a service's metrics to answer an operations question
- Route telemetry through a collection pipeline
- Detect and contain at runtime
The path through the foundations From the most upstream foundation to this skill: what is in place, what remains to read.
Lessons
How to learn it
This skill is learned with the tool of your choice; your preferences decide the path followed in your journey. Each path lists its lessons in program order.
With Docker
5 lessons · ~3 h 45 default
Part 1 · Découvrir Docker (in French) 3 lessons · ~2 h 25
Part 2 · Persister et connecter (in French) 2 lessons · ~1 h 20
With Podman
3 lessons · ~2 h 05
Part 1 · Découvrir Podman (in French) 1 lesson · ~1 h 00
Part 2 · Exécuter des conteneurs (in French) 2 lessons · ~1 h 05
Beyond the lessons
Assess, practise, pass the proof
Reading a lesson confirms nothing. A skill is confirmed by a passed quiz, practised in a guided lab, and put to the test by a challenge or a mission; an imported lab result is not verified by the site.
Assess yourself
6 quizzes
At the end of the lessons: passed at 70%, they confirm the skill.
Practice
No guided lab
No guided lab practices it yet.
Proof
No proof
Neither a challenge nor a mission with a proof yet.
Placement test
Preparing the questions…
Your answers in detail
For each question asked: your answer, the correct answer, its explanation and the page to reread.
Around it
Who requires it, who teaches it
Required by
- Linux Administrator
- KCNA
- LFCS
In red: the certification it prepares for.
Taught by
Tool of your choice: Docker or Podman.
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