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About the Course

Take the next step in your software engineering career by getting skilled in container tools and technologies! The average salary for jobs that require container skills is $137,000 in the US according to salary.com, making Devops professionals and developers with these skills highly in demand. More than 70 percent of Fortune 100 companies are running containerized applications. But why? Using containerization, organizations can move applications quickly and seamlessly among desktop, on-premises, and cloud platforms. In this beginner course on containers, learn how to build cloud native applications using current containerization tools and technologies such as Docker, container registries, Kubernetes, Red Hat, OpenShift, and Istio. Also learn how to deploy and scale your applications in any public, private, or hybrid cloud. By taking this course you will familiarize yourself with: - Docker objects, Dockerfile commands, container image naming, Docker networking, storage, and plugins - Kubernetes command line interface (CLI), or “kubectl” to manipulate objects, manage workloads in a Kubernetes cluster, and apply basic kubectl commands - ReplicaSets, autoscaling, rolling updates, ConfigMaps, Secrets, and service bindings - The similarities and differences between OpenShift and Kubernetes Each week, you will apply what you learn in hands-on, browser-based labs. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to build a container image, then deploy and scale your container. The skills taught in this course are essential to anyone in the fields of software development, back-end & full-stack development, cloud architects, cloud system engineers, devops practitioners, site reliability engineers (SRE), cloud networking specialists and many other roles....

Top reviews

Nov 7, 2023

Very happy to attend and complete this course. Where it's possible to see the effort and dedication behind it. Highly recommended

Apr 27, 2022

Very good intro to Containers, good content. I didn't give 5 stars because there are some bugs that make you lose time during the lab sessions, especially the last - and longest - one.

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By Fabien V

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Aug 13, 2021

Very comprehensive introduction to Kubernete and Openshift

By Susmeet K

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Jul 18, 2025

Excellent course to get to started on Kubernetes journey

By Samir K

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Nov 12, 2022

Great if you want to brush up on Docker and Kubernetes.

By MD A

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Nov 5, 2022

A very informative and challenging course. Recommended!

By Nikesh K

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Feb 11, 2025

Nice course, I gained much knowledge from this course.

By Harsheet G

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Nov 20, 2022

Goods hands on lab.

Beginner level but very detailed.

By Shauna “ C

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Nov 21, 2023

I enjoyed the challenges of this course! Thank you!

By Odette S Y D

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Aug 23, 2023

Nice Introduction to Containers, Docker, Kubernetes

By Bence Z

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Nov 20, 2022

Exceptional course! Enjoyed it all the way through.

By Kondeti,Ramesh

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Mar 14, 2021

An excellent course. Well designed and delivered.

By Nadir L

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Feb 1, 2021

Excellent course. Very well taught and practical.

By Md R K

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Nov 24, 2023

Tough but excellent to learn with clear concepts

By Ahmed I

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Oct 10, 2022

amazing course useful information thank you all

By DAVID A S

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Feb 17, 2022

Very useful course to introduce me to containers

By RLee

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Sep 6, 2021

Way better than courses offered by Google Cloud

By Mohamed A M

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Nov 8, 2020

Thank you coursera and big thanks as well to IBM

By Muktadir I J

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Nov 29, 2021

learned a lot of fundamentals of these tools.

By Deleted A

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Apr 7, 2022

Great course. Close to perfect explanations.

By GABRIEL B D S

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Apr 26, 2025

Nice!! great of informations of value!!

By Deshpande, A

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Mar 21, 2022

Excellent course with hand-on lab tasks

By sertaç c

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Feb 24, 2021

please fix platform errors rest is fine

By Samuel A B

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Jun 29, 2022

Exceptional, I learnt a lot. Thank you

By ALBERTO C

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Feb 1, 2024

It's very interesting and enriching.

By Sapthashree

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Oct 24, 2025

Amazing and very informative course

By Anh K

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Mar 22, 2025

Very easy to understand! I love it!