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DevOps Containerization and Orchestration: 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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Level
Beginner
Last updated
Aug 05, 2025
Duration
45m

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Table of Contents
  1. 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!

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

About the author

Chris B. Behrens is a writer, speaker and software developer, specializing in DevOps. He has been a developer and architect for more than twenty years focusing on small to medium size companies and the development changes they face.

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