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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 19, 2020

The Course represents a good starting point for everyone who want to use containers, however, i think it could be better if there were more hands on labs.

Jun 22, 2021

Very good introduction to the basic concepts of Containerization and Kubernetes. Good examples to get a starting feel on how to work with such tools

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By Aby A

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Jun 3, 2022

Another great course. Working with Kubernetes and Openshift in IBMCloud is awesome. Fantastic view on Openshift.

By TEWODROS B B

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Aug 17, 2022

I liked the flow and the way courese instructed. Definityly I got great knowledge from the course

Thanks Coursera

By Luis R D R L

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Dec 3, 2024

Very good for start, but need the recommendations of softwares to develop and how to set up everything.

By Gennica M

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Jul 22, 2022

Very nice material to learn Docker, Kubernetes & OpenShift.

I hope you can improve the bugs on the labs.

By Timur B

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Dec 10, 2021

Super dooper :) Has a perfect lab for hands on exercises. Very straightforward and clean instructions.

By Cameron H

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Feb 4, 2021

This was actually a worth while tutorial on the basics of K8s and tools that go along with it. (2021)

By Reinaldo P B

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Jul 18, 2025

Great course!!!!!!! Excelente course!!!!!!!! Thank you pretty much to all the team!!!!!!!!!!!

By Nithin M

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Jun 6, 2022

Awesome course for beginners and intermediate developers to gain knowlege on container technology

By Alexander C

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Jul 6, 2023

The course is really well done. in some steps could be more ditailed when the subject is tricky.

By Frank L F C

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Sep 20, 2023

Very good information, test and practice, great work, I've already learned a lot, thanks a lot

By Awais K

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Dec 28, 2023

The course provided hands-on experience which i find is the important aspect of this course

By Venkatesan S

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Oct 14, 2021

This course is very to learn Kubernetes, Containers and Openshift, design and architecture

By Bách V N D

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May 9, 2024

It is a decent course that covers the most important topics in Containers and its tools.

By Paul L

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Mar 3, 2022

Good intro to K8s and Red Hat OpenShift. Uses IBM Cloud as provider and Docker registry.

By Haroon

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Feb 11, 2025

This course is very good. Please through this course to understand Kubernetes better.

By Rashmina A

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Nov 12, 2023

Very good course and I learnt a lot about Docker and Kubernetes. Highly recommended.

By Moisés L G N

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Aug 6, 2023

It was a challenging course. With many new concepts but with well-explained content.

By Marc A

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Nov 30, 2021

Awesome course and Labs, I really enjoyed doing labs so that was great. very happy

By Tanbir M

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Feb 24, 2021

It is very good introduction and some hands-on experience course for the beginners.

By Tuncer T

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Dec 31, 2020

A very good introductory course, but there are little problems in lab sessions.

By Кирилл С

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Feb 24, 2022

Great course as an intro to Kubernetes and Openshift. Not so much for docker.

By Babar F

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Apr 27, 2025

Very well structured course including labs and the final exam....I love it!

By Anant S

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Mar 25, 2021

Great course to understand the basics of DevOps, Kubernetes and OpenShift

By Karina N

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Mar 3, 2021

Easy, but structered and informative course! Recommended as introduction

By Srini K

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Dec 28, 2020

Love the hands-on approach. very good introduction to a complex topic