container.training

# Container Training

This repository (formerly known as `orchestration-workshop`)
contains materials (slides, scripts, demo app, and other
code samples) used for various workshops, tutorials, and
training sessions around the themes of Docker, containers,
and orchestration.

For the moment, it includes:

- Introduction to Docker and Containers,
- Container Orchestration with Docker Swarm,
- Container Orchestration with Kubernetes.

These materials have been designed around the following
principles:

- they assume very little prior knowledge of Docker,
  containers, or a particular programming language;
- they can be used in a classroom setup (with an
  instructor), or self-paced at home;
- they are hands-on, meaning that they contain lots
  of examples and exercises that you can easily
  reproduce;
- they progressively introduce concepts in chapters
  that build on top of each other.

If you're looking for the materials, you can stop reading
right now, and hop to http://container.training/, which
hosts all the slides decks available.

The rest of this document explains how this repository
is structured, and how to use it to deliver (or create)
your own tutorials.


## Why a single repository?

All these materials have been gathered in a single repository
because they have a few things in common:

- some [shared slides](slides/shared/) that are re-used
  (and updated) identically between different decks;
- a [build system](slides/) generating HTML slides from
  Markdown source files;
- a [semi-automated test harness](slides/autopilot/) to check
  that the exercises and examples provided work properly;
- a [PhantomJS script](slides/slidechecker.js) to check
  that the slides look good and don't have formatting issues;
- [deployment scripts](prepare-vms/) to start training
  VMs in bulk;
- a fancy pipeline powered by
  [Netlify](https://www.netlify.com/) and continuously
  deploying `master` to http://container.training/.


## What are the different courses available?

**Introduction to Docker** is derived from the first
"Docker Fundamentals" training materials. For more information,
see [jpetazzo/intro-to-docker](https://github.com/jpetazzo/intro-to-docker).
The version in this repository has been adapted to the Markdown
publishing pipeline. It is still maintained, but only receives
minor updates once in a while.

**Container Orchestration with Docker Swarm** (formerly
known as "Orchestration Workshop") is a workshop created by Jérôme
Petazzoni in June 2015. Since then, it has been continuously updated
and improved, and received contributions from many others authors.
It is actively maintained.

**Container Orchestration with Kubernetes** was created by
Jérôme Petazzoni in October 2017, with help and feedback from
a few other contributors. It is actively maintained.


## Repository structure

- [bin](bin/)
  - A few helper scripts that you can safely ignore for now.
- [dockercoins](dockercoins/)
  - The demo app used throughout the orchestration wo