This workshop is designed to help you explore how the Microsoft Azure platform can help you meet critical business objectives by using containers, Kubernetes and containerisation concepts.

This workshop will include several hands-on labs to demonstrate the concept of containers, understand ho to apply containerisation principals with the tools on the Azure platform and provide insight into just how easy it it is to build and deploy powerful new capabilities on Azure.

Additionally, the workshop aims to accelerate your first project with dedicated "build: time with facilitators to get you started and on the journey of Containerisation.

This is a hands-on "build-with" workshop and as such, attendees will require software development, Docker and Kubernetes experience.

Agenda:

Day 1

• 09:00 Introductions
• 09:15 Microsoft Container Landscape
• 09:45 Introduction to Containers, Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Azure Container Instance (ACI)
• 10:30 Break
• 11:00 Operating principles of deploying and maintaining applications in Containers
  • Stateless/Stateful
  • Persistence
  • Network Segmentation and Access
• 12:30 Break
• 13:00 Deploying and managing applications on Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Container Instances
• 15:30 Wrap up + Questions

Day 2

• 09:00 Assessing your current applications; how to select candidate applications
• 10:30 Break
• 11:00 Containerising a candidate application, including with data persistence (if applicable)
• 12:30 Break
• 13:00 Scaling and Load Balancing the candidate application
• 14:00 Showcase + Presentation
• 15:00 Wrap up and Questions