Container development workshop overview

Your role and mission

You’re a senior developer at ACME Corporation, and you’ve been assigned to evaluate containerization for an important client project.

ACME needs to improve deployment times for a key client contract. Your manager has explained: "We need to reduce deployment times significantly to meet client expectations and project timelines."

Your assignment: Evaluate containerization technology and determine if it can address ACME’s deployment challenges within the project timeline.

The objective: Demonstrate whether containers can improve deployment speed and reliability for ACME’s development workflow.

Success criteria for your mission

By the end of this workshop, you’ll have practical container skills to address ACME’s deployment challenges:

  • Create and manage container images using industry best practices → ensure consistent deployments across environments

  • Deploy containerized applications to Red Hat OpenShift efficiently → demonstrate significantly faster deployment times

  • Configure application networking and storage for production workloads → meet client scalability requirements

  • Implement CI/CD workflows that reduce manual deployment steps → improve development team efficiency

  • Troubleshoot common container deployment issues → maintain reliable production systems

Technical outcome: You’ll have hands-on experience with container technology that directly applies to ACME’s current challenges.

Business benefit: Proven deployment approach that reduces time-to-market and improves operational reliability.

Target audience

This workshop is designed for:

  • Software developers who want faster environment provisioning

  • DevOps engineers looking to improve deployment consistency

  • Technical professionals evaluating container adoption

  • Anyone interested in hands-on container development experience

What you need to succeed

You should have:

  • Basic command line experience (Linux/Unix) - you’ve used a terminal before

  • Understanding of web application concepts - you know what a web server does

  • Access to a computer with internet connectivity

  • Basic container knowledge and willingness to learn (no prior container experience required)

ACME Corporation’s deployment challenges

The situation: ACME Corporation needs to improve deployment efficiency for a client project with specific timeline requirements.

Project timeline: Evaluate containerization technology and provide recommendations within the current project cycle.

Current challenges (operational pain points):

  • Long provisioning times: Environment setup takes 2 to 3 weeks → slows down development iterations and client deliveries

  • Environment inconsistencies: Applications behave differently across dev, staging, and production → creates debugging overhead and deployment risk

  • Manual processes: Deployment requires significant manual intervention → introduces human error and limits scalability

  • Complex configurations: Each environment has unique setup requirements → increases maintenance overhead and onboarding time

The opportunity: Containerization technology can address these deployment challenges, and you’ve been selected to evaluate its feasibility for ACME’s use case.

Technical perspective: "Container technology has proven benefits at other organizations, but I need to evaluate how it would work with our specific applications and infrastructure."

Your vision of success

If containerization proves effective for ACME’s use case, here’s the potential technical improvements:

Immediate improvements (short-term): * Faster deployments: Reduce deployment time from weeks to minutes → improve development velocity and client responsiveness * Environment consistency: Eliminate environment-specific deployment issues → more predictable release cycles

Strategic benefits (longer-term): * Better resource utilization: More efficient infrastructure usage → reduced operational costs * Automated scaling: Applications can scale based on demand → improved performance during traffic spikes * Improved development workflow: Developers can focus on features instead of deployment complexity → increased team productivity

Success metric: A demonstrable improvement in deployment speed and reliability that can be presented to stakeholders as a viable solution for ACME’s operational challenges.

Common questions

"Can we containerize existing applications without major changes?" → Yes. Module 2 demonstrates containerizing ACME’s web application without modifying the application code

"What about security considerations?" → Module 3 covers security scanning, policies, and compliance features built into container platforms

"How does this integrate with our current CI/CD pipeline?" → Module 4 shows integration approaches with existing tools like Jenkins

"Is container adoption sustainable for our team?" → The workshop demonstrates practical skills and sustainable practices for ongoing container use