ITE 401

Introduction to Virtualizations and Containers

This course is an introduction to concepts, applications, and performance of virtualization. Topics include virtual machine (VM) monitor and its interaction with operating system and hardware, mapping of virtual to physical disks, and performance modeling. The course will use software packages to illustrate the implementation aspects of virtualization including: management of VMs with Vagrant., provisioning with Chef and Puppet. creating images, containers, volumes, and links with Docker. Basics of cgroups and union file systems and their role in Docker. Brief overview of Ruby DSL and Docker architecture

Units: 3.0