Intermediate

Virtualisation & Containerisation

From hypervisors to Kubernetes — the modern compute stack end to end.

Programme Overview

A practical programme for engineers and architects working across virtualisation platforms and container orchestrators. Covers VMware, hyper-converged infrastructure, Docker, and Kubernetes with a focus on design patterns, operational realities, and workload placement decisions.

What You'll Learn

Understand hypervisor and HCI architectures
Build, ship, and run containerised workloads
Operate Kubernetes at production scale
Make sound workload placement decisions

Who It's For

Systems engineers adopting containers
Platform engineers running Kubernetes
Architects designing modern compute platforms

Prerequisites

Comfortable with Linux command line and basic networking

Curriculum

- Hypervisor fundamentals
- HCI architecture and trade-offs
- Storage and networking in virtualised estates
- Images, layers, and registries
- Networking and storage for containers
- Security fundamentals
- Pods, deployments, and services
- Ingress, storage classes, and RBAC
- Observability and troubleshooting
- VM vs. container decisions
- Stateful workloads on Kubernetes
- Platform cost and operational comparisons