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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Assess containerisation needs for application
   • Research and select vendor containerisation technology according to business needs
   • Obtain and review technical specifications, infrastructure and systems requirements for container service and runtime
   • Assess responsibility and requirements of microservice architecture according to business needs
   • Check and confirm installation of runtime environment for containerisation technology
   • Review and select base container image according to business needs
   • Author container image file for defining base image, working directory, application code, environment configuration and commands
   • Determine container image name applying industry standards and conventions
   • Build container image from authored file
   • Run a new instance of container from image
   • Confirm connectivity of published ports for running container instance
   • Test, debug and fix the running instance of containerised application
   • Run additional container instances from image
   • Stop running container instances
2. Manage container image
   • Review available options and select container image registry according to business needs
   • Create container image repository
   • Authenticate and connect to registry
   • Push container image to repository
   • Update, version and push container image to repository
   • Pull container image from repository
3. Maintain container services
   • Access logging for application and container
   • List containers in runtime environment
   • List container port mappings
   • Remove container from runtime environment
   • Monitor and display container resource usage and statistics
   • Update configuration of container according to business needs

Performance Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate the ability to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including evidence of the ability to:

author at least two files for building container images

run, test and debug a minimum of two running containers instances

install and run at least one application within container

monitor a minimum of two container instance in container runtime

author, build and run container instances from at least one image with two different versions

set up container image repository in registry and perform push and pull commands at least once.

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must be able to demonstrate knowledge to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including knowledge of:

features and functions of operating systems

continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment methodology, processes and principles

network protocols including:

network communications protocol

TCP/IP (transmission control)

tools and features of registries, command line interface and text editor

advanced programming language

organisational policies and procedures for:

documenting work and technical requirements

evaluating business processes of uses of containerisation

stages of software development life cycle (SDLC)

procedures for implementing container services

basic principles of:

computer hardware, networking, operating system, applications, database management systems, cloud solutions and components

IT service management systems (ITMS)

required programming language, including data serialisation language

open-source development tools

processes for establishing and implementing business requirements for container services

key functions and features of data flow charts

methods for monitoring container services, including:

manually monitoring services

different organisational levels of responsibility relating to application functions.

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