The Complete Practical Docker Guide
Become a master of Docker by understanding and practicing its main features including Dockerfiles and Docker Compose.
Updated on Sep, 2023
Language - English
Course Description
Docker is a software framework for building, running, and managing containers on servers and the cloud. In this course, you’ll start by installing Docker on your computer - macOS, Windows, or Linux. Afterward, you’ll jump into tons of practice activities and use different Docker features. You’ll pull different Docker images and run multiple containers using them.
In practice sections, you’ll perform multiple practice Docker activities, such as running Docker containers in the foreground and background, then connecting to certain processes in Docker from the terminal. After that, you’ll learn to expose internal container ports to the outside and add environment variables for containers. You’ll also create custom names and hostnames for containers, create a custom bridge network and run multiple containers inside of it, communicate between containers, and persist container folders using volumes mapping.
Next, you’ll also learn and practice how to use different Docker images (view and edit them). For that, you will not use the terminal; instead, you’ll use the GUI application Visual Studio Code.
By the end of this course, you’ll gain fundamental practical knowledge of Docker and be able to easily use it for the development and testing of your applications.
Most importantly, you’ll understand Docker’s main features such as Docker Volumes, Docker networking, and environment variables.
All the resource files are uploaded on the GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/docker
Audience
This course is for anyone who is interested in learning about Docker and its components via practical projects. Any software developer who wants to develop, ship, and run their applications in their regular day-to-day work can highly benefit from this course.
Goals
What will you learn in this course:
- Learn how to use Docker images and create containers
- Manage Docker containers: start, stop, prune, restart
- Enable port mapping and expose container ports to outside
- Run Node and Python applications using Docker containers
- Create environment variables for Docker containers
- Create custom bridge networks and run multiple containers
Prerequisites
What are the prerequisites for this course?
- There are no specific requirements, just a desire to make your hands dirty and learn Docker by doing it. Any OS (macOS, Windows, or Linux) will work to get started with this course.
Curriculum
Check out the detailed breakdown of what’s inside the course
Introduction to the Course
1 Lectures
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Course Overview
01:49
01:49
Docker Installation
3 Lectures
Basic Docker Container (Ubuntu, Busybox, Alpine)
4 Lectures
Port and Volume Mapping in the Docker Containers
4 Lectures
Docker Containers Management (Ubuntu, Nginx)
5 Lectures
Running Python Applications in Docker
4 Lectures
Running Node.js Applications in Docker
7 Lectures
Running MongoDB Containers
5 Lectures
Communication Between Containers and Environment Variables (MySQL, phpMyAdmin)
9 Lectures
Default and Custom Bridge Networks in Docker (WordPress, MySQL)
10 Lectures
Additional Containers – Elasticsearch, Redis, Httpd
8 Lectures
Docker on Practice Summary and Introduction to the Docker Fundamentals
2 Lectures
What is Docker and Docker Components
16 Lectures
Introduction to the Images and Containers
10 Lectures
Getting Started with Linux
11 Lectures
Processes in Linux
6 Lectures
Data Streams and Piping in Linux
6 Lectures
Files and Directories Management in Linux
12 Lectures
Search Operations in Linux
6 Lectures
Compressing and Sorting in Linux
4 Lectures
User Management and Permissions in Linux
5 Lectures
Executable Files and Scripting in Linux
3 Lectures
Networking in Linux
6 Lectures
Environment Variables in Linux
3 Lectures
Launching Course Project Application without Docker
11 Lectures
Building Custom Images Using Dockerfiles
13 Lectures
Launching Multiple Services Using Docker Compose
11 Lectures
Exploring Docker Compose Setup
8 Lectures
Course Summary
1 Lectures
Instructor Details
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