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The Beginner’s Guide to Docker

The Beginner’s Guide to Docker

Learn everything you need to know to run containers in the real world from Docker Captain Nigel Poulton.

Beginner

74 Lessons

3h 45min

Certificate of Completion

Learn everything you need to know to run containers in the real world from Docker Captain Nigel Poulton.

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This course includes

31 Playgrounds
7 Quizzes

This course includes

31 Playgrounds
7 Quizzes
Course Overview
What You'll Learn
Course Content

Course Overview

Containers have revolutionized the IT world and it can be hard to know where to start. In this course, Docker Captain Nigel Poulton guides you through the basics all the way to proficiency. You'll learn why we have containers and how they work. You’ll run through the basics like images, the Docker engine, and containers. With the basics out of the way, you'll then containerize an application and learn how to run it. Throughout the course, Nigel will demystify all the jargon and buzzwords. When you're done,...Show More

What You'll Learn

How images and containers work.

Proficiency in Docker for building and managing containers.

Containerizing applications for easy deployment.

Microservices architecture basics

Docker's role in DevOps.

What You'll Learn

How images and containers work.

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Course Content

1.

About the Course

This section covers the course objectives and the course structure.
Who’s This Course For?
Course Organization
2.

Containers From 30,000 Feet

This section covers the purpose of containers, their benefits, and their practical applications.
Towards Virtual Machines
Hello Containers!
Running Containers
Chapter Summary
Quiz: Containers Overview
3.

Docker and Container-related Standards and Projects

This section introduces Docker, key standards, and projects shaping the container ecosystem, essential for understanding containerization in modern development.
Introduction to Docker
The Docker Technology
Container-Related Standards and Projects
Chapter Summary
Quiz: Docker
4.

The Big Picture

This section provides hands-on experience with images and containers from Ops and Dev perspectives
Introduction to DevOps
The Ops Perspective
Docker Images
Managing Containers
Attaching to Running Containers
The Dev Perspective
Chapter Summary
Quiz: Docker in DevOps
5.

The Docker Engine

This section covers Docker Engine components like runc, containerd, and OCI, key to mastering Docker.
Introduction to the Docker Engine
The Deep Dive
The Influence of the Open Container Initiative (OCI)
Starting a New Container
Chapter Summary
Quiz: The Docker Engine
6.

Working with Images

15 Lessons

This section covers Docker images: basics, pulling, registries, naming, layers, multi-architecture support, and deletion.
7.

Working with Containers

14 Lessons

This section explores Docker containers, their lifecycle, commands, advantages over VMs, debugging, and self-healing containers with restart policies.
8.

Containerizing an Application

12 Lessons

This section introduces containerization, covering the packaging of applications as images, multi-stage builds, and optimizing with Buildx and BuildKit.
9.

Conclusion

1 Lesson

This section concludes the course and talks about the next steps.
10.

Appendix: Getting Docker

6 Lessons

This section explains how to install Docker on multiple platforms.

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