Docker For Beginners

This course is all about Docker

Understand HOW Docker works and learn its core features ON PRACTICE. This is 90% practice course without no useless demos!

Learn how to create different containers like Node.js, Python, WordPress, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch and much more.

Become a master of Docker by understanding and practicing its main features.

All project files are available in the GitHub repository.

We will start by installing Docker on your computer – MacOS, Windows or Linux. On MacOS and Windows you will install Docker Desktop, on Linux you will install Docker Engine.

Afterwards we will jump into tons of practice activities and use different Docker features. You will pull different docker images and run multiple containers using them.

In practice sections you will perform multiple practice Docker activities:

Run Docker containers in foreground and background
Connect to certain process in the Docker from the Terminal
Expose internal container ports to outside
Add environment variable for container
Create custom names and hostnames for container
Create custom bridge network and run multiple containers inside of it
Communicate between containers
Persist containers folders using volumes mapping

You will also learn and practice how to use following Docker images

Ubuntu
Alpine, Busybox
Node.js
Python
MongoDB
MySQL, phpMyAdmin
NGINX
WordPress
Elasticsearch
Redis
Httpd

During the course you will need to view and edit text files. For that you will NOT use terminal. Instead you will use GUI application VisualStudio Code. Also all project files are available in the GitHub repository. This means that during this course you will also learn how to use

Git and GitHub
VisualStudio Code

With this course you will get lifetime-long access to more than 50 lectures and tens of practical exercises. After the course you will get fundamental practical knowledge of Docker and be able to easily use it for development and testing of your applications.

But most important is that you will UNDERSTAND Docker main features like