Docker Foundation
Course Overview
Docker is an open platform enabling developers and system engineers to quickly and efficiently build, distribute, and deploy their applications in environments ranging from development machines to the cloud. This in-depth Docker Foundations course will give you a solid foundation in Docker and container technology, even if you are new to Docker. Through practical, hands-on, oriented lectures and exercises, we will equip you with the essential skills to work with Docker, from understanding the core concepts to building, managing, and troubleshooting containerized applications. After each lecture, you can test the knowledge you've gained in a dedicated cloud environment by working on practical, real-world problems. Once you feel confident with the subjects, we provide more advanced challenges and guide you through the solutions by following the industry's best practices.
Format
- Duration: 2 days
- Format: In-person or Remote, Instructor-led training (ILT)
- Course Difficulty: Basic
- Experience Level: Junior
- Hands-on Labs: Cloud based
Prerequisites
- Linux Basics
Course contents
Day 1: Introduction to Container technology
Module 1: What is a container?
- Brief introduction of container technology evolution
- Containers and Microservice-based applications
- Containers vs virtual machines
- Container advantages
- Container use cases - the bigger picture
Module 2: Docker architecture overview
- Docker ecosystem overview
- Docker Engine components and functionalities - daemon, client, and registry
- Using the command line interface
- Images, containers, volumes, and networks
- Inspecting docker objects
Module 3: Working with Containers
- Container use cases
- Using the docker cli client
- Creating and managing containers
- Listing and filtering containers
- Interacting with containers
Module 4: Configuration management
- Passing configuration for the docker engine and client
- Setting environment variables for containers
- Container entrypoints and their behavior
- Setting container restart policy
- Passing configuration option to the container application
Day 2: Images
Module 5: Image overview
- Understanding docker image benefits - consistency, portability, reusability
- Contrasting images from containers
- Docker image structure and components
- Working with images
- Scanning images for vulnerabilities
Module 6: Building images
- Building images - from scratch, from containers, using Dockerfile
- Image build tools overview - docker, standalone, in kubernetes
- Dockerfile overview, syntax and common instructions
- Using AI tools for generation and audit of Dockerfile
- Best practices for building clean, maintainable, secure and efficient images
Module 7: Distributing images
- Manual image distribution
- The role of the image registries
- Private and Public registries
- Image registry organization
- Using image registries
Module 8: Troubleshooting
- Working with container logs: Viewing and filtering
- Using logging drivers
- Monitoring container performance - understand container metrics
- Pruning docker objects
- Debugging containers
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