Welcome
What will you learn in this course?
Who is the course for and prerequisites
From Zero to Hero: Docker for Developers
Learn Docker from scratch and incorporate it into your development workflow. This course covers everything from installation to creating and sharing Docker images, CI/CD, and more.
About This Course
Docker is one of the, if not the most essential, tools that every developer
needs to know. You need to know what it is, why it is necessary and how you
can use everything it offers. It has been the most used developer platform tool
for the past three years, according to the StackOverflow survey and knowing how
to use it is required for most developer job listings. In this course, author
Dan Clarke will teach you everything you need to know to get started and master
the usage of Docker, from how to install it to how you can publish your very own
images and use it in your developer workflow.
Course Curriculum
3h 26m 17 sections
Installing Docker on Windows
Installing Docker on Linux
Installing Docker on Mac
Enabling hardware virtualization in the BIOS
Introduction
Containers
Images
Container registries and Docker Hub
Docker CLI
Docker Desktop GUI
Visual Studio Code Extension
Introduction
Port mapping
Detached mode and logs
Shell access and makes changes inside containers
More example 3rd party images
Image tags
Image layers and caching
Introduction
Frontend
Backend
A simple database interaction
Building our API image
Dockerfile 101
Building our frontend image
Introduction
The docker-compose YAML file
The docker compose CLI command
Services as DNS entries
Using docker compose to build our images
Seeding our database
Pushing images to Docker Hub
Introduction
Docker and CI/CD
Leveraging Docker for Testing
Spikes
Introduction and types of persistent storage in Docker
Creating Volumes
Mounting volumes in containers
Mounting bind mounts in containers
Volumes in Docker compose
Backing up volumes
Anonymous volumes and the Dockerfile VOLUME instruction
Introduction
Default bridge network
Custom bridge networks
Networking on Docker Compose
Host network
Leveraging host.docker.internal
Summary of other network types
Introduction
Image scanning
Running containers as non-root
Under the hood: How containers work in Linux
The difference between ENTRYPOINT and CMD in Dockerfile
Tip: Creating command line aliases
Container hosting solutions
Course conclusion
Meet Your Instructor
Dan Clarke
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