Docker Introduction

Provide hands-on skills to build, run, network, and debug Docker containers and images for local and cloud environments.

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Audience: Developers, architects, DevOps

Duration: 3 days

Format: 50 % lectures, 50 % labs

Overview

Containerisation is transforming application deployment. Docker is the industry-standard container format and tooling. This course teaches containerisation, Docker, and Docker development.

Objective

Provide hands-on skills to build, run, network, and debug Docker containers and images for local and cloud environments.

What You Will Learn

Containerisation technologies
Docker architecture & internals
Using Docker images & containers
Building custom images (Dockerfile)
Publishing images to registries
Docker networking, storage, compose
Troubleshooting & optimisation tips

Course Details

Audience: Developers, architects, DevOps

Duration: 3 days

Format: 50 % lectures, 50 % labs

Prerequisites:

Comfortable with Linux environment; dev experience (Java/Python/JS) recommended

Setup: Cloud lab provided • Laptop with Internet • Chrome • SSH client

Detailed Outline

Monolith vs microservices
VMs vs containers

Architecture, images, containers, registries

Download, run, lifecycle

Dockerfile, layers, commands

DockerHub, private registry

Bridge/host, ports
Volumes, backup

Orchestration, multi-container apps

Logs, optimisation, cleanup