From Zero to Hero: Docker for Developers

The skill every developer needs to have

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

Welcome

1:11 Free preview

What will you learn in this course?

2:13 Free preview

Who is the course for and prerequisites

3:10 Free preview

Installing Docker on Windows

3:45

Installing Docker on Linux

3:42

Installing Docker on Mac

0:53

Enabling hardware virtualization in the BIOS

1:01

Introduction

0:23

Containers

3:53

Images

1:47

Container registries and Docker Hub

2:44

Docker CLI

3:03

Docker Desktop GUI

3:56

Visual Studio Code Extension

1:33

Introduction

0:48

Port mapping

2:23

Detached mode and logs

2:50

Shell access and makes changes inside containers

5:23

More example 3rd party images

7:25

Image tags

5:37

Image layers and caching

2:53

Introduction

1:11

Frontend

2:42

Backend

3:31

A simple database interaction

4:13

Building our API image

4:02

Dockerfile 101

7:03

Building our frontend image

3:24

Introduction

1:03

The docker-compose YAML file

1:47

The docker compose CLI command

3:28

Services as DNS entries

0:39

Using docker compose to build our images

2:09

Seeding our database

4:37

Pushing images to Docker Hub

6:36

Introduction

0:23

Docker and CI/CD

3:20

Leveraging Docker for Testing

9:30

Spikes

1:27

Introduction and types of persistent storage in Docker

2:47

Creating Volumes

1:31

Mounting volumes in containers

6:27

Mounting bind mounts in containers

2:55

Volumes in Docker compose

3:54

Backing up volumes

4:21

Anonymous volumes and the Dockerfile VOLUME instruction

2:48

Introduction

0:56

Default bridge network

4:15

Custom bridge networks

6:46

Networking on Docker Compose

6:49

Host network

4:44

Leveraging host.docker.internal

1:00

Summary of other network types

3:01

Introduction

1:36

Image scanning

4:12

Running containers as non-root

6:39

Under the hood: How containers work in Linux

6:27

The difference between ENTRYPOINT and CMD in Dockerfile

7:29

Tip: Creating command line aliases

1:18

Container hosting solutions

4:02

Course conclusion

1:04

Meet Your Instructor

Dan Clarke

Dan Clarke

Dan Clarke is an independent software developer and consultant, specialising in .NET, Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes. He's a Microsoft MVP; speaker; hosts The Unhandled Exception podcast; runs the .NET Oxford user-group; and also has a YouTube channel covering various programming topics.

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