Docker fundamentals

Is your team new to containers? The Docker fundamentals course will guide them through a variety of hands-on exercises designed to help them quickly grow into seasoned users, ready to assess the advantages of containerized software development and deployment. It will teach them how to run, develop, and manage their own set of containers.

Your team will get the right skills to leverage containerization technology, reduce environment drift, and enable self-contained deliveries to production.

To put your team's new Docker skills to good use, we recommend combining this course with the one-day Kubernetes fundamentals course.

After completing this training module, your team will be able to:

• Use Docker in their daily roles as developers and sysadmins
• Use Docker engine features necessary for running containerized applications
• Create Dockerfiles and Docker Compose files
• Keep their Dockerfiles and images small, efficient, and fast
• Distribute their docker images through a docker registry, such as Docker Hub
• Protect important persistent data in volumes and bind mounts
• Package their own software

Prerequisites

To make the most out of this course, participants should have basic Linux command line skills. We also recommend they have Git bash installed on their machines.

Note: Docker Fundamentals focuses on Docker for Linux. However, most of the content is also directly translatable to Windows containers.