The Complete Practical Docker Guide

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The Complete Practical Docker Guide

Name: The Complete Practical Docker Guide - Online Course
Rating: 4.3 (396 reviews)
Author: Packt Publishing

Become a master of Docker by understanding and practicing its main features including Dockerfiles and Docker Compose.

updated on icon Updated on Jun, 2025

language icon Language - English

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English [CC]

category icon Development ,Software Development Tools,Docker

Lectures -194

Duration -18.5 hours

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Course Description

Docker is a software framework for building, running, and managing containers on servers and the cloud. In this course, you’ll start by installing Docker on your computer - macOS, Windows, or Linux. Afterward, you’ll jump into tons of practice activities and use different Docker features. You’ll pull different Docker images and run multiple containers using them.

In practice sections, you’ll perform multiple practice Docker activities, such as running Docker containers in the foreground and background, then connecting to certain processes in Docker from the terminal. After that, you’ll learn to expose internal container ports to the outside and add environment variables for containers. You’ll also create custom names and hostnames for containers, create a custom bridge network and run multiple containers inside of it, communicate between containers, and persist container folders using volumes mapping.

Next, you’ll also learn and practice how to use different Docker images (view and edit them). For that, you will not use the terminal; instead, you’ll use the GUI application Visual Studio Code.

By the end of this course, you’ll gain fundamental practical knowledge of Docker and be able to easily use it for the development and testing of your applications.

Most importantly, you’ll understand Docker’s main features such as Docker Volumes, Docker networking, and environment variables.

All the resource files are uploaded on the GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/docker

Audience

This course is for anyone who is interested in learning about Docker and its components via practical projects. Any software developer who wants to develop, ship, and run their applications in their regular day-to-day work can highly benefit from this course.

Goals

Learn how to use Docker images and create containers
Manage Docker containers: start, stop, prune, restart
Enable port mapping and expose container ports to outside
Run Node and Python applications using Docker containers
Create environment variables for Docker containers
Create custom bridge networks and run multiple containers

Prerequisites

There are no specific requirements, just a desire to make your hands dirty and learn Docker by doing it. Any OS (macOS, Windows, or Linux) will work to get started with this course.

Curriculum

Check out the detailed breakdown of what’s inside the course

Introduction to the Course

1 Lectures

Course Overview 01:49 01:49

13 Lectures

Launching Multiple Services Using Docker Compose

11 Lectures

Exploring Docker Compose Setup

8 Lectures

Course Summary

1 Lectures

Instructor Details

Packt Publishing

Packt are an established, trusted, and innovative global technical learning publisher, founded in Birmingham, UK with over eighteen years experience delivering rich premium content from ground-breaking authors and lecturers on a wide range of emerging and established technologies for professional development.

Packt’s purpose is to help technology professionals advance their knowledge and support the growth of new technologies by publishing vital user focused knowledge-based content faster than any other tech publisher, with a growing library of over 9,000 titles, in book, e-book, audio and video learning formats, our multimedia content is valued as a vital learning tool and offers exceptional support for the development of technology knowledge.

We publish on topics that are at the very cutting edge of technology, helping IT professionals learn about the newest tools and frameworks in a way that suits them.

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