Introduction

In this room, you’ll get your first hands-on experience deploying and interacting with Docker containers.

Namely, by the end of the room, you will be familiar with the following:

• The basic syntax to get you started with Docker

• Running and deploying your first container

• Understanding how Docker containers are distributed using images

• Creating your own image using a Dockerfile

• How Dockerfiles are used to build containers, using Docker Compose to orchestrate multiple containers

• Applying the knowledge gained from the room into the practical element at the end.

It is strongly recommended that you are at least familiar with basic Linux syntax (such as running commands, moving files and familiarity with how the filesystem structure looks). If you have completed the Linux Fundamentals Module - you will be all set for this room!

Additionally, it is important to remember that you will need internet connectivity to pull Docker images. If you are a free user and wish to practice the commands in this room, you will need to do this in your own environment.