Docker for Developers: Create and Manage Docker Containers

This is the repository for the LinkedIn Learning course Docker for Developers: Create and Manage Docker Containers. The full course is available from LinkedIn Learning.

Course Description

Discover how to leverage Docker for application development. Join instructor Shelley Benhoff as she outlines essential Docker skills—from basic application setup to deploying your own application to the cloud. Learn to build and run containers, write clear and efficient Dockerfiles, and manage persistent storage and networking to power real-world applications. Along the way, through interactive examples, you’ll learn how to inspect and troubleshoot container lifecycles and manage multicontainer applications using Docker Compose. Explore basic clustering with Swarm and learn how to deploy and scale workloads in Kubernetes. By the end of this course, you’ll be prepared to confidently create, manage, and deploy Docker containers in your everyday development workflow.

See the readme file in the main branch for updated instructions and information.

Instructions

This repository has branches for each of the videos in the course. You can use the branch pop up menu in github to switch to a specific branch and take a look at the course at that stage, or you can add /tree/BRANCH_NAME to the URL to go to the branch you want to access.

Branches

The branches are structured to correspond to the videos in the course. The naming convention is CHAPTER#_MOVIE#. As an example, the branch named 02_03 corresponds to the second chapter and the third video in that chapter. Some branches will have a beginning and an end state. These are marked with the letters b for "beginning" and e for "end". The b branch contains the code as it is at the beginning of the movie. The e branch contains the code as it is at the end of the movie. The main branch holds the final state of the code when in the course.

When switching from one exercise files branch to the next after making changes to the files, you may get a message like this:

error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout:        [files]
Please commit your changes or stash them before you switch branches.
Aborting

To resolve this issue:

Add changes to git using this command: git add .
Commit changes using this command: git commit -m "some message"

Instructor

Shelley Benhoff

Author | Docker Captain | Co-Owner at HoffsTech, LLC

Check out my other courses on LinkedIn Learning.