Container management with Docker Certificate for MEAU HO

What is Docker?

• Use cases
• Major components of Docker
• Docker architecture
• Underlying technology

Installation of Docker

• Installation on Ubuntu and Windows
• Using Docker Machine for host provisioning
• Docker Machine drivers for cloud providers

Container life cycle

• Creating and running containers
• Stopping and restarting
• Investigating a container
• Viewing the logs
• Looking at processes
• Removing a container and its data

Dockerizing applications

• The hello world example
• Interactive Bash container
• Building an image by committing changes
• Building an image from a Dockerfile
• Automated builds based on GitHub
• Running more than one process in a container
• gosu helper tool
• Running a webapp in a single container
• Running a webapp in micro services architecture

Managing images

• Finding and downloading existing images
• Docker Hub and local repository
• Sharing images with others
• Deploying a private image repository

Networking of containers

• Port mapping
• Container linking and naming
• Creating and managing custom networks
• Network over many Docker hosts (overlay)

Data in containers

• Data volumes
• Host directories and files as data volume
• Data volume containers
• Data volumes shared between Docker Hosts
• Backup and restore of data volumes

Docker Compose

• Overview of Docker Compose
• Running multi-container applications by using one command
• Defining services, networks, volumes and variables
• Setting up runtime constraints on resources

Docker Swarm

• Introduction to native Docker clustering
• Discovery services
• Docker Swarm strategies and filters