Docker Exercises

This is a learning group to deepen our understanding of Docker, based on this beginner course by the University of Helsinki.

The course includes both learning material and exercises.

Getting started

Install docker and docker-compose
Fork this repository. Each week you will open a merge request with your work, so can see everyone's progress and compare solutions.

Structure

We will follow along the online course (see link above); for each section (there are about 3 parts, each with around 6 sections), we will:

read the section individually and work on the exercises
meet up (or discuss asyncronously) to discuss the section, compare notes and exercises

Please find a living document of questions and comments ordered by exercise here (requires 8L email to access)

Time commitment

There is a total of around 18 sections across 3 course parts; each section should take (though this is a guess) somewhere between 30 / 90 minutes to complete.

Doing one section per week and including a 30 minutes meeting with the group adds up to between an hour and two a week for around 4 months. The meeting will be optional and we will have a running conversations on the Slack group.

Accountability

We will nominate a person each week who will:

review the next section/exercises to work on
communicate the above to the rest of the group
setup/run the weekly meeting to discuss solutions to exercises/questions/ideas

Please check the calendar to see the Whale of the Week.

Learning goals (From the course itself)

Part 1 | Can explain what images and containers are and how they’re related. Can build images with Docker for existing projects and run them.

Part 2 | Can manage complex multi-container applications with docker-compose.