Introducing
Learn how to use Docker in development, testing, and production.
Want more? Learn more about containers!
This is a comprehensive course in the many uses of Docker.
From playing to developing, testing to deploying, we'll cover it all in a way that is easy to understand.
We start with the basics and quickly move into how to use Docker in development.
We'll cover:
We use Docker to create a testing and CI process.
We'll cover:
Docker in production is complex. We’ll see how the latest tooling makes it easier.
We'll cover:
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Course Introduction
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Installing Docker for Mac/Windows
The Docker Commands
Your First Container
Inspecting Containers
Cleaning Up
Interacting With a Container (bash)
Nginx & Sharing Ports
Sharing Volumes
Review
Committing Changes
The Dockerfile
Building a PHP Image
Linking Nginx & PHP Containers
Pushing to Docker Hub
Linking the Full Stack
Docker Networking
Docker Volumes
Review
Official Images on Docker Hub
Advanced Dockerfiles: MySQL
Modern Docker Compose
Introducing Docker Compose
Docker Compose Basics
Serving a Real Application
Building Images with Docker Compose
Explaining the “docker-compose up” Command
Variables with Docker Compose
Extending Docker Compose Files
Docker Compose Versioning
Extending Docker Compose 3
Compose and Env Vars
Using mysqldump With Docker
Using SequelPro with Docker
Dockerizing Your Application Intro
Getting Started with an App
Creating our Project Images
Our Basic Docker Compose File
A Better Docker Compose File
"This Is Ridiculous, We Need Help"
The Workflow You Always Wanted
Extending Docker Compose for Dev and CI
Docker Compose Details for CI (and faster tests!)
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Introducing Docker Machine
Docker Machine with AWS
Docker Compose with Docker Machine
File Permissions with Docker
Installing Docker “Manually”
Reviewing Docker Volumes, Permissions, and Network
Installing Jenkins
Configuration Jenkins and Github
Automating Tests
Dealing with Secrets
Cleaning Up After Ourselves
Don't Skip the Jenkins Module
What are GitHub Actions?
Preparing the App
Defining the GitHub Actions
Building the Docker Image
Using Service Containers
Building Production Images
A Local Private Registry
An S3-Backed Private Registry
Server Setup and Running the App
Application State
Naive Deployment
Rolling Deployment
Automating Deployments
What is Docker Swarm
Server Cluster Setup
Registry with Swarm
Running Applications
Load Balancer as Entry Point
Rolling Updates
Docker Secrets
DNS and Service Discovery
Building with BuildKit
Multistage Builds
Busting Build Cache
Target and Cache
Overview
New App Image
New Node Image
Using ENTRYPOINT
Permissions and Gosu
Perms and Gosu Continued
Updating the Node Container
How I Make Production Images
The Base Image
The Production Image
The Reusable Image
ECS Introduction
A New Application
Dockerizing Our Application
A Helper Script
Testing our Application
Private Registry with ECR
CodeBuild Setup
CodeBuild IAM
CodeBuild Success
Production Docker Image
Building with Build Cache
Using S3 for Secure Files
ECS, Tasks, and Clusters
Running Artisan Commands
ECS Services and Load Balancers
Rolling Deployments
Blue/Green Deployment Setup
Blue/Green Deployment Trigger
Automating Deployments in CodeBuild
CodeBuild IAM Updates
Application Logs to CloudWatch
The What and When
Managed Kubernetes
What We'll Learn
Creating a Cluster
Your First Pod
Declarative Syntax
Deployments
Services
Service Load Balancer
Ingress
StatefulSet (database)
Configuration and Secrets
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Learn how to effectively use Docker in development, testing, and in production!
I'm Chris Fidao. I wrote the Servers for Hackers eBook, and publish related videos at the Servers for Hackers video site. I also curate the Servers for Hackers newsletter, which is read by over 12,000 programmers who want to learn about servers.
I'm also the author of the Deploy PHP! video series, a video series about automating your deployments. A few years ago, I wrote Implementing Laravel, a book all about coding in Laravel - now offered free!
What is this?
Shipping Docker is a video series about Docker.
Is the course complete?
Shipping Docker is now officially released, although that doesn't mean I'm done adding new videos to it!
Is future content free?
Yes! Future added videos are free for those who have purchased Shipping Docker.
However, for any really huge topics (like if I added a start-to-finish Kubernetes course), I may decide to make that an "upgrade", at extra cost.
Is Shipping Docker free?
No, Shipping Docker is not free. However, I do have a ton of free Docker videos! You can find some premium ones by signing up above and by visiting the Container section of the site.
I signed up and got some free courses - Are these a large portion of the actual course?
Only the Dockerizing Your Application course is an actual module with Shipping Docker. All other courses and videos are free, extra lessons that expand on some specific aspects of Docker.
The full Shipping Docker course goes into more detail, including covering many "gotchas" / trouble areas that you are likely to hit.
What shell theme am I using in the videos?
I'm using the zsh shell, via oh-my-zsh. The theme is "agnoster". You'll need the Powerline font - details here.
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