The Introduction to Docker Learning Spike training course is designed to familiarize students with the benefits of containerization for both systems and application design. This course will provide the fundamental knowledge needed to use Docker to speed up development and application deployment.
Course Summary
Seminars are highly-focused, lecture-heavy, half-day to multi-day learning events. Seminars are a great way to create an awareness level of knowledge for a large number of concepts, in a short period of time. Think wide (breadth) and thin (depth).

- Understand how to build and manage containers
- Design, build and deploy fully functional applications
- Guide the application of these tools in the company
What You'll Learn
In the Introduction to Docker Learning Spike training course you’ll learn:
- Introduction to Containers and Docker
- Background and history – virtualization, docker, coreos, etc
- Levels of virtualization – difference between VMWare style and LXC style
- Value of an LXC wrapper
- Intro to Images and Containers – Format, contents, specs
- Runtime environment / Constraints
- Building and Running Containers
- Daemon hosting model
- Contents of running containers
- Exploring the host
- Managing container execution
- Start, stop, ssh, exit, terminate, lifecycles
- File systems
- Host vs Container & OS Options / Benefits
- Managing images
Meet Your Instructor
- Azat
Azat is a Technology Fellow, Manager at Capital One, and a JavaScript/Node.js expert with several online courses on Udemy and Node University, and 12 books published on the topic, including top-sellers React Quickly (Manning, 2016), Full Stack JavaScript (Apress, 2015), Practical Node.js (Apress, 2014) and Pro Express.js (Apress, 2014).
In his spare time, Azat writes about tech on Webapplog.com, speaks at conferences and contributes to open-source. Before becoming an expert in Node.js, Azat finished his...