Bret Fisher

The course overall is a mixed bag for me. The course is very tedious to go through and is not very beginner friendly. My main gripes with it are how overwhelming it is and how outdated it is. While the concepts do make sense, there is a lot of information and technical minutia that causes information overload and has caused me to lose interest in the course several times. It's not helped by the fact that the course's presentation isn't very great either with mostly just PowerPoint slides and typed out commands without much hands on learning, with so many technical concepts that, while do deepen the understanding of what's going on in the backend, ultimately make the whole thing so much more confusing, bloated, and intimidating to understand. It also isn't useful how the course appears to be quite outdated. Several times throughout it there are short 1 minute prerequisite readings that state that something used in the lecture is outdated, such as what version of an image to use or the lecture outright uses some software that is outdated and just gives you an alternative without any real meaningful guidance on how to use that alternative. The breaking point for me was with trying to set up a Swarm using Multipass, which was such a headache to get to work since all the course says is "just use Multipass" without any sort of guide on how to get it set up. That is really not good for a beginner; I ended up having so many technical difficulties trying to get it to set up that I ended up just mindlessly watching the entire lecture section without any hands on coding whatsoever. It just feels like the bare minimum was done to try to make it appear that the course was up to date. This was around the halfway point of the course, and now I just fear that I may experience the same thing for the rest of it. Although I have to give credit in that clearly the instructor is very much an expert in the matter. I have no doubt about that in my mind; I just wished he kept the course a bit more friendly to complete beginners. At the beginning of the course, he did do a very good job with introducing the fundamental concepts, but I did begin to lose track of it as I kept going.
- Review by Ramon Angelo Enriquez on Docker Mastery: with Kubernetes +Swarm from a Docker Captain