Docker: A Beginner's Guide From Container To Swarm (Udemy.com)
Learn how images and containers can save time, resources and effort in migrating applications to different platforms
Created by: Raphael Asghar
Last updated September 2019
What you will learn
- This course is designed with the understanding that the student is an absolute beginner in docker. After taking this course, the student will have a solid understanding and foundation of how to create containers and images – the cornerstone of docker technology. The student will learn concepts of creating images from scratch, building and deploying containers, deploying application to cross platforms such as Windows, Linux and Mac OS and appreciate the speed and simplicity of docker in creating, testing, migrating application such as Nginx, MySQL, Oracle, Redis, Jenkins and much more. At the end of this course, the student will marvel at how docker technology is able to save time, resources, and effort in sharing applications and code with other IT professionals in any platform.
How it compares
Against the other 219 rated Udemy courses in DevOps on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.3 out of 5higher than 32% of them
- Reviews402#144 of 220 by number of reviews
- Length8.9 hourslonger than 70% of them
- Last updatedSeptember 2019earlier than 80% of them
Course Description
The course is designed with the absolute beginner in mind.
At the end of this course, the student will have the following skills and knowledge in:
Why docker is revolutionizing the IT industry
Building containers from images
Creating, pulling and pushing images to docker hub repository
Understand how containers provide the developer with saving time and resources
Write Docker file from scratch and create custom images
Get an introduction on how to save data to volumes
Build a simple network
Create multiple nodes for swarm for high availability solutions
Instructor Details
- 4.3 Rating
402 Reviews
Raphael Asghar
Worked as a Production SQL Database Administrator and developer for over 15 years for various companies such as Neutrogena, BakeMark, Solutions2Go and NextGen. Want to help those students that want more that the basic SQL Language. Creating real life courses for those students who want a simple path to becoming a SQL DBA. I love SQL Administration and all that is involved in managing and creating a stable SQL architecture environment. I want to pass that experience and information to my students.
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Reviews
By Louis Corigliano on 2/7/2023
The course was very good as a beginner Docker user. What I liked is that there were errors and issues as we moved along. As I was following the course on my vm, I also ran into some issues. This is the real world where troubleshooting is always needed. Raphael did a great job by explaining everything, moving slowly, and being repetitive.
By Itzik Tamar on 1/3/2023
This course does cover all the basics for someone like me who never touched Docker before, but as someone who works in HiTec for many years it was a bit too basic and wastes a lot of time on very basic unrelated stuff, this felt like a waste of time for me.
By Anonymized User on 12/17/2021
I like the analogy of the car. I love it when teachers use analogies to break something complex down into something that is more easily understood.
By Juan Luna on 4/6/2021
I just wish you would stick with one method or another. DO or OracleVM it is hard to follow when you are jumping around. Other wise this is a great class with excellent information. I cannot believe how good it is. I am not on the dev team but an SA who is wanting to learn more about docker.
By Ian Sherwin on 10/13/2020
As a visual learner the slides aren't particularly meaningful or engaging. The course is proving to be hard-work to listen and learn. I think the course would be easier for somebody who learns be listening - auditory.
By Tamás Ruszka on 10/11/2020
The course was informative and it gave me the exact knowledge what I was looking for. The pace was good and it covered the basics in this topic. I have one small note, though: Please, try to fix or at least minimize all those typos! :) I have a minor OCD and it made me nervous every time when you typed something.
By Daniel Tekie on 11/17/2019
I am very excited by this introductory course to Docker Technology. I have now laid the background to continue learning this technology and get the most out of it.
By Ganesh S on 10/19/2019
This is amazing course and i learned a lot and it's flawless explanation from Mr.Raphael..Thanks..i started second part to learn...Thanks techie Mr.Raphael...
By Taras Soroka on 10/19/2019
Really comprehensive and smart course. I was an absolute beginner about Docker before trying this course but needed to learn Docker for a short time. I have not finished the course yet but should already say that the course has been really helpful and now I can easily perform a lot of operations with containers and images.
By Johannes on 10/15/2019
The instructor knowledge of the subject is sufficient. The way he teaches the course is very engaging. The concepts are explained intelligently and free of jargon's. The audio and video quality meets the expectation.
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Overall Score : 86 / 100












