Skip to content
Write a review
UdemyDevOpsPaid courseBeginner levelCertificate

Introduction to Docker and the DCA Certification (Udemy.com)

A comprehensive introduction to Docker with a heavy focus on labs

4.4
219 reviews

Created by: Loony Corn

Last updated May 2018

icon
What you will learn

  • Improve their odds of passing the Docker Certified Associate exam
  • Understand how to package applications into portable and scalable containers
  • Deploy and scale applications in a cluster using Docker Swarm
  • Master the important aspects of Docker - Images, Volumes, Repos and Networks

How it compares

Against the other 219 rated Udemy courses in DevOps on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 42% of them
  • Reviews219#172 of 220 by number of reviews
  • Length4.6 hoursshorter than 58% of them
  • Last updatedMay 2018earlier than 96% of them

icon
Course Description

Docker is a tool which has greatly simplified the task of packaging your application, along with all its dependencies into lightweight, portable units called containers. These containers are platform independent and can be executed on any host which runs a Linux kernel. 

Docker is one of the hottest tools in the market right now as a lot of teams have learned how to use it to break up their large, monolithic applications into smaller and more manageable units - often called microservices. This has allowed development teams to work on microservices independently and package it into a container once it is ready. 

Docker has also eased the pain of DevOps teams who often need to manage the deployment processes and environments - since containers can run independently of each other, they can simply focus on deploying containers rather than worrying about dependencies for each application. 

Container orchestration tools such as Docker Swarm and Kubernetes have made it very easy to deploy microservices to a cluster and scale them according to demand. 

For these reasons, Docker is a technology which you need to know if you're an app developer or DevOps engineer.

This course introduces you to all the main concepts of Docker, and focuses on getting you up and running with the tool in all the lab sections. The main topics of this course include:

Images: Templates to define your container

Containers: What they are and how Docker helps you create them

Storage: Volumes, Bind Mounts and tmpfs to manage data in containers

Networks: Regulate connectivity to your containers whether on individual hosts or in a cluster

Docker Swarm: The built-in container orchestration tool

Docker EE, UCP and DTR: The enterprise offerings of Docker

Hope you enjoy the course!
Read More Beginner Beginner Level product length iconTime: 4.6h

icon
Udemy Discount

The discount is applied through our link. Open the course from here and Udemy's current promotional price is applied at checkout on most courses, no code to type.

Get the Udemy discount

Some courses are excluded from Udemy's promotions. If the price does not drop, clear your browser cookies and use the button again.

icon
Instructor Details

Loony Corn

Loonycorn is us, Janani Ravi and Vitthal Srinivasan. Between us, we have studied at Stanford, been admitted to IIM Ahmedabad and have spent years  working in tech, in the Bay Area, New York, Singapore and Bangalore.

Janani: 7 years at Google (New York, Singapore); Studied at Stanford; also worked at Flipkart and Microsoft

Vitthal: Also Google (Singapore) and studied at Stanford; Flipkart, Credit Suisse and INSEAD too

We think we might have hit upon a neat way of teaching complicated tech courses in a funny, practical, engaging way, which is why we are so excited to be here on Udemy!

We hope you will try our offerings, and think you'll like them :-)

Read More

icon
More courses by Loony Corn

$94.99

$59.99

$14.99

$79.99

$54.99

$13.99

All courses by Loony Corn

icon
More DevOps courses

$27.99

$22.99

$27.99

$129.99

$84.99

$24.99

All DevOps courses

icon
Reviews

4.4

219 ratings on Udemy

Select a bar to show only those reviews.Select the bar again to show every rating.

Write a review

By Ty Penn on 5/19/2024

I especially liked the graphical depiction of the concepts along with the simple, inciteful lecture. The introduction music was not that great. :0)

By Franz Diemel on 2/20/2021

Learn more about docker than other courses. I would give it a 4.75 as it has not been updated for recent Docker changes but they did point to Kubernetes over Swarm. Cheers.

By Thameur Saadi on 12/9/2020

some of the lectures were not clear i had lots difficulties with setting up the VB by myself , most of of the docker images that you used are not shared so i couldn't test the way you do exactly . it would be better to give some instructions for windows as well .

By Mark Bykerk Kauffman on 7/29/2020

Yes. Because of the detail of what makes a container. Especially the bit about user-land part of the Linux OS being included in the container. I also appreciated the analogy with the Java .jar files.

By Ayhan Guler on 3/22/2019

Very nice course for beginners until some point. But later on, videos are only based on memorizing stuff without any logical explanation or relation to each other. Especially Docker EE related videos are waste of time.

By David Arnone on 1/31/2019

I don't think course went into UCP and DTR in-depth enough. The questions in the practice tests I am using are asking questions about UCP and DTR high availability, signing images, block storage, routing mesh/load balancer, Kubernetes roles much more. It should be noted that experience with Docker CE is not enough to pass DCA. Those preparing for DCA need to know Docker EE thoroughly which means Docker swarm, UCP, and DTR and the mechanisms underneath them.

By Jesse Myers on 1/18/2019

The overall quality of the course was good, the instructor covers a lot of ground and provides examples of all discussed topics. The DCA Certification is mentioned in the course title, however it's not the priority of the course at least in the way it's presented. Things to improve: 1. Start the discussion with the DCA requirements and curriculum. 2. Follow the DCA curriculum and link all topics to the course content. 3. Add more content on Docker EE since this could be a bottleneck for a lot of people wishing to take the test. Thank you for creating this course!

By Ramji S on 1/4/2019

Really good to understand the basics

By Emilio Zavala-Sosa on 11/1/2018

I like it, covers the main functionalities of docker. I wold like to try more hands on exercises and real life examples.

By Michael Bond on 5/23/2018

Good pace. Clear concepts

Showing all 10 reviews on CourseDuck

Read all 219 reviews on Udemy

icon
Quality Score

No CourseDuck member has rated this course yet. Taken it? Give each part a thumbs up or down.

Content Quality
/
Video Quality
/
Qualified Instructor
/
Course Pace
/
Course Depth & Coverage
/

Overall Score : 88 / 100

Introduction to Docker and the DCA Certification
Visit course on Udemy Write a review
  • Video Duration: icon 4.6h
  • Price: $49.99
  • Provider: icon Udemy
  • Updated: icon May 2018
  • Level: Beginner Beginner
  • Language: icon English
  • Certificate: icon Yes
30-day money-back guarantee on most paid courses

Udemy Coupon Price Tracker

Udemy price history

For any issues or feature requests please email CourseDuck's Co-Founder at mkuhlman12@gmail.com