By Nigel Poulton

He also has more courses on:

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes

My thoughts

I liked his teaching style, and the examples he went through. Covered the broad strokes really well, then dived into more detail. Definitely worth looking at his other courses. Good intro or refresher on Docker basics.

Deploying a Containerised App

Push the image

docker image push aflynn/gsd:first-ctr

Pull and run the image (in detached mode)

docker container run -d --name web -p 8080:8080 aflynn gsd:first-ctr

Pull and run an image (in interactive mode)

docker container run -it --name test alpine sh

Drop out of container, but leave it running

CTRL +P + Q

Microservices and the real world

docker-compose for multi container apps. Or just to avoid needing manual commands.

Docker swarm as an alternative to Kubernetes (k8s)

Docker services

A docker service maps to a single “microservice service”. e.g. UI service, DB, service, and an API service in a simple app.

Create a service with 3 replicas of my GSD image, load balanced across the 3 manager nodes I already created.

docker service create --name web -p 8080:8080 --replicas 3 aflynn/gsd:first-ctr

Use docker service to manage the service.

Use docker stacks, to include deployment info in your docker-compose.yml.

Docker stacks can’t build images on the fly. Need complete images, to pull.

Deploy the stack

Have already pushed my docker-swarm image, so can pull it down easily docker stack deploy -c docker-compose.yml counter

Check its up

docker stack ps counter

Make changes to stack by editing the docker-compose.yml and deploy it again. Docker will observe the change, and update existing stack.