Edocti Training

Practical Docker

Name: Practical Docker
Rating: 4.8 (207 reviews)

Intermediate

21 h

4.8 (207 reviews)

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Docker in practice: Learn to build, ship, and run containers with absolute confidence across any environment.

Gain hands-on experience working with Docker images, registries, persistent volumes, and complex container networking.

Learn how to securely configure, monitor, and orchestrate multi-container applications using Docker Compose and industry best practices.

Learn by doing: Spend ~70% of the training in active labs, implementing real-world Docker workflows and solving deployment challenges.

How this helps: Apply Docker effectively to streamline both local development setups and scalable production deployments.

Who it’s for: Developers and IT professionals with basic Linux skills who want to become proficient in container technologies.

The course concludes with an end-to-end project simulating real-life deployment and orchestration scenarios.

Skills You Will Learn

Docker Images & Registries Persistent Volumes Docker Compose Container Networking Container Security Docker Swarm Kubernetes Basics CI/CD Integration

Curriculum

Initial setup

Understand Docker editions and install Docker on Windows/Linux
Run a few simple containers

Main commands

Essential Docker CLI commands
Various ways to start a container
Commands for dealing with images and containers
Logging with multiple Docker containers

Building a Dockerfile

Create a base image and reuse it for derived images
Images and their layers; working with repositories
Write Dockerfiles
Configure sshd, users, groups, permissions, shared folders

Docker internals

Container vs VM
Kernel namespaces (hands-on)
CLI process monitoring
Container lifecycle and persistent storage: volumes, path expansion, bind mounts

The servers and a sample application

Build a sample multi-service app
DNS server
Two web servers
A load balancer
A DB server (Postgres)
Optional: an email server

Working with swarms

Docker Compose and Swarm basics
Most important compose commands
Built-in orchestration
Scale out with overlay networking or routing mesh
Use secrets in swarm services
Swarm application lifecycle

Kubernetes essentials

Intro and comparison with Swarm; why Kubernetes?
Installing Kubernetes; minikube, microk8s
kubectl run, create, apply
Your first Pod
Create a NodePort and a LoadBalancer
Running, exposing and using Generators

Optional modules

Advanced topics (optional)

Multi-stage builds, BuildKit cache mounts, and multi-arch builds with buildx
Advanced networking: bridge/host/macvlan/ipvlan, overlay internals, routing mesh vs. ingress
Security hardening: rootless Docker, user namespaces, seccomp/AppArmor/SELinux, capabilities
Image governance: SBOMs (Syft), image scanning (Trivy/Grype), signing (cosign/Notary v2)
Storage deep-dive: volumes vs. bind mounts vs. tmpfs, volume drivers, performance on macOS/Windows
Observability: logging drivers (json-file, journald, syslog, fluentd), metrics (cAdvisor), eBPF tools
Registries: private registry, Harbor, access control and retention policies
CI/CD integration: GitHub Actions/GitLab CI caching, ephemeral test environments
Kubernetes add-ons: Deployments/Services/Ingress, Helm basics, RBAC, Secrets/ConfigMaps best practices
Swarm advanced: rolling updates, constraints/placement, node labels, secrets & configs

Course Day Structure

Part 1: 09:00–10:30
Break: 10:30–10:45
Part 2: 10:45–12:15
Lunch break: 12:15–13:15
Part 3: 13:15–15:15
Break: 15:15–15:30
Part 4: 15:30–17:30

Why Edocti?

The trainers: the most obvious reason. We love what we do and share the knowledge we build in day-to-day practice.
Relevant content: customized to the engineering team’s real, day-to-day needs.
Hands-on first: all our courses are practical. We don’t believe in "slide courses". Our programs are roughly 70% hands-on and 30% focused theory. We present concepts while working through real-world examples.
Edocti has been working on Automotive projects since 2016.
Our trainers have 11+ years of Automotive experience across Classic AUTOSAR, Adaptive AUTOSAR, SOME/IP, embedded Linux, QNX, INTEGRITY, ISO 26262, etc., on telematics and AD/ADAS programs.
Autonomous Driving and ADAS projects for Volvo and General Motors (end clients) in collaboration with Tier-1 companies in Romania since 2016.
V2X projects for GM and VW (end clients), in collaboration with Tier-1 companies in Romania.
Strong collaboration with Romanian Tier-1 companies for technical training, consulting, architecture and implementation.

Who Should Attend

Developers, system administrators, and DevOps engineers who want to effectively adopt Docker and containerization in their daily projects.

Required Infrastructure

If delivered in the Edocti lab, no equipment is needed. Otherwise, each participant needs a laptop with Linux or Windows (macOS is also supported) and administrative rights.