hands-on lab

Docker: Building Services

Intermediate
Up to 2h
75
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Lab description

Gain further insights into Docker Engine by creating a multi-container service without Compose.

This hands-on lab steps through the creation of a three container web application.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this lab you'll be able to:

  • Build multi-image services
  • Build multi-network services
  • Configure images using environment variables
  • Configure persistent volumes

Prerequisites:

Target Audience

  • Software engineers
  • Data engineers
  • DevOps engineers
  • Site reliability engineers
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Ben Lambert is a software engineer and was previously the lead author for DevOps and Microsoft Azure training content at Cloud Academy. His courses and learning paths covered Cloud Ecosystem technologies such as DC/OS, configuration management tools, and containers. As a software engineer, Ben’s experience includes building highly available web and mobile apps. When he’s not building software, he’s hiking, camping, or creating video games.

Covered topics
Lab steps
Service Overview
Building the web application
Building the database
Building the proxy
Summary