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DCA - Section 1 Getting Started With Docker

This document outlines a Docker Certified Associate 2020 course from KPLABS that covers installing and using Docker, including topics like Docker images and containers, port binding, attached vs detached modes, removing containers, and restart policies. The course contains 14 modules that provide introductions, explanations, and commands related to key Docker concepts and functionality. Students are also invited to join a Discord community for technical support and connecting with peers taking the course.

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DCA - Section 1 Getting Started With Docker

This document outlines a Docker Certified Associate 2020 course from KPLABS that covers installing and using Docker, including topics like Docker images and containers, port binding, attached vs detached modes, removing containers, and restart policies. The course contains 14 modules that provide introductions, explanations, and commands related to key Docker concepts and functionality. Students are also invited to join a Discord community for technical support and connecting with peers taking the course.

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KPLABS Course

Docker Certified Associate 2020

Getting Started with Dockers

ISSUED BY
Zeal Vora

REPRESENTATIVE
[email protected]
Module 1: Introduction to Docker
1.1 Understanding the Challenge

Every software has its own set of pre-requisite dependencies which much be present before the
installation. This leads to many sets of challenges depending on the operating system used.

Along with the above challenge, the second primary issue is related to OS compatibility. A
software written for Windows might not work for Linux and MAC and so on.

These are some of the primary challenges which Docker is trying to solve.
1.2 Introduction to Docker

Docker is a technology designed to make it easier to create, deploy, and run applications by
using containers.

Docker is an open platform, once we build a docker container, we can run it anywhere, say it
windows, Linux, mac whether on a laptop, data center, or in the cloud.

It follows the build once, run anywhere approach.

1.3 Docker Containers vs Virtual Machines

● Virtual Machine contains the entire Operating System.


● The container uses the resource of the host operating system

Module 2: Installing Docker


Docker works on a wide variety of operating systems, this includes:
● Windows
● Linux
● MAC

The installation of Docker is pretty straight forward in each one of them.

https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/

Module 3: Docker [Image vs Containers]


Docker Image is a file that contains all the necessary dependency and configurations which are
required to run an application.

Docker Containers is basically a running instance of an image.

Module 4: Container Identification


When you create a Docker container, it is assigned a universally unique identifier (UUID).

These can help identify the docker container among others.


To help humans, Docker also allows us to supply container names.

By default, if we do not specify the name, docker supplies a randomly-generated name from two
words, joined by an underscore

By adding --name=meaningful_name argument during the docker run command, we can


specify our own name to the containers.

Module 5: Port Binding

By default Docker containers can make connections to the outside world, but the outside world
cannot connect to containers.

If we want containers to accept incoming connections from the world, you will have to bind it to a
host port.
Module 6: Attached and Detached Mode
When we start a docker container, we need to decide if we want to run in a default foreground
mode or the detached mode.

You may want to use this if you want a container to run but do not want to view and follow all its
output.

Module 7: Removing Docker Containers


Docker containers can be removed with the help of docker container rm command.

Description Command

Remove single container docker container rm CONTAINER

Stop all the containers docker container stop $(docker container ls -aq)

Remove all the containers docker container rm $(docker container ls -aq)


Module 8: New Docker CLI Commands
Prior to docker 1.13, the docker run command was only available.

The cli commands were then refactored to have the form docker COMMAND SUBCOMMAND,
wherein this case the COMMAND is container and the SUBCOMMAND is run

Older Approach: docker run


Newer Approach: docker container run

Both of these approaches will work perfectly.

Module 9: docker container exec


The docker container exec command runs a new command in a running container.

The command started using docker exec only runs while the container’s primary process (PID
1) is running, and it is not restarted if the container is restarted.

Module 10: Importance of IT Flag


Every process that we create in the Linux environment, has three open file descriptors; stdin,
stdout, stderr.
The following diagram shows the difference between STDIN and STDOUT for a specific
process (bash)

Following are the two important flags with respect to containers:

--interactive flag keeps stdin open even if not attached.

--tty flag allocates a pseudo-TTY

Module 11: Default Container Command


Whenever we run a container, a default command executes which typically runs as PID 1.

This command can be defined while we are defining the container image.
We can override the default container command by manually specifying the command.

docker container run -d nginx sleep 500

In the above command, the sleep 500 will run as a PID 1 process overriding any default
command that would be present in the nginx container.

Module 12: Restart Policies


By default, Docker containers will not start when they exit or when docker daemon is restarted.

Docker provides restart policies to control whether your containers start automatically when they
exit, or when Docker restarts.

We can specify the restart policy by using the --restart flag with docker run command.

Module 13: Disk Usage Metrics


The docker system df command displays information regarding the amount of disk space used
by the docker daemon.
Module 14: Automatically Delete Container On Exit
By default, containers that are exited are not removed by Docker.

With the --rm flag, the user can specify that whenever a container exits, it should automatically
be removed.

Join Our Discord Community

We invite you to join our Discord community, where you can interact with our support team for
any course-based technical queries and connect with other students who are doing the same
course.

Joining URL:

http://kplabs.in/chat

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