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Docker for Dummies

StevenMcGown on July 09, 2021

Docker is one of those services that you always hear about but may have never used. I never used Docker in college, and I actually never heard of ...
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Trisha Pan • Edited

Thanks for the awesome article! Very informative and loved the recipe / cake analogy for images / containers. I found it through your Kubernetes for dummies article, which I what I originally searched.

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StevenMcGown

Glad you liked it! Thinking of it this way was a big breakthrough when I first started learning it.

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StevenMcGown

I hope you all learned something while reading this.

I am currently looking for a job in DevOps! If you know someone who is hiring entry-level DevOps engineers please send them my resume which can be found at smcgown.com

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Yegna Sivasai

R u going to write new articles on docker

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StevenMcGown

In the future I suppose I could. What would you like to see specifically?

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Yegna Sivasai

Docker networking and volumes.Real world simple project implementation

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StevenMcGown

I'll do it. Stay tuned

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Good post to kick off with the path of Docker. I'm getting the ball rolling with the DevOps role tasks and love to read different point of views of this branch of developing. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and exp.

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StevenMcGown

So glad you enjoyed!

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BlueNote Cyberstar

Trying to learn a bit here. All is well, except I'm running Docker Desktop under WSL2 on Windows 11. If I open Powershell, I have no idea where to type docker commands. If I start Linux, I am not in /docker-desktop. No idea how to navigate to the appropriate place & I just get "not valid command" messages. Hence, this -- as well as the official tutorial -- ended for me pretty quickly.

"For dummies" maybe should include information about how to open the terminal window in an OS other than Linux. Otherwise, this is nicely written. It explains Docker well. It just ends pretty quickly for me since I can't follow it.

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Mary Christensen (she / they)

Thank you Steven, this a direct and great article to understand Docker basics! I'll make sure to share with my team since it helped me so much. 😊