Basic Docker Tutorial for Beginners

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Basic Docker Tutorial for Beginners

LENGTH WARNING: This is going to be a fairly long article. Apologies, there’s simply a lot of content to get through.

If you want to avoid my nostalgic ramblings, just skip to the actual tutorial below the page breaks.

Oh wow, I’ve been avoiding this one for a while. Like 7 freaking YEARS… Yes, that’s right. In 2013, I was working for a guy called Gabe Monroy who now is a big wig at Microsoft Azure. His startup had this CLI tool called Deis that in one command allowed you to push your app to any of a number of different cloud providers and customize your deployment.

Enter Docker to the stage, and everyone lost their absolute minds. The industry was “disrupted” (damn, I hate that word…), meetups were held, some jobs were created, others were lost, furious debates took place concerning Linux containerization, documentation was written… and I, as a Junior Front End Developer threw up my hands in the air and said — “No thank you!! I’ve got enough on my plate.” and thoroughly refused to learn about Docker.

Now, in my defense, Docker looked large and scary, and I was struggling to learn Javascript and keep up with its churn, as well as core software engineering theory.