[ale] Does anyone have any experience actually running Docker?

[Scott Plante]

Did you go through the Getting Started tutorial on docker.com yet? When I went through it, it seemed pretty good. It looks like they have updated it as Docker has been changing (maturing?). I remember at first there was some confusion for me about the difference between creating an image and a container, and what is done in each of those phases. It all made more sense once I really understood the difference. 


After the tutorial, I found it useful to go on hub.docker.com and search for applications I was interested in, and then look at how they did their Dockerfile configs. There are tons of examples--of course some are better than others and some contain worst practices, but there are a lot of ideas and the higher rated ones seem mostly pretty good. 


I had the advantage of already seeing an hour presentation at the Devnexus conference. There are a bunch of similar ones out there on youtube, but as you noted some material is out of date. 


Scott 




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----- Original Message -----

From: "Kyle Brieden" <kyle at txmoose.com> 
To: ale at ale.org 
Sent: Thursday, April 6, 2017 9:52:44 AM 
Subject: [ale] Does anyone have any experience actually running Docker? 

So I keep hearing just how awesome and wonderful and life-changing 
Docker is, but no one online seems to want to actually tell me how to 
USE it. All the documentation I've found thus far either: 

A) Makes assumptions about your environment, then fails to describe how 
to translate concepts to other environments 
B) Assumes you're already well versed in the basics, so starts at 80MPH 
C) Was written in 2014 or earlier 

I understand the concept, and I appreciate *why* containers are 
fundamentally different than VMs, I just want to be able to actually 
"Dockerize" an application. 

I just want a MySQL container, a uWSGI/Django container, and an Nginx 
container, but how do I go about getting those? How do I get my code 
into that container? Is anyone a docker expert or does anyone have a "0 
to 45MPH docker crash course?" I'm not looking for full out 
enterprise-ready production, here. Just want to learn enough to get my 
app off the ground on my own docker host, then understand enough to push 
it up into something like AWS ECS or something. 

Thanks! 

--- 
Very respectfully, 
Kyle Brieden 
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