Learn how to use docker.io containers to consistently deploy your apps on any infrastructure.

• Read the official "What is Docker?" post: https://www.docker.com/whatisdocker
• Watch the intro vide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzQfxoMFH0U

• Try the online demo: https://www.docker.com/tryit/

If your laptop/pc is not running Linux you will need to Download the Docker Toolkit**.pkg** (Mac) or docker-toolkit.exe (Windows) and install it on your Mac/PC.

• Mac: http://docs.docker.com/installation/mac/
• Windows: http://docs.docker.com/installation/windows/
• Linux: you already have LXC but can install a native docker package by clicking "Linux" and selecting your distro from the list or installing a binary: http://docs.docker.com/installation/binaries/

Sadly, Docker Toolkit is the "official" way of running docker on Mac so we have to swallow the 453Mb pill
and get on with it! (click install!)

### Next Steps

You might as well get a Docker Hub account now (reserve your username on dockerhub): https://hub.docker.com/ Docker Hub lets you store your docker files (public & private) so you can share these with people and deploy them anywhere.

Open the Docker Quickstart Terminal App

This will open your terminal and run the boot script (wait a couple of minutes for it to finish...)

Run the suggested command:

$ docker run hello-world

Next try to run an ubuntu container (only do this on a fast internet connection as its going to download 65mb ubuntu image)

docker run -it ubuntu bash

This will boot the Ubuntu image and log you into the container's bash. You can confirm that you are in a Linux bash by running the following command: cat /etc/os-release

List the containers currently running:

docker-machine ls

Which shows:

NAME      ACTIVE   DRIVER       STATE     URL                         SWARM
default            virtualbox   Running   tcp://192.168.99.100:2376

And for even more detail, run docker info

Containers: 2
Images: 6
Storage Driver: aufs
 Root Dir: /mnt/sda1/var/lib/docker/aufs
 Backing Filesystem: extfs
 Dirs: 10
 Dirperm1 Supported: true
Execution Driver: native-0.2
Logging Driver: json-file
Kernel Version: 4.0.9-boot2docker
Operating System: Boot2Docker 1.8.1 (TCL 6.3); master : 7f12e95 - Thu Aug 13 03:24:56 UTC 2015
CPUs: 1
Total Memory: 1.956 GiB
Name: default
ID: VIPW:LYBS:LT7I:KWTS:DU5U:W2NG:MWMH:EQNS:PFTF:4ZLN:STYL:4HG2
Debug mode (server): true
File Descriptors: 9
Goroutines: 20
System Time: 2015-08-16T22:27:21.593654583Z
EventsListeners: 0
Init SHA1:
Init Path: /usr/local/bin/docker
Docker Root Dir: /mnt/sda1/var/lib/docker
Labels:
 provider=virtualbox

First build the image:

docker build -t learn-docker .

Then run the image as a container:

docker run -it -p 8888:8888 learn-docker bash

https://docs.docker.com/reference/run/

Exec

docker exec -it learn-docker bash

View the current (locally) available docker images:

$ docker images

You should see:

REPOSITORY          TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED                  VIRTUAL SIZE
learn-docker        latest              0c495aa0e6dc        Less than a second ago   261.6 MB
ubuntu              14.04               8251da35e7a7        8 days ago               188.4 MB
ubuntu              latest              8251da35e7a7        8 days ago               188.4 MB
hello-world         latest              af340544ed62        9 days ago               960 B

To list all the running docker containers, use:

docker ps -a

https://docs.docker.com/reference/commandline/ps/

To get more detail on a container type: docker inspect {imageid}

e.g: in our case the container we are interested in has the id: a205fc3a096f so we run:

docker inspect a205fc3a096f

The complete output of this command is in: /sample-docker-inspect.txt

If all we want is the container's IP address we run:
docker inspect --format '{{ .NetworkSettings.IPAddress }}' a205fc3a096f
where the last argument is the container (image) id.
Courtesy of: http://stackoverflow.com/a/20686101/1148249

docker stop a205fc3a096f

https://docs.docker.com/reference/commandline/stop/

For some reason I'm unable to access the nginx server running inside the docker container ... looked at:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31324981/how-to-access-host-port-from-docker-container
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31448249/how-to-deploy-web-service-on-docker-container
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27714900/nginx-on-docker-daemonize-and-attach-to-bash

• http://askubuntu.com/questions/443775/nginx-failing-to-reload-how-to-track-down-why

Test that your nginx configuration is valid (doen't have errors)

sudo nginx -t

expect the following output:

nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful

• Command Line Reference: http://docs.docker.com/reference/commandline/cli
• Cheat Sheet: https://github.com/wsargent/docker-cheat-sheet

• Build Podcast Docker: http://build-podcast.com/docker/
• Introduction to Docker - (Twitter University): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5POuMHxW-0 47mins - 2mins of content!
• Be a happier developer with Docker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCVOxht34Hs 25mins - relevant to developers

• http://blog.xebia.com/2014/06/18/deploying-a-node-js-app-to-docker-on-coreos-using-deis/
• https://medium.com/@dscape/getting-started-with-docker-for-the-node-js-couchdb-programmer-35c45ce2a814