As a frontend (mobile or web) developer, you may be wondering “what the heck is the big deal with Docker?” As a modern day developer, I'll show you the value in learning the basics of Docker and how it can improve your life as a developer. From spinning up an isolated dev environment to running integration tests, Docker is another tool that belongs in the modern developer’s toolbox whether you're a full stack dev or a mobile developer who needs services. And you need to know when best to use that tool. We’ll go through the basics of Docker as well as some tips on when/where to integrate the Docker tool into your workflow. You won’t be able to contain yourself!

1. Docker for FrontEnd Devs
Ship Your Apps Faster!

2. About Pinky - @pinkeerach
VOLUNTEER PLAY WORK

4. What is Docker?

5. What is Docker?

6. Virtual Machines vs. Containers

7. Virtual Machines
Containers

8. Other Container Platforms

9. History of Containers
1979
Isolated processes
introduced
Early 2000s
Linux containers (LXC)
developed
2010s
Containers emerge as
Platform as a Service
(PaaS)
2015-Present
Open Container Initiative
& Docker Decoupling

10. Docker as a Monolith

11. Docker:
Modernized
Decomposing the Monolith

12. The Guts of a Container

13. Containers vs. Images
Images == Stopped containers
Containers == Running images

14. Creation of an Image
1. Create Dockerfile
2. Build image (layers!)
3. Run image to create
container!
4. (Optional) Publish
image to registry

15. Docker Registries!

16. Registry Options
Docker Hub
Quay.io
AWS EC2 Container Registry (ECR)
Google Container Registry
Self Hosted

17. Common Commands
ps -a list processes/running containers
run run a new container
pull pull image
images image info
rmi remove images
rm remove stopped containers (destructive)
stop $(docker ps -aq) stops all containers in the output of the ps command

18. Demo Time!

19. What have we Learned?
Docker is a startup & a container
platform!
The container concept isn’t new
Docker used to be a monolith
Containers are lightweight
Containers == more productive!

20. Thank you!
Pinky Parsons
Engineering Manager, Passport
Chapter Director, ChickTech CLT
@pinkeerach
pinky@chicktech.org
linkedin.com/in/pinkeerach
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Nigel Poulton’s PluralSight
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