Docker & Containers Bootcamp
A complete, hands-on workshop featuring 14 guided labs, 2 real-world challenges, and quizzes.
This course takes you from complete beginner to a deep understanding of container technology.
By the end of this course, you will be able to deploy simple or complex containers, either at home or in the office.
- ✓ 14 guided, hands-on labs
- ✓ 2 real-world challenge labs
- ✓ Section quizzes
- ✓ Docker Compose templates
- ✓ Lifetime access
- ✓ 30-day money-back guarantee
Maybe you've only just heard of containers. Maybe you've run a few container commands without really understanding what's happening. Or maybe you've been hearing about containers all over the place, and just don't want to get left behind.
This course takes you from knowing nothing about containers to deploying your own services, scripts, test deployments, and production-grade infrastructure.
By the end of this course, you will understand Docker networking, container storage, and infrastructure security. You will build and deploy a working stack of real-world services including a custom DNS server, full monitoring/observability, cloud storage, a secure reverse proxy, and a VPN.
You will develop your skills by working through 14 hands-on guided labs, 2 real-world challenge labs, and completing comprehensive topic quizzes.
Have your first container up and running by the end of the day!Watch the course preview above
What's Included
- ✓ Comprehensive Video Instruction: Lifetime access to the complete, step-by-step video lesson library covering container architecture, Docker internals, container networking, persistent volumes, and infrastructure hardening.
- ✓ 14 Guided Hands-On Labs: Step-by-step video guides where you will build, break, and troubleshoot your own self-hosted container infrastructure from scratch.
- ✓ 2 Real-World Challenge Labs: Unguided, production-style scenarios designed to thoroughly test your skills.
- ✓ End-of-Topic Knowledge Checks: Quizzes at the end of every single module to validate your conceptual understanding before you move forward.
- ✓ Cheat Sheets and Reference Guide: Downloadable reference architecture diagrams, optimized docker-compose.yml files, and command cheat sheets you can immediately deploy on the job.
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A Fully Deployed Production Stack:
You're not just deploying lab containers. In this course, you'll build and deploy a real working environment, including:
- Secure Reverse Proxy: Traefik Reverse Proxy with SSL/TLS, encryption, and load balancing.
- Core Infrastructure: Central DNS and DHCP Management (Pi-hole) and WireGuard VPN for secure remote access
- Enterprise Security: Vaultwarden (Bitwarden) password management server
- Network Services: Device discovery with NetAlertX, as well as IPAM and live documentation with NetBox.
- Observability & Telemetry: Full monitoring stack using Prometheus and Grafana dashboards, as well as uptime monitoring with Uptime Kuma.
- Certificate Services: A local certificate authority (CA) for deploying your own certificates.
Featured Hands-On Training Labs
Theory is fine, but you don't truly understand container architecture until you've built, configured, and secured the services yourself.
Network Monitoring with Uptime Kuma
The Mission: Deploy Uptime Kuma to continuously monitor the health of your container stacks and self-hosted applications, with instant multi-channel alerts the moment a service goes down.
Key Skills Learned Uptime & health check monitoring Status page configuration Alert & notification integrations Application health trackingCentralized Environment Documentation with NetBox
The Mission: Stand up NetBox as your central source-of-truth inventory platform, organizing your containerized environments, host details, and system documentation in one clean place.
Key Skills Learned Infrastructure inventory management NetBox data modeling Environment mapping & tracking Single source-of-truth architectureCertificate Authority Server
The Mission: An unguided challenge lab. Build and deploy your own internal Certificate Authority (CA) to issue and manage secure, trusted SSL/TLS certificates for your local environment.
You no longer need self-signed certificates, and you won't get those annoying browser security warnings. All without relying on paid services from third-parties.
Full lab resources are there if you get stuck, but the goal is to work through it on your own.
Key Skills Learned SSL/TLS certificate management Certificate issuance & trust chains TLS hardening Independent troubleshooting under real constraints
