Docker Birthday #3

Training materials:

This year, to celebrate the Docker Project’s 3rd birthday, the Docker community is joining forces with a number of partners in the broader tech and open-source community to host a series of events focused on providing Docker training to beginners during the week of March 21-26.

Based on the feedback we’ve received from Docker meetup organizers, we learned that many meetup attendees are new to Docker and we want to make sure that we welcome them warmly into the Docker community. To ensure that these events are inclusive for everyone attending including underrepresented minorities, we’re happy to announce that we have teamed up with the following partners who’re actively contributing to organizing many Docker Birthday celebrations around the world:

• General Assembly
• Microsoft
• Joyent & the NodeJS community
• [GoBridge] (http://golangbridge.org/)
• [Women Who Go] (http://www.womenwhogo.org/)
• [Ruby Central] (http://rubycentral.org/)

Without revealing too many details at this point, participants in the training will go through the steps involved in running and developing a simple voting app from a fresh computer using Docker Toolbox and Compose. This simple app will include:

• A Python webapp: which lets you vote between several options
• A Redis queue: which collects new votes
• A Java worker: which consumes votes and stores them in…
• …A Postgres database: backed by a Docker volume
• A Node.js webapp: which shows the results of the voting in real time

There will be a self-paced beginners’ tutorial for attendees to learn Docker basics as they build and deploy this app locally. Experienced Docker users will serve as mentors to help beginners successfully complete the training.

Pre-tutorial preparation

At the training, you will need to bring your own computer. Before you go to a birthday party training, there are some steps you should do some preparation to get your work environment ready. Here are the steps:

1. For Linux users, we need you to install [Docker engine] (https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/)

2. For PC and Mac users we need you to install Docker toolbox for Mac and Windows and use [Docker Machine] (https://docs.docker.com/machine/get-started/) to create a virtual machine to run your Docker containers. Once your machine is created and you have connected your shell to this new machine, you're ready to run Docker commands on this host. If you're using Linux you can skip to the next step.

3. If you're new to Docker, pre-pull the docker images for the very basic tutorial

   docker pull hello-world
   docker pull busybox
   docker pull seqvence/static-site

1. To run the application and participate in the rest of the training, pre-pull these images

   ```bash
   docker pull node:0.10
   docker pull python:2.7-alpine
   docker pull java:7
   docker pull redis:alpine
   docker pull postgres:9.4

And now you're ready. See you at the birthday party!