From the course: DevOps Foundations: Infrastructure as Code

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Docker

Docker

- [Narrator] Now it's time to look at Docker. As we've talked about, Docker containers can be thought of as Micro VMs and they package all the software and application needs to run and nothing else, or at least that's the promise of it. Well, let's start with a look at Docker Desktop. Notice on the left hand side, we have containers, images, and volumes. I'm clicking into images first and we don't have any images available at the moment. We need an image to be able to run a container from that image. So let's leave the desktop view and head on over to the command line and make our image. Now I'm in the Word-cloud generator GitHub repository which is a GitHub repo and features a Go Lang web application I wrote for the LinkedIn Learning classes. It takes text and turns it into, you guessed it, a word-cloud. In a few minutes, we'll take a look at that, but for this video, we're putting word-cloud generator into a docker…

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