Advanced: Production-Ready Docker¶

You can build and connect images by hand. This track makes that professional: run your whole stack from one file, produce much smaller images, and gain the skills to fix things when they break.

You will learn how to:

• Run your whole multi-service app from a single Compose file
• Use multi-stage builds to produce lean images
• Shrink image size and understand what drives it
• Debug containers that misbehave

Prerequisites¶

You should have finished the Intermediate track, or be comfortable with:

• Writing a Dockerfile and building images
• Using volumes and networks
• Configuring containers with environment variables

Tutorials¶

When you finish, you're ready for the End-to-End tutorials, and for the Kubernetes course, where these containers get orchestrated at scale.