Learn Docker - DevOps with Node.js & Express
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Learn the core fundamentals of Docker by building a Node/Express app with a Mongo & Redis database. We'll start off by keeping things simple with a single container, and gradually add more complexity to our app by integrating a Mongo container, and then finally adding in a redis database for authen...
Learn the core fundamentals of Docker by building a Node/Express app with a Mongo & Redis database. We'll start off by keeping things simple with a single container, and gradually add more complexity to our app by integrating a Mongo container, and then finally adding in a redis database for authentication. We'll learn how to do things manually with the cli, then move on to docker compose. We'll focus on the challenges of moving from a development environment to a production environment. We'll deploy and Ubuntu VM as our production server, and utilize a container orchestrator like docker swarm to handle rolling updates. ✏️ Course developed by Sanjeev Thiyagarajan. Check out his channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2sYgV-NV6S5_-pqLGChoNQ ⭐️ Course Contents ⭐️ 0:00:14 Intro & demo express app 0:04:18 Custom Images with Dockerfile 0:10:34 Docker image layers & caching 0:20:26 Docker networking opening ports 0:26:36 Dockerignore file 0:31:46 Syncing source code with bind mounts 0:45:30 Anonymous Volumes hack 0:51:58 Read-Only Bind Mounts 0:54:58 Environment variables 0:59:16 loading environment variables from file 1:01:31 Deleting stale volumes 1:04:01 Docker Compose 1:21:36 Development vs Production configs Part 02: Working with multiple containers 1:44:47 Adding a Mongo Container 2:01:48 Communicating between containers 2:12:00 Express Config file 2:21:45 Container bootup order 2:32:26 Building a CRUD application 2:51:27 Sign up and Login 3:06:57 Authentication with sessions & Redis 3:34:36 Architecture Review 3:40:48 Nginx for Load balancing to multiple node containers 3:54:33 Express CORS Part 03: Moving to Prod 3:57:44 Installing docker on Ubuntu(Digital Ocean) 4:03:21 Setup Git 4:05:37 Environment Variables on Ubuntu 4:14:12 Deploying app to production server 4:18:57 Pushing changes the hard way 4:25:58 Rebuilding Containers 4:27:32 Dev to Prod workflow review 4:30:50 Improved Dockerhub workflow 4:46:10 Automating with watchtower 4:56:06 Why we need an orchestrator 5:03:32 Docker Swarm 5:16:13 Pushing changes to Swarm stack -- Learn to code for free and get a developer job: https://www.freecodecamp.org Read hundreds of articles on programming: https://freecodecamp.org/news ❤️ Support for this channel comes from our friends at Scrimba – the coding platform that's reinvented interactive learning: https://scrimba.com/freecodecamp
What learners say
AI summaryLearners overwhelmingly praise the course as one of the most comprehensive, clear, and practical Docker tutorials available for free, especially for integrating Docker with Node.js and Express in real-world workflows.
What learners praise
- exceptionally clear and thorough explanations
- covers real-world project workflow from basics to deployment
- perfect pacing and logical progression
- addresses common questions and struggles
Common caveats
- minor issues: deprecated mongo shell commands (use mongosh)
- some Windows-specific setup quirks mentioned
- one viewer wanted more on Swarm/Kubernetes and Redis use cases
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