Nor(DEV): Docker Beginners Hands on Full Day Workshop

What: Nor(DEV): Docker Beginners Hands on Full Day Workshop

Where: The King's Centre, King Street, Norwich NR1 1PH

When: Wednesday 27th May @ 9.45am - 4.30pm

RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/221748446/

Price: £30 per person
Level: Beginners
Prerequisites: Laptop with SSH client
Location: Conference Room 1 (1st floor)

In this hands on workshop we’ll be looking at the basics of using Docker to deploy services in immutable servers.

Starting from the absolute basics of installing and running docker we’ll then look at running pre-packaged images before moving onto creating our own. We’ll then use these images to see how Docker can be used to simplify testing and deployment of code.

During the session we’ll be working with the linux command line, so a familiarity with that will be beneficial. The practical sessions will be run from the cloud, so a laptop with an SSH client will be needed.

Dom Davis
(@idomdavis)

Dom Davis is a veteran of The City and a casualty of The Financial Crisis. Not content with bringing the world to its knees he then went off to help break the internet before winding up in Norfolk where he is now a technology evangelist for a small startup.
Dom is an enthusiastic and impassioned speaker [read: he gabbles] who uses a blend of irreverent sarcasm and flippant humour to bring complex technical subjects to a broad audience. Whether or not they understand him is up for debate, but he likes to believe they do.

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