Introduction to Docker and Podman

An introduction to using Docker and Podman as software development tools.

Originally developed by Matthew Feickert for the 2019 USATLAS Computing Bootcamp at LBNL.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of the Unix Shell, e.g., from the carpentry course

HSF Software Training

This training module is part of the HSF Software Training Center, a series of training modules that serves HEP newcomers the software skills needed as they enter the field, and in parallel, instill best practices for writing software.

Schedule

	Setup	Download files required for the lesson
00:00	1. Introduction	What are containers? What is Docker and Podman? What are the differences?
00:10	2. Pulling Images	How are images downloaded? How are images distinguished?
00:25	3. Running Containers	How are containers run? How do you monitor containers? How are containers exited? How are containers restarted?
00:45	4. File I/O with Containers	How do containers interact with my local file system?
01:05	5. Coffee break	Coffee or tea?
01:20	6. Writing Dockerfiles and Building Images	How are Dockerfiles written? How are images built?
02:00	7. Removal of Containers and Images	How do you cleanup old containers? How do you delete images?
02:10	8. Using CMD and ENTRYPOINT in Dockerfiles	How are default commands set in Dockerfiles?
02:35	9. Bonus Episode: Building and deploying a Docker container to Github Packages	How to build a Docker container for python packages? How to share Docker images?
03:15	Finish

The actual schedule may vary slightly depending on the topics and exercises chosen by the instructor.

_{Matthew Feickert} 🖋	_bregnery 🖋	_{Danika MacDonell} 🖋	_{Samuel Meehan} 🖋	_mhuwiler 🖋	_{Bruno Alves} 🖋	_{Aman Desai} 🖋
_mdonadoni 🚧	_{Marco Mambelli} 🚧	_{Michael K. Wilkinson} 🚧	_{Michel H. Villanueva} 🖋	_{Lera Lukashenko (Valeriia Lukashenko)} 🚧 🖋

Introduction to Docker and Podman

Prerequisites

HSF Software Training

Schedule

Authors