Deploying Web Applications with Docker and Kubernetes

In modern software development, ensuring your web application runs consistently across different environments is a major challenge. Containerization solves this by packaging your application and its dependencies together, making deployment seamless and predictable. This text-only course guides you from the absolute basics of containerization to deploying and managing multi-container web applications. You will gain the practical knowledge needed to package applications with Docker and orchestrate them efficiently with Kubernetes. What you'll learn: - Understand the core concepts of virtualization, containers, and orchestration. - Build custom Docker images to package web applications and their dependencies. - Manage multi-container setups using Docker Compose for local development. - Configure Kubernetes pods, services, and deployments for automated scaling. - Apply modern container security best practices and basic application health checks. - Deploy a web application to a production-ready environment with confidence. You will start with key terminology and foundational definitions of container technology, establishing a solid conceptual base before moving forward. From there, the written guides lead you step-by-step through writing configuration files, managing persistent storage, and using orchestration manifests to manage your services. This course is designed for beginning developers, system administrators, and aspiring DevOps engineers with no prior container experience. Start reading today to simplify your deployment workflow and build scalable web infrastructure.