0. Resources

Docker resources

• What is Docker and When to Use It clearly delineates what Docker is and what it isn't. This is a good article for when you're first wrapping your head around Docker conceptually.

• rubber-docker is an open source repository and tutorial that shows you how to recreate a simplified version of Docker to better understand what it's doing under the hood.

• Andrew Baker presented a fantastic tutorial at PyOhio on beginner and advanced Docker usage. Andrew also wrote the article what containers can do for you.

• Docker curriculum is a detailed tutorial created by a developer to show the exact steps for deploying an application that relies on Elasticsearch.

• How To Install and Use Docker on Ubuntu 16.04 provides a walkthrough for Ubuntu 16.04 for installing and beginning to use Docker for development.

• It Really is the Future discusses Docker and containers in the context of whether it's all just a bunch of hype or if this is a real trend for infrastructure automation. This is a great read to set the context for why these tools are important.

• Docker Jumpstart is a comprehensive introduction to what Docker is and how to get started with using the tool.

• If you want to quickly use Docker on Mac OS X, check out these concise instructionsfor setting up your Docker workflow on OS X in 60 seconds.

• What the Bleep is Docker? is a plain English explanation with examples of what Docker provides and what it can be used for in your environment.

• Docker in Practice - A Guide for Engineers is an explanation of the concepts and philosophy by the authors of the new Manning Docker book in early access format.

• Eight Docker Development Patterns shares lessons learned and explains how to work with the containers so you get more use out of them during development.

• Building Docker containers from scratch is a short tutorial for creating a Docker container with a specific configuration.

• 10 things to avoid in Docker containers provides a lot of "don'ts" that you'll want to consider before bumping up against the limitations of how containers should be used.

• Docker Internals presents Linux containers and how Docker uses them as its base for how the project works. This article is a great way to bridge what you know about Docker with a more traditional Linux operating system architecture understanding.

• This post gives an overview and comparison of Docker GUIs which can be handy for monitoring your Docker containers.

Python-specific Docker resources

• Dockering Django, uWSGI and PostgreSQL the serious way walks through both the code and the error messages that will likely crop up as you attempt to container-ize a Django project that uses a PostgreSQL database on the backend.
• How to deploy Django using Docker assumes you already have the basic grasp of working with Docker and jumps right into a Django deployment. The post shows you how to set up your Dockerfile and explains that GitLab CI can be used to to build this Docker image.
• Hosting Python WSGI applications using Docker shows how to use Docker in WSGI application deployments specifically using mod_wsgi.
• How to Containerize Python Web Applications is an extensive tutorial that uses a Flask application and deploys it using a Docker container.
• How to use Django, PostgreSQL, and Docker shows how to get a Django project that uses PostgreSQL as its back end running in Docker.
• Docker in Action - Fitter, Happier, More Productive is a killer tutorial that shows how to combine Docker with CircleCI to continuously deploy a Flask application.
• Building smaller Python Docker images examines how to inspect layers in Dockerfiles and minimize the overhead of what images contain for better performance.
• The Flask Mega-Tutorial Part XIX: Deployment on Docker Containers is one post in Miguel Grinberg's absolutely spectacular Flask application series.
• Deploying Django Applications in Docker explains some of the concepts behind using Docker for Python deployments and shows how to specifically use it for deploying Django.
• A Docker primer – from zero to a running Django app provides specific commands and expected output for running Django apps with Docker and Vagrant.
• Using Docker and Docker Compose to replace virtualenv is a tutorial for using Docker instead of virtualenv for dependency isolation.
• Lincoln Loop wrote up a closer look at Docker from the perspective of Python developers handling deployments.
• Curious how pip and Docker can be used together? Read this article on Efficient management Python projects dependencies with Docker.
• Python virtual environments and Docker goes into detail on whether virtual environments should be used with Docker and how system packages can generally be a safer route to go.
• Dockerizing Django with Postgres, Gunicorn, and Nginx details how to configure Django to run on Docker along with Postgres, Nginx and Gunicorn.
• Dockerizing a Python Django Web Application is another in-depth tutorial on combining Docker with Django.