From the course: Docker on Azure (2019)
What you should know
- [Instructor] So for this course, there isn't a lot that you really need to know in depth, because we try to cover the key topics and locations in the user interfaces, et cetera, for you automatically. But, having a basic understanding of Docker is very useful. We do actually run some Docker commands, and just understanding the Docker environment is not the goal of this course; this goal is really looking at how Docker is used within the Azure cloud space. In addition, understanding some of the basics of infrastructure, we're going to manipulate storage, we're going to talk about virtual machines, virtual servers. We're going to look at network interactions. And so having some basic understanding of those resources is just going to be more useful. I think you'll get more out of the course that way. Certainly, we're going to be doing some work on a command line, we're actually going to be doing some work via a web UI. But having some basic command lines skills, having used bash before, or vi as an editor, I think we'll just simplify some of the processes, even though again, we try to cover all the different steps and commands that we're typing on a case by case basis. We are going to use SSH for access to some of the virtual machines and even some of the DevOps processes that we're going to do in this course. So, having a basic understanding of how to create your own keys and managing SSH keys will be useful, we'll just accelerate the process quite a bit. Also, Azure cloud basics, we're not going to get in to how we log in to Azure or how we launch the Azure CLI tools. There's an expectation that you would have that to basic knowledge as well. So we do need a computer with command line capabilities. We'll work on a Windows Linux or Mac machines, so long as you can install the Azure client. On a Windows machine you really want the bash systems environment or better yet, the Windows for Linux subsystem installed. That will make it easiest to actually implement these different resources. You'll also want to have a local Docker installation on the computer as well. That works well with Windows, Mac, or Linux machines. Windows does have to be the right version. There is a limit for what versions of Windows actually support the Docker tools from Docker.com. You're also going to need access to an Azure account. This is an Azure-focused class. You should be able to get away with a free account if you can get one or if you haven't already gotten one. I believe there's about a month worth of access free. But even if you don't have that, the overall cost of this course should be fairly low. We're not spending up a lot of very large resources and specifically we don't need to spend them up for very long. As soon as you've finished with the task, you can always delete that resource, clean up all the consumed resources, and get back to effectively a zero state. So you should be able to get away with doing this for very little money if you do actually have to pay for using Azure resources. So that is something that you will need, otherwise this course is not going to be as useful as it would otherwise be.
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