Guides

PC troubleshooting secrets distilled down to an essential oil The original version belongs to Luis Villazon; I’ve been a fan for over 20 years. Troubleshooting is a curious skill. It’s part detective work, methodical experimentation, partly inspired guesswork, and part Zen Buddhism. That’s a lot of parts, but you need them all to be able to sift through a list of symptoms, identify the fault, work out an appropriate remedy and not go barking mad in the process. ...

The development series aims to bring you language-specific getting started guides to walk you through the process of setting up your development environment and start containerising language-specific applications using Docker. The learning modules contain best practices and guidelines that explain how to create a new Dockerfile for your preferred language, what to include in the Docker image, how to develop and run your Docker image, set up a CI/CD pipeline, and finally provides information on how to push the application you’ve developed to the cloud. ...

What will you learn in this module? The Node.js getting started guide teaches you how to create a containerized Node.js application using Docker. In this guide, you’ll learn how to: Create a simple Node.js application Create a new Dockerfile which contains instructions required to build a Node.js image Run the newly built image as a container Set up a local development environment to connect a database to the container Use Docker Compose to run the Node.js application Configure a CI/CD pipeline for your application using GitHub Actions. After completing the Node.js getting started modules, you should be able to containerize your own Node.js application based on the examples and instructions provided in this guide. ...