Prepare Your Laptop

• You will be learning the practical modules on your own laptops.
• Prepare your laptop with the following three tasks well before the workshop.

Task 1: Update System

• Make sure your laptop is up to date and secure. You can do this by updating your system software on Mac, Windows or Linux as follows:
  • Keep your Mac up to date
  • How to Update Windows 10 & 11: A Step-by-Step Guide
  • How to update Linux: Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu, Fedora

Task 2: Install Docker

• Install Docker on your laptop by following these intructions for your laptop:
  • Docker Desktop is available for Mac, Linux and Windows
    • https://docs.docker.com/desktop
    • https://docs.docker.com/get-started/introduction/get-docker-desktop/
  • Alternatively, On Linux Install Docker Engine
    • https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/

Task 3: Check Docker Works

• Check that your docker installation was successful

  • If Docker Desktop is installed, make sure that it is launched and running.

  • Open your CLI terminal and start a container by running the command:

    docker run hello-world
    

    • You should receive a Hello from Docker! in the output.

  • Run welcome-to-docker as daemon mapping port 80 to 8080.

    docker run -d -p 8080:80 docker/welcome-to-docker
    

    • Visit http://localhost:8080 in your browser to access this container and see a welcome message.
    • Identify and Stop the running welcome-to-docker container.

Task 4: Pull workshop docker images

• We will use the workshop's latest docker images built for the two main processor architectures.

• First you need to find out which type of processor your laptop has (do an online search if you don't know how).

• You can simply pull these docker images as follows:

  • For most modern Mac laptops with silicon M1/M2/etc. on ARM 64 bit processors:

    docker pull vakeworks/sovscadesdismalops:dev-arm64
    

  • For most Windows, Linux and older Mac laptops with Intel x86/AMD 64 bit processors:

    docker pull vakeworks/sovscadesdismalops:dev-amd64
    

• You should be able to open terminal inside a running docker container

• [OPTIONAL] You can checkout command-line and docker pages we will be going through.

• [OPTIONAL] Advanced Exercise: You can build these docker images from scratch on your own by following Docker Ray Dev.