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Docker: Local to Cloud
AUD 680 (informational)
Responsible mentor
Theo Martin
Deployment labs lead; containers without mysticism.
Outcomes
- Cut an image size by a measured percentage
- Write a cloud promotion runbook page
- List three cost leaks you would watch weekly
Description
You shrink images, document ports, and rehearse a promotion from compose to a managed service stub. Cost awareness is explicit.
Inside the track
- Multi-stage Dockerfile critique
- Healthcheck semantics
- Compose overrides for dev vs ci
- Secrets via env vs managers discussion
- Log driver choices
- Simple autoscaling story with metrics placeholders
Reviews
Compose override pattern from Docker: Local to Cloud is now how we onboard interns without breaking prod-like stacks.
FAQ
Mentioned; not the primary hands-on surface.
Images are tested on arm64 and amd64 where possible.
No on-prem bare-metal networking deep dive.