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Build a Containerized App with Docker

In this lab, you’ll practice creating, deploying, and managing Docker images. When you’re finished, you’ll have the skills necessary to support software engineers in Docker-based application development projects.

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Level
Beginner
Last updated
Aug 04, 2025
Duration
45m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Getting Started in the Lab Environment

    Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!

  2. Challenge

    Setting up the Development Environment

    To start with, you'll configure Docker and Visual Studio Code on the lab machine, and will access the lab files.

  3. Challenge

    Building and Dockerizing a Flask App

    You'll write a simple Flask web application, create a Dockerfile for the Flask app, and build a Docker image from the Dockerfile.

  4. Challenge

    Running and Managing Docker Containers

    You'll start the Docker container running the Flask app, and will practice using common Docker container management commands.

  5. Challenge

    Working with Docker Bind Mounts and Live Refresh

    To finish up this lab, you will restart the Flask app using a Docker volume, and then Make changes to the Flask app source code, refreshing the browser to see the updated site-content live.

About the author

Tim Warner is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and Microsoft Certified Trainer (since 1997) with nearly three decades of experience as an IT professional and technical educator.

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