Robot Test Environment with Docker

Introduction

In this lab, you will step into the future of the robot manufacturing industry, where you play the role of a future robot test engineer at the Advanced Robotics Laboratory. As part of your duties, you will be using Docker to deploy and manage containers for testing and development purposes. Your goal is to start and manage Docker containers effectively to ensure a smooth testing process in the future robot production line.

Skills Graph

Starting a Basic Container

In this step, you will start a simple Docker container using the hello-world image. The following commands will guide you through the process.

## Pull the hello-world image from Docker Hub
docker pull hello-world

## Run a container using the hello-world image
docker run hello-world

Launching an Alpine Linux Container

In this step, you will start a Docker container based on the Alpine Linux image, which is a lightweight distribution. Use the following commands to accomplish this.

## Pull the Alpine Linux image from Docker Hub
docker pull alpine

## Run an interactive Alpine Linux container
docker run -it --name my-alpine alpine /bin/sh

Deploying an Nginx Web Server

In this step, you will deploy a Docker container running the Nginx web server to simulate a web application environment for testing.

## Pull the Nginx image from Docker Hub
docker pull nginx

## Run an Nginx container
docker run -d -p 8080:80 --name my-nginx nginx

Summary

In this lab, you learned how to start Docker containers using various images and configure them for different purposes. By following these steps, you have gained practical skills in deploying and managing Docker containers, which are essential for future robot testing and development scenarios.