Richard Chesterwood

I don’t want the blog to be just “look at me! I’ve got a new course!!” – but the problem is when I’m writing a course, 100% of my attention is on that course. For the last one, I spent more hours than I dare admit trying to work out the implementation...

Second course to be published at Udemy: Kubernetes Microservices.
I’ve set up a coupon code for a great deal.
Unlike the previous Docker course, this one is independent of programming language (Angular 6 used on the front end)

I’ve just released my first course on Udemy. It’s a combination of the two modules I’ve previously published at VirtualPairProgrammers.
If you’re already a subscriber at VirtualPairProgrammers don’t buy the course again – but if not this course is a great way to get some real hands-on experience of Docker in a production cloud environment. I’ve set up a discount code for Udemy, follow...

TLDR; create a .dockerignore file to filter out directories which won’t form part of the built image.
Long version: working on the upcoming Kubernetes course, with a massive deadline looming over me [available at VirtualPairProgrammers by the end of May, Udemy soon afterwards], the last thing I need is a simple docker image build freezing up, apparently...