Updated in May 2025.

This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. In this advanced Docker course, you'll learn to manage data persistence, resource optimization, and container orchestration. By the end, you'll be proficient in using Docker volumes for data storage, setting resource limits, applying restart policies, and building multi-container apps with Docker Compose. Gain hands-on experience with bind mounts, named volumes, and managing Docker networking for production environments. The course starts by exploring Docker volumes and data persistence, teaching you how to manage and store data within containers. You’ll then cover resource management, including CPU and memory limits, and advanced networking concepts like user-defined and host networks. Real-world projects follow, where you’ll build and deploy a key-value app and a notes app using Docker Compose. You'll manage services, handle dependencies, and use multistage builds to optimize container images. Ideal for developers and system admins with basic Docker knowledge, this course will help you deepen your skills in managing complex containerized applications.