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Adds all 8 ROOT 04 modules (why containers exist, images & containers, Docker CLI, container networking, container storage, Dockerfile & image build, Docker Compose, containers → Kubernetes) — 43 activities, using the nested Docker Engine Phase 6D built and tested. Modules 1, 2, and 8 are conceptual (no lab by design) — the honest bridge module (M8) explicitly names what Kubernetes adds beyond what this course already taught, without re-teaching Kubernetes itself. Adds 5 new hands-on Docker scenarios plus 2 MCQs, all against the real nested Docker Engine: docker-cli-basics (run/exec/inspect a real container), docker-container-networking (a genuine "works internally, unreachable from host" port-publishing failure, diagnosed and fixed by recreating the container with the correct `-p` flag), docker-container-storage (a real destroy/recreate cycle proving named-volume persistence, not just described), docker-build-image (a real Dockerfile, a real build, a real custom image run), and docker-compose-multiservice (a real two-service Compose application with a real published port). All tested end-to-end via the real scenario-validation API, including negative tests. Wires rootnode-containers-assessment (2 required + 4 random-draw scenarios) using the existing Phase 3B assessment engine. This completes the entire ROOT_ Foundations sequence (ROOT 01-04) — see docs/PHASE6E_ROOT_FOUNDATIONS_COMPLETION.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
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Knowledge Check: Why Containers Exist
1. What real problem does "it works on my machine" name?
Answer: Dependency/environment inconsistency between where an application was developed and where it actually needs to run — differences in libraries, versions, and configuration that are easy to overlook and hard to fully document by hand.
2. What's the actual architectural difference between a container and a virtual machine, not just "containers are smaller"?
Answer: A container shares the host machine's kernel and only isolates the application's process/filesystem/network view. A VM virtualizes an entire computer, including running its own separate kernel — a genuinely different isolation model, not just a size difference.
3. Why do containers start so much faster than VMs?
Answer: A container doesn't boot a separate operating system/kernel — it starts a process using the ALREADY-RUNNING host kernel, while a VM has to boot an entire independent OS from scratch.
Instructor Notes
Facilitation: Question 2 is the one worth confirming explicitly — many students carry the misconception "container = tiny VM" past this point without correction.
Approximate timing: 5 minutes.